Would love to see something similar in Bend!
Very cool bike rack in honor of the Riverrun Film Festival in Winston-Salem. Artist Zach Leil
musicforants.com | a tumblelog about music, etc.: 10 Covers of LCD Soundsystem "All My Friends"
I recently watched Shut Up and Play The Hits, which brought back all the waves of emotion from LCD Soundsystem’s final concert just over two years ago. In honor of that seminal moment in modern indie rock history, here’s 10 covers of LCD’s greatest tune (and best song of the 2000s) …
betashop: 90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies
On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”
It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many…
Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Dylan Quotes for His Book - Julie Bosman via NYTimes.com
Ok, ok. Jonah Lehrer, the writer that I said was the person I most wanted to have dinner with, has completely self-immolated. He has admitted to making up Dylan quotes in Imagine, his best seller, on top of the self-plagiarism in articles for many leading magazines, and now has resigned from the New Yorker in disgrace.
Not to take advantage, but if anyone is looking for a speaker who can talk about the confluence of modern cognitive science and where society is headed, I’m your boy.
“The answer will only arrive after we stop looking for it.”
Jonah Lehrer, author of the excellent How Creativity Works, on the origins of creative insight and why you need grit.
Creative Something: Opportunity and the modern cost of creation.
Congratulations.
If you’re one of the thousands of people reading this, then you are in a world of luck. You now have before you an opportunity that very few people, in any time before this generation, has ever had.
You have in front of you, right now, the tools and fortune to create…
naming it.
(Source: thewildbunches, via jaimelannister)
Stowe Boyd: Power
I had a few moments at SxSW where I had to plug in my phone in a coffee shop or the back of a hotel ballroom because little provision is made for our energy consumption needs at most conferences, and certainly not at SxSW. In one case, I was several hundred feet from a friend doing a talk, so I…
(Source: parislemon, via stoweboyd)
good:
Share Your WiFi, Earn Some Cash, Do Some Good
A new business idea will take the extra bandwidth you pay for each month on your home internet plan and create a “time-share WiFi”. It would be a public network for an affordable fee allowing people to share their WiFi, earn cash and provide affordable internet to people who do not have it.
If they can assure people that their info is safe while others are accessing their wifi connection, this could be a really cool way to make a few bucks here and there.
(via moneyisnotimportant)
Gandhi’s 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World (or just Your World…)
We actually googled this to see if it was really a Gandhi list and not on Gohndy list etc. - and it is legit.
(Source: xokelseyrose10, via kevinrothermel)
