Summer’s gonna be awesome.

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Lil Wayne #1

Fucking great portrait.

Sounds delicious. Looks great.

"What’s different here is that Jay-Z is not Bruce Springsteen. Jay-Z is a half-dangerous rapper who grew up in the gat-happy projects of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. He sold crack on feral corners and shot his brother for stealing his ring. Badass, for real. So it’s a little weird, isn’t it, that he can make reporters and presidents alike giggle?"

— From GQ. The subtle racism that comes out of people trying to deconstruct and condemn “Racism” is interesting.

"If the iPhone didn’t exist, I would have the Nexus One in my pocket right now—but then again, if the iPhone didn’t exist, the Nexus One wouldn’t either."

— Jason Snell

"One salient example is our education system. Like a role playing video game, one educational challenge leads to the next, with each challenge being trivial for the people who are at the right level to undertake it. After years on a treadmill that’s too easy to fail at, players—students, in this case—are acclimated to the game of education, rather to real achievement. Their work for those years is not valuable at all, and often doesn’t even simulate what valuable work would be like: they have only managed to repeat patterns they’ve been shown back at the educators. This is the game."

— From “Achievement Porn” by Pete Michaud

"So it is not cord cutting that cable has to worry about. Lost in all the hype over the battle for the living room is the simple fact that young, new subscribers are not replacing older subscribers. As they leave college or their parents’ homes to start their own households, the only subscription they want is broadband."

— Cable’s Lost Generation (PDF magazine article)