February 2010
21 posts
“You got to be scared. ‘Cause if you ain’t scared, you got no need...”
– Tracy Morgan, Esquire March 2010
Everyone competes with the internet
At SFO and I’ve noticed two internet-focused ads from two companies that aren’t primarily Internet-focused.
One is a Marriot ad says: “Before there were social networks, there were hotel lobbies.”
The other is an American Airlines ad that has a picture of some splendid natural monument in some exotic place with the words, “Some things you can’t...
Olympic Pictograms Through the Ages - Video... →
“There’s a great Alan Kay quote: “Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” Some of our...”
– The Institutional Yes - Harvard Business Review
Facebook Patents The News Feed (Updated) →
“I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.”
– Conan O’Brien (ConanOBrien) on Twitter
The pursuit of happiness [dive into mark] →
Working on step 5.
Millionaire gives away fortune that made him... →
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“When you’re the man, the rules don’t apply to you.”
– Hacker News | Jason Calacanis Knows He’s Spamming Google, He Just Thinks It’s No Big Deal
The Great Grocery Smackdown - The Atlantic (March... →
“If there were a Walmart closer to where I live, I would probably shop there.”
Chock one up for capitalism!
Lead singer of OK Go on embedded videos →
But the fans and bloggers who helped spread “Here It Goes Again” across the Internet can no longer do what they did before, because our record company has blocked them from embedding our video on their sites. Believe it or not, in the four years since our treadmill dance got such attention, YouTube and EMI have actually made it harder to share our videos.
It’s sad to see how bad at this...
A classic example of real world flow
Ray Bradbury was a freelance writer who was trying to support his family. However, he was working at home with his cute little children. This proved to be incredibly distracting, so he had to find somewhere else to write. So, he headed over to UCLA’s Lawrence Clark Powell Library.
In the basement of the library there was a number of typewriters that gave 30 minutes of writing time for a...
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NASA Scientists Plan To Approach Girl By 2018 - Nerdcore
A Common Misunderstanding of the Lyrics of Jay-Z's... →
A Common Misunderstanding of the Lyrics of Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” | The Awl
Source: www.theawl.com
If you’re like me (and the rest of America, according to the…
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever - Wikipedia, the... →
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Source: en.wikipedia.org
L’indovinello più difficile del mondo (The hardest logic puzzle in the world) is…