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Here’s the truth!
(via awesomephilia, chaystar)
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“Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions!”— Paulo Coelho
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Deregulation? Nonesense. That’s the Freedom Man in his Freedom Truck. That stop sign isn’t the boss of me....
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“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”
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Angry Tea Rap: Rapping involves anger, but where do you channel that anger?
Real Estate performs “Municipality” (Best Fit Session)
This week’s book is “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline. I love this book, but not as much for the 80’s pop and cultural references, but for the gaming environment and the futuristic dystopia everyone lives in. The book dives into big world problems playing huge effects as external factors on the main character and his world. There’s a love interest in the book that seems to drive the main character.
Basically, everyone in the world lives in this virtual world because the world issues makes the real world life really crappy. In this virtual world, there’s a currency, schools, and businesses. Mr. Cline really excels well in giving the reader such vivid details about this alternative universe, and makes it really exciting as well. Though there’s a few archetypes, like an evil mercenary corporation, the adventure is compelling. What drives this story is a prize for a lot of money based on an Easter egg put in the game. The creator dies, and an 18 year old kid, the main character, finds the first one which propels everyone to hunt for these eggs.
I don’t want to reveal anymore, so I definite say you should go out and get this book and read it. It will be worth your time, especially if you’re nostalgic about the 80s.
- Crossing things off your bucket list, like playing b-ball with President Obama - A blog post about making the (thought) impossible possible
- A Non-Designer’s Guide to Typefaces and Layout (Lifehacker)
- Slightly old: Health@Google & Thich Nhat Hanh, Also: Eckhart Tolle
- The Simpsons live in Springfield, OR (says creator Matt Groening)
- The Fox Mole is the new hire from Gawker of a person who works in the inside reveals all
- Put This On, Season 2 has begun, and they are already out with two episodes
- Charlie Trotter to close his world famous Chicago restaurant this year, here’s what it’s like
- Two Pizza Parlors, A Price War, Who comes out losing? (NYTimes)
- “My So-Called Ex-Gay Life”
- Recovering from Environmentalism, a story of the value and disillusion of the human thought of nature’s ideals
- Why you don’t text and walk - in the rare occasion of running into a bear
- [Above] The wonderful properties of Ice
Los Campensino! - “Be Your Hand”
This week’s book review is relatively new. It’s “We Are All Weird: The Myth of Mass and The End of Compliance” by Seth Godin. It’s relatively short with some marketing concepts that are relevant for any online business. First of all, Godin talks about the model of selling products to the mass, and how the Internet has changed that idea. Now we are all in niche areas where we, as consumers, are being specifically tailored for. The idea of mass is dead, and a new wave of consumerism has come. Godin gives tons of examples and makes his point clear: we are not average, normal, etc. We are all weird, and we like it that way.
