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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description></description><title>Kirk's cogitations</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @mcmurray)</generator><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>(via nekodesu-jp)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks5ehmhJlX1qzf3vgo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://nekodesu.jp/"&gt;nekodesu-jp&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/225771983</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/225771983</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:53:32 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>rocketboom:

Monorail...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks1pevGIvL1qzhy11o1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.rocketboom.com/post/222302944/monorail"&gt;rocketboom&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Monorail Cat &lt;a href="http://florencio.tumblr.com/post/222299684/kkkyndollwood-hidekiryuga"&gt;florencio&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://kkkyndollwood.tumblr.com/post/222296891/hidekiryuga"&gt;kkkyndollwood&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://hidekiryuga.tumblr.com/post/222295093/charmyourwayout-sayeverything-wellimgabrielle-laur"&gt;hidekiryuga&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://charmyourwayout-.tumblr.com/post/222293911"&gt;charmyourwayout-&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://sayeverything.tumblr.com/post/222293583/wellimgabrielle-laurandlime-setthestage"&gt;sayeverything&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://wellimgabrielle.tumblr.com/post/222292956"&gt;wellimgabrielle&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://laurandlime.tumblr.com/post/222291287"&gt;laurandlime&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://setthestage.tumblr.com/post/222289860/allhopedeleted-via-exclusivee-omgomgomgomg"&gt;setthestage&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;a href="http://allhopedeleted.tumblr.com/post/222289319/via-exclusivee-omgomgomgomg-3"&gt;allhopedeleted&lt;/a&gt;:(via &lt;a href="http://exclusivee.tumblr.com/"&gt;exclusivee&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/222531752</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/222531752</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:04:27 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>"i want to get a twitter feed directly to my balls… so every time i get a twitter, it..."</title><description>“i want to get a twitter feed directly to my balls… so every time i get a twitter, it microengraves the tweet on a single sperm (like a sperm tattoo)… that way, long after i am dead, anthropologists and archaeologists can collect my little white towel collection and decode a generation’s worth of culture”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;From a Skype message by Nathaniel Green.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/222508906</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/222508906</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:33:22 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>Philadelphia cheesesteak I made the other night for a few...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://2.media.tumblr.com/vrF8iVDvXqxkm4y2J8QZzDCno1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Philadelphia cheesesteak I made the other night for a few rookies. Being in Japan, we had to 
improvise when it came to the 
bread, but it worked! Oishii!!!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/159218400</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/159218400</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:05:00 +0900</pubDate><category>cheesesteak</category><category>food</category><category>sandwich</category></item><item><title>"Another outcome of the social nervous system is that we see the shift away from privacy as an..."</title><description>“Another outcome of the social nervous system is that we see the shift away from privacy as an inalienable right to an individual responsibility. In a social nervous system there will be increasing pressure to be connected 24/7 to the hive mind that is Facebook, Twitter and so on. Those who do not connect, share and collaborate will have a hard time in business and in social life.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opposableplanets.com/future/2009/03/the-rise-of-the-social-nervous-system/"&gt;The Rise of the Social Nervous System&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://girk.tumblr.com/"&gt;girk&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/141499387</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/141499387</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:14:29 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>"Learning seems to occur when kids have to figure things out for themselves (or better yet, explain..."</title><description>“Learning seems to occur when kids have to figure things out for themselves (or better yet, explain them to others) and when there is a natural reason for doing so. Yet most schools today are organized around artificial problems and homework assignments and with everyone working on the same problems there is virtually no room for kids to learn from each other.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;great post on education by my partner Albert (link below). My dad was a college professor and he would always make his students start class by “taking boards” and teaching each other. the greatest way to learn is by teaching.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://continuations.com/post/82809738/thinking-about-education-and-learning"&gt;Thinking about Education and Learning - Continuations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://fredwilson.vc/"&gt;fred-wilson&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/88327883</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/88327883</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:14:39 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>Don’t you love our new down page?</title><description>&lt;img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/vrF8iVDvXkowaxe2S8lWOrXGo1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don’t you love our new down page?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/83748497</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/83748497</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:24:52 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>fred-wilson:


