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The Year in Ideas, 2007 | The New York Times Magazine
by Decius at 1:44 pm EST, Dec 10, 2007 |
For the seventh consecutive December, the magazine looks back on the passing year through a special lens: ideas. Editors and writers trawl the oceans of ingenuity, hoping to snag in our nets the many curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations of the past 12 months. Then we lay them out on the dock, flipping and flopping and gasping for air, and toss back all but those that are fresh enough for our particular cut of intellectual sushi. For better or worse, these are 70 of the ideas that helped make 2007 what it was. Enjoy.
Virgil made the list with Wikiscanning. Congratulations, Virgil! (Interestingly, one of the other ideas was also one Virgil came up with a few years ago, but didn't pursue perhaps due to discouragement from several friends.) Several of the year's best ideas were also memes here, including: Lap-Dance Science - Something in the Way She Moves? The idea of Lite-Brite Fashion makes for an interesting contrast to the story of Star Simpson. Pixelated Stained Glass - Pixelated Glass Window in Cologne Cathedral The Radiohead Payment Model - Fans Decide How Much To Pay, and Radiohead’s Warm Glow Wireless Energy, or Wi-tricity. Weapon-Proof School Gear - My Child's Pack.
For commentary on the Ideas of years past, see 2004, 2005, and 2006. |
Things that were not to be: suicidenotes.cx
by Acidus at 10:02 pm EST, Dec 10, 2007 |
Virgil made the list with Wikiscanning. Congratulations, Virgil! (Interestingly, one of the other ideas was also one Virgil came up with a few years ago, but didn't pursue perhaps due to discouragement from several friends.)
Actually, Virgil's idea was to create www.suicidenotes.cx so people wouldn't find your note before you killed yourself. Revenue models included creating, and I shit you not, a coffee table book of suicide notes. It was one of the most surreal conversations I have ever had in my life: Strick and I sitting in the student center at Georgia Tech trying to explain to Virgil that this was a bad idea. This was back in Summer 2003 or so. Got to give my partner-in-crime credit, he's a visionary! |
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RE: Things that were not to be: suicidenotes.cx
by flynn23 at 7:11 pm EST, Dec 11, 2007 |
Acidus wrote: Virgil made the list with Wikiscanning. Congratulations, Virgil! (Interestingly, one of the other ideas was also one Virgil came up with a few years ago, but didn't pursue perhaps due to discouragement from several friends.)
Actually, Virgil's idea was to create www.suicidenotes.cx so people wouldn't find your note before you killed yourself. Revenue models included creating, and I shit you not, a coffee table book of suicide notes. It was one of the most surreal conversations I have ever had in my life: Strick and I sitting in the student center at Georgia Tech trying to explain to Virgil that this was a bad idea. This was back in Summer 2003 or so. Got to give my partner-in-crime credit, he's a visionary!
Are you kidding? That is a GREAT idea! I have several coffee table books that are coroner's pictures or reporter's pictures of mob hits. There is something very valuable in seeing what death really looks like before you.. y'know... have to see it first hand. |
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RE: Things that were not to be: suicidenotes.cx
by Acidus at 11:18 am EST, Dec 12, 2007 |
flynn23 wrote: Acidus wrote:Revenue models included creating, and I shit you not, a coffee table book of suicide notes.
Are you kidding? That is a GREAT idea! I have several coffee table books that are coroner's pictures or reporter's pictures of mob hits. There is something very valuable in seeing what death really looks like before you.. y'know... have to see it first hand.
Until some trust-fund brat offs themselves and delivers the note to money-bags mommy and daddy using your service and they decide to make it their life work to screw you. That was the crux of our argument why it shouldn't be done. You also have to frame this conversation. Virgil and I had just been sued and lost pretty much all of our worldly goods fighting Blackboard and paying lawyers. A catastrophic lawsuit was very much a real concern. |
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RE: Things that were not to be: suicidenotes.cx
by flynn23 at 1:40 pm EST, Dec 13, 2007 |
Acidus wrote: flynn23 wrote: Acidus wrote:Revenue models included creating, and I shit you not, a coffee table book of suicide notes.
Are you kidding? That is a GREAT idea! I have several coffee table books that are coroner's pictures or reporter's pictures of mob hits. There is something very valuable in seeing what death really looks like before you.. y'know... have to see it first hand.
Until some trust-fund brat offs themselves and delivers the note to money-bags mommy and daddy using your service and they decide to make it their life work to screw you. That was the crux of our argument why it shouldn't be done.
That just sells more books. |
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The Year in Ideas, 2007 | The New York Times Magazine
by noteworthy at 11:33 am EST, Dec 9, 2007 |
For the seventh consecutive December, the magazine looks back on the passing year through a special lens: ideas. Editors and writers trawl the oceans of ingenuity, hoping to snag in our nets the many curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations of the past 12 months. Then we lay them out on the dock, flipping and flopping and gasping for air, and toss back all but those that are fresh enough for our particular cut of intellectual sushi. For better or worse, these are 70 of the ideas that helped make 2007 what it was. Enjoy.
Virgil made the list with Wikiscanning. Congratulations, Virgil! Several of the year's best ideas were also memes here, including: Lap-Dance Science - Something in the Way She Moves? The idea of Lite-Brite Fashion makes for an interesting contrast to the story of Star Simpson. Pixelated Stained Glass - Pixelated Glass Window in Cologne Cathedral The Radiohead Payment Model - Fans Decide How Much To Pay, and Radiohead’s Warm Glow Wireless Energy, or Wi-tricity. Weapon-Proof School Gear - My Child's Pack.
For commentary on the Ideas of years past, see 2004, 2005, and 2006. |
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