September 2007
55 posts
Bloomberg.com: - Chuck Norris & Finance →
Chuck Norris doesn’t buy gold to hedge against inflation. Gold buys Chuck Norris to hedge against inflation.
3 tags
Net Neutrality & Mobile Neutrality
I borrowed this from Ben. We’ve been fighting a few small battles over at Mobile Commons and have ended up in the thick of this mess. We’re going to stay mum for a few days, but after that there is a serious blog post coming about neutrality, protocols, business, and what happens when there is too much at stake. Verizon Wireless files suit over FCC auction rules Verizon Wireless has...
Verizon, Net Neutrality, Mobile Neutrality, &... →
Ben: Do you want the etymology of it?
Jed: You mean how it turns into an insect?
Ben: I thought that was entomology.
Jed: No, that's when things turn into a cookie
Required Reading: the next 10 years (Lessig Blog) →
Forgot to tag this months ago. Lessig’s shift from IP to politics and corruption.
2 tags
1 tag
Steven Johnson - Urban Planet - Opinion York... →
2 tags
“a big warm kiss, like a shot from a revolver, and like the psychoanalyst’s...”
– Cartier-Bresson describing the Leica. From a New Yorker paean to the Leica.
“We’re cross-carrier, so when we do LBS we ask you for your L, then we give...”
– Jed Alpert, talking about how Mobile Commons does Location Based Services (LBS)
“Fiscal Responsibility”
– listed as an interest on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s MySpace profile. reblogged from the Chanukah Monkey.
2 tags
The Abyss: Music and Amnesia - Oliver Sacks - The... →
Oliver Sacks on Clive Wearing.
christmasgorilla: What does it feel like to be in the middle of a 1st amendment fight? Is it like being in the eye of a hurricane or being in a gravitron? (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
blog.pmarca.com: The three kinds of platforms you... →
Great post & very long. Number 1 rule: make your platform easy for developers and give them what they want. Business wanks who oogle won’t build any apps (Facebook fanboys).
2 tags
The Design of Book Covers
I’m really liking the NY Times Blog, Paper Cuts. To quote them: Over on a Web site called Step Inside Design, there’s an interesting interview with John Gall, the talented art director for Vintage books. He talks, among other things, about how designers think about working on hardcover versus paperback covers: There is definitely more freedom in hardcover design. Hardcover sales are...
2 tags
2 tags
Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia, the... →
1 tag
ScienceDaily: Oohs And Aahs: Vowel Sounds Affect... →
Other uses for books
I generally think books are more for reading than cutting but if it looks this amazing than I guess its worth it. Basically Brian Dettemer makes very intricate book sculptures by cutting away layers of pages and using the existing words and images to create a work of art. This is the sort of thing I’d love to watch done in time lapse or even just a video documenting his work. Via Design...
jerrycolonna: Lunch with a state senator. How long into the meal will it take before he asks for money? { 1hr, 42 minutes } jerrycolonna: shocking but true. no money request. yikes. I’m losing faith in my ability to be correctly cynical.
WatchThe finger moustache tattoo virus!
The People Formerly Known as Informed & a Riff on...
Nicholas Carr had an interesting post recently where he thinks about a study released by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The upshot: sites like Reddit, Digg, and del.icio.us have more diverse stories, but they’re also more fragmented. Hard news tends to be buried in streams of soft news, gossip, product announcements, and trivia. Carr sums up by saying: “The study is, as the...
2 tags
“A good bug, I mean a really good, pound-your-head-on-the-desk-for-a-week bug, is...”
– stevenf: Bugs Are Magic Tricks by way of Marco
The blurred line between personal information... →
Nailed by Jon Udell. And then subsequently tagged by Schachter. Quick hit thoughts: initially attracted to dlicus for personal utility, moving away from tagging for public consumption, Tumblr, transforming feeds for different syndication platforms.
The Best American Essays 2007; ISBN-10: 0618709266 →
This sense of being last or least likely confers its own freedoms. I feel free to state an emergent truth that I maybe wouldnât if I thought that the bookâs sales could really be hurt or its essaysâ audience scared away.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile system promises... →
p2p mobile telephony for the developing world. really, really interesting.
“There’s this two-dimensional, three-quarter-portrait quality to all the pictures...”
– Marc Jacobs, taking back fashion? I like what he has to say, but I don’t know if I love his designs.
“Tag clouds are the new mullets. ”
– Zeldman. Like all memos, it seems like I got this one too late.
“And yes, I am the Jed Alpert on the Wet, Hot American Summer web site.”
– Jed, defending his googliness
Jon Udell tags his own things almost exclusively. That’s lame.
“I don’t consider myself militant but I have the advantage of having worked...”
– Sean Connery
1 tag
1 tag
Decline and Fall of the Ligature →
christmasgorilla: I’m fairly certain that the city is going to make me deaf. Waiting for a train and being serenaded by a jackhammer. (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
christmasgorilla: Ice cream tastes better when you bite it (instead of licking). (via Twitter / christmasgorilla)
Linus Torvalds smacks down on C++ →
inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road you notice that some abstraction wasn’t very efficient, but now all your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you cannot fix it without rewriting your app
1 tag
“freedom : license :: why? : why not? ”
– Eva Brann
Heard In An Email Conversation
Facebook is unlike anything we have seen to date because its the first megatech company built by the generation that used the web before they had sex (via A VC)
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings (Jakob... →
Big Gifts, Tax Breaks and a Debate on Charity -... →
Debate on individual donations given to entrepreneurial nonprofits vs. what the Gov could do with those taxes.
Campfire Chat: Yesterday, September 5
Wilson B: Reloading is possible.. Rails just goes about it the wrong way. They need to be using 'included', and 'method added', and the other Ruby callbacks to build a dependency graph. Instead they assume that all your classes are totally A-OK to be blown away and reloaded from a file. Restrict adds anonymous functions to the filter chain, each of which has a context bound to a controller than has now had its class removed from ObjectSpace
Benjamin S: that makes me sad
Matt P: Like, world hunger sad?
Benjamin S: almost that sad
Benjamin S: although i do like world hunger b/c it funds mobile apps
Reason Foundation Commentary: Have You Hugged a... →
True cost of cars.
3 tags
Real Time Rome →
Mapping Traffic and congestion in Rome with mobile phones. Damn cool.
Rails' Unusual Architecture →