Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1 Billion, All-Cash Deal to Acquire Tumblr
Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka, allthingsd.com

Accord­ing to sources close to the sit­u­a­tion, the Yahoo board plans to meet Sun­day night to decide whether to approve a $1.1 bil­lion all-cash offer for New York-based blog­ging site Tum­blr.

As AllThingsD.com first report­ed…

Marissa Mayer wooing Tumblr’s Karp reminds me of Kathleen Kennedy bringing JJ Abrams aboard the Star Wars enterprise. Nice piece by @karaswisher, @pkafka

Quote IconI’m not against religion in the sense that I feel I can’t tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of religion is the certainty of its own truth. And since there are 6,000 religions currently on the face of the earth, they can’t all be right. And only the secular spirit can guarantee those freedoms and it’s the secular spirit that they contest.

Ian McEwanvia The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers.

Design in randomness. All that matters is perspective.

Cannot wait to watch “Spring Breakers.”

Just for Harmony Korine’s sake. 

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Harmony Korine is a bunko artist born in 1973 we think. He was a young timer allowed to make films from his early 20s on (a rarity), which resulted in snot-nosed narrative exploders and sensory engrossers that deal in hybrid feelings of darkness and beauty. The ’90s independent film boom, an…

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

The Heist

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Macklemore’s satiric take on hip-hop’s obsession w wealth reminds me of Psy’s Gangnam Style. “Thrift Shop” is “a rare beast of a song - original, musically daring and genuinely funny.”

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Aight, you lovers out there, here’s a wicked playlist for ya, f. @theweeknd, @miguelunlimited, @frank_ocean

Quote IconYou do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka