October 2011
46 posts
September 2011
47 posts
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“A title sequence is like a good hors d’oeuvre - it whets your appetite for what is to follow. Perhaps it is a taste of the story to come. Or maybe the strong flavor plays off the next course. After you’ve finished, you may think back and say “ah, that was the perfect opening note!” or “that flavor complemented the meal perfectly.” Like a great meal a good film opens with a sense of anticipation. Like a great meal, viewing a film is an event. Why not treat it as such with a great title sequence? It can be very satisfying for all involved.”
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Karin Fong, director and designer - Qu3stions
Fascinating background on the development of the Rubicon title sequence, one of my favorites.
“Warren’s remarks epitomize the caricature of a progressive as someone who loves jobs but hates employers. She implies the captain of industry is simply sponging off society and hoarding the proceeds. But hiring workers is a huge social good. So is providing a funding basis for pensions, which generally rely on stock returns. So is creating products people want.”
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Elizabeth Warren’s Voodoo Economics - Reason Magazine
I know I’m in the minority on this, but I was repulsed by Warren’s comments. This article from Reason helped me piece together why it irked me so bad.
(via secondverse)
Is there some “social good” tax break I don’t know about? How is it if I pay a dude $40k a year to work in a factory I am doing more social good than a dude that puts in $40k of work in a factory? How is “providing a funding basis for pensions” (whatever on earth that means) a social good worth more than an employee actually contributing to a pension, with their money? How is creating a product people want any more of a social good than someone buying the products from the factory, which seems to be the patient zero of this whole ridiculous “social good means I don’t have to pay taxes” nonsense?
If a factory should pay less taxes because they created a $50k job, I don’t see why a worker wouldn’t get to pay less taxes for giving $50k of labor to an employer.
(via rickwebb)
Providing employment is a net gain, removing someone from social liability (surviving on the largesse of the safety net) to contributor to the safety net for others. Saying that the factory owner wants to pay less taxes for the sake of the “social good” provided is disingenuous, though. I’d say most employers would like the administration and people like Warner to stop vilifying them and recognize that the US government does not have a “revenue” problem. It has a spending problem.
“It’s a common misconception that all traders are die-hard capitalists. But in fact many of them are quite the opposite. They still want to make money, of course. But that doesn’t mean they want the stock market to go up.”
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Is Alessio Rastani a Yes Man? | Felix Salmon
This whole saga went from momentary blip for my attention span to down-right fascinating.
Also, I can completely identify with being a capitalist who doesn’t much care if the current system sustains itself. Creative destruction has no idols, holds nothing sacred. Even whole markets.
“Warren’s remarks epitomize the caricature of a progressive as someone who loves jobs but hates employers. She implies the captain of industry is simply sponging off society and hoarding the proceeds. But hiring workers is a huge social good. So is providing a funding basis for pensions, which generally rely on stock returns. So is creating products people want.”
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Elizabeth Warren’s Voodoo Economics - Reason Magazine
I know I’m in the minority on this, but I was repulsed by Warren’s comments. This article from Reason helped me piece together why it irked me so bad.
“Zooey Deschanel made me think that falling in love was an Olympic decathalon in quirkiness. Zooey Deschanel convinced me that I looked good in dark-rimmed nanny spectacles when I really just looked like Ira Glass in drag. Zooey Deschanel led me to believe that guys would want to go out with me if I dressed like a menopausal librarian, when I probably would’ve gotten laid more if I’d followed my instincts and dressed like a total slut.”
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How Zooey Deschanel (Almost) Ruined My Sex Life | Nerve.com
Read all of this. So good.
“But of course, these reasons were all secondary to why I really hated Zooey Deschanel: the nebbishy, bookish dudes I dated had no compunction about advertising how much they wanted to fuck her. Although I don’t usually get jealous over my partners’ crushes, it offended me that they thought their attraction to Zooey Deschanel was somehow higher-minded than wanting to fuck someone like Megan Fox, or Lindsay Lohan. Did they really think that this chick had depth and meaning because she had big blue eyes and tweeted about mirrors? Did they think that her vagina had magical, restorative powers that would make them want to live life to the fullest?”
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How Zooey Deschanel (Almost) Ruined My Sex Life | Nerve.com
So angry. So hilarious.
“But in a week in which markets collapsed, Solyndra exploded, our Middle East policy was in meltdown, the Iranian nuclear threat became more urgent, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff fingered our “ally” Pakistan as a sponsor of terror against American forces in Afghanistan—none of the candidates really seemed up to the moment, either politically or substantively. In the midst of a crisis, we’re getting politics as usual—and a somewhat subpar version of politics as usual at that.”
—Yikes | The Weekly Standard
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Varsity Bookmarking: Who Svpply is competing with, sort of. →
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Just as the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the growth of any single competitor will be to the advantage of anyone else in the space. I tip my hat to each of them and wish them the best of luck.
I’ve always contended that the best thing that happened for about.me’s competition was our own rapid acquisition. Close to 10 months on, though, that competition appears to have squandered the opportunity. Regardless, I love this post from Svpply. Wish I’d had the balls to write something as honest and succinct while we were still in beta.
