ollymoss:

I worked with the Academy and Gallery 1988 to create the official 85 Years of Oscars poster. 

Click here to see it in detail!

The brief was one of the hardest I’ve ever had; find a way to reference every single Best Picture winner from the last 85 years. 

Thanks to Gallery 1988 for putting my name forward and organising this whole shebang.  

An Open Letter to the Cornell Community: Bias Rocks Vulnerable Cornell Muslim Community

cornellmuslimdissents:

An Open Letter to Cornell Muslims and Greater Cornell Community:

On Friday February 15, 2013, an unprecedented act of bigotry took place in what many Cornell Muslims consider their safest haven. More than 60 Muslims including students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in…

Frightening events last week at Anabel Taylor. Hopefully the Muslim community there can receive stronger support from the University to prevent marginal extremists from doing such things in the future.

Apathy Scrapbook: Five Ways You Are Doing Twitter Wrong.

andrewtaylr:

I’m not going to tell you what you should tweet or how you should tweet it but there are some technical bits people often misunderstand. Here they are:

1. Doing @Mentions Wrong

If you follow User A but not User B and they have a conversation, you don’t want to see User A’s half of it in your…

This taught me things.

Why Romney Lost

Senator Lindsey Graham, as quoted by Politico:

“If I hear anybody say it was because Romney wasn’t conservative enough I’m going to go nuts,” said Graham. “We’re not losing 95 percent of African-Americans and two-thirds of Hispanics and voters under 30 because we’re not being hard-ass enough.”
 

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Anthony Bourdain: FIGHTING MAD

anthonybourdain:

“…it came as a shock and a disappointment to turn on the TV for the last two episodes of my show, and see that someone had taken footage that me and my creative team  had shot for my show, cut it up and edited it together with scenes of a new Cadillac driving through the forest. Scenes of me, my face, and with my voice, were edited in such a way as to suggest that I might be driving that Cadillac. That, at least, I was very likely IN that Cadillac—and that if nothing else, I sure as shit was endorsing Cadillac as the vehicle of choice for my show. All this following seamlessly from the actual show so you were halfway through the damn thing before you even realized it was a commercial.”  

Anthony Bourdain doesn’t like product placement, and he’s not going to take it anymore.

The University of Google Ads?

Apparently the University of Phoenix was Google’s top advertiser, beating even Amazon and Geico.

"If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem."

Rachel Carson (via azspot)

What’s funny is that when I read this via commonsenseonaroll, I thought it was about the death penalty exercised through lethal injection. 

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The solution Twitter has taken involves barricading the walled garden, keeping the valuable tweet data inside Twitter, and removing all incentives for people to move to other, similar platforms.

The problem with this solution is that Twitter was built on the backs of the very developers it is now blocking. It now expects those developers to continue supporting Twitter … but it no longer wants to provide any value to developers in return. This is an extremely dangerous position because it creates resentment in the minds of the people most likely to influence the future. When the disruptive competitor comes along – when, not if – who are the developers going to side with? And since Twitter has little value outside of its graph and contains only shortly-lived, ephemeral content, where the developers go, the users will follow.

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Dustin Curtis, on Twitter blocking Tumblr’s friend finder.

Hit the nail right on the head.

"Being fact-checked is not very fun. Good fact-checkers have a preternatural inclination toward pedantry, and sometimes will address you in a prosecutorial tone. That is their job and the adversarial tone is even more important than the actual facts they correct. In my experience, seeing your name on the cover of a magazine will take you far in the journey toward believing your own bullshit. It is human to do so, and fact-checkers serve as a valuable check to prevent writers from lapsing into the kind of arrogant laziness which breeds plagiarism and the manufacture of facts. The fact-checker (and the copy-editor too actually) is a dam against you embarrassing yourself, or worse, being so arrogant that don’t even realize you’ve embarrassed yourself. Put differently, a culture of fact-checking, of honesty, is as important as the actual fact-checking."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, in praise of fact checkers. (via theatlantic)

Neal Stephenson on Twitter

I’m just not a habitual checker of it. It may be that I’m following the wrong people but all the stuff that I see is just gibberish. It’s big, long strings of links to things that I don’t really feel like clicking on because I know it’s going to take me off to some website and I’m going to lose a bunch of time browsing that website or watching that video. If all it’s doing is giving me links to other places that I might be interested in, it’s not useful to me. I prefer people who tweet funny or interesting remarks of their own without embedded links. … I just don’t go to Twitter that often, and because I don’t go there that often, I don’t tweet that often.

That pretty much summarizes my perspective. That is, if I had a little more restraint against getting caught up in link after link after link…