pukomuko: Archive

November 2010

“They hired a Bono impersonator
Seriously, what the hell, guys? I don’t know what surprised me more. That y’all felt a U2 cover band was the most universally acceptable music act for a convention in Dublin, Ireland. Or that you were right. Even the Germans liked it. But I can’t forgive you for making me stare at what was essentially Bono’s tomatoey balding forehead while hammered.” —

Comment: Nokia’s MeeGo is doomed - A summary of Dublin’s MeeGo Summit | TechEye

Rafer sez:
Made my whole day.

(via rafer)

nice writeup about MeeGo event.

Nov 30, 20103 notes

“On the book’s dust jacket, Bush is shown in a ranching outfit. A Peter Pan outfit would have been more fitting. Like him, Bush has never grown up.” —WikiLeaks as Bush’s foil

Nov 30, 2010

“Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” —Terry Pratchett (via travors)

Nov 30, 201058 notes

“All music is an acquired taste; no music is everywhere beloved.” —

A worthwhile read:

Why do we hate modern classical music? | Alex Ross | Music | The Guardian

(via fieldmic)

Nov 30, 20101 note

“The cell phone is overtaking both television and radio as the most popular consumer electronic device in history. Some 80 percent of the global population is within range of a cell tower, and mobile phones are increasingly seen in the poorest, remotest communities.” —Boston Review — Kentaro Toyama: Can Technology End Poverty? (via Instapaper)

Nov 29, 20101 note

“Yet sometimes I think this hero-entrepreneur myth is dangerous. In an economy such as the United States, where start-ups are revered, people who would make perfectly good project supervisors or salespeople establish their own companies, starving the ecosystem of middle managers. Thousands of perfectly smart and highly useful people feel inadequate because they are not heroes. Many make the wrong career choices in search of glory.” —The Dangerous Myth of the Hero Entrepreneur by Esther Dyson - Project Syndicate (via Instapaper)

Nov 29, 20102 notes

Google Translate → translate.google.com

fieldmic:

(via @howells)

Use Google Translate to make beatbox sounds?!

Listen button works only on chrome?

Nov 29, 20103 notes

“An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and another injured in separate attacks in Tehran today. The scientists were targeted in two different locations by men riding motorcycles who attached bombs to their car windows as they drove to work.” —

Iranian nuclear scientist killed and another wounded in separate bomb attacks | Mail Online

This is either Mossad or CIA. I’d put heavy, heavy money on Mossad.

(via mikehudack)

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“There was a presumption that financial innovation is socially valuable,” Woolley said to me. “The first thing I discovered was that it wasn’t backed by any empirical evidence. There’s almost none.” —Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good : The New Yorker (via Instapaper)

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