![Epic dog birthday [via reddit]](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kybmsqr8PU1qzg3fxo1_500.jpg)
Epic dog birthday [via reddit] ![Ideal dwelling place (or “phalanx”) for a Fourierian socialist utopia. From Wikipedia:
“[Fourier] believed that there were twelve common passions which resulted in 810 types of character, so the ideal phalanx would have exactly 1620 people. One day there would be six million of these, loosely ruled by a world “omniarch”, or (later) a World Congress of Phalanxes. He had a touching concern for the sexually rejected–jilted suitors would be led away by a corps of “fairies” who would soon cure them of their lovesickness, and visitors could consult the card-index of personality types for suitable partners for casual sex.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky99ik0h4v1qzg3fxo1_500.jpg)
Ideal dwelling place (or “phalanx”) for a Fourierian socialist utopia. From Wikipedia: “[Fourier] believed that there were twelve common passions which resulted in 810 types of character, so the ideal phalanx would have exactly 1620 people. One day there would be six million of these, loosely ruled by a world “omniarch”, or (later) a World Congress of Phalanxes. He had a touching concern for the sexually rejected–jilted suitors would be led away by a corps of “fairies” who would soon cure them of their lovesickness, and visitors could consult the card-index of personality types for suitable partners for casual sex.”
"They are atheists of a poetic disposition."
Richard Dawkins on pantheistic religious physicists.
"Not that long ago, I was at a conference at Yale and looked at the sea of open laptops in the seats in front of me. So why wasn’t my laptop open? Because I follow people on Twitter who serve as my Web-crawling proxies, each of them tweeting links that I could examine and read on a Blackberry. Regardless of where I am, I surf far less than I used to."
![Apple ][ was for hackers.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky7jero89T1qzg3fxo1_500.jpg)
Apple ][ was for hackers.
"Great products, according to Mr. Jobs, are triumphs of “taste.” And taste, he explains, 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."
via i.imgur.com 
Baracking the economic recovery.
"Alexander the Great strongly promoted shaving during his reign in the 4th century BCE to avoid ‘dangerous beard-grabbing in combat.’"
e-v-i-l 
The original LOLcat
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
John Updike
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My name is Chris. I'm a freelance writer who covers tech and innovation. This is my Tumblelog.
I write mostly for FastCompany, Bnet Industries and BIKE magazine. I've also written books about killer iPhone app design and Google Voice.
I studied English Lit at the University of Virginia, where I rowed on the Men's Crew. I've also completed a certificate in publishing at Columbia University, and may someday finish the Master's I began at Harvard's extension school.
My contact info is below; I prefer email.
