Benjamin Franklin
”... at the age of 20, while on an 80-day ocean voyage from London back to Philadelphia, he developed a “Plan” for regulating his future conduct” »
Gothamist: The Notorious MSG, Original Chinatown Bad Boys
“In 1993, we all left the ghettos of Asia to come to New York City’s Chinatown. We came here with a dream. And that dream is to blow-out people’s asses with our hot n’ spicy music.” »
MIT World » : Video Index
lots of videos from various talks »
Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace »
Yellow Arrow
collaborative art project using stickers and cellphones »
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?
An article written in 1982 describing the massively brainwashing (and effective) marketing efforts by the diamond industry. “The message had been so successfully impressed on the minds of this generation that those who could not afford to buy a diamond a »
Salon.com | The name game
”$75,000 buys you a suffix and competing shops slur each other over the virtues of Agilent and Avilant.” »
Carson Workshops Summit - The Future of Web Apps
Podcasts from the workshop. »
Read Go It Alone!
business book »
Fast and Reliable
I caught this film at last year’s bicycle film festival. Amazing documentary. »
The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs
SUITABLE FOR FRAMING – A family of experts.by DAVID SEDARIS »
Day2Day Activities: How they named companies
Interesting stories behind popular names. »
Ma-Tea.com
mate related goods »
廃墟デフレスパイラル 〜ぼくたちの秘密の場所〜
photos from a run down amusement park somehwere in japan »
Prototype Dissected - snook.ca »
Zillow.com - Your Edge in Real Estate »
Nate Harrison
“Can I Get An Amen? is an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drum beat in the history of recorded music, the Amen Break.” - »
Bleak House - New York Times
“Chinatown is dotted with dormitory-style residences for restaurant workers.” ”... he had been depressed about job woes and fed up with Mr. Yang and their spats; he took a four-inch knife that he used for peeling fruit and stabbed Mr. Yang in the neck, a »
Bike Talk Radio
the podcast that is unfortunately no longer active »
HowtoChangeSessionOptions in Ruby on Rails »
Ruby on Rails Session Container Performance »
pillow fight nyc
too hip »
Comedy Central - Shows - The Daily Show - Videos - Demetri Martin »
cidoc
corporate identity documentation »
A Stranger In Your Queue -- New York Magazine
the mystery of my missing netflix may just be solved… »