February 2010
January 2010
“Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American...”
– My Way News - Bin Laden blasts US for climate change (via mikehudack)
honestly, I have never believed bin laden made it out of Afghanistan but this really has to seal it for me. He calls a boycott now over an ecological issue when his mission was to destroy our entire existence. Sound more like a...
“The anonymous comments section of any major media site or popular blog will be...”
– Why are you so terribly disappointing? (via secondverse)
I have to assume all civility would be this poor if society didn’t require having to look or be looked in the eye at all. I often hope for humans reaching an even higher state of humanity but I think I should be overjoyed we are as...
Anil Dash: Free Publicity: Who do we help? →
moth:
Anil points out that the Obama Adminstration is doing a lot more good for the world than Apple right now. If you missed his blog post earlier this week, it’s great and worth a read.
I love cool stuff as much as the next guy. What leaves me at a loss, though, is how many otherwise sane and sensible people give their time and energy freely to help support a company like Apple that, despite...
“President Obama traveled to a House Republican retreat in Baltimore on Friday...”
– Obama Goes To GOP Lions’ Den — And Mauls The Lions
iheartmyart:
Violca - Empire (Disco Villains...
“So, I made plans to go to lunch with Fred. And then the day before, the morning...”
– How Fred Wilson Won Jerry Colonna As A Partner By Canceling A Meeting With Him [clip] | Mixergy - Online Business Tips from Successful Entrepreneurs
Solid as a rock. (via bijan)
I am really glad the days of “I know I can rely on person x because he worked so hard with me before his wife...
“Paul Bragiel, a founder of i/o ventures, says his incubator will offer a...”
– Start-Up Incubators Revive in Silicon Valley - WSJ.com
I’m really looking forward to getting go as a mentor with i/o ventures. The founders have a great understanding of what a SF incubator and social hub should look like. I also just accepted being a mentor with TechStars this summer....
Plot Summary for J. D. Salinger's "A Perfect Day...
“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” details Seymour’s day on the beach, as his wife, Muriel, spends her time in a hotel room talking to her mother on the phone about clothing and Seymour’s behavior. She asks about the location of a book by a German poet which Seymour sent her, but which she had never read. Seymour is concerned about many obscure things, such as people staring at...
On the other side of this POST, everything will be...
howardsbutt:
I’ve always been fond of this part of the Burning Man festival origin legend:
Ten years ago a small caravan of vehicles stopped at the edge of the empty vastness of the Black Rock desert, a place where you could gain nothing or lose it all and no one would ever know. Danger Ranger took a stick, drew a line across the earth, and said “On the other side of this line, there exists a...
One Third of Women in the Military are Raped →
ericmortensen:
robot-heart-politics:
bmckinney:abbyjean:
In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars,...
Dangerous Friends →
heyitsnoah:
I swear I read more than the FT, but again I’ve got a link to a story from today with a little more info on the Google China hacking. This one sheds a little more light on just how the hackers mad it happen:
The most significant discovery is that the attackers had selected employees at the companies with access to proprietary data, then learnt who their friends were. The hackers...
Its not the size of your market, its what you do...
brycedotvc:
One of the most pedestrain of questions that arise in many VC meetings is that of market size. How big is your market? Really. I’ve found that should this question arise more than once over a series of meetings, you’re better off looking elsewhere for funding than the blue shirt and khaki MBA staring at you pointedly from across the table.
If history is a guide you will not be able...
“Originally when launching Mahalo, Jason Calacanas claimed that it would be spam...”
– Aaron Wall on SEO Blog
Read the whole piece if you give a click’s ass about any of this.
“Cloud computing arrived, making VC deal terms economic only as growth capital...”
– Deprogramming VC & Reprogramming SWOT
Jesus, Rafer is so smart sometimes. This is the best rendering I’ve seen of a thought I’ve had for a few months.
(via giantrobotlasers)
Exactly. So now VCs trying to play in the <$1mm range have had to figure out how to scale their operations to make...
“We are now 200-plus years past Jefferson’s wish for permanent revolution and...”
– How America Can Rise Again - The Atlantic (January/February 2010) (via rafer)
gregcohn:
Who can give me tumble lessons? I feel like I’m in Germany trying to get by with French.
Greg, it’s all about the dashboard. Follow ppl then reblog what u like. Get the bookmarklet to easily post stuff u find around the Internet. But for the love of dog don’t auto post your twitter or other feeds in here As it’s not really meaningful to ur tumblr followers. Again,...
“If Democrats run for cover, if we become pale carbon copies of the opposition,...”
– - Ted Kennedy (via noneck)
Losing I don’t mind. Losing after trying to replicate the actions of a less evolved mind-set is humiliating. Let’s not do that again, eh, Dems?
“The final freedom I want to address today flows from the four I’ve already...”
– Hillary Clinton on internet freedom, January 21 | Foreign Policy (via giantrobotlasers)
“Last night, Harmonix launched the open beta of Rock Band Network, a radically...”
– Rock Band Network Is Creating An Exciting New Industry In Music Gaming
Woah. Awesome. (via rickwebb)
“When you open iPoo on your iPhone, you’re instantly connected with other...”
– iPoo | iPhone application | What you do-do when you poo-poo
Wrong.
“I don’t see other graffiti writers as my competition anymore,” B.N.E. said. “Now...”
– B.N.E., the Graffiti Writer, Gets a Manhattan Exhibition - NYTimes.com
“And I think these big companies have another option - API. Why wouldn’t...”
– YelpSquare | Jon Steinberg
mponit:
Good, geeky piece on why “The Internet is about to get a lot safer” come July 2010 http://bit.ly/4y7LR6
