Pinboard: bookmarks for jimray tagged 'culture'

Plus, recommendations on how to attract the kinds of folks going to Google. Interesting that Microsoft actually pays higher salaries, but with MSFT stock basically flat since 2000, I can see how GOOG stock would be more attractive.

google microsoft work culture tumbl
june 2007 by jimray

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Online cancer

Some great thoughts on online community from Jason Scott, who's been there and documented online community from pretty much the very beginning.

community culture tumbl socialsoftware ac
june 2007 by jimray

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Everything I know about design I learned from The Sopranos

"You don't think. You disrespect this place. That's the reason why you were passed the fuck over."

brilliant design culture funny via:10ch tumbl
june 2007 by jimray

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Who's doing what online

Creators, critics, collectors, joiners and spectators all broken down by generation. Nice infographic to boot.

online culture webdev bloggers visualization tumbl via:magnetbox
june 2007 by jimray

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What the world eats

Really nice photo essay from a forthcoming book about food in different cultures. You'll be shocked to see how much crap Americans eat. Shocked.

food culture health via:snarkmarket tumbl
june 2007 by jimray

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The lesbian hot 100 list is the anti-Maxim hot 100 list

Even for a non-lesbian, this is a pretty awesome list.

homosexuality culture sex tumbl celebrity thefairersex
june 2007 by jimray

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The Art of Wikigroaning

"I love Wikipedia. It's by far the most entertaining open-source project to ever exist, and yes, I am counting LInux and all of the LInux User Group online photo albums it is responsible for."

funny wikipedia awesome culture tumbl
june 2007 by jimray

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Greg Allen has a nice breakdown on Damien Hirst's insane diamond covered platinum skull

"Diamonds, it turns out, are a lot like art: heavy on perceived, light on actual, value"

art culture diamonds
june 2007 by jimray

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Dunbar's number

"A theoretical maximum number of individuals with whom a set of people can maintain a social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who each person is and how each person relates socially to every other person." It's 150, btw.

social community culture
june 2007 by jimray

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Aliens (1986) - Memorable quotes

The other day, I was wondering where the "nuke from orbit" quote came from. Of course, it had to be Ripley.

quotes movies scifi internet culture
june 2007 by jimray

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ABC 4 Investigation: Emos exposed

God, I hope not, NOBODY wants to see a naked goth kid...

funny emo media culture tumbl
may 2007 by jimray

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Emoticons carry cultural baggage

How you smiley says a lot about where you're from

community culture psychology tumbl
may 2007 by jimray

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A.O. Scott brilliantly dissects what's wrong with blaming the Va Tech shootings on pop culture

"Like guns, it seems, certain movies in the wrong hands can pose a threat to public safety."

art culture violence movies tumbl
april 2007 by jimray

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JWZ on why groupware is bad

"Nobody cares about that shit. Nobody you'd want to talk to, anyway."

funny culture programming awesome tumbl
april 2007 by jimray

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Cats can has grammar

Why the hell is Anil so good at explaining this stuff?

tumbl internet culture funny language
april 2007 by jimray

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Vulture from New York Magazine is an entertainment blog done right

Smart, just snarky enough without being smarmy, gorgeous design

design entertainment culture nyc tumbl foo
april 2007 by jimray

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Predictions of the Year 2000 from the Ladies Home Journal in 1900

Some of these are brilliantly prescient, some are sadly off the mark ("There Will Be No Street Cars in Our Large Cities. All hurry traffic will be below or high above ground when brought within city limits.")

via:magnetbox culture future science social
april 2007 by jimray

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Aaron Swartz has some pretty cogent thoughts on how microcontent (blogs, twitter) is dumbing us down

"But technology never solves things by itself. At bottom, it requires people to sit down and build tools that solve them. Which, as long as programmers are all competing to create the world's most popular timewaster, it doesn't seem like anyone is going t

tumbl culture twitter weblogs foo
april 2007 by jimray

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The Daedelus Project is looking in to the psychology of people who play MMORPG's

Apparently, first borns are more likely to be MMORPGers

videogames psychology via:snarkmarket culture community
march 2007 by jimray

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Is Twitter TOO good?

Twitter, like video games and even blogging, definitely has addictive qualities.

twitter addiction culture tumbl
march 2007 by jimray

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Confessions of an empty-nester

Couple moves from the 'burbs to downtown Seattle and are pretty much loving it

via:mathowie tumbl culture seattle
march 2007 by jimray

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How the geeks get thin

Hacker's diets, dietblogs, treadmills that check email and more

diet food geek culture tumbl
march 2007 by jimray

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Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll

New York Mag piece on how kids these days are putting their entire lives online and how us old folks just don't get it (sorta)

privacy culture internet via:daringfireball
february 2007 by jimray

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Microsoft Design Center

Oh, boy.

microsoft design? dumb culture
january 2007 by jimray

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Critical Metrics Tests Music Recommendations

Joey Anuff is back and now he's aggregating critics

culture
january 2007 by jimray

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Top 11 Things Geeks Did on New Year's Eve

Brilliant

via:ashleystar funny geek culture
january 2007 by jimray

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.Howl by Mark Cohen

"who chained themselves to highways for the endless ride from PARC to holy Redmond on Big Gulp cola until the Windows of possibility clicked shut" [sigh]

via:colin poetry technology culture brilliant
january 2007 by jimray

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The AOLer Translator

Something that worked in reverse would be handy

funny language internet culture
december 2006 by jimray

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Sacha Baron Cohen's only interview as himself
2read culture funny movies
november 2006 by jimray

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An Indian physicist puts an internet-connected computer in the slums

And the kids teach themselves how to use it

2read via:kidethnic education internet culture technology
october 2006 by jimray

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American Airlines flight nearly diverted to avoid Teh Gay

