I love Portlandia. If you haven’t seen it yet, look for reruns if you have IFC, or simply head to iTunes.
The only thing better than the show if is the show’s intro. I love Portland. We looked for any excuse to visit when we lived in Seattle, and it (like Seattle, though not as awesomely so) is a city unlike any other. Somehow the intro managed to capture exactly what I envision when someone says “Portland”.
Ever worked in an office that didn’t find the value in employees learning and communicating information in real time? I have. (Not anymore though.)
For alls yous guys and gals stuck in 1963, here’s some tree-killing communication for you.
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I was the only blogger on the Internet without a blog post dedicated to this issue, so I thought I would chime in. It’s an incredible, joyous event that most have all wrong.
My favorite quote from this revolution came from TechCrunch:
Twitter and Facebook are indeed useful tools, but they are not tools of revolution — at least, no more than Paul Revere’s horse was. People are the tools of revolution, whether their dissent is spread by whisper, by letter, by Facebook, or by some means we haven’t yet imagined. What we, and the Egyptians, should justly be proud of, is not just those qualities which set Egypt’s revolution apart from the last hundred, but those which are fundamental to all of them.
That part where he says “by some means we haven’t yet imagined”… that gives us Internet/gadget junkies tingles.
Wired took a tour of IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center. This image of a blackboard was one particular shot which caught me eye.
It makes absolutely no sense to you and me, but it could. It’s intimidating until you realize that one day you and I will buy a product or service that relates to the brainstorming shown on this board. This means that, as complicated as this board appears, there’s a way to simplify it.
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
- Bill Watterson
I love this poster.
Via Wikipedia:
Keep Calm and Carry On was a poster produced by the British government in 1939 during the beginning of World War II, intended to raise the morale of the British public under the threat of impending invasion. It was little known and never used. The poster was rediscovered in 2000 and has been re-issued by a number of private sector companies, and used as the decorative theme for a range of other products. There are only two known surviving examples of the poster outside of government archives
Watch – if you haven’t already – their 2009 movie Under Great White Northern Lights.
If you like the Stripes, you’ll love them more. If you don’t care for the Stripes or find yourself indifferent (like me, before the film) there’s something intriguing about their lives that only the movie gives you insight into.
This is awesome. Simply awesome, especially for those addicted to both football and futbol.
