Joshua Topolsky: Ari Emanuel, this is where I work
At this week’s All Things D conference — D10, which marked a decade of these retreats — Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher were gracious enough to invite Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel on stage to talk about the changing entertainment market as it relates to technology. Ari is a Hollywood agent who is an incredibly powerful player in film, TV, and increasingly even web content — he’s the kind of guy who can say things like “you’ll never work in this town again” and actually make it happen. Now you probably haven’t seen much of the real Ari, but you’re likely familiar with the character of Ari Gold (played by Jeremy Piven) from HBO’s bro-fest, Entourage. That Ari is a raging, expletive-spewing egomaniac whom I always thought was a broad exaggeration of the real thing. On Wednesday night, I learned that was not the case.
Drunk Dungeon turns your drink coaster into a game piece, and your party into an adventure
Good enough for me.
Hubble reveals unavoidable collision between our galaxy and Andromeda
This video is pretty crazy
(Source: Engadget)
Buona sera (Taken with instagram)
This Memorial Day, we took a look back at how the U.S. soldier has evolved over the years. Did you know camouflage wasn’t introduced until the end of World War II?
(via sunfoundation)
Jaimie Trueblood has some pretty neat pics of America over on his site (“my fellow americans”)
@ryan: Interesting… RT @nickbilton: Facebook learns that building a smartphone is a lot harder than building software:
@clinejj: still not sure of fb building their own phone…why compete with google and apple when you can have a presence on every device?
@clinejj: ain’t nothing wrong with being an app…especially when you have 900 million users. hardware won’t get you anywhere close to that
@clinejj: facebook would do better by making nice with apple and google…work at being the #2 app behind “messages”
In an internet culture, it matters more that I know where the facts can be found, and how to piece them together, curate, and redistribute, than how long I can keep my head submerged in 300 pages of non-fiction. When reading news on the internet, I’m defined by my filters, but when reading a newspaper, I’m defined by my patience for skimming through stories about crises in the Middle East. I’ve found myself buying books on sprees that have more similarity to opening multiple tabs in a browser than the actions of a rational shopper. I page through my magazines like an RSS reader, where “marking read” means reading the headline, not necessarily reading the article. I’ve long since run out of shelf space for new titles, I’m a few pages into a few dozen books, ranging from Plato’s Meno to John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead […]”
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Offline: Ignorance by Paul Miller
This is so me.
(via scipsy)
the whole article is pretty good, but this part was especially salient
(via scipsy)
well, at least it wasn’t a tuesday…
(Source: playmobilin)
The American West, 150 Years Ago
courtesy The Atlantic’s In Focus
neil gaiman is pretty cool
Too Close // Alex Care
this song is pretttttty good…just wish his album was out stateside
An Intoxicated Bill Murray Gives a Tour of the Moonrise Kingdom Set
bill murray is pretty fantastic
