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...
