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Heaven? (Taken with Instagram at Cantina Dos Segundos)

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:46 -0500

Heaven? (Taken with Instagram at Cantina Dos Segundos)

"Owning a Maserati [Quattroporte] is like owning a two year old. You hate it most of the time, but if..."

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:51:41 -0500

““Owning a Maserati [Quattroporte] is like owning a two year old. You hate it most of the time, but if someone tried to take it away from you, you’d kill them”
Jeremy Clarkson”

The scale of the Universe

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:18:58 -0500

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. Instagram isn’t in..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:55:11 -0500

“here’s the thing: Instagram subleases its space from another company. Instagram isn’t in Twitter’s old office, it’s in Twitter’s old conference room. The entire company is nothing more than a collection of desks arranged bullpen-style in a room that is smaller than most two-car garages.”

- Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the Little Startup in the Fast Lane

Path: We are sorry.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:29:36 -0500

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 Salon than we were a..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:10:05 -0500

“We’re actually publishing, on average, roughly one-third fewer posts on Salon than we were a year ago (from 848 to 572 in December; 943 to 602 in January). So: 33 percent fewer posts; 40 percent greater traffic.”

- Hit record - Kerry Lauerman - Open Salon

Samsung hits it out of the park again! Buy why so small?(via...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:07:11 -0500

Samsung hits it out of the park again! Buy why so small?

(via Picture: Galaxy Note next to iPhone 4S)

Water Droplets in 0 gravity. this is pretty cool

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:59:22 -0500

Water Droplets in 0 gravity. this is pretty cool

AAPL Orchard: Not Everyone Copies Apple

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:45:22 -0500

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 they’re..."

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:25:03 -0500

“SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they’re resorting to such tactics. If movies and TV were growing rapidly, that growth would take up all their attention.”

- YCRFS 9: Kill Hollywood

"See? Those Drexel kids have real initiative, they really know how to work for things."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:53:15 -0500

““See? Those Drexel kids have real initiative, they really know how to work for things.””

- philebrity.com » Blog Archive » Tell The Truth: You Had No Idea That LSD Was Even Manufactured Anymore

"If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don’t get ahead of..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:10:56 -0500

“If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don’t get ahead of yourself. Control the things you can”

- 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 succeed wildly by..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:23:07 -0500

“What’s satisfying about Apple’s current success is that it’s proof that you can succeed wildly by focusing first and foremost on making great products. That design does matter.”

- Daring Fireball Linked List: Watching Apple Win the World

"Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest competition of “idiocy..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:21:56 -0500

“Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest competition of “idiocy and ignorance” the world has ever seen”

- RealClearPolitics - Politics - Jan 25, 2012 - Castro lambasts US Republican primary as idiotic

Louis CK's Shameful Dirty Comedy

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:27:46 -0500

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 on the cover? Such..."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:03:53 -0500

“Why would an album called “El Camino” carry a photograph of a Chrysler minivan on the cover? Such are the incongruities that rob car enthusiasts of their sleep.”

- The Black Keys and the El Camino That Wasn’t - NYTimes.com

Nobody Understands Debt - NYTimes.com

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:08:09 -0500

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 else; U.S. debt is, to a large extent, money we owe to ourselves

"So, sure, Amazon doesn’t host readings and it doesn’t give you a poofy couch to sit on while you..."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:12:01 -0500

“So, sure, Amazon doesn’t host readings and it doesn’t give you a poofy couch to sit on while you peruse the latest best-sellers. But what it does do—allow people to buy books anytime they want—is hardly killing literary culture. In fact, it’s probably the only thing saving it.”

- 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 the theaters that..."

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:20:30 -0500

“The message I get is that Americans love the movies as much as ever. It’s the theaters that are losing their charm”

- I’ll tell you why movie revenue is dropping… :: rogerebert.com :: News & comment

Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles magazine

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:15:06 -0500

Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles magazine:

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.