January 2012
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People buy and listen to their music where they buy and listen to their music....
– Scott Ambrose Reilly, X5’s CEO of North America (How Tiny X5 Music Group Is Slaying Label Goliaths On The Billboard Charts - Forbes)
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Nice one, Anthropologie.
A colleague just forwarded me an e-mail from clothing store Anthropologie that has this fantastic animated gif. I’m entranced.
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Happy Birthday, Dad.
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Me: So, are we in agreement, then?
CR: About what?
Me: What do I like to think about all the time?
CR: Work? ...Jay-Z? ...Social media?... Cheese?... Our friends? ..Cookies?
Me: Nope. What else?
CR: ... .... ... ...iPads?
Me: Bingo. Are we in agreement that we'll both buy one when the new one comes out?
CR: That's not a bad idea.
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Pinterest Is Tumblr for Ladiez (Gizmodo) →
Pinterest has been coming up in conversation a lot lately, and I have found that it is a hard sell to males who don’t have interest in design (CR, for example, who receives my sales pitches daily).
I’ve been on the fence about it satisfying my personal needs since I signed up last summer, but am finding that it really does offer an excellent interface to discover things, and will...
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Adrienne, we need to move to Sweden and put all our money in hard gold.
– CR, who’s reading this book about the future again and giving himself nightmares
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Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory →
adamconover:
The above This American Life piece on how Apple products are manufactured in Shenzhen, China, floored me, for the following reasons:
Mike Daisey, the storyteller to whom the bulk of the episode is dedicated, performs a piece of theatrical alchemy that’s absolutely amazing. He doesn’t justtell us about the bizarre, often awful working conditions under which our electronic devices...
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Welcome to The Moth Podcast
Me: Yesterday, Cole asked me what story from college I would tell if I were on The Moth. Isn't that a good question? What story would you tell from college?
CR: Probably when I sang karaoke at a bar and women took their shirts off and threw them on the stage when my roommate and I sang the Backstreet Boys.
sahoward replied to your photoset: First experience with Korean BBQ tonight at dinner…
Looks gross - Andrew
SAM-You’ve been hacked.
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3-Week Dream Job Boot Camp from "I Will Teach You... →
I’ve always liked this guy’s personal finance advice, and he’s starting a series of posts about being a badass and getting your dream job that is sure to be useful.