Link: Facebook Revealed Private Email Addresses Last Night
Privacy is an illusion on the Internet.
Vanishingly few people will ever love you, and most will care about you for selfish reasons.
You will die someday, and you will not be remembered.
How many more of these do we need to go over?
Did you know that David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men was made into a movie?
No, neither did I.
Did you know that it is kind of awesome, and a deserving film of the original author?
No, neither did I.
Watch this movie.
It’s our new client/server architecture. Or maybe a desk lamp. We don’t really give a fuck.
Link: Realistic Google Maps Walking Directions When In a Different Country
Realize you’ve screwed up taking public transportation in America, so it’s not even worth trying it here… 20 m
Wonder whether or not you’ll ever find where you’re going, or if you’re destined to wander forever… 1.2 km
Shit gets really existential… 0 m
Barack Obama Looking at Awesome Things
Alien vs. Pooh.
Apparently everyone that uses Yahoo now is married and has children. And I have no fucking clue where either of my parents were born.
“I’ve fought not to let it get pounded out of me.”
Interviewer: Do you think everyone is born with an equal appetite for life?
Captain Beefheart: I don’t know. That’s a really good question. I can only speak for myself, but I’ve fought not to let it get pounded out of me. A lot of people allow themselves to become dull because they fear pain, but pain is a form of awareness. A lot of people don’t want to be more aware though, and it seems that as time goes on, more and more people don’t want to know.Wonderful and (apart from a handful of serious insights like this) side-splitting interview with Don from 1980.
My mind is blown by that quote alone. I want that not-beated-outedness so dearly.
Link: Opera Mini Countup
Opera is taking an interesting position with regard to the submission of Opera Mini for iPhone: making the waiting period very public.
Link: 1992 House
It has come to my attention that not every human being has read this. Go, read it now, it’s lovely and so funny.
I found “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink” in the library—on videotape. Through studying these movies, I learned that back in the eighties and nineties students would hand-write things on little pieces of paper called “notes” and try to pass them to each other in class without getting caught.
Upon my return to school, no one wanted to engage in this practice with me because they were all text-messaging each other (probably about me).
Also:
1992 was clearly a very confusing, difficult time in which to live in the United States of America. Having to use landlines and eat carbohydrates were hardships for the people to endure, but Americans are nothing if not resilient.