January 2009
48 posts
“If there’s a problem, fix it. If your job can’t be fixed, quit. How dare you...”
– [Fireside Chat] Seth Godin and Mark Hurst - 37signals
something i came across 2 years ago today.
(via soxiam)
Hacker News | Add "pwn" before youtube in the url... →
yes.
“Tell me of John or Shaun? Who were Shem and Shaun the living sons or daughters...”
– From Finnegan’s Wake. Just read it aloud to yourself. Wow.
Woah...Animoto is cool. Very cool. →
too bad I had to compress the heck out of it…
“Copyright was never intended as an alternative mechanism for contract...”
– Ars Technica (via azspot)
I’m Attending MIT, Stanford & Harvard ~ Mattias... →
WatchI took a little trip to Buenos Aires.
“My big plea here is that we all “get real” about what content and applications...”
– ideasonideas - Eric Karjaluoto discusses design, brands and experience » Blog Archive » The future of the web is small
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Offline Gmail →
yes. just in time for a 15 hour trip back to the US.
'We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence' →
great photography, awesome implementation.
Razors are incredibly cheap in South America, or probably more likely they’re not price-gouged like they are in the states (they’re about one-fifth of the US price). As a result, they’re no longer the self-proclaimed “most-stealable item in the store” and aren’t protected by inches upon inches of kryptonite/plastic that’s impossible to open. They just...
who remembers playing ‘the floor is hot lava?’ yeah, me too. someone should bring that back…
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs (via gcn)
“China censored its translation of President Barack Obama’s inauguration...”
– China censors Obama’s inauguration address - Yahoo! News
TG Daily - Throw your hard drive away, Google's... →
“Record companies cannot collect restitution for every time a song has been...”
– Judge: 17,000 illegal downloads don’t equal 17,000 lost sales
Getting Your Textbooks for Free - HackCollege -... →
poking around the new dashboard redesign…hmm…
“For most of our nation’s history, our approach to economics has favored...”
– Peter Wehner and Paul Ryan: Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point - WSJ.com (via sds) (via hilker)
imsorrybrendan:
The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart |... →
No Identity Left Behind →
davidhoffman:
The best 3 minutes of tech drama I’ve read all morning afternoon.
“Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said today that he would take a medical leave...”
– Steve Jobs taking medical leave from Apple | Technology | Los Angeles Times
The Real Cause of the Financial Crisis -- An MIT... →
“Six candidates for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee debated...”
– Harper’s Weekly Review
SkiFree: a classic by conlan | Radar →
oh my gosh. such a blast from the past.
“Remember, if the user can’t find it, the function’s not there....”
– Coding Horror: If You Don’t Change the UI, Nobody Notices
Pretty Loaded - Preloader Museum →
An archive of ‘preloaders’ that preload other preloaders. Pretty neat.
“So if you’re thinking you can’t charge for your product, think about CI’s path...”
– How Cook’s Illustrated thrives while others are dying - (37signals)
Redistribution of Wealth
crazynutjob:
vruz:
vruz: a primer on economics for populists and the generally unaware public. but this is precisely an argument that favours democrats as they are demonstrably, historically better wealth redistributors. plus one will be hard pressed to critique an obama administration for not being colour-blind.
This is in response to that Peter Schiff quote. I have a problem with the...
Obama picks RIAA's favorite lawyer for a top... →
“Banner ads will be the new junk mail. More and more, reputable companies won’t...”
– Colleen DeCourcy, chief digital officer at Omnicom’s TBWA (via WSJ)
Yes, oh God, yes, please.
(via jeremyk)
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No... →
“For years, students of ui and ux have been taught that consistency in the...”
– Mark Hurst, The Page Paradigm
This quote is from Getting Real, 37Signal’s book. It’s a good quick read. Bonus points, the entire thing is available free to read online.
(via davidhoffman)
“All songs will be DRM-free and encoded at 256 Kbps AAC by the end of the...”
– New iTunes features include 3G downloads, tiered pricing, and no more DRM
“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via travors)
“When I was in college, I used to get wicked hammered. My nickname was Puke. I...”
– Andy Bernard (The Office)
“Irrationality is responsible for the economic mess we find ourselves in right...”
– eBay and the Brain: What Psychology Teaches Us about the Economic Downturn: Scientific American