Month: September 2012
September 8, 2012
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Uh but… Oh! I see what you did there! RT @mneylon @kenschafer maybe we all stopped but never told you
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Technology makes everything pretty – even cardboard boxes
cool cardboard boxes from all the X-every-month subscription startups http://t.co/a4AbEJ5n
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Yum. (@ CHEESEWERKS) [pic]:
http://4sq.com/O2rU5Q
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The new Cat Power album is fantastic.
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I’m still amazed you people read what I post. I think of this stuff as messages in bottles.
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Apple routes 1 billion iMessages a day. That’s a billion text messages removed from carriers’ revenue projections.
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A List Apart: Articles: Usable yet Useless: Why Every Business Needs Product Discovery
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Open data movement: Yelp, local governments should share information. – Slate Magazine
http://j.mp/UzTsUY
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A great analysis of the situation newspapers find themselves in by @cshirky:
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/failing_geometry.php?page=all
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The death of the wireframe? | Ryan Brussow
http://j.mp/Qb88Y7
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capcloud | Martin Polley — Time to Dump Wireframes
http://j.mp/RnG6MR
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September 7, 2012
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That and the power of compound interest.
RT @zoeschafer: the greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.
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‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt – NYTimes.com
Illustrations by Johnny Selman You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure they’re being duped. You’re wrong. This isn’t an accusation from the right. It’s a friendly…
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Why Bill Clinton’s Speeches Succeed – Politics – The Atlantic
http://j.mp/Ngh2Wg
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September 6, 2012
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*drops mic* *walks off stage*
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LITERALLY
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» Sovereign-source vs. administrative identity ProjectVRM
You know who you are. So does the IRS, the DMV, and every Website you’ve ever made up a login and a password for — so it could “know” you. But none of those entities really knows you. What they know is what the techies call a namespace . What they have isn’t your identity, but an identifier. What…
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If I had to use one video to explain what I do for a living, it would be this:
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My
http://mint.com
account just auto-categorized a Hootsuite payment as “Hotels”. I would have gone with “Owls”.
September 5, 2012
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Arithmetic FTW!
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Feeling stubby.
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The 21st Century Space Race looks very different from the cold war version. pic.twitter.com/4sxiqTcy
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The Internet disappoints me sometimes. I can’t find a picture of Wilford Brimley with WILF meme-stamped over it.
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Agile development is more culture than process and why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance and difficulty in teaching and learning the approach
Why thinking of agile as culture and not just process explains resistance and difficulty in teaching and learning the approach Culture, not process I’d been working with Josh and lots of others at his company for many months aiding with their agile adoption. Finally, things were beginning to go…
September 4, 2012
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Can’t believe that @lucyschafer is starting her last year of high school!
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OK, now that’s how you give a speech!
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Oh dear. Now I’m sad.
RT @NPsteve SPOILERS! For Breaking Bad fans, the saddest twitter feed:
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Why Magicians Are a Scientist’s Best Friend | Wired Science | Wired.com
A magician will instantly see the truth behind any colleague’s illusion. But we have a bit of an advantage: We know we are being fooled. Scientists are instinctive doubters who employ a rigorous method to zero in on the truth, but they aren’t necessarily trained to expect deception by subjects and…