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Grand Illumination on the Vineyard. Zoom

Grand Illumination on the Vineyard.

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Posted 1 day ago
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The National – Green Gloves

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Posted 1 day ago

Vacation

Scenes on the beach:

Parenting
Dad: Why did you change?
Kid: Because we had sand in our asses.
Dad: [Staring at BlackBerry]
Kid: [Puts head in trash can]
Kid: [In one breath] Dad can I get a Gatorade?
Dad: [Typing on BlackBerry]
Kid: Get off your phone Dad.
Dad: [Without taking his eyes off the phone once] Let’s go.

Bros
Bro One: Dude, like Match.com and eHarmony, they do so well because they match you on so many levels.
Bro Two: I don’t know, man. Where’s our shit?

Different Bros
Bro One: Man, there’s so many people here.
Bro Two: Yeah.
Bro One: There was somebody doing yoga this morning.
Bro Two: Yeah, West Coast is where it’s at. Hot chicks and it’s always Summer.
[This beach was decidedly on the East Coast.]

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Posted 1 month ago

merlin:

“I’m just gonna go make my own table.”

Episode 27: Missionless Statements

I like how Dan’s interview with Mr. Veen and me turned out.

In this special episode, Dan Benjamin talks with two of his heroes, Merlin Mann and Jeff Veen about independence, free thinking, email, productivity, and changing your game.

That Jeff guy’s pretty smart for being so Dutch and tall.

A lot of brilliant stuff in there, especially in the last fifteen minutes or so.

You’ve got to solve the problem you can solve at the level you can solve it at.

via merlin
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The Temper Trap – Love Lost

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Posted 2 months ago

Simplr

I wrote a lightweight extension to restyle the Tumblr dashboard as an excuse to experiment with Safari’s new extensions API this weekend. The idea was to make it a bit quieter and customize it for my own use, but since Apple made it so easy to package and release these, I figured I’d share it with any like-minded Tumblr users.

Here’s what it does:

  • Helvetica instead of Arial.
  • Renders type using Safari 5’s new -webkit-font-smoothing property.
  • Changes the username links to the post permalink.
  • Replaces the post icons with a simple sidebar menu.
  • Makes the sidebar elements less glossy.
  • Hides tracked tags, radar, and suggestions.
  • Removes the gray border from the bottom of each post.
  • Gives the rounded corners a hint of subtlety.

Plus a handful of other minor stylistic changes (here’s a before/after GIF). The extension only kicks in on the dashboard and other pages that share the same layout (group blogs, likes, drafts, and queue). If you’re a developer, feel free to grab the GitHub project.

Download Simplr

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willw: British Petroleum’s well has been pouring thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for over a month, killing thousands of animals and obliterating any sea life in its path. To make matters worse, there’s no end in sight. MetaLab, Campaign Monitor, Squarespace, and WooThemes have come together to match donations to the National Wildlife Federation (up to $35,000). These animals need our help, donate now.

willw:

British Petroleum’s well has been pouring thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for over a month, killing thousands of animals and obliterating any sea life in its path. To make matters worse, there’s no end in sight.

MetaLab, Campaign Monitor, Squarespace, and WooThemes have come together to match donations to the National Wildlife Federation (up to $35,000).

These animals need our help, donate now.

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Posted 2 months ago

On Lasting

Mandy Brown:

Does this mean [pixels, bits, and bytes] are inferior? Perhaps. But, perhaps instead long lasting can now be measured not only in years, but in minds—not in how long an object persists, but in how many people it changes. A book that is read by millions but vanishes in the span of a decade does more good than one that sits untouched for millennia. Speaking of the destruction of the Library at Alexandria, Borges said, “If a book is lost, then someone will write it again, eventually. That should be enough immortality for everyone.” Meaning, nothing lasts forever, but some things last long enough.

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Posted 2 months ago
There may be .0001% who have read everything you’ve ever written and who want you to deliver something brand new. Follow their wishes and you’ll wind up with a tiny audience of experts while excluding the 99.9999% of people who have no idea who you are or what you think.
Signal vs. Noise
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Posted 3 months ago
Jonathan Harris: When you move around so fast and so much, bits of you flake off and stay everywhere you stop, and if you go too fast you get thin and confused and it’s hard to remember who you are or where you’re from because you’re so many people in so many places at once, all of them blending into each other and all of them blurring into nostalgia, and to get yourself back you need to stop moving and wait for the pieces to wander back into your town and your head and your body, and then you begin to remember and once you remember then you can get back to moving. (via bobulate)

Jonathan Harris:

When you move around so fast and so much, bits of you flake off and stay everywhere you stop, and if you go too fast you get thin and confused and it’s hard to remember who you are or where you’re from because you’re so many people in so many places at once, all of them blending into each other and all of them blurring into nostalgia, and to get yourself back you need to stop moving and wait for the pieces to wander back into your town and your head and your body, and then you begin to remember and once you remember then you can get back to moving.

(via bobulate)