August 2010
18 posts
If your quarrel with Places is that it will make... →
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“Remember this day. Today was the day you read that non-human objects, internet...”
– Objects Outpace New Human Subscribers to AT&T, Verizon
(hate the article, btw)
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Excerpt of the Day →
mikehudack:
savingpaper:
It comes from a must-read story in The New York Times about Terry Jones, a Florida pastor who will “memorialize” September 11 this year by burning copies of the Qur’an (a book he’s never read but is confident it’s “full of lies”):
For local Muslims like Saeed Khan, who came here in the 1970s to study for a Ph.D. in biology at the University of Florida, the collective...
“MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF...”
– Advertisement placed in London newspapers for Shackleton’s trip to Antarctica, 1914 (geographysucks) (via naveen, invisiblestories)
I Am A Founder
jennydeluxe:
thingsthatscarelaurenleto:
not a foundress.
That is all I will say about that.
Heart this HARD.
http://naveen.tumblr.com/post/1004500448/theeconomi... →
naveen:
theeconomist:
Bankruptcies are back on the rise in America
reminds me a bit of shirky’s daycare latecomer experiment
dherman:
RT @umairh: Chinese shoe counterfeiter on 20th century marketing: “the shoes are original. It’s just the brands that are fake”. Perfectl …
“if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your...”
– Clayton Christensen
he is an inspiration
How Will You Measure Your Life? - Harvard Business Review
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Lessons from Google Wave and MSFT Kin « Scott... →
mikehudack:
2105:
However the fact that Wave stayed out in the wild longer than Kin means the team that made it got a chance to learn tons. This is awesome. This is smart. They got to be involved in a live, mass market, real time experiment in trying to do whatever it was they were trying to do. For them, Wave is far from a failure. It was one of the best learning experiences they might ever...
“The company has already raised wages, hired counselors and installed safety nets...”
– My Way News - iPhone-maker rallies workers after China suicides
A set of reforms you don’t often see in one sentence.
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fred-wilson:
On The Beach (Neil Young cover) -...