February 2008
44 posts
“Reagan : P Diddy :: McCain : Biggie”
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I’m Not Running for President, but... →
an Op-Ed by Michael Bloomberg
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“Chris, it’s Bret. I need Ralph Nader’s home phone number or his...”
– A transcribed voicemail from my friend Bret left late last night, afraid to listen to actual message.
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“To be my kind of populist you have to distinguish between people’s sense...”
– Eva Brann
Brian Eno, Rhubarb & Villages Mesmerizing,...
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“The art magazine was, to my mind, the most viable magazine we didn’t publish....”
– James Truman—former Editorial Director, Condé Nast
We're not Serious People
Sam: I'm a serious person, Josh. I read a lot of Proust and drink fizzy water.
Josh: I wear an itchy sweater and keep my mouth shut.
Sam: I play single notes on the piano and have a vague unibrow.
Josh: I watch foreign films and call my father by his first name.
Sam: I paint pictures of my ex-girlfriends.
Josh: I screamed only once and it was into the mirror.
Sam: I eat mints with a knife and fork.
Josh: I scold strangers' children.
The best part about this is that I think they both live in Williamsburg (I know Sam does).
No One Cares - Featured on BuzzFeed →
The trends that no one cares about from Jonah Peretti’s BuzzFeed. These are far more interesting than the memes that people care about.
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“What makes metadata meta-data is that it’s not strictly necessary. If I have a...”
– Steve Yegge: Portrait of a N00b (via marco)
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Stanford drops tuition for some students →
Stanford University will announce today that it will no longer charge tuition to students whose families earn less than $100,000 a year. This is interesting.
Aphex Twin, Fingerbib See last audio post. Listen...
Acoustica, Fingerbib Tomorrow, the Aphex Twin...
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The Social Graph, Pt. I →
Tim O’Reilly wrote a great piece for Edge on the the social aspect of the modern application stack. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and had a great conversation this morning with Jamie Siminoff of Simulscribe about how most applications can add tremendous value by making connections between people and between things—and that this rarely means ‘social networking’...
Biggie & Frank Sinatra, Juicy v. New York, New...
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“The semicolon, befittingly, symbolizes a wink.”
– Sam Roberts, Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location
www.thedieline.com →
a pretty blog dedicated to package design
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Standard Thinking About Business Deals
Recently read on TechCrunch: “Google’s corporate development group has been a bit of a revolving door over the last couple of years… Part of the problem: Google’s corp dev team is, according to our source, hesitant to step on toes or pursue deals that won’t have internal corporate sponsors for integration. Only deals brought to them by others in the company can be pursued, and the corp...
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“Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from...”
– Apple Insider
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“The Prius might be the most perfect white product ever. It’s expensive, gives...”
– Stuff White People Like: Toyota Prius (via marco) The name of the src blog is great.
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The difference between confidence and arrogance
I’ve been a beta tester of SpinVox for almost a year and like their service. I like that they are transparent that they use a combination of software and people—so does Jott (founded by an acquaintance). I met one of the engineering executives of Simulscribe at last year’s CTIA and he told me that Simulscribe uses only software and then launched into a very long-winded explanation of...
The easy way to call out your inner hypochondriac: read about drug-resistant tuberculosis on a crowded subway full of coughing people.
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“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his...”
– Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
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Object#andand →
huge: A guarded method invocation operator for Ruby; brought to you by Reginald Braithwaite andand Mobile Commons :)
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“The thought of returning to high school is a harrowing one for most gay men, but...”
– Out.com on Gossip Girl
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Rudolf Virchow →
One of my new heroes. A doctor and pathologist, Virchow was effective enough as a politician to be challenged to a duel by Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor.
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Smashing Pumpkins, Never Let Me Down Again...
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium →
(via andrewparker)
Clinton, Obama, Insurance - New York Times →
Paul Krugman on a central issue and practicality.
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“Kennedy’s was the generic name for stuff like that. Back in the 1960s,...”
– Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains
“My problem with theatre is that it’s an unfiltered experience with an...”
– Jed Alpert
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Lashinsky: Will you all work at Google for the rest of your careers? Schmidt: We agreed to work together for how long, gentlemen? Brin: Twenty years. Lashinsky: Really? When did you make that agreement? Schmidt: Two years, seven months, and four days ago. But who’s counting? Actually, we agreed the month before we went public that we would work together for 20 years. I will be 69, and...
