A Funkaoshi Production

Flow being the “state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

I still put two spaces after a period in pretty much anything I type. That sort of muscle memory is hard to forget. (I think anyway. As I type this I find myself only pressing the space bar once after each period. I think it is because I am thinking about the whole process of typing.)

Basically. Twitter is really good for finding out that something is happening right this second. If you want any more nuance than “Michael Jackson is dead!” you really need a place where there isn’t a 140 character limit on what is being said.

When I worked at CI Mutual Funds he would hand out $100 bills to the customer service reps who were working late during RRSP season. He’s also like 8 feet tall.

This single-serve site is really well done.

Everyone loves paying more for less.

Photographs by Tommy Forbes.

Amy Chua discusses how she is raising her daughters. This thread, like all MetaFilter threads that don’t involve White protagonists, is hilarious and awesome. More so, the article itself is hilarious and awesome: it’s such troll bait. I’m sure many people will find her parenting style deeply offensive and abusive.

From the July 2010 issue of Harpers.

She was one of the democratic candidates on Sarah Palin’s apparently literal hit list.

As I read the situation, we are witnessing the beginning of the end of Facebook. These aren’t the symptoms of a company that is winning, but one that is cashing out.

This article is definitely a must read.

Android isn’t an attempt to build the best mobile platform and sell it on its merits; it’s a play to control the vast majority of the mobile market, secure eyeballs for Google advertising and eliminate any threat to Google.

A lot of people approach Google as an advertising company first when looking to criticize what they do. I think this is a fair approach, but there is a much more optimistic take on what they do which my friend Patrick wrote about some time ago:

I, however, still liken [Google] to Ferrari in that Ferrari is a racing company that sells cars to fund their racing. Google sells ads to fund their search engine technology related desires.

Sepia Mutiny discusses the death of Trade Unionist Jayaben Desai.

A nice mini-documentary on the Scott Schumann, The Sartorialist.

Something a bit more light hearted.

null terminated from MetaFilter hung himself. His suicide note is well written, heart breaking, and horrific. There is a nice quote in the MetaTalk thread from Rev. John Watson: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” RIP Bill Zeller.

This service sounds pretty cool.

So, the study just wasn’t shitty, it was straight up fraudulent. Hopefully this will shut up the stupids.

What the what?

It doesn’t get better than this.

It’s easier than you might think.

It’s impressive the story you can tell without any words.

I have about 30 rolls of undeveloped film in my fridge. A few rolls from Imdia, a few from montreal, and a few whose contents I can’t even guess at this point. I apparently like taking pictures more than I like looking at them.