Best. Conan. Clip. Ever.
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Jul 08
Jun 22
“ This is the ludicrous aspect of what started out as a serious attempt to curtail the abuse and theft of copyrighted material through the magic of new technology. Should it pass, untouched by cooler heads and brighter minds, it will make me a criminal. It will also make a percentage of Canadians into miscreants by telling them they can’t record a favourite television show and keep it. Nor after watching it once, can they give it away.
— Catherine Ford, Calgary Herald “Copyright Law Would Turn Millions Into Criminals”
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“Public transportation is the way everyone is going,” said Mufi Hannemann, mayor of Honolulu. “Right now in my city, it’s all about the public bus.”
Mr. Hannemann said the federal government needed to give cities more money to expand their offerings. “We’re starting a ferry system, and making more bike lanes, more opportunities for people to walk,” he said. “And the federal government can help us immeasurably.”
For smaller, poorer cities, the shift away from driving can at times feel transformative. Mayor John Robert Smith of Meridian, Miss., population 40,000, said local officials never talked much about driving. It was just how everyone got around.
— Damien Cave, New York Times “Fuel Costs Pinch Cities; Mayors Push Mass Transit”
Jun 21
“ One lady who was without a bike remarked that she’s ridden the train to and from work every day in the last 2 years and she’s never seen as many people on the trains, or as many bikes on the trains as she has in the last month and “every one of them is complaining about those damn gas prices.
— Sean Bonner, “Gas Prices and Your Commute”
Jun 20
I Will Be This Cool In My Next Life. (Link)
Sign of Yahoo’s Decline? A Typewriter? Really?
Jun 19
“ Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it.
— John Perry, “Stuctured Procrastination”
Jun 18
david: This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
Jun 17
“ Derided by critics as pie in the sky, the train would use magnetic levitation technology to carry passengers from Disneyland to Las Vegas in well under two hours, traveling at speeds of up to 300 mph. It would be the first MagLev system in the U.S.
— Steve Hymon, “If You Hate Driving the 15 to Vegas” (via Edythe)
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Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), famed literary critic and author, sent the following postcard in response to nearly all postal mail:
“Edmund Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him to: Read manuscripts, write articles or books to order, write forewords or introductions, make statements for publicity purposes, do any kind of editorial work, judge literary contests, give interviews, take part in writers’ conferences, answer questionnaires, contribute to or take part in symposiums or ‘panels’ of any kind, contribute manuscripts for sales, donate copies of his books to libraries, autograph works for strangers, allow his name to be used on letterheads, supply personal information about himself, or supply opinions on literary or other subjects.”
— Timothy Ferriss, “Preventing Email Bankruptcy: From 1920’s Postcards to Video Confessions”