December 2010
28 posts
“5) Realize that you are dispensable.
… A friend of mine keeps chickens...”
– How To Avoid Getting Fired From Your Own Company
Why does Apple have such a cult following? →
parislemon:
If I wrote a post with this title on TechCrunch, no matter what I actually wrote in the post itself, the first 300 comments would all be complete troll bullshit.
Agreed. But the question is… why? What is it about Quora that enables it to provide such good answers (and community!) without falling prey to the trolls? I ask because I have some pet theories*, but no clear...
“Houston-based Noble Energy in cooperation with several Israeli partner companies...”
– Israel Confirms Major Gas Find - NYTimes.com
Interesting that it got named “Leviathan” - creature of the concealed realm, who will be slain at the end of days and provide food (its flesh) and housing (its bones and hide) for the righteous.
Symbols within symbols.
“That’s what so much “journalism” now is: a means of shielding secrets from the...”
– Glenn Greenwald on Wired’s lies about Adrian Lamo. Read the archives before this article if you want the full context, which does not paint a flattering picture of Wired. (via jonathan-cunningham)
Probably best to read Wired’s rather cutting rebuttal as well.
(via rickwebb)
The worst part of...
“By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy...”
– Paul Krugman back in ‘99 The Red Herring - Economics - June 1998
This is usually my answer to the “when did you first start thinking Krugman’s rants should be taken with a grain of salt?” question.
(via secondverse)
No fair! Man. The world forces anyone doing anything interesting to...
“By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the...”
– Paul Krugman back in ‘99 The Red Herring - Economics - June 1998
This is usually my answer to the “when did you first start thinking Krugman’s rants should be taken with a grain of salt?” question.
“So far, the lame-duck session has managed to pass an $850 billion...”
– Ezra Klein - Why has the lame-duck session been so productive?
Interesting supposition. But you can’t argue with results.
“You may have heard that Delicious is shutting down (or not?). Someone on Twitter...”
– notes on “learn to program in 24 hours”
I love @torrez for this. God, I despise the idiot commenters who say, “I could code $service_name in a weekend”.
7 Predictions For The Year 2011 From 1931... →
This is awesome.
“The thinking being, if Yahoo didn’t know what they had with del.icio.us, they’re...”
– Warren Ellis » The End Of Del.icio.us
Not sure I agree, but I’d be lying if I didn’t check out flump today.
Map of Metal →
All in Flash, but very educational. From now on I’m listening to nothing but Viking Metal.
“The real reason Apple offers free engraving is to weaken the secondary market.”
– Why Does Apple Offer Free Engraving? // Eli Dourado
via @hnshah
“MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?
SECRETARY CLINTON: What...”
– hillary clinton is asked what designers she wears moments after making point about sexism (via rachelinbrooklyn)
LOVE this so much.
(via apsies)
not to harsh the OMG SEXISM mellow but…hillary clinton wore an oscar de la renta gown this past summer to her daughter’s wedding, she specializes in...
“The truth is that America’s long-run deficit problem has nothing at all to do...”
– Freezing Out Hope - NYTimes.com
I often wonder if Krugman enjoys being wrong, or just doesn’t have enough respect for his audience to prevent him from obfuscating the truth. Any comparison of federal compensation to that of the private sector is prima facie inaccurate. Ignoring stipulated...
A semi-semionaut →
bobulate:
Josh Glenn reviews the BBC’s Sherlock … as for Holmes:
Though he insists that his method is a strictly deductive one, at various points in the Holmes canon, Conan Doyle’s detective advocates the use of “imagination,” “intuition,” and “speculation.” This explains why his so-called deductions so often lead Holmes to make revelations which appear almost magical; and this is why...
