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babybruise: iwdrm: “Because I want to fit in.” American Psycho...

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:15:52 -0400

babybruise:

iwdrm:

“Because I want to fit in.”

American Psycho (2000)

bby let me luv u dwn

banksy

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:37:18 -0400

banksy

"Nobody can actually honk ‘at’ someone; one honks, and the noise assails the just and unjust alike."

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:34:35 -0400

“Nobody can actually honk ‘at’ someone; one honks, and the noise assails the just and unjust alike.”

- Matthew Baldwin, How to Not Kill a Cyclist (via maxistentialist)

s-stevens: Ice T, vry wise

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:07:06 -0400

s-stevens:

Ice T, vry wise

boniverotica: I am in the greenhouse pollinating tomato flowers...

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:35 -0400

boniverotica:

I am in the greenhouse pollinating tomato flowers with a paintbrush when I hear him return. He crushes me in his arms that smell of hotel soap. We make love right there beside the machinery shed, interrupted once by an incurious turkey passing by. Later he pushes me in the tire swing as the sun slips behind the western hills and shares stories from his tour.

His suitcase is still in the truck, forgotten along with the yearning of being apart.

Hank Green's Tumblr: On Ad Block

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:15:16 -0400

Hank Green's Tumblr: On Ad Block:

fishingboatproceeds:

edwardspoonhands:

On my most recent video I saw a whole ton of comments from people saying “I never see pre-rolls on Vlogbrothers videos because I have AD BLOCK installed.” Well, two problems here.

No one sees pre-rolls on vlogbrothers videos because we don’t run them

I am not sure how I feel about Ad Blockers and I wish you would consider your decision more carefully, especially your apparent desire to share the world.
If everyone was like you and used ad blockers, there would be no Freddie Wong videos to watch. There would be no YouTube. There would be no Google or GMail or Facebook or any of it. If everyone used ad block, the internet would be made of things that suck and things that cost money.

And so when you say to the world “HEY PONCES! WTF AREN’T YOU USING AD BLOCK! SUCKERS!” What you’re saying is “Let’s all work together to destroy the internet.”

The only reason Ad Block works for you is that most people don’t use it. It is in your best interest to keep Ad Block quiet and not let anyone know about it. Spend like 13 seconds thinking through a world where Ad Block gets installed on a substantial number of browsers in the world:

Advertisers call up platforms (Google, YouTube, Facebook, etc) and say “We aren’t going to pay you for advertisements if no one sees them.”

The platforms freak out and spend a huge amount of time and money creating Ad Block Blockers. Maybe they partner with Mozilla. Maybe with the US Government. Maybe they create another technological solution. In any case, afterward the internet is clunkier and maybe even less free than beforehand.

Ad Blockers counter by working around the work-arounds.

Advertisers still pull back funds, the internet gets worse. Less money is spent on making the internet cool and interesting, more money is spend on trying to defeat Ad Blockers.

At the end of the day, your attempts to remove some pixels that were off in the corner of the screen where you probably would never have seen them anyway have made the whole world a less awesome place.

I understand the desire to work-around a system that annoys you. But I do not understand the apparent inability of some people to think their decisions through to their logical conclusion.

***FOOTNOTE ON TUMBLR***

You may notice that Tumblr neither costs money nor sucks. However, before Tumblr got it’s most recent round of venture capital funding, you may also remember how it was crashing 20 or 30 times per day. The funding that made it possible for Tumblr to stay online consistently would not have come in if the people with that money did not believe that someday Tumblr would have some kind of path to profitability…and the clearest of those paths is through advertising.

I’m reblogging this again because 90% of the comments in my new video seem to brag about AdBlock as if it’s some easy solution to the complicated role that corporations play in facilitating and problematizing the relationship between people who make stuff on the Internet and people who enjoy that stuff.

In fact, AdBlock does no such thing. It mostly only hurts the creators of the stuff you like, because it doesn’t prevent YouTube from collecting valuable information about you that they then use to grow and improve their company. If everyone—or even 20% of people—used AdBlock, we could not afford to ignore our other jobs to make regular vlogbrothers videos, let alone create expensive educational content like crashcourse.

I don’t know what the solution to this complicated problem is, but it sure as hell isn’t AdBlock.

the solution is subscription.

very simple.

but then the new problem is piracy.

Photo

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:05:19 -0400

nevver: Chicago

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:55:44 -0400

nevver:

Chicago

Photo

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:49:44 -0400

nevver: Maybe?

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:04:47 -0400

nevver:

Maybe?

danforth: Good motto.

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:57:01 -0400

danforth:

Good motto.

why i look to look through javascript

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:45:03 -0400

“var ap=(ax)?’found (“’+aq+’”). Die! Die! Die!’:”not found; may it live in peace. For now.”;ad.log(‘Kill phrases (“’+adsafeVisParams.killPhrases+’”) ‘+ap);}else{ad.log(“Kill phrase empty or not found.”)”

When I can't reach adops during an emergency

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:32:03 -0400

whathappensinmediaplanning:

I’m like

- Annie

i am ad ops.

"I’m sorry that I’m both your umbrella and the rain."

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:44:34 -0400

“I’m sorry that I’m both your umbrella and the rain.”

- Tablo (via creatingaquietmind)

nevver: Steps Involved In Writing an Email

Wed, 09 May 2012 14:43:06 -0400

nevver:

Steps Involved In Writing an Email

yonqui: I feel that the time has come to project my own...

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:22:48 -0400

yonqui:

I feel that the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfactions into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes, let my own lack of a voice be heard.

wl ftw

nevver: What I will do

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:12:22 -0400

nevver:

What I will do

"everything i’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it."

Mon, 07 May 2012 14:09:54 -0400

“everything i’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”

- david foster wallace (via entropicarus)

urhajos: Le Pianoquarium by `AquaSixio

Fri, 04 May 2012 15:24:46 -0400

urhajos:

Le Pianoquarium by `AquaSixio

thedailyfeed: America is still a TV nation! A new...

Fri, 04 May 2012 12:21:54 -0400

thedailyfeed:

America is still a TV nation! A new cross-platform report from Nielsen shows that American spend on average of five hours a day viewing video, 98 percent of which is on a traditional television set.

this is so f’ing stupid.

anyone who trusts derived data which includes an 11 minute dvd probably falls down a lot.

i love that ‘on demand’ isn’t an option here, it probably rolls up under ‘live TV’ for the sake of the industry.