July 2011
“What do we want?
TIME TRAVEL!
When do we want it?
THAT’S IRRELEVANT!”
– Martin Sigaard (via chartier)
“In our culture, we’re suspicious of strangers. They’re a threat. They lurk in...”
– word
David Weinberger, linked from an older post on Caterina’s blog (via cacioppo)
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense...”
– Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut (via peterbaker)
“did you know that Larry Page once considered accepting goats as a legitimate...”
– Don’t Be Evil (via Instapaper)
“To assume that Google, with its New Age hubris, its technocratic mentality, its...”
– Don’t Be Evil (via Instapaper)
Niki & The Dove - Dj, Ease My Mind
“In 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. In 1969, Neil...”
– What Happened to the Future? « Founders Fund
“Terrorism has no objective meaning and, at least in American political...”
– The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and meaninglessness of “Terrorism” - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com (via ronmarks)
“Optimizing a system requires sub-optimizing the subsystems. Conversely...”
– Sub-optimization - Laughing Meme
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jquery experiments
i have been cooking lately:
text-o-tron - single page application for text generation.
jquery audible accordion - some internal joke.
“We will retaliate with more democracy.”
– Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg after the tragedies in Norway on July 22nd. (via wyltarg)
“Most of what I have seen however in this recent generation of startups however a...”
– Machine Learning, Algorithms and Unicorns (via Instapaper)
“You might say you & me don’t know jack about Twitter. Only @JACK knows...”
– Tom Anderson - Google
“On the consumer side, people have realized something that my old boss at...”
– Ex-LivingSocial Sales Guy: “There’s Going To Be An Implosion And A Major Shakeout In The Industry”
“One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate...”
– Larry Summers on the Winklevii (via CNN Money)
Ahahahahaha. Ba-ZING!
(via evangotlib)
Awesome I hate those guys
(via siminoff)
“We were trying to be a business application and an information company at the...”
– So You Want To Build a Big Data Startup? (via Instapaper)
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
– John Wooden (via kareem)
“Dalio is an outdoorsman and naturalist of the Hemingway school: he likes to go...”
– Ray Dalio’s Richest and Strangest Hedge Fund : The New Yorker (via Instapaper)
“Pretty much every year, the Tour de France is beset by some sort of doping...”
– BikeSnobNYC’s Tour de France 2011 Coverage | Bicycling Magazine (via gordonc)
“God damn it, Etsy people! The inside of a watch is not steampunk. It’s the...”
– Lore Sjöberg (via inky)
“Ek says that when he began shopping the Spotify beta around to labels, he needed...”
– Daniel Ek’s Spotify: Music’s Last Best Hope - BusinessWeek (via Instapaper)
“The Greek origin of the word “pirate,” he writes, means both a sea pirate and...”
– Daniel Ek’s Spotify: Music’s Last Best Hope - BusinessWeek (via Instapaper)
“Spotify is growing, fast; Ek wandered into the canteen one afternoon to discover...”
– Daniel Ek’s Spotify: Music’s Last Best Hope - BusinessWeek (via Instapaper)
What does the wildly successful introduction of... →
nobody is even mentioning yahoo in all this g+ fever. i think they had more opportunities and incentives to build social network than google but they didn’t.
“Wendy Mogel says that colleges have had so much trouble getting parents off...”
– How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic (via Instapaper)
“over the past few years, college deans have reported receiving growing numbers...”
– How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic (via Instapaper)
“[S]ome religious rites, especially those connected with the death of the...”
– Where Have All the Girls Gone? - By Mara Hvistendahl | Foreign Policy (via Instapaper)
“We read for the pleasure of thinking another person’s thoughts.”
– The Blog : Drugs and the Meaning of Life : Sam Harris (via Instapaper)
“At the end of the day the VC and the entrepreneur are really two sides of the...”
– Information Arbitrage - Entrepreneurs are from Mars and VCs are from - Mars (via Instapaper)
“‘In those six years alone the News Corp accountants had moved A$4.8 billion of...”
– LRB · John Lanchester · Bravo l’artiste 