Tumblr (3.0; @cbp)http://ecbp.net/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyy5sjWl021qz5248o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ecbp.net/post/433993404http://ecbp.net/post/433993404Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:57:54 -0800<p>It also does not consider externalities, such as pollution. Advertising is mind pollution. Advertising is designed to affect the behaviour of people for the benefit of the advertiser. Why would anyone willingly expose themselves to something designed to steal their attention?</p> <p>You might argue that advertising creates value – some viewers choose to buy when otherwise they wouldn’t have. But what of the huge proportion of people who just had their attention stolen? No value was created there.</p> <p><a href="http://johnleach.co.uk/words/archives/2010/03/07/497/advertising-and-ad-blocking" target="_blank">Advertising and ad blocking</a></p>http://ecbp.net/post/432868972http://ecbp.net/post/432868972Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:24:30 -0800<p>Practice makes perfect for as long as you think perfection is even possible: then you realize it really isn’t (that you are actually mediocre) and you throw in the towel and start having fun (or you start having a fit).</p> <p><a href="http://www.adequacy.net/2006/09/interview-with-sufjan-stevens/" target="_blank">Sufjan Stevens</a></p>http://ecbp.net/post/429816449http://ecbp.net/post/429816449Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:09:54 -0800<p>The easy part to culling the bullshit is to ask yourself: Is this activity making a positive, tangible difference in my life or anyone else’s life? Is it a real, true prerequisite for a tangibly effective activity? Alternatively, am I totally okay with doing this just because I like doing it, laboring under no illusion that it benefits me or anyone else?</p> <p><a href="http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/achievement-porn/" target="_blank">Achievement Porn</a></p>http://ecbp.net/post/421234976http://ecbp.net/post/421234976Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:42:32 -0800<p>“People are interested in authentic work,” he said. “I think they’re tired of what they’ve been told they should accomplish in their life, and they’re starting to realize that it’s not all that exciting or beneficial from a community perspective or an individual perspective.”</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28food-t-000.html?src=sch&pagewanted=all" target="_blank">Plow Shares</a></p>http://ecbp.net/post/415990477http://ecbp.net/post/415990477Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:42:24 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kya80oIxJE1qz5248o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ecbp.net/post/406553400http://ecbp.net/post/406553400Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:43:35 -0800<p>I’m a tool builder. That’s how I think of myself. I want to build really good tools that I know in my gut and my heart will be valuable. And then whatever happens is… you can’t really predict exactly what will happen, but you can feel the direction that we’re going. And that’s about as close as you can get. Then you just stand back and get out of the way, and these things take on a life of their own.</p> <p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31896381/from_the_archives_a_revealing_interview_with_steve_jobs/print" target="_blank">Steve Jobs</a></p>http://ecbp.net/post/401369908http://ecbp.net/post/401369908Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:41:05 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxrst8lA731qz5248o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ecbp.net/post/386916534http://ecbp.net/post/386916534Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:58:19 -0800<p>The creative writing he continued to do was, therefore, not necessarily for public consumption. In recent years, he worked in a variety of formats: memoir, short fiction, and, yes, screenplays. But he was content, John III said, to “pump the stuff out for his own satisfaction, comfortable with it never going anywhere.” <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/03/john-hughes-remembered-201003?printable=true" target="_blank">He’d had his say, and it was time for others to have theirs.</a></p>http://ecbp.net/post/385100396http://ecbp.net/post/385100396Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:24:20 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxendtPzde1qz5248o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ecbp.net/post/375360020http://ecbp.net/post/375360020Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:17:26 -0800<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://ecbp.net/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/373371632/tumblr_kxegvzVDgK1qz5248&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>A Song For Women - Baaba Maal</p>http://ecbp.net/post/373371632http://ecbp.net/post/373371632Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:11:59 -0800<p>Great products are triumphs of taste. And taste is a byproduct of study, observation and being steeped in the culture of the past and present, of trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then bring those things into what you are doing.</p> <p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/weekinreview/31lohr.html?ref=technology" target="_blank">Steve Jobs</a></p>http://ecbp.net/post/362338910http://ecbp.net/post/362338910Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:15:36 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwsc9i102M1qz5248o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://ecbp.net/post/351997890http://ecbp.net/post/351997890Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:24:00 -0800<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2840720&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2840720&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2840720&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>C’était un rendez-vous</p>http://ecbp.net/post/344779387http://ecbp.net/post/344779387Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:13:00 -0800<p><a href="http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html" target="_blank">Clarity is better than cleverness.</a></p>http://ecbp.net/post/343747342http://ecbp.net/post/343747342Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:20:04 -0800<object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fecbp%2Fgranite-gray&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=000000" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowscriptaccess="always" height="81" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fecbp%2Fgranite-gray&show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=000000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></embed></object> <br/><br/><p>Granite Gray, 10 electronic tracks.</p>http://ecbp.net/post/339686482http://ecbp.net/post/339686482Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:34:14 -0800<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwbluoz5PG1qz5248o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ecbp.net/post/336758602http://ecbp.net/post/336758602Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:32:48 -0800<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7809605&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7809605&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7809605&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Fullscreen it, please.</p>http://ecbp.net/post/331595018http://ecbp.net/post/331595018Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:46:00 -0800<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw0wggjzSP1qz5248o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://ecbp.net/post/328336633http://ecbp.net/post/328336633Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:04:30 -0800<p>What I believe and what I write comes from an intense love for mankind and if people want to interpret that another way there’s nothing I can do to stop them. I feel like there are two facets to differentiate between: Christianity, which is a personal belief and a love; and Christendom, which unfortunately is all some people think about when they think about Christianity. Christendom is the ugly, hateful, corporate institution that aligns itself with Christianity. I feel like I constantly have to resolve myself between what I believe and this deadly institutional entity.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dailyvanguard.com/2.4081/the-man-from-michigan-1.1138510" target="_blank">Sufjan Stevens</a></p>http://ecbp.net/post/324743543http://ecbp.net/post/324743543Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:43:27 -0800