“Lateral thinking of withered technology”
—Philsophy of design from Gameboy creator Gunpei Yokoi
September 2010
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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
—Loving this little anecdote from Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)
Crazy Simpsons cut ups
Is the mash-up making a comeback?
“Cache Rules Everything Around Me” and “Miracles” would say so …
“Rahm Emanuel tells a story. The time is last December, when the White House was juggling an agenda that included the Afghanistan troop surge, the health-care bill, the climate talks in Copenhagen, and Obama’s acceptance of a Nobel Peace Prize that threatened to do him more political harm than good—one issue on top of another. It got to the point where Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size. “We didn’t want to make another decision, or choice, or judgment,” Emanuel told me. They took to beginning staff meetings with Obama smiling at Emanuel and simply saying “White,” and Emanuel nodding back and replying “Medium.”
—From the eye-opening Obama Vanity Fair article (via Instapaper)
“OMNISCIENCE FATIGUE : The burnout that comes with being able to know the answer to almost anything online.”
—Op-Ed Contributor - A Dictionary of the Near Future - NYTimes.com (via Instapaper)
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“Anyway, that’s one example of a Federer Moment, and that was merely on TV — and the truth is that TV tennis is to live tennis pretty much as video porn is to the felt reality of human love.”
—Roger Federer as Religious Experience (via Instapaper)
“The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long, But it Bends Towards Justice”
—By Martin Luther King, one of five quotes on Obama’s new Oval Office rug
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