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We look at hundreds of products every week. Sometimes thousands. At first all of us were pretty stoked about Kickstarter, because it seemed like a genuine font of unfettered innovation—the hive mind coming up with products that we truly needed but had never even thought of before. And maybe it was. But it’s not anymore. It’s a sea of bad videos, bad renderings, and poorly made prototypes.
The problem is actually the same thing that made it so exciting in the first place: the unfetteredness. Is that a word? No? Maybe I can post a fucking video on Kickstarter and raise ten grand and turn it into a real word. I mean, is that any less realistic than the Robocop Statue I funded? Or the plug-in iPhone case that, $40 later, I realized was probably only going to come out after the product around which it was designed had been fully redesigned? Nope. It’s all the same salty sea of hogwash. And we’re stepping out of the pool until Kickstarter starts filtering out some of the crap.
” — We’re Done With Kickstarter[video]
“Codifying “via” links with confusing symbols is solving the wrong problem.” — I’m not a “curator” – Marco.org
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“I had been to Miami exactly one time before I moved here, unwillingly, if also gratefully, as a recession refugee. Departing on March 1, 2010, in what my East Village landlord’s lawyer later referred to as “the dead of night” (it was actually midmorning), I left behind some furniture, a low six figures of debt and most everyone I’d ever met. I carted the books I didn’t think were worth taking across the street to the bookstore, and the booksellers in turn quietly carted the books they thought not worth taking to the trash cans on the northeast corner of St. Mark’s and First Avenue, and so I drove off for the last time amid a mess of flying pages.” —
Choire Sicha can fucking write.
“(An aside: Oh my god. This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever written about.)” — Did Twitter Change the Way Replies Work?
(via Instagram)
Mmmmhmmmm
Santorum comes from behind in Alabama three-way -
Goodness.
Goodness, goodness gracious.
I guess Romney thinks it’s still halftime in America.
(Source: brooklynmutt)
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@RickSantorum Well then I look forward to being reimbursed for any of my tax dollars that funded the Iraq War.
— Gina Marie (@ginambakkun) February 17, 2012
“Similarly, if you are starting a company and it is not a Pinterest clone, I feel bad for you son. All the big baller VCs in the valley need a Pinterest hook right now if you expect them to relate to you. If your turd factory isn’t a Pinterest spin-off you might as well not even share your poop with me. Because I won’t care! Each and every elevator pitch is now required to begin with “It’s like Pinterest for _____” — Please Stop Making More Pinterests
Inspired and humbled by the love pouring in
No it’s not. It’s an elaborate hoax. Here’s the lowdown. More to come.