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Two Great Posts About TV

In Say Goodbye To Scheduled TV, my friend Randy talks about one probable future for television, the death of scheduled programming.

In The Revolution Will NOT Be Televised: How to Destory Your TV, killing your TV is the goal at hand.

We “killed our TV” and replaced it with an iMac, running Plex and an EyeTV several months ago and don’t think we will ever go back. Being able to watch what we want, and only what we want, on our schedule and being able to pause and return later is life changing.

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Nature Boy – Recorded by Nat King Cole, Written by Eden Ahbez

Single Ladies – Beyonce by Pomplamoose Music

So much better than the original.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Beautiful natural light in the National Building Museum.

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping … waiting … and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir … open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us … guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love … the clarity of hatred … the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we’d be truly dead.

Joss Whedon

So Serious: Creating Controversy

But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most of us don’t know best. Which is sad, mostly because it’s true.

Another post along a similar theme… Words mean things.

An Entirely Other Day: Birdhouse for Your Soul

Our lives are being documented, in ways large and small and trivial and important, and it will all be waiting out there for anybody who has the inclination to find it.

There is truth in beauty. Lessons as well.

Gestures as a language not a technology. : JeffreySambells.com

“Gestures should be treated as a language, like sign language for touch devices. We need a common set of gestures to interact with all touch enabled devices. I shouldn’t have to lean a different language just to use a different device.”

Agreed. (via DF)

The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals

I love these sorts of portraits into how people get through the day.