February 2012
11 posts
“Owning a Maserati [Quattroporte] is like owning a two year old. You hate it most...”
The scale of the Universe →
if I had kids, I’d make them play with this today
“here’s the thing: Instagram subleases its space from another company....”
– Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane
Path: We are sorry. →
thepersonalnetwork:
We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.
“We’re actually publishing, on average, roughly one-third fewer posts on...”
– Hit record - Kerry Lauerman - Open Salon
Water Droplets in 0 gravity. this is pretty cool →
AAPL Orchard: Not Everyone Copies Apple →
aaplorchard:
Apple: {best, world, delight, proud} vs. Sony: {growth, businesses, accelerate, domains}
“SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if...”
– YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood
“See? Those Drexel kids have real initiative, they really know how to work for...”
– philebrity.com » Blog Archive » Tell The Truth: You Had No Idea That LSD Was Even Manufactured Anymore
January 2012
10 posts
“If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place....”
– Business & Technology | AP Interview: JC Penney CEO talks about the chain | Seattle Times Newspaper
“What’s satisfying about Apple’s current success is that it’s proof that you can...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Watching Apple Win the World
“Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest...”
– RealClearPolitics - Politics - Jan 25, 2012 - Castro lambasts US Republican primary as idiotic
Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy
viafrank:
All the greats had their focus: Richard Pryor and Chris Rock had race, George Carlin had absurdity, and I think Louis has hit on some sort of subterranean undercurrent of emotion that I didn’t realize might be swelling until I listened more closely: shame.
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“Why would an album called “El Camino” carry a photograph of a Chrysler minivan...”
– The Black Keys and the El Camino That Wasn’t - NYTimes.com
Nobody Understands Debt - NYTimes.com →
families have to pay back their debt. Governments don’t — all they need to do is ensure that debt grows more slowly than their tax base. The debt from World War II was never repaid; it just became increasingly irrelevant as the U.S. economy grew, and with it the income subject to taxation. Second — and this is the point almost nobody seems to get — an over-borrowed family owes money to someone...
“So, sure, Amazon doesn’t host readings and it doesn’t give you a poofy couch to...”
– Independent bookstores vs. Amazon: Buying books online is better for authors, better for the economy, and better for you. - Slate Magazine
“The message I get is that Americans love the movies as much as ever. It’s...”
– I’ll tell you why movie revenue is dropping… :: rogerebert.com :: News & comment
Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles... →
L.A. has the highest density of parking spaces in the world. “You can’t have the number of cars we have in L.A. without our parking lots,” says Shoup. “And you can never create urban density with the parking lots we’ve built.” They make driving too easy.
“Take the truck, the boat, the helicopter, that we’ve sent you. Don’t...”
– The President’s challenge - O’Reilly Radar
December 2011
19 posts
“However, there is something that everybody can do now and IMHO everybody should...”
– Jesse Hollington - Google - Just discovered this flaw in iMessage after I used my SIM…
“Speaking of wheels, the best bags to get are the “spinners” with...”
– George Hobica: Confessions of An Airline Baggage ‘Thrower’: Why You Should Buy A Four-Wheeler Suitcase
Buy a Four-Wheeler Suitcase to Avoid Damage to... →
PROTIP: buy a four-wheeled suitcase to prevent damage to your checked baggage
“Now, it’s still very unlikely that Ron Paul will become president. But, as I...”
– G.O.P. Monetary Madness - NYTimes.com
Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater →
I also got an education. And everything i learned are things i was happy to learn. I learned that people are interested in what happens and shit (i didn’t go to college) I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of...
“The most remarkable attribute Krugman has brought to the Times is rudeness. The...”
– New York Magazine
Because Questlove Is the People’s Bandleader -... →
New York Magazine said ?uestlove is the 26th reason to love New York. I think they’re confused
“Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone...”
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org
“The fact that Mitt Romney would call for essentially ending Medicare should...”
– Democrats: Mitt Romney Is Doing Exactly What We Want Him To Do | TPM2012
“What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the...”
– Don’t Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
On Magazines and the iPad — carpeaqua by Justin... →
pretty good summary of the nightmare that is iPad magazines
Killing the Euro - NYTimes.com →
the next time you hear someone claiming that if we don’t slash spending we’ll turn into Greece, your answer should be that if we do slash spending while the economy is still in a depression, we’ll turn into Europe. In fact, we’re well on our way.
“A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian...”
– Waldo Jaquith - On the impracticality of a cheeseburger.
Adrenalized - Definition and More from the Free... →
Today I Learned: adrenalized is a word
Carrier IQ: How the Widespread Rootkit Can Track... →
in case you haven’t seen this yet, your carrier may be logging pretty much everything you do on your Android, Blackberry, or Nokia phone.
iPhones do have a more reasonable version of CarrierIQ, but it can be disabled
“The problem isn’t that the news media aren’t sensationalizing this Carrier IQ...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: Imagine If It Were Apple
November 2011
14 posts
“The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2—and...”
– Louis C.K.: The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A Chick | Fast Company
“New technologies are often greeted with fear and that is certainly true of a...”
– Fliers Still Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why - NYTimes.com
Occupy Flash - The movement to rid the world of... →
THIS is a movement I can get behind!
A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage | The... →
The theory that the McRib’s elusiveness is a direct result of the vagaries of the cash price for hog meat in the States is simple: in this thinking, the product is only introduced when pork prices are low enough to ensure McDonald’s can turn a profit on the product. The theory is especially convincing given the McRib’s status as the only non-breakfast fast food pork item: why wouldn’t...
“Apple’s iPhone 4, which was more than a year old during the quarter, was the #1...”
– NPD: iPhone 3GS Outsold Every Android Smartphone in Q3 | Analysis | The Mac Observer
Daring Fireball Linked List: The Parable of the... →
Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. And it’s that process that is the magic
“There is no job that plugins are the right tool for.
Saying that plugins ‘have...”
– A List of Things That Plugins Don’t Work With