December 2010
There is vastly more financial data set down in the world’s computers than there...
– The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks - Technology - The Atlantic (via Instapaper)
There’s too much stuff. It seems to me that almost all tools we rely on to...
– Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite Info: Tech News and Analysis «
Completely agree. This is a huge opportunity for entrepreneurs to figure out. (via bijan)
just renamed my IPhone the Titanic. When I plug it into my computer, it says...
– Twitter / @Kjirsten Johnson: just renamed my IPhone the …
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ou can’t totally blame the Internet for the fact that we’re basically...
– The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues: GQ (via Instapaper)
The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in...
– Steven Strogatz, “The Enemy of My Enemy”
I have now lost count of the number of times I’ve heard or read this anecdote.
(via nostrich)
It is a long story, but in summary, one general rule of mine is don’t hire or...
– Gaurav Dhillon 2.0 and His All New Integration Company // ben’s blog
This is a club that’s hard to get into. If you’re a Fortune 500 C.E.O.,...
– Robert A. Eckert on Building the Culture at Mattel - NYTimes.com
Frank Stella, Shepard Fairey and Andres Serrano help Stephen sell last year’s portrait to Steve Martin.
via sharing time
All I can say, looking back, is that when history takes a look at the lives of...
– ASCII by Jason Scott / Yahoo!locaust
Bradley’s gonna become a “spy” whose “espionage” consisted of making the...
– Bruce Sterling’s thoughts on Wikileaks (via zachklein)
very interesting essay by bruce sterling. i don’t understand his bitterness but it is worth a read.
Minutes to Midnight / Trent Parke on Magnum in... →
harrymitchell:
Watch this. So good to see after being beaten over the head with the stick of so called ‘relevant’, fine art pictures of reappropriated bullshit. Real photography, not pictures of shrubbery.
ronmarks:
Trailer For Natalie Portman And James Franco’s New Movie, ‘Your Highness’ (VIDEO)
Google made the internet the internet, as we know it today. Before it came a...
– *** (via lokyz)
Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. But at CIA...
– CIA to examine impact of files recently released by WikiLeaks
burial mix
Gonna be a lot of angry frat boys when Word Lens starts translating kanji...
– Twitter / @John DeWeese: LOL RT @pieratt: Gonna be …
Suppose that a mistake is made and someone’s biometric data is compromised. What...
– IdentityBlog - Digital Identity, Privacy, and the Internet’s Missing Identity Layer
Drunken man jumps on shark's head, kills it →
fuckyeahsharks:
[Reworded for clarity and emphasis added for fucking badassery]
Dragan Stevic of Serbia is a new Egyptian hero who accidentally killed a large shark that had previously terrorized numerous tourists (killing one and injuring four) at the Egyptian resort Sarm El Sheikh.
Milovan Ubirapa, a friend of Stevic’s who witnessed the incident, explained that Dragan had decided to go to...
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tedroden:
Portland
I have never been to Portland but this video fits what I imagine it to be like. (With respect to dalas and Meagan and all the other great people there.)
AdWords has been on auto-pilot for virtually the entire year, and when it goes...
– Bingo Card Creator (& etc) Year In Review 2010: MicroISV on a Shoestring (via rafer)
Do you even realize what you have with Flickr? It’s the largest well organized...
– An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc. - Thomas Hawk
This is the problem with so many CEOs that are shipped in to fix an ailing company. Most of the time, you’re lucky if they actually use the products. They typically don’t know much, if anything, about the company, its products, or its...
Yahoo! are shutting down del.icio.us, ending their careless stewardship of a...
– One Thing Well | Pinboard
why not sell it or make it opensource? yahoo what are you doing? don’t even try to touch flickr!