Month: August 2012
August 24, 2012
August 23, 2012
-
Thought
Six Steps to Put Christensen’s Jobs-to-be-Done Theory into Practice – Forbes
http://j.mp/R5Cv0o
(via Instapaper) -
Thought
What Is Wrong With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/whats-wrong-tpp
-
Thought
The Wrong Side Absolutely Must Not Win –
http://Reason.com
http://j.mp/T1f0Ya
(via Instapaper) -
Thought
BBC News – Robot learns to recognise itself in mirror
http://j.mp/Q6HFOO
(via Instapaper) -
Thought
Ahem. “Someone”? RT @rossrader As someone once related to me, “I don’t get it”.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/These_Foolish_Things_(album)#section_1
-
Thought
About to finish rewatching the full Seinfeld series. It’s a pre-Internet world. Only a few passing references to email.
-
Thought
I high-fived my 91 year-old mother today.
-
Thought
My god but @MollyRingwald rock bangs like nobody’s business: pic.twitter.com/gA8vEHm3
-
Thought
Dude:
http://news.yahoo.com/recording-academy-makes-digital-liner-notes-push-110511687.html
RT @rossrader If you remember what liner notes are, keep it to yourself. It just means you are old. -
Bookmark
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world’s most beloved computer programmers. – Slate Magazine
Illustration by Charlie Powell. In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed computer programmer known to the virtual world only as “Why the Lucky Stiff” or “_why”—no, not a typo—to speak at a…
August 22, 2012
-
Thought
Hey Twitter! Think about your users or you won’t have any.
-
Thought
Can’t wait! MT @GreatDismal It looks like my next novel is called The Peripheral
-
Bookmark
Science controversies past and present | Print Edition – Physics Today
1887 f Access full textMagazine Article Download PDF 0.0MB Read Online HTML 0.0MB Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 UTC 2011, page 39 Prev ious Article Articles Next Article Reactions to the science of global warming have followed a similar course to those of other inconvenient truths from physics.…
August 21, 2012
-
Bookmark
I Didn’t Tell Facebook I’m Engaged, So Why Is It Asking About My Fiancé? – Technology – The Atlantic
The morning began with my typical browsing routine: email, top-reads RSS news feed, a brief scan of Twitter, then Facebook. I found friends wrapping up at SXSW, some chatter about Kony, pictures of new babies, and then I noticed something out of the ordinary in the right hand column: It’s not the…
-
Thought
Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? – James Allworth – Harvard Business Review
http://j.mp/PQ10U7
(via Instapaper) -
Thought
Stop Using The Cup of Coffee vs. $0.99 App Analogy | A Designer Life
http://j.mp/PqLoEK
(via Instapaper)
August 20, 2012
-
Thought
-
Bookmark
Britta on Community: Why the Gillian Jacobs character is confusing the show’s writers
Still of Danny Pudi and Gillian Jacobs on Community Photo byLewis Jacobs– ©NBCUniversal, Inc. The community of Community is born when one college student tries to get into the pants of another. Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) is a lying, cheating, manipulative, and sneakily big-hearted ex-lawyer. Britta…
-
Thought
I’m at Island Foods (Toronto, ON)
http://4sq.com/OR3amL
August 19, 2012
-
Thought
Holy crap Mr White.
-
Thought
Here’s what Jack White’s first three singles look like in my @Rdio account.
-
Bookmark
The Inside Story of How John Carter Was Doomed by Its First Trailer — Vulture
Taylor Kitsch in John Carter . Photo: Disney This weekend, eight months of indifferent and often confused chatter culminated in Disney’s John Carter — which cost just shy of $250 million to make — grossing only $30.6 million domestically. (Insiders tell Vulture that for the film to break even, it…
-
Thought
Actually, I always assume no one is paying attention to what I tweet. I send them off like messages in bottles.
/cc @officialsting
-
Thought
Yes but I was hoping no one way paying attention.
RT @neilio @kenschafer Isn’t that how we play this game? 🙂
-
Thought
boo!
RT @neilio @kenschafer (sends Ken an email)
-
Thought
Inbox Zero!
-
Thought
Inbox Zero is a Zero Sum game.
To empty my inbox I have to fill other people’s inboxes.
August 18, 2012
-
Thought
My $50 for @AppDotNet just paid for itself when @pennjillette replied to me over there. Here he has 1.8 million followers.