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in the comments of this post is a great um er comment with a 9 step process to successfully upgrading from Aperture 2 to Aperture 3. - Ed Fladung

"'ve been saying fashion is one of the most pure expressions of how rotten the capitalist consumerist system is. So let's read Vivienne Westwood's take." - Glen E Friedman - Ed Fladung

"The conservative answer, which evolved in the late 1970s, would be dubbed “starving the beast” during the Reagan years. The idea — propounded by many members of the conservative intelligentsia, from Alan Greenspan to Irving Kristol — was basically that sympathetic politicians should engage in a game of bait and switch. Rather than proposing unpopular spending cuts, Republicans would push through popular tax cuts, with the deliberate intention of worsening the government’s fiscal position. Spending cuts could then be sold as a necessity rather than a choice, the only way to eliminate an unsustainable budget deficit." - Ed Fladung

lots of good info for minimalist start-ups. the takeaway: keep it simple. duh. - Ed Fladung

awesome web service to untangle your increasingly cluttered online life. think of this like a minimal bookmark services for the places you go most, online. - Ed Fladung

"Last week, one of the most important photojournalism archives in history, the Magnum Photo Agency’s press prints collection, was sold to Michael Dell of Dell computers. Specifically, to Dell’s private investment firm, MSD Capital LP." - Ed Fladung

this is why some people have very real problems with entrusting their privacy to google. one word: naivety. - Ed Fladung

Merlin Mann is a genius. A funny, evil genius. An evil, evil, "The One True Family In The One Who Is Called Steve®" loving genius. - Ed Fladung

"So, you get a situation in which Rahm Emanuel uses the word “retarded.” He uses the word “retarded” like a whole bunch of other people have used, and still compulsively use, and do not think about using the word “retarded.” And then Sarah Palin gets to be the voice of sensitivity to the disabled. And fuck whether or not Sarah Palin’s policies are actually good for the disabled – they’re not, in fact; if she even had anything coherent enough to qualify as a “policy” it would be a systematic evisceration of the sort of social support networks that many disabled people need..." - Ed Fladung

"The iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing." - Ed Fladung

go watch Vampire Weekend on La Blogotheque,watchign them do "cousins" acoustically is wicked. great guitar work. also scroll to the bottom of the page to check out Beirut, Kings of Convenience, Bon Iver and The Dodos - Ed Fladung

Jay is now writing for web magazine / blog thingy Experts & Insiders. Great to see Jay writing more about his experiences as a blue collar working photog. don't sleep. - Ed Fladung

hilarious introduction to the handful of arguments people usually bring up when arguing about Singularity as an evolutionary concept. interesting read. - Ed Fladung

do you have a kindle? if you care at all about free markets, go throw it in the trash. - Ed Fladung

beautiful. subtle. quiet. short film set in the '80s. nice cinematography - Ed Fladung

slightly snarky, honest comments on photos from Dwell that we've all had a vague nagging problem with, deep down in our collective unconscious. - Ed Fladung

"If the iPhone revolutionized the usability of smartphones, the iPad just did the same for laptops and netbooks. It’s a completely different take on the de facto standard. It targets the average computer user, not those of us who use a computer all day at work. It creates a UI and capability set that adopts the 80/20 principle of usability. It does nearly everything this crowd wants it to do, with 20% of the bullshit interface getting in their way" - Ed Fladung

beautiful, horrific photo essay on new drug resistant strains of Tuburculosis by veteran war photog James Nachtwey. - Ed Fladung

holy crap! i can't wait to see the Banksy movie! awesome. - Ed Fladung

gorgeous typography here. just as exciting as the curves on a surfboard. i could look at this stuff all day long - Ed Fladung

summary: how stupid can democrat politicians be? someone said (i forgot who) that we deserve the politicians we get. great. - Ed Fladung

the fine art of "notas rojas" (red notes). Mex Files details the "purple prose typical of the yellow journalism" of police reports in local mexican newspapers: "While sometimes the author — to stretch out the word count — has to resort to low tricks like referring to a police car as a “blue and white 2008 Dodge Neon, with plate number… “, the nota rota writer strives for variation in his or her craft. The banality of criminal activity sometimes reduces even the most creative of nota roja writers to clichés (there are a plethora of ways to say “corpse” — the center of attention but least interesting character in any murder story – all of which have been use to death), but the best are true artists. They still manage to surprise us, enlighten us and delight us with their mastery of the language." - Ed Fladung

great newish video + ichat based site about creatives sharing advice. and the best quote I've heard all week: "“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.” - Jessica Hirsche - Ed Fladung

awesome piece on young children using the iphone to learn. some of you are already cringing (yes you, in the back), but I think it's awesome. this kind of thing is gonna be so standard in 20 years. I thin it's kind of scary to think that the jobs your kids will have when they grow up, won't be invented til they're in high school. and your kids will learn two to four times as much as you have, in your whole lifetime, by the time they get out of college. [via Stevey] - Ed Fladung

the shoes? meh. but that Imperial March remix is wicked awesome. - Ed Fladung

mock-ups of the new film-based under-$100 Polaroid cameras that are coming out. These are the result of The Impossible Project that I linked to a while back. They bought the rights to produce Polaroid cameras and film stock. Freakin' awesome. I'll have the wood grain one, thank you! - Ed Fladung

Pat Robertson is a fucking jerkstick. - Ed Fladung

must read press release from SVP at Google, about China's censoring authorities' organized and highly sophisticated hack attacks on Goggle's infrastructure as well as 20 other large companies, in various sectors as part of a plan to uncover information on human rights activists in China. This is no joke.<br/><br/>I repeat, this is a google press release. no conjecture. - Ed Fladung

how crunk is MIA? chick can do no wrong. prepare to have your mind blown. best to watch this with large headphones on. - Ed Fladung

John Yoo is the legal scholar behind the total crap that Bush/Cheyne used to justify torture. this guy is insane. must not miss episode of the Daily Show. In part two Yoo admits that he never met Bush (the commander in chief in war time). - Ed Fladung