January 2010
58 posts
“Carson was famous for using his ‘Tonight Show’ platform to launch...”
– Why Jay Leno and David Letterman Hate Each Other | PopEater.com
I’m hoping a second, expanded edition of “Late Shift” is being put together right now, to chronicle all of this.
“On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the...”
– Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs | Epicenter | Wired.com
Watch2010/01 Michael Bierut on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Our speaker at the January 2010 CreativeMornings was Michael Bierut of Pentagram hosted at the fabulous Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn. It was our biggest CreativeMornings audience yet with 300 (!) NYC creatives attending. It’s a brand new talk on the subject of “Clients”. A big giant thank you to Roland Lazarte who once again has...
“Google Wave was built to show younger people how older people feel when they try...”
– swissmiss | Google Wave…
“The anonymous comments section of any major media site or popular blog will be...”
– Why are you so terribly disappointing?
“More and more, I’ve heard entrepreneurs say something like “I don’t want to talk...”
– Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog
Eater SF: Just How Many More Ferry Building Spots... →
Lots of changes happening - sad to see Tsar Nicoulai out of the Ferry Building but their new spot in the Financial District should rock. I also hear they’re talking to a couple of restaurants about sponsored lines of specialty caviar. Bring back the Iranian Golden Osetra and we’ll talk.
“But I guess where I was originally going is that nobody wants to write endings...”
– DAVID SIMON - Vice Magazine
“According to a 2007 analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics by...”
– Class War - Reason Magazine
“Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House...”
– He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com
Wow, your support was so deep for the President that you managed to wait a whole year before giving up and washing your hands of the whole affair. WTF is up with public (left wing) intellectuals just wanting to walk away,...
“For a whole variety of reasons voters clearly have a lot of hesitation about...”
– Fire in a Crowded Theater | Talking Points Memo
“Mr. Lessins makes every pizza by hand. “No man is slower,” wrote GQ’s food...”
– The customer is generally wrong. If they self-identify as a “Yelper” or (god help you) “Elite Yelper,” they’re most definitely wrong, impatient, and possessing the self-entitlement of a 17th century heir to the Bourbon throne.
Great Lake, a Chicago Pizza Shop, Enjoys...
“MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Jan. 12 (UPI) — A Michigan company announced the...”
– Company creates sarcasm punctuation - UPI.com
ffffl*ckr →
Ever since I hooked up the AppleTV to my Flickr Favorites, I’ve been thinking, “I need to find a better way to discover more new photography/photographers on Flickr that I’d like.” Boom. Along comes ffffl*ckr, sort of like FFFound! but based on my own favorites. It’s awesom
e, easy, and addictive. Check it.
“To hell with delicate studies of the American scene. Fuck the American scene....”
– Put This On • To hell with delicate studies of the American…
““Walking through walls” thus becomes a kind of militarized...”
– Head-spinningly good, with a reference to Jones’ Bourne v. Bond essay from last year.
BLDGBLOG: Nakatomi Space
“Given the reams of real-time coverage of the 2008 race, followed by Newsweek’s...”
– How soon before “tweetable nugget” replaces “sound bite”?
‘Game Change’: The freak show - Michael Calderone - POLITICO.com
“Reading over Lehrer’s rules, I realized I had failed at all of them.
Do...”
– Susannah Breslin: Indefensible
I’m a fan of Breslin’s writing. I have no idea if I’m a fan of hers as a human being; reading what she writes, sometimes I don’t think she’s a fan of herself as a human being. But this is just a great response to Lehrer’s rules for...
“A videotape of the Newark incident shows the man embracing a woman at the C-1...”
– Goodbye kiss provoked Newark airport scare: report | Reuters
Proving once again that love is a mental illness.
“AIG said in a draft of a regulatory filing that the insurer paid banks, which...”
– Geithner’s New York Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure - Bloomberg.com
Seriously wondering why I even let myself care anymore… (via tedr)
I read this with some interest today, because I just got to the part of “Too Big To Fail” where Geithner is structuring the AIG deal. I’m...
“i/o ventures is a 7,000 square foot office building located at 780 Valencia in...”
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via TechCruch: i/o Ventures – A Work/Cafe Incubator Launches In San Francisco
This is a perfect addition to the San Francisco entrepreneurial community. A work/social investment/development/entrepreneurial space. I’m one of the mentors and if your business is looking to raise it’s first $25k I...
