March 2008
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WatchVilayanur Ramachandran in an amazing talk on the connections between the mind and the physical world. One section of the talk is on phantom limbs—patients who lose a limb or an organ due to traumatic injury and experience sensory input as if the limb is still there. He then outlines an amazing way, using visual feedback, to relieve the pain. This is similar to a technique that the military used...
“While it’s true that traffic is now again actually worth something, the...”
– Ev Williams
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“What might help, though, is a return to some semblance of the city we lived in...”
– Why the Recession May Restore the City We Moved Here For — New York Magazine (via fred-wilson)
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic... →
A very nice overview by Alex Iskold of Adaptive Blue.
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Ram Jam, Black Betty
Richardson’s Endorsement of Obama - New York Times →
Text of speech.
You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss →
Paul Graham
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“To put the point another way, big companies tailor their Product Development to known customers. Product features emerge by successive refinement against known customer and market requirements and a known competitive environment. As the product features get locked down, how well the product will do with those customers and markets becomes clearer. Startups, however, begin with a known...
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“Although comments are one of our most popular features, they are also our most controversial feature. If you believe that there should only be a single, unified discussion, then the extra fragmentation caused by FriendFeed will seem like a step in the wrong direction. In fact, not only is there a separate discussion on FriendFeed, there may be hundreds of separate discussions within...
“I’m mean only when I’m trying to be non-chalant.”
– Alanna
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Adam: Happy Pi Day, we’re celebrating with a massive pie party (I got very (over)excited this morning) here in a few… Me: The question: what is the most irrational, yet well rounded, type of pie? Adam: California-style pizza
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“Most regrets, by the way, are acts of omission and not commission. If you do bad...”
– Jeff Bezos, talking about how he chose to throw away a big Wall St. job and start Amazon—the regret minimization framework
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“When you scale animals you can’t just keep everything in proportion. For...”
– Paul Graham, A New Kind of Venture Animal
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“Well, it’s like this. You used to be able to tell the difference between...”
– Chuck Klosterman
My SXSW Sched: http://sched.org/sxsw2008/christmasgorilla I would encourage more people to play kickball on Saturday morning. My panel on mobile and politics conflicts with the Zuckerberg keynote—so I’ll be looking for reports. Also, twitter is bad. They truncated my username from christmasgorilla to christmasgorill. However, if you send anything to either, I’ll get it (track whatever...
Bonnie Prince Billy & Matt Sweeney, Ignition...
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“Things happen fairly slowly, you know. They do. These waves of technology, you...”
– Steve Jobs, in an amazing series of quotes in Fortune.
Bonnie Prince Billy, World’s Greatest (R...
Britt Daniel, Bring It On Home to Me (a Sam Cooke...
“Is there any effort underway to have Ruby developers self-identify as Rubes? I...”
– kenny b
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