Google vs. Apple: How Business Models Drive Disrespect vs. Respect for Privacy
This explains everything:
97% of Google’s ~$30b in annual revenues comes from advertisers, whereas ~99% of Apple’s ~$87b in annual revenue comes directly from customers who buy and use Apple’s products and services.
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Art Project of the Day: From a series of Smithsonian promo posters designed by Jenny Burrows as part of a portfolio project.
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Typography could use some work, but the concept is brilliant.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liez5mzqy51qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Art Project of the Day: From a series of Smithsonian promo posters designed by Jenny Burrows as part of a portfolio project.
[reddit.]
Typography could use some work, but the concept is brilliant.
(Source: thedailywhat)
Arcade Fire, and the ‘Never Heard of It’ Grammys
There are some obvious jokes to be made about people with Internet access using Twitter to complain about not knowing something, as opposed to using Google to look it up. But for the most part, this reaction — all these examples cherry-picked from teenage pop fans and bemused adults — is just plain normal. “Never heard of it”: This has been the natural and traditional response of all sorts of ordinary American humans to all sorts of phenomena. It’s not really about knowledge or information. It’s an argument, for the most part, and a faintly aggressive one — a way of insisting that what you pay attention to really does define the world. What you’ve heard of is real, and everything else is marginal. The center holds, and you are that center. You are normal and aware, and not just some tiny atomized entity that can only hope to know one tiny corner of the universe.
Stop motion animated 3D light painting with the iPad.
Enough buzzwords for you? Thought so.
And so now when I drink, I’m going to drink to excess
And when I smoke, I will smoke gaping holes in my chest
And when I scream, I will scream until I’m gasping for breath
And when I get sick, I will stay sick for the rest
Of my days peddling hate out the back of a Chevy Express
Each one a fart in the face of your idea of success
And if this be thy will, then fucking pass me the cup
And I’m sorry, Dad, no, I’m not making this up
I’ll go further and say that the repeated compulsion to resolve and resolve and resolve is actually a terrific marker that you’re not really ready to change anything in a grownup and sustainable way. You probably just want another magic wand.
Otherwise you’d already be doing the things you’ve resolved to do. You’d already be living those changes. And, you’d already be seeing actual improvements rather than repeatedly making lists of all the ways you hope your annual hajj to the self-improvement genie will fix you.”
— Merlin Mann on New Year’s resolutions (via marco)
(Source: marco)
ceo – Halo (Beyoncé cover)
Teal and orange, bitch.
(Source: nickelcobalt)
Regina Spektor – No Surprises (Radiohead cover)
(Source: scatteredwords)
Ben Folds – You Don’t Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor)
