February 2012
6 posts
Typo tourism
Beth: how do you become influential about something on Klout?
Jeremiah: Retweets and @replies will do it. @jeremiadlee is influential about Dubia
Jeremiah: *Dubai
Laurie: COME TO WONDERFUL DUBIA
Laurie: LAND OF MLIK AND OHNEY
“What is not appealing is the act of entering into a persistent state of...”
– Curt Hopkins, Location, Location, Location: You Don’t Need to Know Mine
WatchA dangerous UX problem: the delayed loading of Amazon Prime shipping options moves the “Buy now with 1-Click” button where the “Add to Wish List” button is first loaded.
“Information (content) does not want to be free. Instead, information just wants...”
– Andrew Weissman
“When digital distribution of market data was a new technology, it was...”
– Bloomberg’s Open Market Data Initiative Whitepaper on industry standards for market data as the future
January 2012
6 posts
SOPA's international non-treaty treaty signed by... →
The Top 1 Percent: What Jobs Do They Have? →
Explore the occupations and industries of the nation’s wealthiest households.
December 2011
13 posts
2011: The Year Intellectual Property Trumped Civil... →
Enough evidence to conclude that Democrats hate civil liberties and are not tech savvy.
“Is nostalgia eating the world? Maybe. But as Barth’s quote makes clear, every...”
– The 10 Biggest Ideas of the Year - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic (via mopostal)
Bones, "The Mastadon in the Room"
Caroline: So you people come back from the far-flung corners of the earth, out past the outer suburbs of Timbuktu, and you solve the case in a shake?
Brennan: What’s a shake?
Caroline: Three jiffies in a cha-cha.
Booth: Cha-cha-cha!
“Yes, well, we do dream on a budget here, don’t we?”
– Character J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland
“I reject the idea that I am advocating higher taxes for myself and other wealthy...”
– Nick Hanauer, Just What Do The Rich Have That’s Taxable? —NPR
EV Startup Aptera Motors Pulls the Plug →
I wanted this car so badly.
Slideshow: Vertical Living in SF →
I want a beautiful home.
“When you love someone, you open yourself up to suffering. That’s the sad...”
– Bones, “The End in the Beginning”
November 2011
13 posts
“Cities today are cleaner, healthier, safer and greener. They’re also more...”
– How should we design the cities of our dreams?
“So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this week is...”
– The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
Convergence
jeremiah: JHS is great at using google maps for people.
jeremiah: Google Maps Over The Phone As A Service
jeremiah: I've used my phone as a scanner before
jeremiah: worked well with the 3GS.
cowp: Beats the alternative.
cowp: You hold the scanner up to your ear and yell at it —
cowp: CALL GEORGE SMITH. … CALL … GEORGE … SMITH
cowp: — shit does nothing
jeremiah: Epson, where is the closest FedEx Store?
jeremiah: Fujitsu this.
Anoka-Hennepin teachers write their own online... →
The coolest thing is not that teachers wrote their own textbook—it’s that they’ll be able to iterate on something that used to have to last 10 years.
Problem Solving
I’m asked to solve problems everyday that I’ve never solved before.
There are only two kinds of problems: problems that have been solved and problems that haven’t been solved yet. Nearly every problem I encounter has been solved by someone, somewhere at some point. I may not have solved it myself, but someone has and there’s nothing stopping me from becoming qualified to solve it.
My problem...
October 2011
24 posts
One Country, Two Revolutions — Thomas Friedman →
The difference between Silicon Valley and Wall St: creative destruction vs destructive creation
How music changes our brains — Salon →
Science is becoming increasingly interested in the relationship between sound and the brain. An expert explains
“The end result is that it’s essentially impossible to become successful or...”
– Seth Godin, The ever-worsening curse of the cog
/via @ZachACole
“What simultaneously explains this and makes it all the more significant (and all...”
– Glenn Greenwald, A remaining realm of American excellence
The problem with economic plans for ordinary Americans is that we now live in a global market that requires extraordinary anyones.
“sigh You use to be so irrepressible in your optimism Jeremiah, to the point it...”
– The most encouraging thing said to me this year. Working on it.
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– Buckminister Fuller