February 2012
15 posts
“Sometimes, you agonize over how something should be designed. And then you come...”
– ignore the code: Please Steal These webOS Features
I can’t speak to the dev side, but as a user, webOS was nearly perfect.
“Barbie was conceived as the all-American girl. In truth, she never was: at her...”
– The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
This book is as fascinating as it is nerdy.
“He can use without irony, as he does in ‘The 4-Hour Body,’ lines...”
– Timothy Ferriss - ‘The 4-Hour Body’ - Review - NYTimes.com
“By and large, whenever individual investors buy or sell a stock they buy and...”
– Quick Study: Daniel Kahneman on economic decision-making: Can we ever trust instinct? | The Economist
“The soulless careerists, though: they get where they are because social training...”
– Some Advice for Young People | The Awl
“Don’t get upset if your plans get scheduled by his assistant. Even though, it is...”
– How to Date a Wall Street Man - CNBC
Not the Onion
“A year ago, Ohio ranked 48th in job creation. We trailed only Michigan and...”
– Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in his 2012 State of the State address. (via officialssay)
cc Caci
“The Justice Department now seems to be saying that prison rape accounted for the...”
– “Fight Or Fuck” - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
Related: private prisons are a multi-billion dollar industry.
“Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time,...”
– Not Fade Away: Against the Myth of American Decline - Brookings Institution
January 2012
18 posts
Using Cell Phones Now A War Crime During 100 Day...
trackingpyongyang:
North Korea has announced that those using mobile phones during the one hundred day mourning period for Kim Jong Il will be punished as war criminals. Anyone caught using one during this time now has a variety of gulag options. The country’s 3G network was established in 2008 by the Egyptian telecommunications company Orascom. Most current estimates put the total number of...
“At Trinity, only 2.4 percent of children from families with no previous...”
– Scraping the $40,000 Ceiling at New York City Private Schools - NYTimes.com
Ugly, ugly statistic.
Ron Howard gives an update on new Arrested... →
thebluthcompany:
What is the status of Arrested Development? Do you have any idea when you might actually film that, and are you excited that it’s finally going to happen?
HOWARD: There’s not a specific start date, but Mitch Hurwitz is definitely working to quickly get it all underway. I don’t want to burden him with any release dates, but I know he’s well underway and it’s something he’s been...
“But, maybe what the Apple earnings tell us is not that we need the next Steve...”
– BRYCE DOT VC: A Thought on The Next Steve Jobs
This.
“The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”
– travels with khuyi:
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter to his eldest son
What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful...
Richard Thaler:
Commitment It is a fundamental principle of economics that a person is always better off if they have more alternatives to choose from. But this principle is wrong. There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.
The idea of commitment as a strategy is an ancient one. Odysseus famously had his...
“Some folks will make good money with [online video]. But it still won’t be the...”
– The TV Business Keeps Getting Stronger ! « blog maverick
I agree with pretty much all of this post. I want TV to be disrupted as much as anyone, but I’ve yet to see anyone present a credible case for how to do it. To remake TV, you have to fundamentally remake entire...
fred-wilson:
Auld Lang Syne (Live at the Fillmore...
“‘Your own reality—for yourself, not for others.’ Thinking for...”
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
“So it’s perfectly natural to have doubts, or questions, or even just...”
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
“I find for myself that my first thought is never my best thought. My first...”
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
December 2011
21 posts
2 tags
Suggestions for effective anti-SOPA action
Reddit is organizing “Dump GoDaddy Day” on 12/29. A likely effect of this action is that GoDaddy drops any vestige of support for SOPA and then immediately fades into the background. This will be a nice win for the Internet, but Congress won’t care. The Internet’s (as it were) great handicap in this battle is a lack of lobbying power, itself a symptom of tech’s...
parislemon: Dear HBO →
erikschwartz:
Jeremy Toeman demonstrates why you should take pretty much everything MG writes about TV with a grain of salt.
parislemon:
First and foremost, I love your content. You’ve produced several of my favorite shows over the years, and the hits keep on coming. I’d love to watch Game of Thrones now, but I can’t. You see, the only way to get your service is to be a cable subscriber, and...
“R. Kelly needs funding — AND QUICK — because the singer tells TMZ he’s ready to...”
– TMZ.com
If there were ever a perfect, headline Kickstarter project, this is it.
(via dbreunig)
“to steal from someone and not feel bad, you either have to be a sociopath or...”
– Hi I’m Louis C.K. and this is a thing : IAmA
Louis CK is doing an AMA on Reddit. This is part of his response to a question about his Beacon Theater special, available for download DRM free at louisck.net
“In February of 2007, researchers in New Zealand, working with the United States...”
– Going the Distance « Now I Know Archives
Hey Tumblr, I'm moving out of the country. So . ....
I recently left IA Ventures to join BillGuard. You should sign up for BillGuard. We protect your credit card like GMail’s antispam filter protects your inbox. Go ahead now, I’ll wait.
[waiting]
Great, now on to the commerce. In January, my wife and I will be decamping from New York for Tel Aviv. We’re taking this opportunity to dramatically reduce the amount of stuff we’ve...
“Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaida leaders who’ve been...”
– Obama: ‘Ask Osama Bin Laden’ If I’m An Appeaser : The Two-Way : NPR
“‘The competitor we fear the most is HBO Go,’ Hastings said today at...”
– Netflix chief: HBO Go is rival ‘we fear most’ | Media Maverick - CNET News
“‘Talk about content, you got NBC. And wireless, you got this. In...”
– Comcast execs: Verizon deal to bring the ‘quadruple play’
“Forever.”
Really not good.