A fantastic biography of Neil deGrasse Tyson (from Playboy, of all places, but the link is SFW). A must-read if you consider yourself a fan of his.

I challenge you to fully realize how awesome life is. To: Party hard. Go on adventures. Make good love.  Be bold. Scare yourself. Laugh it up. Be awesome. You already are, and when you can party without alcohol, the rest of your life will become a party too.

If you want to develop apps, take your time and make something awesome. Make it fast. Make it beautiful. Make something you’re proud of. Don’t make 60 crappy apps: Make one really good one.

As someone who's about to start an iOS development business, this is exactly the model I intend on adopting. If you make something you want to use (and especially something you're proud of), other people will want to use it too.

This is the sole reason piracy is up and profits are down: because doing it right totally sucks. And that’s apparently how the studios want it.

Preach it.

I love Marco's reply to this post, too:

If I’m adding a movie to my Netflix queue, I’ve already decided not to buy the DVD. I’m adding it because it looks mildly interesting and I’d like to watch it sometime. If I can’t add it to Netflix, I’ll just forget about it and probably never see it.

I think that's probably the biggest reason I stopped buying physical copies of movies. Even though there have been some decent flicks that have come out in the past few years, I find myself going back and watching those movies again less and less. If I'm watching any media, it's streaming TV on Netflix.

I owe my livelihood to technology and I love the raw capability it offers us as a tool, but I fear it a bit more than most people do. It's a tool, but it's not quite a hammer, because a hammer doesn't seduce you into sitting around lonely in your underwear for 6 hours at a stretch clicking on youtube videos and refreshing Twitter. I fear technology because I fear that bad feeling I get after a three day XBox binge I go through every year around the holidays.

Very astute observations by Brian Lam on the dangers of tech (and, more importantly, the importance of taking back your time).

In January of 1977, a life as a world-class runner was probably the last thing she or her parents could envision.

Instead, she became one of the first residents of her small town of Dawson (population 1,600) to ride in an air ambulance, a pulmonary aneurysm necessitating an airlift to the University of Minnesota hospital in the Twin Cities. "They never thought I’d be an athlete," she says now, laughing with the perspective of 30 years of proving that assessment about as wrong as it could be.

When I tell people I film C Tolle Run, the immediate follow-up question is: "Who is Carrie Tollefson?" This article is for those people. I've been working with Carrie for more than a year now and I have to admit that I'm pretty embarrassed that I didn't read this article about her sooner. She really is a phenomenal athlete and, in a culture where everybody seems to overcome adversity, she really has triumphed over a lot in her career. I'm very proud to tell people I work on her show.

Not necessarily new, but still, considering I've never actually selected these by myself means I really do surrender a lot of personal information to Google.

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Another one of my personal favorite C Tolle Run episodes. I think I might need to invest in a gym membership and hit the pool while I try to figure out my whole knee situation. In terms of producing this video, I must say that the GoPro is a really nice, inexpensive way to get those shots you wouldn't dare try to capture with your main camera. The quality of the shots you get from that camera are insane.

But correspondents say the ruling is unlikely to have an impact on the use by law enforcement agencies of another surveillance method, mobile phone tracking software.

Which, really, is way more scary than vehicle tracking.

We’re not talking about one of those “RIAA sues deaf Buddhist nun in monastery with no electricity for $9.8 million” cases here. And while I don’t doubt that thousands of legitimate users of Megaupload are genuinely shafted by this outcome, if the best restaurant in town turns out to be a mob front, hundreds of innocent diners are going to be denied that terrific Penne Arrabiata. So it goes.

I must admit, my initial reaction to the Megaupload shut down was that of slight outrage and "down with The Man"-itis.

But after taking a deep breath and thinking about it for a minute, it's pretty clear that these guys got what they deserved.

And look at it this way: if the copyright holders can shut down these sites now, then why do they need SOPA/PIPA?