Month: June 2012
June 12, 2012
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Thanks to @bigfear for turning me on to TV Girl. Check out “Benny and the Jetts”:
June 11, 2012
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I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! What the hell is wrong with you people!
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PC LOAD LETTER
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I’ll let you know. RT @JamesKoole Guessing that non-retina apps and even websites will look like crapola on these new MacBooks.
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RT @zoeschafer When they love you, and they will, tell’em all, they’ll love in my shadow.
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The new Edward Sharpe album is stunningly amazing. I’ve had it on repeat for 3 hours. Best of the year so far.
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Oh my but Pointer Pointer is wonderfully funny. Just keep doing clicking until you giggle:
http://www.pointerpointer.com/
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Eating alone — a recipe for getting to know ourselves better. – thestar.com
Mostly, when I’m not entertaining, the average meal is a pile of broccoli or rapini or Brussels sprouts with onions, garlic, ginger or chilies. There may be some nutrient-rich grain, barley or quinoa. But it will be shovelled from a big bowl. Tonight I start with a cocktail. I separate the egg yolks…
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As is my tradition, I am now going on radio silence until the Philnote video is posted to the Apple site to ensure spoiler-free enjoyment.
June 10, 2012
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“Moonrise Kingdom” turns every Wes Anderson quirk and affectation up to 11. And I loved it.
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The Real SOPA Battle: Innovators vs. Goliath – James Allworth and Maxwell Wessel – Harvard Business Review
Looking around the web today, you’re going to see a few things that are a bit different. Wikipedia is going dark . WordPress is too. Google has its logo blocked out. Twitter is absolutely abuzz . It all relates to legislation known as SOPA in front of the US House of Representatives, and PIPA in…
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Love Wes Anderson. Looking forward to seeing this. (@ Cineplex Odeon Varsity & VIP Cinemas for Moonrise Kingdom)
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Here’s why the Facebook iOS app is so bad (UIWebViews and no Nitro) | Mobtest blog
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A Life Worth Ending
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Hack the Cover — by Craig Mod
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Warren Buffett’s Newspaper Purchase « Clay Shirky
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Bill Drummond: ‘The creative urge is in us all’ | Music | The Guardian
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Studying the Brain Can Help Us Understand Our Unscientific Beliefs : The New Yorker
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June 9, 2012
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Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing — HBS Working Knowledge
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German Credit Agency Plans to Analyze Individual Facebook Pages – SPIEGEL ONLINE
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Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates « Gravity and Levity
What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year? Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100? 1 in 10,000? Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now. This startling fact was first noticed by the British actuary Benjamin Gompertz in 1825 and is now called the “Gompertz…
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Long-distance running and evolution: Why humans can outrun horses but can’t jump higher than cats. – Slate Magazine
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June 8, 2012
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Man I’m tired. Like an 18-wheeler of tired.
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That’s so humble of you Danny! 🙂
RT @danny6869 Let it be known, just for the record…my tweets are not meant to “fish for compliments”.
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The Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com
SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills…
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You need to chew your food better Rick.
RT @ryazwinski Just passed the big apple
June 7, 2012
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As an actual “Uncle Kenny” I approve of “We Love Uncle Kenny” trending right now.
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Hey kids, just to be clear, Abraham Lincoln was a real person, but he wasn’t a vampire hunter.
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Buying myself an A6. (@ Audi Downtown Toronto) http://4sq.com/MeLwm0