April 2008
“4:00 pm shower and prep again. The loofah really doesn’t want to hear...”
– A Day In The Life Of Mommy Startup Chick P-I just launched a charming, smart “reader” blog written by Alyssa Royse of Just Cause magazine and JustCauseIt.com. LOVE the description of talking to shower items. I do that, too.
Designing for Freedom →
Build 948 Release Notes →
“Craigslist is now available in French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. The...”
– Craigslist Goes International » The Bivings Report
March 2008
Easy Access to Job Trends →
“Is it worth the risk? Absolutely. This is not the first time scientists have...”
– Science of the Apocalypse - TheAtlantic.com Warning about the article — it is styled to uses Lucida Sans as the default typeface. Someone didn’t test on a PC.
Good Riddance →
“In May 2007, Jackson testified to Congress, “I don’t touch contracts.” In...”
– Jackson Gets Evicted: White House Officials Questioned His ‘Ability To Continue To Lead The Agency’ (Think Progress)
Mayweather KOs Big Show at WrestleMania →
“Widgets are taking social media by storm and becoming a valuable online...”
– 10 Tips to Widget-up Your Startup Brand « FoundRead Well…shit. There goes my resistance to a rather jargon-happy project at work. But I still insist on the drinking game that if you mention the “w”-word outside of work hours, you owe everybody on the team a drink. ...
Mauldin: Where is the Bottom in Housing? →
Land at 15 cents on the Dollar →
Venture Hacks — Marc Andreessen on cognitive bias →
Good summary of Marc Andreessen summarizing Charlie Munger’s book (which I’m now adding to my next book-shopping trip).
Ugly Violet (SF Gate) →
The excellent Tiffany B. Brown posted a link to Violet Blue’s most recent SF Gate article which calls attention the insidious immaturity of troll comments when they attack women in online discussion. It’s not terribly surprising—while guys mostly insult each other’s intelligence, attacks on women play into our already distorted body/image issues, struggles with reductive moral...
Tibet and Twitter and modern frontline reporting →
A Journey of a Thousand Steps, on Own Your... →
“I choose my words carefully, thinking that short-term worries are standing in the way of long-term value & creativity. There are a handful of technical building blocks at the ready, but as Kara Swisher notes, the problems around making social networks portable aren’t really technical.” Some very smart people launched a new effort to advocate an open, portable social network. ...
“The builders of the world’s biggest particle collider are being sued in...”
– Doomsday fears spark lawsuit - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com I still think a particle collider gone wrong is a perfectly good end to the planet.
Scorelogix →
It’s an entire company built out of Facebook quizzes! Hurrah!
Last chance for Space Needle happy hour →
“For almost a month now, mobs as large as 800 have been organizing via...”
– The Guide: Los Angeles Times And as I hit “send to Tumblr”, I see that Bullshit is ahead of me. Damn that guy.
“So rather than just publish their own technology content, NYTimes.com is aiming...”
– How Search Has Transformed News Consumption On The Web - Publishing 2.0
Homes are good investments, not slot machines or... →
Really great article in the Seattle P-I about the distortion of facts under the well-known “rule” that homeownership is a good investment.
persistent.info: Mail Trends →
Graph your e-mail. I do and don’t want to see this. I recently started using RescueTime at work, which was reassuring about my overall work ethic [today’s rash of Tumblr-posting notwithstanding]. But I’m not sure I want to see my e-mail mapped.
Craigslist Jubilee →
Moby - Alice →
‘Play’ hit me kind of hard. A college friend (the dude that ran our photo/video/digital lab library) had the habit of pirate DJing on a variety of college radio stations around Boston. But he would…
Jim Cramer is still putting random words in random... →
“If the news is important, it will find me” →
Fraud in three easy steps →
‘The memo was called “Zippy Cheats & Tricks,” with Zippy being Chase’s in-house automated loan underwriting system. It recommends three “handy steps” to loan approval. 1. Lump all of an applicant’s compensation as the applicant’s base income, rather than breaking out commissions, bonuses and tips. 2. Do not disclose use of gifts for down...
“Q. What was the most common lawyer fantasy/role play?
A: Lawyers have one...”
– Your Sex Industry Questions Answered - Freakonomics Blog I’m dissappointed by their lack of imagination, actually.
“A couple of categories lack one clear authority - instead containing multiple...”
– Where do People Go After Visiting Wikipedia? (Hitwise Intelligence)
Dutton Associates Announces Investment Opinion:... →
“There have been a number of developments, which, in our opinion combine to significantly increase the attraction of RZ. As a result of the developments and the fact that the stock has declined significantly, we are changing our rating to Strong Speculative Buy with the same price target of $16 we used in our original recommendation.”
Netflix now wider, more personalized →
Steve-O’s journey to sobriety and sanity →
McSweeney's: Titles of Love Songs I Would Write... →
BY KATHY SALERNO “A Friend Again, Naturally” “Hopelessly Inexperienced Sexually” “Mind Boyfriend’s Back” “Wishing, Hoping, Checking Your MySpace Relationship Status” “Never Gonna Ask You Out, Never Gonna Make My Move” “Give Me Just a Little More Time (By Then You’ll Surely Be Dating Someone Else)” “Are...
“A few years ago the Dalai Lama was visiting an American medical school and...”
– Lab Notes : The Lotus and the Synapse How many sides of science need to come to the same conclusion until bodymind consciousness becomes a serious discussion? How about an entire generation of baby-boomer, Viagra-ridden diabetic dementia? I think I could find you one of those.
“For that reason — sheer familiarity — the always-dire findings of these annual...”
– Next president to inherit Medicare morass (msnbc.com) Medicare & social security are the “banner blindness” of politics.
It is you! →
The Onion Wants a Brand Manager →
Real Case-Shiller House Price Index →
Weekend startups prove challenging →
Imagine that….
“Also look at the length of the housing bust in the early ’90s. It took...”
– Calculated Risk: Real Case-Shiller House Price Index