September 2011
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“As I was sitting there, the deejay was playing music and talking over the music,...”
– Sylvia Robinson, producer, co-owner of Sugar Hill Records, mother of hip-hop. Dead at 75. RIP.
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“The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.”
– Jean Paul Getty
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“Is it possible that from a small agile company that both builds and invests, a...”
– Saul Klein on Betaworks 2.0
localglo.be: For 21C Malone, #whatsnext?
(via fred-wilson)
As a longtime admirer/student of John Malone and fanboy of John Borthwick, I feel that creating a digitally native Liberty Media is, quite possibly, the most amazing and feasible path one could see for...
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“You never have to explain a win.”
– Me, just now, in conversation.
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“When I’m driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what...”
– Noam Chomsky from the Chomsky Reader edited by James Peck, this is from the opening interview in the book. (via johnnydib)
vruz: beyond belief, indeed.
(via vruz)
Rafer sez: Lifelong personal pet peeve.
(via rafer)
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“Never underestimate the power of disinformation.”
– Aton Edwards in Track Me If You Can, a documentary on how to live off the grid and under the radar of surveillance, or, a video instructional manual for the paranoid.
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bijan:
Bon Iver - Your Love
original by the...
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I Refuse to Consume Any 9/11 Coverage Today
If I watch or read anything commemorating, memorializing or analyzing 9/11, the journalists have surely won.
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Watchbrycedotvc:
Entrepreneurs are people who can make something out of nothing. They can take an idea in a notebook or unused space in an apartment and transform it. Which is why I enjoyed this video of Joe Gebbia at the recent PSFK conference.
Joe does a fantastic job capturing the entrepreneurial experience of getting AirBnB off the pages of his moleskin notebook as a means of avoiding eviction...
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“In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts...”
– Eddie Murphy reciting his high school yearbook quote on In the Actors Studio, to which he immediately followed “I was a terribly corny child, sitting and writing my quote, only to be left back again … I was always in summer school.” He used his night club earnings from the age of...
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