Month: September 2014
September 22, 2014
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‘Breaking Bad’: Creator Vince Gilligan explains series finale | EW.com
[SPOILER ALERT: Stop reading if you have not watched the finale of Breaking Bad , titled “Felina.” This story contains discussion of major plot points.] You’ve now had a few minutes to gather your breath, wipe away the tears and start to process that brutal and poignant series finale of Breaking Bad…
September 21, 2014
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Always nice to discover a friend has a REALLY broad range of musical interests. pic.twitter.com/7eC3fmPwQz
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“I Hope I Die At 75” – a lot to like in this. Not sure about 75, but you need to decide, or others will for you.
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/
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September 20, 2014
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This “What’s Underneath” video series is quite amazing. Such brave people. I watched most of them.
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Rather amazing video about iPhone lines in NYC. Could Apple stop this if they wanted to?
September 19, 2014
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Interesting coincidence in my timeline just now. pic.twitter.com/dAnJnIXBQu
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Dead social networks and the value of history
This Google Trends chart provides a neat shorthand illustration of the rise and fall of five different social networks. All of these had strong lock-in effects. All of them thought that there were barriers to switching away. All thought that people would not want to abandon their history of photos,…
September 18, 2014
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Hey World, you can watch the BBC’s live coverage of the Scottish Referendum here:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?321558-1/bbc-scottish-independence-referendum-coverage
September 17, 2014
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OMG OMG
RT @silumodi: This makes me a little too happy. WKRP coming to DVD with original music!
http://music-mix.ew.com/2014/09/15/wkrp-in-cincinnati-dvd-soundtrack/
September 16, 2014
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New fav video of the moment:
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Obsoletive: Revolutionary Products in Tech Don’t Disrupt-They Obsolete
Three things irk me about “disruption” as it’s used in technology: New products that do what existing products do, but (theoretically) better, are not disruptive. They are “sustaining.” Instagram Video is not disrupting Vine. It’s competing with it. The misplaced obsession with low-end disruption,…
September 15, 2014
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A URL cannot be innovative.
The thing it points to can be though.
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LOL.
Apple created a special web page to help you remove their U2 iTunes Spam:
https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/offerOptOut
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The idea that a brand needs its own TLD must be the biggest con ever perpetrated by domain consultants.
September 13, 2014
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What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong in his Theory of Low-End Disruption
There’s no question Clayton Christensen , who developed the theory of disruption, is Silicon Valley’s favorite business school professor. For me, diving deep into his thinking in a corporate innovation class was a breath of fresh air from management theory that explained all of corporate America but…
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Humans Could Be In The Middle Of A Huge Evolutionary Transition:
http://ift.tt/1qjFIkl
pic.twitter.com/fisYbiNoDR
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♫ “Rosamunde Pilcher, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
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Bought a bunch of Rosamunde Pilcher romance novels for my mom’s Kindle.
Amazon will have conniptions trying to recommend stuff to me now.
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“society is better at generating new information than at analysing what it already has.”
http://pocket.co/s7ePN
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September 12, 2014
September 11, 2014
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America has been bombing Iraq since before my children were born. They’re in 2nd year University.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/obama-didnt-say