January 2010
57 posts
WatchAmazing what you can do with inexpensive digital.
“I have to return some videotapes.”
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF4mlPxVWUk
December 2009
46 posts
Cocktails: new classics →
Getting real, skipping Photoshop, a how-to →
“In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.”
– Steve Blank
The inconvenient truth about malaria →
Why are Europeans white? (it's Baltic grain... →
“Don’t fear god,
Don’t worry about death;
What is good is easy to...”
– Epicurus
Google's Toughest Search Is for a Business Model... →
Good pop-punk, like the lighter Ramones’. I...
Foreign Airline Safety versus U.S. Major Airlines →
Philip Greenspun responds to Malcolm Gladwell
Peter Marklund's Home : Rails Timezone Gotcha:... →
rickbradley:
(posted by rickbradley)
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like....”
– Steve Jobs in Wired.
In the same piece, they also talk about the iterative design process at Apple:
“Ive [Jonathan Ive, Apple’s vice president of industrial design] told the Times that the key to the iPod wasn’t sudden flashes of genius, but the design process. His design group...
The Anti-Trump →
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates... →
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates... →
rickbradley:
(posted by cardioid)
Bank robber hires decoys on Craigslist, fools... →
Reading People’s Faces: Tattoos, dueling scars,... →
2009 Open Source Top Ten →
Writing is thinking →
From the piece: “If you’ve never written anything thoughtful, then you’ve never had any difficult, important, or interesting thoughts. That’s the secret: people who don’t write, are people who don’t think.”
Tim Ferriss on egg peeling →
“When things go perfectly, sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s because your...”
– Jason Fried
Incredible Underground Residence in Switzerland →
Schneier on Security: My Reaction to Eric Schmidt →
CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot... →
10 skills I look for before writing a check →
Milestones to Startup Success (Sean Ellis is back) →
Listen
Listen
Summit Communications and AFA Press →
Diabolical Mark Wahlberg threatens world with... →
“Nothing is so swift as calumny; nothing is more easily uttered; nothing more...”
– Cicero.
[Lat., Nihil est autem tam voluere, quam maledictum; nihil facilius emittitur; nihil citius excipitur, latius dissipatur.]
“The best sauce in the world is hunger, and as the poor are never without that,...”
– Cervantes, http://cervantes.thefreelibrary.com/Don-Quixote/59-1
“Hunger is the best sauce in the world. [Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]”
Terms not to forget
postprandial somnolence
bolus
maquis
Jagrine cites Ballmer →
How Did Israel Become “Start-Up Nation”? →
Eric Ries on the feature pivot, via Venture Hacks →
How a good design gets ruined →
They called him Prose →