Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
Robin Sharma (via thatkindofwoman)
StubHub victim of international cyber fraud ring, company say
Reuters: eBay’s online ticket resale service StubHub announced late Tuesday that it was the victim of a massive international cyber fraud ring.
The company’s head of global communications said his firm had been working with law enforcement around the world for the last year on the case, which authorities plan to disclose details of on Wednesday as they announce arrests.
Guys, web rings took a turn for the worse after the 1990s. Now look what happened to them, good thing their mom GeoCities isn’t alive to see this.
Pretty psyched to see Cumberbatch as Turing.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Twilight of the Pizza Barons
“Believing more choices meant more chances for screwed-up orders, Monaghan insisted on a bare-bones menu: only small and large pizzas and Coke to drink. “We had to beg on our knees to get Diet Coke in,” says Harry Silverman, a former Domino’s chief financial officer.”
“Little Caesars grew slowly until the mid-1970s, when Ilitch started promoting two-for-one pizza deals. “Pizza! Pizza!” worked so well that he installed conveyor-belt ovens to keep pies coming.”
AMC/HBO/ETC, I have a TV show for you. It’s called Barons, it’s set in Detroit in the 70s and 80s, and instead of the standard one brooding man building an empire, it’s got TWO! That’s two times as many movie stars to leverage. Not to mention the obvious love from social media you’ll get from all the listicles going nuts over a tv drama that involves pizza.
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Emoji Dick is a crowd sourced and crowd funded translation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick into Japanese emoticons called emoji.
Each of the book’s approximately 10,000 sentences has been translated three times by a Amazon Mechanical Turk worker. These results have been voted upon by another set of workers, and the most popular version of each sentence has been selected for inclusion in this book.
In total, over eight hundred people spent approximately 3,795,980 seconds working to create this book. Each worker was paid five cents per translation and two cents per vote per translation.
All art to me is about problem solving. So I’m obsessed with problem solving. Somewhere someone discovered something or somebody was tasked to figure something out and they did. What did they figure out and how? One of the things that I believe is true is the art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there. There’s only the thing and what the thing needs to be. When I look around the world and think why is everything working or not working, it’s because it’s entrenched ideology. You can’t solve a problem if you’re sitting down with people who say, “All these ideas are off the table because of what I believe.”
Steven Soderbergh
I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative. That we’re a species that’s wired to tell stories. We need stories. It’s how we make sense of things. It’s how we learn. When we look at what’s going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening — you can always trace it back to competing narratives. What’s going on in Ukraine right now is that Vladimir Putin has a narrative of himself and his country that he’s so passionate about that he’s willing to make a move like that. This is about a story. His story of himself and him trying to restore his country to the glory he thinks it should have. It’s that elemental.
Steven Soderbergh
EngageMedia compiled videos of young people explaining their perspectives about the important 2014 presidential elections.
Over one-third of the more than 186 million eligible voters in Indonesia’s landmark presidential election will be casting a ballot for the first time in their lives on 9 June, and this new generation of voters could affect the outcome in an important way.
Young People Could Have a Tremendous Impact on Indonesia’s Elections. So What Do They Think?
Much <3 to my friends at Engage for this great work!
Who Owns Media (US Edition)
Via Gizmodo, which also includes graphics on what brands own what consumer goods, consolidation in financial markets, what auto makers own what cars, and what breweries make what beer… which is important.
Images: Studios and media companies (top), and TV stations (bottom). Select to embiggen.
This is something we should all be pretty unhappy about.