As smart as Google is I really don’t understand why Reader stops at 1000 unread items. Maybe they’re just being helpful, it is a big number.
Month: May 2011
Godin on popularity
In general, the search for popular is wildly overrated, because it corrupts our work, eats away at our art and makes it likely we’ll compromise to please the anonymous masses.
@antitext nice! saw them a…
@antitext nice! saw them a couple weeks ago, was a bit further away though.
Rejection hurts
Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that rejection hurts, and not just in a metaphorical sense. The study found that “social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain” (via nyt). Maybe artists, musicians and poets have been on to something all of these years.
@mattmaber haha, yeah… that was…
@mattmaber haha, yeah… that was my guess. Still, you have evidence that you sported the monkey tail at one point.
@mattmaber couldn’t live with the…
@mattmaber couldn’t live with the monkeytail stache?
@noscope a timeline of eightface?…
@noscope a timeline of eightface? Nah, it’d probably be pretty boring.
@noscope Oh yeah, it’s fun…
@noscope Oh yeah, it’s fun to have a crazy looking archive. Realizing I’ve been busy and haven’t posted anything in awhile, time to fix that
@noscope dude, you just made…
@noscope dude, you just made me realize that i launched my blog in may 2000 and site a few months later… makes me feel old too.
When the Kindle shuts off,…
When the Kindle shuts off, I’d prefer to see Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson kind of creeps me out.
@FakeMikeFreeman Yes, but it’s obvious…
@FakeMikeFreeman Yes, but it’s obvious that my sidewalk needs to grow. That old man though, he was just senile.
Just passed an elderly man…
Just passed an elderly man watering his sidewalk at midnight.