Month: November 2013
November 23, 2013
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Maybe the Fords are like the Mandelbaums:
Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!
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I look forward to playing with little Django and Gogo in my senescence .
RT @zoeschafer: y’know, for the future.
http://www.miramax.com/subscript/tarantino-baby-names
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Lego is the plural of Lego.
There is no such thing as “Legos”.
November 22, 2013
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When Simplicity Is the Solution
At the beginning of "Walden," Henry David Thoreau makes a concise case against the complexity of modern life. "Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity,…
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Mmm burrito.
RT @AP: Oklahoma bomb squad says a foil-wrapped suspicious object is just a burrito:
http://apne.ws/1iB0YvU
-KH
November 21, 2013
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Since 1979, Brian Murtagh has fought to keep convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald in prison
Forty-two years ago, Green Beret Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald stabbed and bludgeoned to death his pregnant wife, Colette, and his two little girls … or he didn’t. One currently popular theory is that he didn’t. That’s the contention of the renowned film documentarian Errol Morris, director of “The…
November 20, 2013
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♫ “I’d go to Arcade Fire, but I haven’t got a stitch to wear.” ♫
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The Brains of the Animal Kingdom – WSJ.com
A herd of African elephants drink water at a dam inside the Addo Elephant National Park near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Associated Press Who is smarter: a person or an ape? Well, it depends on the task. Consider Ayumu, a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University who, in a 2007 study, put human…
November 19, 2013
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For today at least.
RT @BrianSHall: Bob Dylan won the Internet.
http://video.bobdylan.com
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Futurist’s Groundhog Day | The Odd is Silent
It’s deja vu all over again One aspect of intentcasting that fascinates me is how recursive it is. VRM is the manifestation of a desire for intentcasting in an environment which lacks a framework for intentcasting. It needs to bootstrap itself in order to fully express itself. The whole project is…
November 18, 2013
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If this is how we’re dancing now, I think I’m ready for the dance floor:
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This is like when the took the memory modules out of the HAL 9000.
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The Universal laws behind growth patterns, or what Tetris can teach us about coffee stains | Empirical Zeal
The morning after a big snowstorm swept through the US northeast, I sat in my car, ready to brave hazardous road conditions and drive to the local coffee shop. My home in New Jersey was outside of the storm’s central path, so instead of piles of snow, we were greeted with a delightful wintry mix of…
November 17, 2013
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Toward a Complex, Realistic, and Moral Tech Criticism – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
this time with the link — this review of @evgenymorozov’s book by @alexismadrigal is long, but well worth it: http://t.co/6uPW6pTH0V
November 16, 2013
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Humungous balls.
RT @goldsbie: Ford gave everyone who works for him a $5000 raise on Friday:
http://bit.ly/1agPqum
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Learning to See | Information Architects
Learning to See Essay 19 March 2013 Learning to design is learning to see , an adventure that gets more and more captivating the further you go. A love letter to my profession. Our mind is not a camera. Seeing is not a passive act. We see what we expect to see , or, as Anaïs Nin put it so…
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Breaking Bad’s Marie Schrader should consider this house for the next phase of her life:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41719309.html
November 15, 2013
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A Brief History of Applause, the ‘Big Data’ of the Ancient World – Atlantic Mobile
Once, people measured their leaders — and themselves — one clap at a time. The Dionysus Theater in Greece, from a German encyclopedia, 1891 (Wikimedia Commons) And then, suddenly, just when the colors and outlines settle at last to their various duties — smiling, frivolous duties — some knob is…
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“All the Buddhists in the place let me hear ya holla YALA!”
“YALA!”
November 14, 2013
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Free works – Marco.org
Google Reader’s upcoming shutdown and Mailbox’s rapid acquisition have reignited the discussion of free vs. paid services and whether people should pay for products they love to keep them running sustainably. But users aren’t the problem. As Michael Jurewitz wrote , many tech startups never even…
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T͎̦̅o᷂̅͜r̟̱̅ó̅͏nͤ̅᷇ṯ̶̅͊ö̖́̅ ̨̤̟̅ I͑̅ͬsͭ̅ͬ ̗̅̆ C̖̳͛̅r̻̩̅ȁ̅᷁z̧ͤ̅y̖̅͐t̸̉̅͘o̗̅͂w᷊̅̕n̅̊͝!!
November 13, 2013
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life it’s to say “yes” when someone offers you three billion dollars.
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Why Organizations Are So Afraid to Simplify – Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business Review
While most managers complain about being overloaded with responsibilities, very few are willing to give up any of them. It’s one of the great contradictions of organizational life: People are great at starting new things — projects, meetings, initiatives, task forces — but have a much harder time…
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From now on, just assume that any promise I make has an implied “… at the Air Canada Centre” appended to it.
November 12, 2013
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Isolated vocal tracks for The Beastie Boys “Intergalactic”:
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Fast boat, fast river | Lean Analytics Book
Paul Graham has a simple definition of a startup: an organization designed to grow fast. Steve Blank adheres to a different one : an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. They’re both right, in a way. And that has important implications for entrepreneurs Many…
November 11, 2013
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The Anatomy of a Parking Sign That Actually Makes Sense – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities
Pentagram Why you don’t use Helvetica to tell people where they cannot park. Growing up in suburban Ohio, the most complicated parking sign Michael Bierut recalls ever encountering was the classic, two-word prohibition mounted over the rare driveway or fire hydrant: NO PARKING. Pretty…
November 10, 2013
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DIY Email Referrals | SachaGreif.com
TL;DR: In this post, I’ll show you how to hack together an email referral system with MailChimp, Zapier, and Mailgun, and I will also share the results I got from it. Sidebar has been doing great lately, and will soon see its 10,000th subscriber! But as I watch the subscriber count slowly tick up,…