The time has come

We’re quiting facebook commit to quit May 31st, 2010

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Ouch#Shit!

Animated Album Cover Tumblr blog

I blame Jaime Martínez (whoa! his photos are excellent!) and MIA and NEET!

Slayer!

GREAT STREET ART site!

Fuk Yeah! From Andre Firmiano, Sao Paolo

<3

This is lovely!

A Heart a Day Blog

Today’s Fortune

Right? HaHA! Check the Weird Fortune Cookie Collection for a real laugh.

Kinda Feeling This

Never took Freshjive as a company with a stand, well HELLo Emperor Obama!

STATIC ALERT!

Sooper great essays swirling around my brain&interwebs….

Start at The Washington Post
World’s greatest violinist Joshua Bell plays D.C. Metro stop with his 3 million dollar instrument and barely gets noticed!

Things never got much better. In the three-quarters of an hour that Joshua Bell played, seven people stopped what they were doing to hang around and take in the performance, at least for a minute. Twenty-seven gave money, most of them on the run — for a total of $32 and change. That leaves the 1,070 people who hurried by, oblivious, many only three feet away, few even turning to look.

No, Mr. Slatkin, there was never a crowd, not even for a second.

This gem was discovered while reading Rob Haggart’s excellent A Photo Editor blog
The piece “Perception is Everything” brings me great joy in discussing the contest that is quality.

‘many things that are true are true because you believe them.’

Leading to this revelation from The Bohemian:

It is no surprise that talented photographers are 99% pain in the ass to work with. They have strong opinions, are stubborn, reckless, and most of the time have an extremely bad character. But that is simply because they are constantly challenged by a reality that annoys them. Like being assaulted by mosquitoes, all the time. They don’t have an attitude problem, it’s the world that lacks one.

This is the exact reason why we love their work. They disturbed the reality in which they are put in, they challenge it, always demanding more, to see what is behind. They do not want to photograph the yellow brick road, although that might be pretty, they want to photography the wizard behind the curtains.

So, next time you hire a photographer, make sure he/she is a trouble maker. Chances are, they will also be very talented.

Are we ffff*ucked?
Nice piece by Mario Hugo (beautiful site!) about the noise that is current web fodder and the “booby trap.”

As the internet has continued to (cough) mature, we find ourselves inundated with imagery, music, tweets, kitteh videos, good news, bad news, opinion parading as news, and an absolutely endless, dizzying, spell-binding array of mental traffic. As my good buddy Ben Pieratt recently put it, “endless scrolls make me feel agoraphobic.

I do love me some ffffound!

And just ffffound this too. “where you find missing mp3s, share and organize playlists from around the web.” Did I say noise?

Above, Mario disses Tumblr blogs for “devalued content in favor of this static”, but this one is great.
Clients from Hell

Could we try a darker black?

The unicorns don’t look realistic enough.

In case you haven’t had enough static from me yet, here’s Stevie killin it on Sesame Street. The outro is stunning!

$o $mart!

These folks are GOOD!

Billionaires for Wealthcare

To those who call for rational, not rationed, care, we say, What are you Canadian? As to the rest of you — reformers, (em)pathetic legislators, and anyone sick or who might ever get sick — we say, ‘What are you going to do about it? Choose a public option?’ Not with us paying lobbyists $1.4 million per day to kill it before it even gets out of committee. Is it any wonder that as healthcare reform inches ever closer to the grave, health insurers’ stock prices have shot up?

Gridlock’d

DO IT! Get out of the cage!

From the World Car Free Network:

World Carfree Day is an annual celebration of cities and public life, free from the noise, stress and pollution of cars. Every September 22, people from around the world get together in the streets and neighbourhoods to celebrate World Carfree Day and to remind the world that we don’t have to accept our car-dominated societies.

World Carfree Day, promoted and supported by the World Carfree Network, is intended to advance the economic, social and environmental benefits of self-propelled or mass transportation. It is meant to promote more sustainable ways of transportation and new ways of building and thinking the urbanism of our cities, allowing streets to be a living space, rather than only a transit space.

With the global economy in freefall, carmakers are facing turbulent times and people around the world are re-evaluating their relationship with the car. So now is the perfect timing to try out the alternatives, spread the carfree word, join or start a World Carfree Day in your area! It is also time to push for a new use of car factories that could be used to build public transportation, providing employment and allowing us to build a better urban environment.

Before the 10th anniversary of World Carfree Day next year, let the 2009 edition be a showcase for how our cities might look like, feel like, and sound like without cars 365 days a year!

From Carbusters:

“Cars are the largest source of pollution and environmental destruction in the world. Almost half of all petroleum is consumed by cars – a major impetus for the looming war in Iraq. Half of the toxic air pollution, a third of the smog and at least a third of all greenhouse gasses are [also] produced by cars.”

Continuing my aggregation, Mark at Planet Bike posted this on their blog:

The Top 10 Facts on Bicycling and Walking in the United States

1) Bicycling and walking make up 10% of all trips made in the U.S., but receive less than 2% of federal transportation funding.

2) Bicyclists and pedestrians account for 13% of traffic fatalities, but receive less than 1% of federal safety funding.

3) 40% of all trips in America are two miles or less, 74% of which are traveled by car.

4) Americans spend, on average, 18% of their annual income for transportation. The average annual operating cost of a bicycle is 3.75% ($308) of an average car ($8,220).

5) A small reduction in driving causes a large drop in traffic. In 2008, the number of vehicle miles traveled dropped 3%, translating to a nearly 30% reduction in peak hour congestion.

6) Transportation sources account for 70% of our nation’s oil consumption and for 30% of total U.S. GHC emissions.

7) Simply increasing bicycling and walking from 10% of trips to 13% could lead to fuel savings of around 3.8 billion gallons a year. This is equivalent to having 19 million more hybrid cars on the road.

8 ) 89% of Americans believe that transportation investments should support the goals of reducing energy use.

9) 71% of Americans report that they would like to bicycle more. 53% favor increasing federal spending on bicycle lanes and paths.

10) For the price of one mile of four-lane urban highway, around $50 million, hundreds of miles of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure can be built, an investment that could complete an entire network of active transportation facilities for a mid-sized city.

See the original document here

Those points mean anything to you? Time to reboot people! You don’t have to drive to work/grocery/school.

Fugetaboutit! I’m done.

UPDATE Brotha!

Amazon–King of the Jungle is struggling with reparations from the previously mentioned George Orwell copyright clusterf*uck.

Letter from Amazon CEO and Kindle Team:

Hello,

This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our “solution” to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we’ve received.

We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission.

With deep apology to our customers,
Jeff Bezos
Founder & CEO
Amazon.com

As you were one of the customers impacted by the removal of 1984 from your Kindle device in July of this year, we would like to offer you the option to have us re-deliver this book to your Kindle along with any annotations you made. You will not be charged for the book. If you do not wish to have us re-deliver the book to your Kindle, you can instead choose to receive an Amazon.com electronic gift certificate or check for $30.

Sincerely,
The Kindle Team

Kinda slow putting on the band-aid huh Amazon? Six weeks?!? Hope you weren’t making annotations for a class in that time gap! AW SHIT!