March 2009
37 posts
WatchI went to Lake Havasu last weekend.
Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per... →
anyone notice a theme here?
Fireside Chat
The most recent episode of The Economist podcast is called Fireside Chat, and it’s particularly good if you’ve got a few free minutes (a google search ought to do).
Watch
WatchI went to Austin last week for SXSW. More on Austin later, but here are some of the lesser and greater shenanigans that ensued.
(note John saying he’ll fight anyone who touches kevin rose at about :22, and me asking Cesar if his gun has ‘night mode’ for ‘when it gets dark’ at ~:49)
“Release early, often, and with rap music”
“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are...”
– Clay Shirky (via azspot)
“Today’s economy needs deep, foundational reinvention. Venture investors -...”
– Umair Haque (via catbird)
Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings (Jakob... →
the book of revelation is the world’s biggest sudoku
“And the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks of light came in through the...”
– from Graham Greene’s The Destructors. If you’ve never read it, go read it.
outofprint:
Q: ”I’d like to direct this question to messrs. Lennon and McCartney. In a recent article, ‘Time’ magazine put down Pop music. And they referred to ‘Day Tripper’ as being about a prostitute and ‘Norwegian Wood’ as being about a lesbian. I just wanted to know what your intent was when you wrote it, and what your feeling is about the ‘Time’ magazine criticism of the music that is being...
“It’s both. If you have a bad quarter, you have a bad quarter and...”
– I sat down and talked with Tim Draper last week. I’m busy writing about and editing together the interview now, but I really like the way he put this. (I had just asked him whether the current economic situation had more to do with group psychology or real economics…)
"Check! Your move RIAA." | LimeWire Adds Private... →
artistspaid:
thisisreallyneat:
LimeWire have implemented a “walled-garden” option for sharing. I guess it’s kinda similar to Facebook in as much as you have to know who you are sharing with elsewhere before setting up a private network with them.
At the moment the “somewhere else” is the Jabber IM protocol so watch out who you accept Gmail chat requests from!
WatchI really love when something captures the spirit of a place like this.
Palo Alto
I posted a few shots I took while I was in Palo Alto the other day, there’s more on flickr. I stayed at the Hacker House while I was up there, which is home to a few of the current YC startups and a couple other incredible projects — it was a really cool experience. More later.
“But editors in search of a legal word limit are sorely disappointed. Even before...”
– Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Scrape Content - NYTimes.com (via wreckandsalvage)
Fuck you, Washington Mutual
I spent 58 minutes this morning (and 22 last night) on hold with Washington Mutual while being indiscriminately transferred between various departments. At the end of the call I had talked to nine (NINE) different ‘customer service’ representatives who passed me back and forth between departments in a manner something like the following: Fraud Prevention Services, Debit Card Services,...