July 2010
33 posts
June 2010
31 posts
“Peter required that everyone be tasked with exactly one priority. He would...”
– Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal?
love the background image on this tumblr →
Me: hey pasql
Pasql: morning!
Me: what'd you dream about?
Pasql: matchbox cars. It was a car chase but they were really hard to catch because the police were normal size.
Me: what else?
Pasql: styrofoam zombies and apes. Just in general.
Boring Product Description Pages? Not this one!
bobpotter:
Product pages can be so boring. The descriptions lack personality and color and flair. But Photojojo’s! SLR Sloop is unlike any description on the sea…
Weary, sick, and tired were we of the drab camera bag, trapping our dearest of friends in black nylon drag. (It nigh made us gag.)
So we sailed a strong breeze across the seven seas, to summon an SLR chum, second to none. (Plus,...
nikf.org: 8 Subtle Changes You May (Or May Not)... →
Every time Apple releases a new OS update, be it on the Mac or iPhone, there’s a bucketload of smaller - lesser-spotted - changes that appear in the system. iOS 4 very much continues this trend, so whilst you’re busy perusing the new update today here’s 8 little changes you may (or may not) spot.
“And therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO...”
– Thoughts on tour « Hoehn’s Musings
“Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be...”
– Tibor Kalman
Is a custom short URL worth it?
Now that twitter’s going to shorten all links with their own short URL, is it still worth buying a custom short URL?
“The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing...”
– Tibor Kalman
Daring Fireball: I'll Tell You What's Fair →
parislemon:
Now that DF has achieved a modicum of popularity, however, what I tend to get instead aren’t queries or complaints about the lack of comments, but rather demands that I add them — demands from entitled people who see that I’ve built something very nice that draws much attention, and who believe they have a right to share in it.
They don’t.
I love this. My view on comments has...
Go to http://google.com/
Search “World Cup”
Scroll to the bottom. All the way to the bottom. See it?
"me!"
When I signed up for Dreamhost in 1990whatever, I took the username ‘me’. (This was the dinosaur age in Internet time… You could sign up and basically get any username you wanted.)
Anyway, when you signed up for a hosting plan at Dreamhost in those days, you could say who referred you, and that bloke would get a few bucks.
A few years later they changed my username. :)
“Remember: As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely...”
– Doctor Emmett Lathrop “Doc” Brown, via Brad’s post on the Virb relaunch. Love you, dude.
PSA: You have ONE HOUR to grab your historical...
photojojo:
Do it! Use this app to zip up all the files and download them at once. Read more about the deletion in Flickr’s help.
(If you have Flickr-using friends, you may want to reblog or let ‘em know.)