July 2008
53 posts
June 2008
60 posts
Buy n Large →
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Pigeons deliver drugs to prisoners via tiny... →
katydid:
The British and the Germans (and I think Americans) all used pigeons for messaging during World War 2, but oh, those were the days…when pigeons had integrity. A sense of ethics. Since then, their reputation has really taken a nosedive; they have been uselessly pooping on the streets of our metropolises for decades, and now, they’re soaring to new lows.
Apparently a very smart prisoner...
Type about:robots into Firefox 3’s addressbar.
Dance Dance Dance by Lykke Li.
I love this song...
“When you force people through mild social anxiety, they thank you for it later.”
– Seth Godin’s Blog
So true.
“After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were...”
– Children in the mail! After parcel post service was introduced… (kottke.org) (via tmblg)
WatchAwesome piece by Olafu Eliasson at the MoMA — a fan hung on a long cord in the museum’s atrium. Video shows it blowing around, chased by kids.
Fan Art on Flickr (via Kottke)
Watch<3 Miranda July
This video is 2.5 minutes long and if you love Mirand July you will love it. (But you have to turn your volume all the way up to hear it. But still you should watch it.)
amandalynferri:
The Ice Cream Floats - Sundae...
Keep it real!
catbird:
This is how an average, 20-something year-old young man speaks:
“I just had lunch with my friend Tom.”
This how an NYC-based Web/Tech affiliated 20-something year-old young man speaks:
Twitter: (12:15pm) On my way to Balthazar for big meeting to discuss how to kick ass 2.0
Twitter: (12:18pm) Just passed Bill Murray on Houston, I think. Looks old.
Twitter: (12: 31pm) At lunch...
“Google: $65.55
Yahoo!: $31.25
Microsoft (MSN): $17.74
MySpace: $12.85...”
– Estimates for US average online advertising revenues per unique visitor in 2008 by eMarketer (via gtmcknight)
wow
“Perplexed, I got up, made a sandwich – and I was overcome with the urge to write...”
– Johann Hari writes about his experience with Provigil (via tmblg)
I’ve tried provigil (while well-rested) and it hasn’t had that big an effect on me. Either it effects some people more than others, or the effect is really mild (mostly placebo) unless you’ve got a sleep-deficit...
"You have to treat your employees like customers"... →
soxiam:
this post reminded me a story about lance armstrong. when he was diagnosed with cancer and his team and sponsors were bailing out on him, the ceo of oakley took it upon himself to cover lance’s medical bills by getting him on the company health plan. the insurance company obviously laughed at the idea telling the ceo that he’s just a sponsored athlete with no rights to the company health...
Linda Stone on Time Management
1. Each evening or morning before you start your day, make a short list of your intentions (the result and feeling of something you want) for the day and by each, write the related to do’s for that day. Try to keep your list to 5 intentions. Consciously choose what you will do and what you will not do. Keep a different list of what you will review for inclusion on other days.
2. List only...
“One new feature found in Safari 4 is the ability to save webpages as stand alone...”
– Apple Seeds Safari 4 to Developers
probably my favorite techcrunch article ever
tlvx:
“Twitter suffered a minor period of uptime last night between database failures. Everything seems back to normal now. Perhaps somebody returned that lost database to them.
“Please, Twitter, I beg you. Bring Blaine back.”
Twitter Suffers Minor Period Of Uptime Overnight, TechCrunch (Michael Arrington, of course)
LOL
“When we launched, we launched with over a million titles. There were countless...”
– Jeff Bezos in a recent Vanity Fair article about the early days of the web.
That’s right, amazon.com allowed a negative quantity of books at one point. We’re all allowed our mistakes.
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