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"[…] remember that anything worth doing is difficult at first. Maybe you are the kind of person..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:12:00 +0200

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[…] remember that anything worth doing is difficult at first. Maybe you are the kind of person who is afraid of failure so you give up at the first sign of difficulty. Maybe you never learned self-discipline so you can’t do anything that’s “boring”. Maybe you were told that you are “gifted” so you never attempt anything that might make you seem stupid or not a prodigy. Maybe you are competitive and unfairly compare yourself to someone like me who’s been programming for 20 years.

Whatever your reason for wanting to quit, keep at it.

”

- The Hard Way Is Easier

Spending the last few days before starting to work again learning Python (the hard way). Spännende! :P
Well, that’s a good piece of advice anyway.

(via Brooke Shaden : Underwater Inspiration)

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:31:45 +0200

(via Brooke Shaden : Underwater Inspiration)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 13:20:00 +0200

BBC News - Russia: Azerbaijan's Eurovision snub 'outrageous'

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:36:44 +0200

BBC News - Russia: Azerbaijan's Eurovision snub 'outrageous':

Russia’s foreign minister has called Azerbaijan’s failure to award any points to Russia’s entry in the Eurovision song contest “outrageous”.

you gotta be freaking kiddin’ me.

"Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:38:06 +0200

“Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

- Neil Gaiman, American Gods.

The New Yorker: What Yahoo Bought with a Billion Dollars: Hope

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:10:57 +0200

The New Yorker: What Yahoo Bought with a Billion Dollars: Hope:

It’s too early to say whether Yahoo will screw up Tumblr—by making it ugly, by introducing terrible advertising, by obscuring its wealth of adult content, or by simply casting a pall over it so great that the site’s fickle younger users abandon it. It’s also too early to say whether Yahoo screwed up by buying Tumblr, whose explosive growth has slowed of late, according to Quantcast numbers. Or, more hopefully, maybe Yahoo made its first wildly successful acquisition and the two companies will grow together; Instagram, for example, has in many ways (though not all) been a model acquisition, with the majority of its users having signed up after its purchase by Facebook. The outcome may depend almost entirely on how happy Yahoo makes Karp. (Tumblr’s co-founder, Marco Arment,writes that “Tumblr is David, and David is Tumblr.”) Regardless, Yahoo’s acquisition further concentrates social networking in the hands of a few companies, leaving Twitter and Pinterest behind as the only big, independent social networks of their ilk aside from Facebook.

—Matt Buchanan on Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr: http://nyr.kr/10JTYog

The New Yorker: Shouts & Murmurs: The Collected Letters of Marissa Mayer and David Karp

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:04:48 +0200

The New Yorker: Shouts & Murmurs: The Collected Letters of Marissa Mayer and David Karp:

newyorker:

My darling David,

Don’t let these earthly considerations stand in the way of our relationship. Getting to know Tumblr has been the biggest joy of my life. I have never felt so young, so alive, so full of hope for the future as when I am watching your metrics rise exponentially each day.

Oh, I was looking at some of your photos online the other day. Please don’t wear your Google Glass when I introduce you to my board. I want them to approve of you.

All my love, Marissa

—Caitlin Kelly imagines an exchange between Marissa Mayer and David Karp: http://nyr.kr/19XTw6V

theobscureobject: Dominique Issermann.

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:28:50 +0200

theobscureobject:

Dominique Issermann.

newyorker: “When I heard the news that the Freedom Tower will...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:42:54 +0200

newyorker:

“When I heard the news that the Freedom Tower will be now be the highest building in Manhattan, I thought: ‘Kids!’” Ana Juan, the artist behind this week’s cover “Defiance,” says. “When you are a kid, you’re with your friends, and you say, ‘My ice cream is bigger than yours!’” she adds laughingly. “It’s a kind of a race, even if it makes for a great skyline. Still, I can’t help wondering: ‘Why do humans need to build higher and higher?’ It’s a show of power—something that doesn’t necessarily hold much interest for me. We need better schools, or a better health-care system, or to take care of the cities we have… but I guess building ever higher is our way to show how great we are.”

Cover of the May 27, 2013 issue. For more on Ana Juan’s cover, “Defiance,” as well as a slide show of images of the downtown skyline after 9/11 and some of her many children’s books illustrations: http://nyr.kr/10IKny1

henryskrimshander: I’ll take these odds. (looking forward to...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:41:32 +0200

henryskrimshander:

I’ll take these odds.

(looking forward to watching it. good luck)

"All this is to say that the promises execs make on acquisitions are meaningless. They own the thing,..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:41:18 +0200

“All this is to say that the promises execs make on acquisitions are meaningless. They own the thing, they will do what they want to with it. It doesn’t matter how many nice sounds Mayer makes on the deal. At the core she cares not one bit what the users of Tumblr think. She’s saying what she needs to say to make the deal happen.”

- Thread: My one talk with Marissa Mayer

Sweden wins the gold metal in the Ice Hockey World Championship...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:25:00 +0200

Sweden wins the gold metal in the Ice Hockey World Championship 2013
(via Just nu: VM-guld till Sverige | Sport | SvD)

Heja Sverige, heja Tre Kronor!

stormtrooperfashion: Benjamin Alexander Huseby shoots for The...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:03:46 +0200

stormtrooperfashion:

Benjamin Alexander Huseby shoots for The New York Times Style Magazine, May 2013

pikeys: Hyperrealistic Painting by Monica Cook

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:57:57 +0200

pikeys:

Hyperrealistic Painting by Monica Cook

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Thu, 09 May 2013 16:58:49 +0200

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Wed, 08 May 2013 16:59:23 +0200

stormtrooperfashion: “Rainbow Warriors” by Scott Trindle...

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:38:49 +0200

stormtrooperfashion:

“Rainbow Warriors” by Scott Trindle for Vogue UK, June 2013

gold-luxe: Love this!

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:59:08 +0200

gold-luxe:

Love this!

stormtrooperfashion: Maria Loks in “Talk to the Hand” by...

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:53:58 +0200

stormtrooperfashion:

Maria Loks in “Talk to the Hand” by Dancian for Wonderland Magazine, April/May 2013

Shouts & Murmurs: My Wedding Hair

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:30:34 +0200

newyorker:

So, to sum up, I’d like to look blithe, beautiful, like I could barely even make it to this wedding because I had so much going on, and also maybe like I just woke up from napping with some doves, but also really sophisticated, like I’m seriously about to put on some sexy glasses and flip angrily through my Filofax, and all of this is signified by my offhand yet gorgeous and strategically tousled up-do. Is that possible?

By Emma Rathbone: http://nyr.kr/17JTvEw

Love her already.