November 2010
46 posts
October 2010
48 posts
Top Ten Things People Going to the Rally for... →
WatchHonest and humble answers from great questions.
Source: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Barack Obama Pt. 2
The EFF
Me: Thank god for the EFF.
seldo: (I bet the EFF are not cool with God. He can see everything you do! Total privacy violation.)
Women in Tech
Me: Do you ever feel like you're in a modern day episode of Mad Men?
Lady in the office: Yes, only instead of smoking and drinking, you're popping licorice and writing code.
“Your church doesn’t like alcohol or homosexuals. Hmm… Well,...”
– The character Lila Montagne in Latter Days
“[But you’re…] A girl? So I can’t play? But then I am black so...”
– The character Julie Taylor in Latter Days
President Obama Signing an iPad — TechCrunch →
First President to autograph digitally. Neat.
ABC, CBS, NBC Block Google TV as Networks Seek... →
TV networks must transform themselves into movie studios: sellers of content, not ad space. Blocking Google TV, Boxee, and other internet devices indistinguishable from regular computers is futile.
The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions —... →
domestichero:
Google has built a complicated international structure that sends most of its overseas profits to the tax haven of Bermuda.
Corporations have a responsibility to pay their fair share for the privilege of doing business in America.
“We call that their Hail Mary Jane strategy.”
– Ron Nehring, Republican Party chairman, the notion that Proposition 19 would help Democrats. U.S. Will Enforce Marijuana Laws, State Vote Aside
WikiLeaks says funding has been blocked after... →
How long until a monetary instrument not controlled by a government is introduced?
Stop Speaking in Bullshit — Danilo Campos →
The comparison of Microsoft versus Google press releases gave me a chuckle.
Among Gen-Y, the Facebook Backlash Has Arrived —... →
The biggest mistake trend-spotters make is confusing generational change with life-cycle change. Much of the projection about the future of Facebook is based on this confusion.
“I think our biggest competitor is actually, probably Zynga. It’s not other...”
– Kiva President Premal Shah, via TechCrunch
“Living well is the best revenge.”
– Terry on dealing with high school bullies, “It Gets Better: Dan and Terry”
Gay teen endured a daily gantlet — LA Times →
As a gentle child grew into adolescence, the taunts and bullying intensified. Finally, Seth Walsh couldn’t take any more.
[…]
He was a gentle child, they say, who preferred to “relocate bugs” rather than kill them, who made sure his younger brother got his share of Easter eggs and who once apologized to a bed of flowers when he picked one and placed it on the...
We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. — Newsweek →
Another approach, best termed “decentralization,” … works with and not against the Afghan tradition of a weak ruling center and a strong periphery. It would require revision of the Afghan Constitution, which as it stands places too much power in the hands of the president.
The war in Afghanistan: Year 10 — Salon →
Perhaps more surprisingly, today’s military leaders have themselves abandoned the notion that winning battles wins wars, once the very foundation of their profession. Warriors of an earlier day insisted: “There is no substitute for victory.” Warriors in the Age of David Petraeus embrace an altogether different motto: “There is no military solution.”
“The measure of a man should be his accomplishments. I’m not a man because...”
– Jack Malebranche, author of Androphilia, on masculinity in The Butch Factor
“I think we value masculinity so much more in our society than we do femininity....”
– Jackson Bowman, female-to-male transgender, on masculinity in The Butch Factor
“Going from wearing Abercrombie & Fitch to try to fit in to wearing 4 inch...”
– Trevor Hoppe on masculinity in The Butch Factor
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by...”
– Oprah Winfrey
The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their... →
“They (major labels) are despicable scum. They fly out to Cupertino and let Steve Jobs smack them around and then fly home and try to take every dime they can get out of start-ups in order to make them feel better about themselves.”
Emerson College Students Announce 'Love Is Louder'... →
Westboro Baptist Church should know better than to fuck with gays on Emerson’s campus.
Wiretapping the Internet — The American Prospect →
Skype is just one of the thousands of firms, large and small, that would be burdened with the obligation to design their systems for breach. […] It’s hard to blame harried law-enforcement officials for wishing they could freeze time or control disruptive technological changes. They can’t, of course, but they could do a great deal of damage to both the high-tech economy and the...
Apple's segmentation strategy and the folly of... →
The top three mobile handset unit sales ‘leaders’ (Nokia, Samsung, LG) are outselling Apple in raw units an astounding 23.5 to 1, yet for all of that effort, combined they are garnering only 82 percent of Apple’s profit level.
US Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet... →
President Obama wants to destroy the internet. I wish I were wearing a tin foil hat, but unfortunately, this is quite real. The ACLU and EFF think so too.
This proposal will cripple the technology industry if passed next year because when you must design for government spies first, innovation can’t be the top priority.
More importantly, President Obama’s proposed violation of the...
The End of Education Is the Dawn of Learning... →
How to design schools that can help change the face of education? A conversation with Stephen Heppell, one of the world’s leading education reformers.
“Until you use an iPhone, a Mac, drive a BMW or Audi, you don’t even...”
– Sachin Agarwal, A product is not just about features. It’s about experience.
I have to shout it. I'm really happy right now.
Sometimes I wonder if there is something in San Francisco’s water that’s giving me a chemical imbalance because I’m so happy right now. The last three months have just been wonderful.
There are my constants.
I have an amazing husband. He’s sexy, smart, charming, and a true gentleman. He’s not my spouse, he’s my partner. We’re living life as a team. We...
“When he enlisted me in the dressing of a deer or the beheading and plucking of a...”
– Koontz, Dean. “Lunch Lessons.” Saveur. Oct. 2010. (via 4shotsofespresso)
Anonymous asked: Why are you such an angry person?
You now live in the city that you want, in an apartment that you want and you work at a job that you love. You have a hot husband with a humongous heart and schlong. You have a great body that you treat to great workouts. You have a network of friends who care about you.
So, why, oh why are such a large number of your blog posts...
You now live in the city that you want, in an apartment that you want and you work at a job that you love. You have a hot husband with a humongous heart and schlong. You have a great body that you treat to great workouts. You have a network of friends who care about you.
So, why, oh why are such a large number of your blog posts...
"Gunn's Golden Rules" Review
Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lessons for Making It Work reads like a conversation you might have if you were so fortunate as to have a three hour lunch with the author, Tim Gunn. It’s filled with wisdom that comes from experience as an educator, compassion that comes from humble beginnings, and gossip that comes from working in a highly competitive creative industry....
