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I’m going to give myself the late pass for this one. Wired writer Evan Ratliff has gone ‘where’s waldo’. In a challenge brainstormed by the editor of Wired and himself, Evan will be in hiding for 30 days somewhere in the US. Rules are he must stay withing the US, be in surroundings that he would normally inhabit, and stay connected to all forms of social networking that he’s usually accustomed to including twitter.  Information about him including credit card purchases, atm withdrawls, phone logs, and emails can all be found here.

If you happen to find him you must take a picture and give him the password “fluke“, at that point you will be given another password to forward to the folks at Wired along with the photo.

For more information on Evan at the contest click here.

As of today you have 20 days left to catch him. GO!

The times just did a piece on a very essential part of the Valley. Without this line I never would have gotten to school, met my best friends, gotten to my first job, bombed my first walls, jacked my first car, or broke so many hearts. I owe the 7 everything. 43RD & Holly, What Up.
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This is by far one of the more interesting articles I’ve come across this year. Jon (at least that’s what everyone is calling him for now) has lost his memory. He woke up in discovery park with $600 bucks tucked away in his sock and no recollection of who he is or how he even got to Seattle. He is said to be fluent in 3 languages and has a “professorial knowledge of European culture history”, yet doesn’t remember much of his past and isn’t sure if he wants to know. Read the rest of the article below.

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KINDA.

Ok well not really. But Yasi did answer a question that’s been itching the back of my head for quite some time now. (click the image to enlarge)

If you read his other blog on hypebeast, you know I constantly try to annoy this guy for always making the same strange face in every pic. He used to leave the comments there, but he slowly started deleting them. Kinda how I started phasing out “street wear” brands out of my closet as they became more popular and less inspiring. Wait, that really doesn’t tie in with the story (actually it kinda does). Well whatever, street wear still sucks, go shop at Salvation Army you sheep!

UPDATE.
Thanks to some email tips it looks like mr ugly face has erased my name and of course the THS link that was once listed in the Ask Yasi section. What a fucking tool.

While sitting at my desk today I found myself itching for something to read rather than my normal blogs. I remember reading Plato’s Allegory of the cave back in highschool and thought I’d brush through it once more. For those of you who aren’t familiar let me give you the gist of it:

Written through dialog, the conversation is between Plato and his brother Glaucon. Plato paints a picture to his brother of a group of people who have been chained and have lived in a cave since early childhood.They face a blank wall in which shadows of various things like figures of animals and men are displayed. Knowing nothing else but the pictures they see and the sounds they hear, they believe this to be reality rather than just a reflection of it.

That’s just barely skimming the top. The story goes more and more in depth adding different scenarios to the equation. Like what happens when one of the people in the cave is shown the fire that’s displaying the shadows, or better yet what happens when one is forced to go outside and see what the world really looks like.

I could go on and on about the different meanings behind the story or how it’s a direct interpretation of the world we live in today, but I think it would be best to read the actual text and see what you can decipher for yourself.

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THANKS.

Posting will be more consistent when I get my MBP in the mail, promise.

In the mean time, read the best craigs list ad ever. via @DONNASAWR and @YoungMowglii

Seeing as how i pull a 16hr shit every Tuesday, I’d have to agree.

Recently I’ve been obsessed with the writings of Malcolm Gladwell, my man Alan put me on game and recommend I read The Tipping Point. Since then I’ve tried to get my hands on everything the man has written. A Dr at my work let me borrow Outliers and told me to look up this article on The New Yorker titled “How David Beats Goliath”. In short it’s about how Vivek Ranadivé (who never played ball in his life) and how he decided to coach his 12 yr old daughters basketball team. The problem he saw with basketball though was he found it “mindless”, people running back and forth like drones. He decided to coach the team with 2 main principals, and with that he got himself and his daughters team to the national championships.

Read the article here.
And for more of Gladwell’s writing visit his site.