May 2010
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March 2010
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“I am against software patents because it is not reasonable to expect that the...”
– tecosystems » Why I Am Against Software Patents (via fred-wilson) Patent process is fundamentally broken, especially for software.
January 2010
3 posts
WatchChicken Vs. Penguin: the winner of the Nikon Festival “Your Day in 140 seconds or Less” The judges Chase Jarvis, Justine “iJustine” Ezarik, and Rainn Wilson.
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November 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
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“At the end of the day, ship the fucking thing! It’s great to rewrite your code...”
– jwz in “Coders at Work” (via graysky)
August 2009
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WatchSeattle VC (Andy Sack) learns from failure - Uploaded by scobleizer - scobleizer’s posterous
June 2009
3 posts
New MacBook includes feature that transforms it... →
I gotta get one of these!
March 2009
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February 2009
2 posts
2009 My Year of Creativity
Determined to make 2009 a year for creativity. As part of that process I’ve picked up a new DSLR and I’m expressing my long dormant photography genes.
Now I have to finally set up a flickr account.
This should be a good year.
November 2008
4 posts
“The only people you need in your life are the people who prove they need you in...”
– Unknown (via robyn3890) (via frangry) (via roxi)
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$50 for a basic business plan →
Seen on Craigslist.org:
Hi, I need a basic business plan written for a concept to be presented to a highly motivated investor who is already halfway sold on my concept.
$50 for a business plan. Really?
Reality disconnect #1. A well-crafted b-plan is worth more than $50, both in terms of value and effort.
Reality disconnect #2. if you can’t articulate your own business plan, you...
Tumblr's "like" function
I don’t like it.
October 2008
6 posts
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy...”
– David Hume, quoted by the always-fascinating Langer. (via mills)
Funny Letterman Joke
fred-wilson:
Letterman: The economy is so bad that today, Dick Cheney was waterboarding his stockbroker.
Good jokes use a touch of reality.
September 2008
6 posts
“True empathy is a selfish act, not a favor done on someone else’s behalf....”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer for The Atlantic.com.
“I know my name is fake and that it annoys you. What, do you hate Queen Latifah...”
– Diablo Cody goes off on her haters. I’ve never seen Juno or read Cody’s blogs or seen any of her work, but this rant is outstanding. I’m a fan based on this rant alone.
Indifference in an elevator
feinsodville:
So, I spent some time this morning stuck in an elevator. I don’t know if you’ve ever had this experience, but it’s seriously unpleasant.
feinsodville describes his experience being in a stuck elevator. While annoying, it was thankfully uneventful, but clearly created a lingering upset. I can sympathize.
I’ve had two elevator experiences. One short, one long.
The long one...
July 2008
3 posts
riotrepublic:
What’s the difference between a million, a billion, a trillion? A million seconds is 13 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. A trillion seconds is 31,688 years. A million minutes ago was - 1 year, 329 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes ago. A billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ. A million hours ago was in 1885. A billion hours ago man had not yet walked on...
WatchAlisa Miller, CEO of Public Radio International, shows us why news coverage sucks. This is worth the 4:30 it’ll take to watch.
June 2008
7 posts
Will Twitter Be Spark Capital's First Home Run? →
Scott Kirsner, at Innovation Economy, asks if Spark Capital can hit it out of the park with Twitter. I don’t know, but congratulations to them for getting in on the $15 million round (valuation about $100 million). Spark partner Bijan Sabet will sit on the board. Other than the random blog comment or twitter encounter, I’ve never met Bijan, but he seems like a thoughtful person and...
THE MPG ILLUSION →
Duke University School of Business has an interactive quiz to test your knowledge of fuel mileage. Some of it is counter-intuitive, unless you have some clue how internal combustion engines actually work.
Which saves more gas:
Switching from a 10mpg SUV to a 20mpg Station Wagon, or
Switching from a 30mpg sedan to a 50mpg hybrid?
WatchBall Girl Makes Incredible Catch. A minor league ball girl makes an incredible catch on a foul ball in left field. (thank you brooklynmutt).
This is simply a great catch. The outfielder is dumbfounded. I’m impressed.
UPDATE: It was faked. Turned out she was a stunt woman and had some ropes attached. Still, it was a nice looking catch.
Fail Early or Iterate Early?
continuations:
One mantra that is often brought up for entrepreneurs is to “fail early” (and some add “and often”). The theory is that if your business is not working it’s better to fold before you have spent a lot of money and try something else instead from scratch. There is not just the money - if you go too long in one direction you build an organization that has inertia in that direction...
WatchA fascinating animation of the Civil War on the US Map circa 1860-1865. Time scale: 1 week = 1 second. I’ve been reading Shelby Foote’s excellent 3-part Civil War: A Narrative series, all 1.5 million words of it. Now I fear I’ve started on a path of never-ending fascination with Civil War history.
(thanks to katydid for tumblin’ this)
May 2008
4 posts
Summize Conversational Search →
Summize is a twitter search engine. It’ll search the twittersphere for keywords or twitter names. It is pretty slick. A nice little feature: when it finds an @twitname it includes the sender’s avatar and a mini-avatar for the target.
U.S. has Nelson Mandela on terrorist list →
Nobel Peace prize winner Nelson Mandela is on the terrorist watch list. I feel safer already.
April 2008
22 posts
Follow back, y'all
aaronwhite: Follow-spam: when someone follows you on a social network, without regard for the value of your content, in hopes that you will view their content (bringing them value), or in hopes that you follow back robotically, increasing their page rank and/or popularity. … If you follow me on: Twitter: I will check your following / follower ratio. If the ratio is less than, or close...
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“Reject the inevitability of stress.”
– Brad Feld on why stress is something we don’t have to accept.