Kris's collection of random items found while RSSing, Google Reading or FFFFounding, it may not always be attributed, but i use it as a scrapbook of stuff that excites me.

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“ Call me a grumpy old codger, but I liked the old way better. For one thing, I used to have at least a rudimentary idea of how a newspaper got produced: On deadline, drunks with cigars wrote stories that were edited by constipated but knowledgeable people, then printed on paper by enormous machines operated by people with stupid hats and dirty faces.
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Gene Weingarten - Gene Weingarten column mentions Lady Gaga.

This article has many forms of win all in one place. /via Hayden Hunter

I have a crush on Jonathan Harris

Ever since his observation on the emptiness of flash experimentation vs idea generation (and Harris’ response) at Flash on the Beach, I generate my own internal angst by benchmarking both ideas and the work against my own past experiments and Harris’ benchmarks. I still haven’t succeeded, and not sure i will, but i shall die trying.

Now his essay snippets from World Building in a Crazy World bring a lot of perspective to the constant reblogging, retweeting vacuous environment which we co-exist with.

Most online experiences are made, like fast food, to be cheap, easy, and addictive: appealing to our hunger for connection but rarely serving up nourishment. Shrink-wrapped junk food experiences are handed to us for free by social media companies, and we swallow them up eagerly, like kids given buckets of candy with ads on all the wrappers.
These experiences are sensitive neither to individual humans nor to the human collective, but only to page views and growth (in a corporate, not personal sense).
Our Digital Crisis - Jonathan Harris

There are a lot of salient points contained within all of the mini essays and I find parallels with Matt Jones ideas behind the Get Excited and Make Things

“ Losing my first pitch where I gave everything hurt my ego at a time where there seemed no limits to what we can do–in other words: at the right time.
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The Story of a Beautiful Failure

The Glitchbrowser is a joint collaborative artwork developed between Dimitre Lima, Tony Scott and Iman Moradi for New Langton Arts, San Francisco. (via dimitre lima / GlitchBrowser)