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2013-05-17

Shigeru Miyamoto GDC 1999 Keynote. Starts at minute 6.

“I want game designers to be designers who make technology their tool and use it to express their own individuality, their own uniqueness, and their own within. And I want them to be entertainers who make this world a more enjoyable one. Is with this extravagant hope that I wish to end my speech tonight. My friends, let us design truly unique, fun software that poses new appeal. Let us take on new challenges so that the world of gaming is not left behind as a separate, close off world. And in the process lets see if we can make some money.”

2013-05-16

But looking back on it, resisting the temptation whose logic was “In this extenuating circumstance, just this once, it’s OK” has proven to be one of the most important decisions of my life. Why? My life has been one unending stream of extenuating circumstances. Had I crossed the line that one time, I would have done it over and over in the years that followed.  
The lesson I learned from this is that it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. If you give in to “just this once,” based on a marginal cost analysis, as some of my former classmates have done, you’ll regret where you end up. You’ve got to define for yourself what you stand for and draw the line in a safe place.

— Clayton Christensen.

2013-05-15

This American Life went as far as getting both Tig Notaro and Taylor Dayne on stage at the same time!

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“People always think there is no way that story is true. Why would I make up a fourteen minute story about a pop singer that nobody’s really heard of?” —Tig Notaro.

I have never been able to to tell if Tig Notaro truly blanked and was improvising, nor if the story was true or not. Either way, is one of the most outstanding and hilarious stand up comedy bits ever.

2013-05-13

Mad Men Season 6 poster in high resolution. You can even read Brian Sanders’ signature.

There is an even bigger scan (9000 × 6900px) but it seems to have lost the original’s hue and saturation.

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davepilk:

White carrion crow from the Lake District. Stunning bird. I think there’s more of these around than we think. I have seen a few in the wild.

(via ancient-serpent)

Source: davepilk

Dreams reveal we never quite get over anything. It’s all in there somewhere, biding its time.

— Alain de Botton.

2013-05-12

Victory Day provides Russians one of the few means to reconcile with their Soviet past… if only because victory over the Nazis makes the whole Soviet experiment worth it.

— Sean Guillory. http://readrussia.com/2013/05/09/victorys-essential-but-unwanted-guest/