November 2011
4 posts
MADATOMS - WHY MEN LOVE THE BIG LEBOWSKI by... →
So true.
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Interview with FedEx logo designer →
I didn’t know about the hidden arrow until today.
Also, this is funny:
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“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is...”
– The Coming Revolt of the Guards
Howard Zinn (2003)
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National Novel Writing Month →
October 2011
9 posts
“In 2006, it took me almost 8 weeks to sell 4000 books. In 2011, it took me five...”
– A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: Time Investment
Joe Konrath — successful and prolific ebook self-publishing thriller author
“What demotivates workers?
1) Hype: a failure to acknowledge the real...”
– Inside Employees’ Minds | Special Series | Big Think
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TIME'S List of the 100 Best Novels - ALL TIME 100... →
“Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved into its elements...”
– Epicurus - Principal Doctrines
History Is A Weapon →
“This is an online Left reader focusing largely on American resistance history.” Good reads.
2008 Election Report - US Census Bureau →
Breakdown of who voted in the 2008 presidential election.
“The Millennial Generation, born from 1982-2003, is sometimes condescendingly...”
– Shifting Voter Demographics: America is a Different Country | Newgeography.com
“We start to make up our minds about other people within seven seconds of first...”
– Roger Ailes, You Are the Message
February 2010
2 posts
“…the success of anything you make is 90% based on how amazing it is, and...”
– Skelliewag.org » Posts » The Real Reason Why You Never Did It
“Many markets have historically been dominated by a small number of best-selling...”
– SSRN-Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales by Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu, Duncan Simester
January 2010
2 posts
“Lots of links + lots of content + old site = SEO win”
– Aaron Wall
“[Search] performance matters. Google estimates that for every 500 milliseconds...”
– Acquia
November 2009
1 post
“The DNA of the web is one of ceding control, and of learning to work with,...”
– DeWitt Clinton
August 2009
3 posts
“Marketing is the whole business seen from the customer’s point of view.”
– Peter Drucker
Signs that you're a bad programmer (Software... →
Plus signs you’re a mediocre programmer and signs you shouldn’t be a programmer. via Hacker News
“Had I allowed myself a few more video game breaks, or allotted an hour in the...”
– Felicia Day » Blog Archive » Happy Friday Night!
July 2009
3 posts
“It all starts innocently enough. A picture here and there, a magazine before...”
– Good and Lost » Travel Porn
“5. SHARE AS MUCH INFORMATION AS YOU CAN
“People are blown away by the...”
– Marissa Mayer’s 9 Principles of Innovation | Fast Company
Marissa Mayer is Google’s VP of Search Products.
“The external world is remarkably consistent, and yet we blame it for...”
– Seth’s Blog: The confusion
June 2009
1 post
“Twitter is a more efficient supplier of the super-fresh Web than Google. If...”
– How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live — TIME
When the Lakers won the championship on Sunday, I actually did go to twitter to search for reactions.
October 2008
1 post
“One of the headline shifts that is taking place is that people (partners,...”
– John Borthwick
September 2008
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“At one board meeting, when Mr. Kalin presented a long list of fancy new features...”
– NY Times profile of Union Square Ventures (9/22/08)
August 2008
17 posts
“The other 80/20 rule. 80% of enterprise IT budgets just “keep the lights...”
– Bernard Lunn
“11 Things Startups Should Know About Enterprise 2.0” [ReadWriteWeb]
“If you are complacent you are going to get hurt in this economy.”
– Rick Caruso
Upscale malls reach out as shoppers cut back - Los Angeles Times
“What in your life or about yourself is no longer serving you and causing your...”
– Randall [Absurdistry’s Weblog]
“It was an excellent hack, but it couldn’t scale.”
– Alexis Madrigal: Measuring the History of Electricity [Wired]
“There is a super-replicating false belief in our society that sleeping in is...”
– Derek Ralston: How to Become a Late Riser - 5 Reasons Why Sleeping In Every Day Will Boost your Productivity
“Google’s muscling in on the computing business too: over the long term, it...”
– Apple vs. Google: How Will They Stack Up in the Future?
WatchDeath Star over San Francisco // Current
Awesome.
This week’s On The Media was about...
No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tools for Capturing Ideas... →
I haven’t found a good all-in-one capture system for myself yet.
I currently use the Notes app on my E61 to jot down random ideas. But I don’t like it. It’s clunky to use because I can’t read/write the notes except using the phone.
Never got into the Hipster PDA. Carry around a bunch of index cards? No, thanks. I already have a giant phone to carry around.
Currently...
Paul Graham: Cities and Ambition
Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder. The surprising thing is how different these messages can be. New York tells you, above all: you should make more money. There are other messages too, of course. You should be hipper. You...
Hibernate/Standby Windows From the Command Line
from sanx.org (via archive.org)
Within Windows 2000 and Windows XP there is no command (as such) to hibernate or suspend the workstation from the command line, however it can be achieved by calling an individual routine from within a DLL.
To hibernate / suspend the workstation from the command line:
Enter: rundll32 powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
Whether the workstation will hibernate or stand-by...
“Founders have to treat raising money as a dangerous process. The biggest danger...”
– A Fundraising Survival Guide - Paul Graham
“It’s worth every minute you put into it, every time you decide to press on...”
– Shane Pike
“Hyperlocal/placeblogging is a tough nut to crack but it’s such a...”
– Fred Wilson
WatchFirefly is available for free on Hulu.
Tell your friends.
“Either you believe that luck is dominant, in which case, why bother with effort?...”
– Seth Godin
July 2008
1 post
August 2007
6 posts
BlogTogether: A community of bloggers and... →
How bloggers are driving the Chinese market →
Chinese investment bloggers are moving the market! Talk about influential voices.
Syria: The Bloggers →
Wonderful piece that highlights some snippets from Syrian blogs.
Business Fund.com » How To: Bootstrap It (27 Tips) →
Me: You hungry?
Them: I could eat.
Me: Thai food it is.