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Remember this photo every time you have to deal with a phone company.
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Lessig Blog, v2: Tumblr goes to the Supreme Court
Lessig Blog, v2: Tumblr goes to the Supreme Court
On Thursday, Senator Elizabeth Warren and I will participate in an event hosted by the Constitutional Accountability Center (livestream here) to discuss a brief I submitted in a corruption (aka “campaign finance”) case that the Supreme Court will hear on October 8: McCutcheon v. F.E.C.
At the center of the brief is a Tumblr — the first time a Tumblr has been used in an argument in a Supreme Court brief.
I find myself walking down the street, and every fucking thing I think about, I also think, “How could I fit that into a tweet that lots of people would favorite or retweet?” It’s disgusting, and I feel like a meth addict, with constant, obsessive urges to fit every goddamned idea into a tweet. To share. With you. Without any real filter, which is what the writing process is.
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Can’t wait to see this for myself some day.
Topspin Tumblr: Topspin Joins BitTorrent in Launch of Bundle for Publishers
Topspin Tumblr: Topspin Joins BitTorrent in Launch of Bundle for Publishers
For the last five months, Topspin and several other companies have been working with BitTorrent’s new Bundle platform, and today, we’re proud to share the news that it is now available to more artists as part of a closed alpha announced yesterday by BitTorrent.
I love my job.
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Man Fashions His Beard Into a Bowl & Eats Ramen Noodles Out Of It
It is officially a beard bubble.
I’d love you forever if you listen to and share my new single “Satan’s Foot On My Neck” here! Thank you. Thank you!!
Now playing!
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So I was walking around campus and I found this on the sewer drain outside my dorm.
TMNT FTW
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury (via vintageanchorbooks)
Young and Brilliant: Wireframes for Thinking
Young and Brilliant: Wireframes for Thinking
“wireframes” or “sketches” (the semantics aren’t important here) are really like writing out long division. If you’re trying to think seriously about a software product, if you aren’t sketching things out, then you aren’t really thinking about it. Yes, some details are inane (“Where should I put the login button?”) but many more are the details that make up the service: Tumblr linking to its six basic post types wasn’t a detail, it markedly effected the way the service felt and was used. And these are the little details that we start to see once we can start externalizing bits of our short-term memory to paper.
As an even more general point, I’d say that confidence and fluency in sketching and diagraming is one of those things that can make us exponentially better thinkers.
I love this and agree 100%. Sometimes I use paper and other times I use software, but if you’re not writing it out in some way, you’re not thinking about it.