this is on the cover of this month’s gourmet...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/AQLiOovhNkk0oaksVl0wcVgeo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://fredwilson.vc/post/82658228/this-is-on-the-cover-of-this-months-gourmet"&gt;fred-wilson&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;this is on the cover of this month’s gourmet magazine and earlier this week i told my family that i was dying to try it. my daughter jessica made it today for lunch, with &lt;a href="http://rickspicksnyc.com/jar.php?jar=3"&gt;ricks picks bee n’ beez pickles&lt;/a&gt; and i have to say it was one of the best sandwiches i’ve ever had.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2009/03/monte-cubano"&gt;Monte Cubano: 2000s Recipes + Menus : gourmet.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/82841450</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/82841450</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:16:55 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>10 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Couldn’t agree more with Andrew Baron’s eloquent blog post about the inevitable demise of the traditional studio.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;“My number one takeaway, a perception I did not have before, is that the studios are probably not going to make it. I always assumed and have always said that I believe the studios will make it through the transition on top but now I’m not so sure.” From &lt;a href="http://dembot.com/post/82377888/10-reasons-why-the-tv-studios-will-die"&gt;dembot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;While one could accuse those of us who share this opinion of hoping for (or celebrating) the demise of the big studio, in actuality, all we’re doing is observing what’s happening and intelligently connecting the dots. Can you blame us for that?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Instead of fearing us, the studios should be thanking us for our outspoken observations and predictions; if they do have any chance of surviving, it will be because someone convinced them to change their business models, and to do it fast!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In fact, the real people the studios should be thanking (instead of trying to arrest) are the so-called “pirates.” Their collective disruptive action has helped accelerate a paradigm change that will create more opportunities and grow the creative market. These pirates have demonstrated that charging for access to content not only goes against the grain of the Internet, but that it can actually hurt your bottom line, especially if you consider that disruptive technologies change the dynamics of how money is made. Digital is different, but the reality is, you can only shout so loud for so long, until you give up, or worse, resent those who don’t listen…&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On a more positive note, what I am celebrating is not the demise of the studio, but rather the new business models that are emerging from a relatively small, but fast-growing prosumer culture. This distributed force of so-called amateurs are part of the next wave. We’re going to see more varied, interesting and meaningful media produced by a far greater number of people for costs (from production to distribution) that pale in comparison to what is spent by the big studios today. And of course, all of this will be available for free… and more money will be made tomorrow than was made today. Bank on it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/82553663</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/82553663</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:28:00 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>Neglect</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I’ve neglected my Tumblr account lately, but am excited by all the awesome improvements in V5…&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/72556027</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/72556027</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:37:53 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>cannabis-h:


jinon:

(via hugo-strikes-back)
</title><description>&lt;img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/X6sh6C0oTdgioebdz6VGnlEF_400.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cannabis-h.tumblr.com/post/48804305/jinon-via-hugo-strikes-back"&gt;cannabis-h&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://jinon.tumblr.com/post/48795143/via-hugo-strikes-back"&gt;jinon&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://hugo-strikes-back.tumblr.com/"&gt;hugo-strikes-back&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/48821993</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/48821993</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:58:17 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>fred-wilson:


Gamma Ray - Beck - Modern Guilt
Jessica has been...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/42556084/AQLiOovhNbijahoi8s8ftUgv&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://fredwilson.vc/post/42550656/gamma-ray-beck-modern-guilt-jessica-has-been"&gt;fred-wilson&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gamma Ray - Beck - Modern Guilt&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jessica has been all over this new Beck album and she’s right, it’s very good. This song reminds me of Fountains of Wayne for some reason.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/42556084</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/42556084</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:33:51 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>BrainSpeed is ready to rock baby!!!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="300" id="brainspeedWidget"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://staging.iknow.co.jp/apps/training_suite/brainspeed/brainspeed_widget.swf"&gt;
&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;
&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="lang=en"&gt;
&lt;embed src="http://staging.iknow.co.jp/apps/training_suite/brainspeed/brainspeed_widget.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="lang=en" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="300" name="brainspeedWidget"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/40928572</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/40928572</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:52:00 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>azspot:

George Carlin - Soft Language</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z2gQCHztRAE&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z2gQCHztRAE&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://azspot.net/post/39516146/george-carlin-soft-language"&gt;azspot&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;George Carlin - Soft Language&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/39643212</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/39643212</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:49:13 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>Don't laugh at us</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://staff.tumblr.com/post/28221734/dont-laugh-at-us"&gt;staff&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yes, it’s totally silly that one year after launching Tumblr, we’re moving the official Tumblr blog &lt;i&gt;off &lt;/i&gt;of Wordpress because it was too much work to update.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We want to spotlight all of the neat stuff happening on Tumblr.  So today we’re announcing the official Tumblr tumblelog:  &lt;a href="http://staff.tumblr.com/"&gt;staff.tumblr.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There’s a lot we want to do here.  In addition to showing off the new features we’re building, we’re dying to brag about everything we see &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; folks doing. To cover it all, we’re inviting some new members of the Tumblr family to contribute.  Introductions to follow.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks, everyone!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/39263684</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/39263684</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:51:01 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>david:

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1181715&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1181715&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1181715&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.davidslog.com/38790748/this-is-the-greatest-thing-ive-ever-seen-in-my"&gt;david&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/39262701</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/39262701</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:41:05 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>gumnos:

(via catbird)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/D5tJcyAMx981e4zcnjVgBlef_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://gumnos.tumblr.com/post/37279173/via-catbird"&gt;gumnos&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://catbird.tumblr.com/"&gt;catbird&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/37845290</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/37845290</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:21:44 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>"Everything in moderation, including moderation."</title><description>“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;One of my favorite quotes…&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/36905883</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/36905883</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:25:26 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>And here’s the photo!!</title><description>&lt;img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/vrF8iVDvX9qiysk40enMSvgh_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;And here’s the photo!!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/36876494</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/36876494</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:26:11 +0900</pubDate></item><item><title>ass to mouth—great track, great name!!</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/36876194/vrF8iVDvX9qitnx1iAJGgrQc&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;ass to mouth—great track, great name!!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/36876194</link><guid>http://mcmurray.tumblr.com/post/36876194</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:22:12 +0900</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