This is so fucking stupid - a gay couple was snuggling and it becomes a national security matter?

culture sex politics travel homosexuality
september 2006 by jimray

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Ryan Irelan » ‘White Boys Clubs’ and Historical Sensitivity

"It’s historically insensitive and a real cop-out to flippantly use the 'maybe it’s just reflective of the community' argument to fend off criticism of a lack of diversity." HA! I just made a "it's just reflextive of the community" argument, like, an

design webdev culture diversity
september 2006 by jimray

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Stormtrooper effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"What would happen if Imperial Stormtroopers and Redshirts got in a firefight?" This is my daily reason to love Wikipedia

funny culture scifi via:revgeorge
september 2006 by jimray

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‘Lonely Girl’ (and Friends) Just Wanted Movie Deal

Virginia Heffernan, who's been all over this meme, breaks it on down for us

video culture
september 2006 by jimray

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Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds

Note to self: do not use work email address when responding to craigslist "casual encounters" posts. Another note to self: do not respond to craigslist "casual encouters" posts.

craigslist culture internet privacy sex
september 2006 by jimray

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD, Part One

"And observe the map device here — how the map is itself completely Gondor-centric."

via:merlinmann funny culture politics writing literature parody war
september 2006 by jimray

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America's longest war

The Economist looks at September 11 five years later

war september11 media politics culture history
september 2006 by jimray

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Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank

Guerrilla artist Bansky replaces about 500 Paris Hilton CD's with modified versions but "left the original barcode so people could buy the CD without realising it had been interfered with." Enhanced CD, anyone?

art awesome celebrity culture media music music? via:williamgibson
september 2006 by jimray

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Why People Don't Use Mass Transit
2read via:kidethnic culture economics environment politics transportation urban
september 2006 by jimray

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Nonconformity Is Skin Deep

David Brooks' latest salvo in the culture wars is now aimed at the tattoo'd. If there's ever been a better reason to get tatted up, I'm not sure what it is.

disengenuous tattoo culture politics
august 2006 by jimray

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neologasm: lolmate

"One with whom you share funny internets." Heh.

language funny internet culture
august 2006 by jimray

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USA Today article on the guy behind Post Secret

I love that he's an unassuming middle aged suburban husband

art weblogs culture media
august 2006 by jimray

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Pitchfork finishes up their top 200 songs of the 1960's

You had to know it was gonna be the Beach Boys (my money was actually on the Beatles. Or Miles Davis.)

music culture
august 2006 by jimray

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Most Americans don't think evolution is true

"Thirty-four countries were polled, and guess what? We score 33rd - edging out Turkey for last place."

wtf culture politics religion science via:daringfireball evolution creationism seriouslywtf
august 2006 by jimray

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The Geek Hierarchy

Absolutely brilliant

funny geek culture scifi
july 2006 by jimray

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CBC evening news report on "internet" from 1993
internt history video culture
july 2006 by jimray

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:: rogerebert.com :: Editor's Notes :: 101 Movies You Must See Before... (xhtml)

Thanks, Resh...

via:kidethnic film art culture
april 2006 by jimray

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Paste Magazine :: Home

I keep forgetting to subscribe to this and unsubscribe from Spin

magazines music media culture
march 2006 by jimray

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storySouth / southern barbecue BBQ culture and foodways

"And there, breaking the waves of amber light, still as any Buddha, is the man, the father — Big Daddy, they call him — of the ‘cue."

barbecue south culture food writing
march 2006 by jimray

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Lawrence Lessig to hold a virtual lecture in Second Life

I've been meaning to sign up a Second Life account for months, seems like as good a reason as any

lessig culture copyright virtualreality law
january 2006 by jimray

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MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop

This looks amazing - the design is really well thought out

community culture via:/. education hardware linux mobile philanthropy design
september 2005 by jimray

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The Chronicle: 12/08/2000: The Renaissance of Anti-Intellectualism

Just in case you were feeling at all good about the direction the country has been careening towards the last five years

culture politics
september 2005 by jimray

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The Ten Stupidest Utopias!

Good to see "postwar American suburbs" and the Internets on there

culture history politics society science
september 2005 by jimray

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But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?

The New York Times does the spaghetti monster

culture evolution creationism media politics religion science
august 2005 by jimray

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Engrish t-shirts

Engrish locks!

design culture japan tshirts brilliant
august 2005 by jimray

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Personal, Portable, Pedestrian - The MIT Press

Japanese culture and mobile phones

japan culture mobile books
august 2005 by jimray

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Best dueling banjos video ever

These are my people, this is my heritage

americana south culture funny
august 2005 by jimray

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Netflix: Pirates of Silicon Valley

You know you want to add it to your que!

nerds culture
august 2005 by jimray

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Harpers on the plight of being a Christian in America

Truth be told, this paradox crops up in more arenas than just religion

religion culture war history education politics
august 2005 by jimray

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What Business Can Learn from Open Source
business opensource via:kidethnic writing writers culture
august 2005 by jimray

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The Harry Potter Lexicon

There's a bunch of stuff I've missed in "The Half-Blood Prince", I need to give this a look-see

books culture reference
july 2005 by jimray

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Engrish photos on Flickr

Oh, Engrish

flickr language funny culture
july 2005 by jimray

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frontline: a class divided | PBS
2watch education discrimination racism culture politics
june 2005 by jimray

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Joe Strauss to Joe Six-Pack

The bitter irony of David Brooks lamenting the loss of culture would be hilarious were it not so sad. It's his party of choice, after all, that's taken immense pride in lambasting intellectuals as "elitist" while championing simpletons in high office

republicans politics dumb media culture
june 2005 by jimray

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