Month: November 2013
November 9, 2013
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FYI @RealCarrotFacts
RT @RealTimeWWII: no icecream or lollies; children offered delicious iced carrots: pic.twitter.com/vuK4hdSnUB
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If Landing Pages Were People – 3 Nasty Habits That Drive Prospects Away
Landing pages and people are not as different as you might think. That’s because landing pages are written by people. Sounds obvious now I mention it—but the fact is, it can sometimes be hard to keep the worst parts of ourselves out of what we create. Here are three very bad habits common to landing…
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A THREE HOUR version of Daft Punk’s “Giorgio By Morodor” may be coming. They recorded hours of stories.
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Rdio says this album is in heavy rotation amongst my friends. pic.twitter.com/d8uZOZvD6D
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Rob Ford’s Fordnation is closest thing to Tea Party in Canada. Replace “Rob Ford” with “Ted Cruz” to understand glee.
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Non-Torontonian trying to understand Rob Ford? This 45 min CBC doc is the “story so far”:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-crack-video-hunt-drew-threats-offers-of-cash-1.2420035
November 8, 2013
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True. RT @jenniferhollett: Watching #cbcfifth Rob Ford episode. Just five minutes in, really well produced.
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Information Diet | The Law Everyone Should Hate
The Law Everyone Should Hate Let’s say you ran one of the Fortune 10 companies. And for some reason, you wanted to ensure that this business would be hated by its customers, forever. What would you do? Now the obvious thing to do would be to do something poisonous to your product — to somehow make…
November 7, 2013
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Comedy is turning into tragedy.
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I heard Kathy Ford saying NEITHER of her brothers needed to go to rehab.
Also, that was extremely sad.
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Eleven Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes (with examples from YC companies) | The Art of Ass-Kicking
08. May / Essays Work / Over the past few weeks, I’ve helped a handful of startups work on their YC applications and interviews. I spent much of the time brainstorming with the founders on the best way to explain their business in the most clear and compelling way possible. These founders knew a lot…
November 6, 2013
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How capitalism breaks the web | Felix Salmon
I share most if not all of Anil Dash’s nostalgia for the web we lost . Once upon a time, in the wake of the dot-com crash, there was a real feeling that the mammals would supplant the dinosaurs, and that the web would increasingly become a real network of individual sites, rather than being…
November 5, 2013
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» Geoffrey B. West, “Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster” – Blog of the Long Now
Posted on Tuesday, July 26th, 02011 by Austin Brown Categories: Announcements , Seminars 0 Comments Superlinear Cities A Summary by Stewart Brand “It’s hard to kill a city,” West began, “but easy to kill a company.” The mean life of companies is 10 years. Cities routinely survive even nuclear bombs.…
November 4, 2013
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“Rob Ford Bunga Bunga Party”
(You know it’s coming. It’s the only place left for this to go.)
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Imagining a World Without Cookies | Digiday
After hearing of Mozilla’s move to block third-party cookies unless users opted in to them, Mike Zanies, the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s general counsel, reacted fiercely on Twitter: “This default setting would be a nuclear first strike against ad industry.” This has been the typical stance of…
November 3, 2013
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Defining Bullying Down – NYTimes.com
Hieronymus NEW HAVEN THE March 3 death of Bailey O’Neill, a 12-year-old boy in Darby Township, Pa., was widely attributed to bullying, based on allegations that a classmate hit the boy in the face in January. He suffered a concussion, his family said, and eventually seizures. Bullying was also the…
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Be a Minimally Invasive Manager – Randy Komisar – Harvard Business Review
http://j.mp/16YBOiO
via @instapaper
November 2, 2013
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Finer-Grained Data Transform Our Understanding Of The Holocaust – Forbes
(Photo Credit: Getty Images) Sixty-eight years after the end of World War II, a massive, painstaking collation of hitherto untapped local data has transformed our understanding of the Holocaust. A thirteen-year research effort by the United States Holocaust Museum sheds new light on the scope,…
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The inventiveness of the human race, enabled by the Internet, is a wonderful thing to behold:
November 1, 2013
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*fireworks*
@nopzor has the honor of being my 1,000th follower.
Now, WHY you people follow me, I just have no idea.
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Islam as “religion of peace” suffers greatly when “average muslims” call for death by stoning:
http://bit.ly/1hzWyEX
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You Don’t Know It, But Women See Gender Bias in Your Job Postings
Are a few gender-themed words in your job descriptions signaling women, unconsciously, to not apply? A scientific study of 4,000 job descriptions revealed that a lack of gender-inclusive wording caused significant implications for recruiting professionals tasked to recruit women to hard-to-fill…
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Rob Ford hates Toronto people.
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Hmm, Toronto’s version of The Wire may be turning into The Sopranos.
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PSA 1: Change your “scary names” and “scary avatars” today.
PSA 2: No “xmas names” or “xmas avatars” until solstice.
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Looks like everyone is using K-cups as their test purchase at Amazon.ca Groceries.
http://amazon.ca/grocery