July 2010
RT @techwhizbang: #protip Do you have an annoying f’n ringtone? Put your phone on vibrate in the office so your coworkers don’t get pissed.
Finally got to go to Ramen Dojo today. It was a spicy bowl of greatness.
RT @zefrank https://faceinspace.nasa.gov/index.aspx :: send a picture of your face on the final shuttle missions? :: weird… but i did it.
Moses/Jobs →
fek:
“By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others’ work and belittle their motivations?”
- Steve Jobs
‘‘Those who can, build….
America’s national priorities →
Matthew Yglesias asks this question of members of Congress who vote for deficit-funded war appropriations but vote against any domestic programs that raise the deficit: Is the performance of a…
“First thought: stop fucking calling every scandal “-gate,” for Christ’s sake.”
– The Emperor’s New Antenna
RT @cdixon: turns out patent trolling might not pay. Intellectual Ventures has negative 78% return. http://bit.ly/bSfamC
Kickstartup — Successful fundraising with... →
RT @FrankConniff: Saw Jay Leno interview Bill O’Reilly on plasma TV and I must say the HD really made the soulless mediocrity come alive!
Just got my standing desk set up at work. Now I can tower over my coworkers in their puny chairs.
Now Legal In The U.S.: Jailbreaking Your iPhone,... →
It’s no longer illegal under the DMCA to jailbreak your iPhone or bypass a DVD’s CSS in order to obtain fair use footage for educational purposes or criticism. These are the new rules that were…
RT @assaf: RT @rakesh314: How many SEO experts does it take to change a light bulb, lightbulb, light, bulb, lamp, lighting, switch, sex, …
this, is boomerang →
RT @edrabbit: God Hates Jedi http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/22/super-heroes-vs-the-westboro-baptist-church/ /cc @ferociousj
robhuebel:
I want the world to explode. →
robhuebel:
I want the world to explode.
The Top Idea in Your Mind →
Welcome to KISSmetrics →
Wave Commuter Mug - US Store View - English →
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Phys Ed: The Men Who Stare at Screens - Well Blog... →
Fascinating article about the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, even when you exercise.
Working out of a coffee shop for the first time in a couple years
I have to “understand by rewriting” more in UI design than programming. Either it’s more complex or I’m worse at it, probably both.
BackType →
Jean-Louis Gassée’s Customer Service Kung-Fu →
Jean-Louis Gassée on customer service:
A customer complaint dialogue is structured around a two-position toggle: a) it’s terrible, b) it’s nothing. The first one to grab a position forces the…
3 shell scripts: Kill weasel words, avoid the... →
1996 →
I Write Like →
What famous author do you write like?
RT @nntaleb: Some books cannot be summarized (literature, aphorisms), some can be rewritten in about ten pages, and the majority in zero.
Highcharts - Interactive JavaScript charts for... →
About to do something ill-advised with electricity
I have survived and the house is intact
Yochai Benkler on Why Now’s Better →
Yochai Benkler, when asked the usual asinine internet-as-echo-chamber question by Brooke Gladstone on this week’s On the Media, said this:
What are we lamenting? We’re lamenting the decline of a…
Pictaculous - A Color Palette Generator (courtesy... →
My hopes for using Amazon’s Elastic Map/Reduce are being crushed by my home internet’s crappy upload speed
Killing the 12 minutes I have left in this section of my yearly anti-harassment training
SimpleText.ws — Your writing synced online →
What’s strategic for Google? cdixon.org – chris... →
Closed my first business. I learned a lot. Only a few more failures until I get it right.
OpenTerminal →
Phone Disk - Mount iPad, iTouch, iPhone to Disk... →
Attention Business People: Ask is not a noun! It is a verb!
The Black Swan is one of the few second editions worth buying. It has an entire book’s worth of excellent new writing @nntaleb