August 2008
25 posts
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“15 Lombard St. is a book, published in 2000, by Janice Kerbel. It is “a...”
– BLDGBLOG (via slavin)
DNC Heats Up Denver →
An unusual phenomenon has recently appeared on Craigslist’s Denver Web site. Sex-wanted ads spiked this week, which happens to coincide with the Democratic National Convention.
“The Obama campaign may have just pulled off the most cost-effective Get Out the...”
– Me on the Mobile Commons blog
“In most poor jurisdictions there is a simple method of saving for old age. Have...”
– John Hempton
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Why Apple doesn't do "Concept Products" →
Why hasn’t Apple, the most innovative and visionary company in computing, produced a single concept product or vision in over a decade? Because, to paraphrase Jobs, real artists ship.
Mississippi John Hurt - Candy Man
Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around...
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“There is also the question of competitive advantage. Most nations gain their...”
– Michael Lewis, Sarkozy Forces the French to Join the 1980s
Ben Finds Respite from Trolls →
huge:
If you start to frequent sites on different topics, the experience is vastly different and much nicer. Do you really think the knitting blogs are filled with trolls (“knit 1 perl *two* n00b!”)? How many anonymous cowards are in the cooking forums (“ur cake is teh EPIC FAIL”). And the chicken farmer mailing list (“chickens r gay”)?
Ben’s experience drives home another thing that...
Los Campesinos - Death to Los Campesinos!
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather...”
– why the lucky stiff
Little Jackie - Guys Like When Girls Kiss
Florence & the Machine - Kiss with a Fist
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“I’m not the least interested in preserving anything that’s so-called...”
– Karim Rashid, Designer
“The Lower East Side is like a theme park of the old New York.”
– Jed Alpert in reaction to photos of the East Village in the 80s (his old home)
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“Matthew Paul Thomas is back with a thoughtful and detailed look at the reasons...”
– John Gruber in response to Matthew Paul Thomas
I think Gruber is spot on by making this axiomatic. I also think that it’s one of the hardest things to scale as a software business grows and has multiple products and is probably one of the main reasons why it’s so important for a...
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