November 2009
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“With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people...”
– An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
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“Are they smart? Can they get stuff done?… Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate on their actual job. Someone who gets stuff done but isn’t smart is inefficient: non-smart people get stuff done by doing it the hard way and working with them is slow and frustrating.”
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“Terrorism is scary because it’s so rare. When it’s more...”
– Bruce Schneier
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“Adrià’s idea is that if you listen to customers, what they tell you they want will be based on something they already know.
“Adrià says he doesn’t listen to customers, yet his customers are some of the most satisfied in the world.”
—Michael I. Norton
This is exactly what makes Apple so successful. When you have a leader that understands what customers...
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WatchIt’s time to outcrazy the crazy! Though as Josh Marshall points out, “the crazy has gotten pretty crazy. So it’s a steep climb.”
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“Congress should go on Medicaid, with a 5K deductible thrown in to see what...”
– Greg Dworkin
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“It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want...”
– Jon Stewart
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“How is it that it will take ‘decades’ for history to judge the Bush...”
– DV
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“I’m worried about raw food because it might be dirty, since you know,...”
– Overheard in NYC
Does she cook dinner in her dishwasher?
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“If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t...”
– Bruce Schneier
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“This is political correctness run amok.”
– Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), commenting on holding the 9/11 trials in New York City
WTF?!? Since when are upholding the rule of law and trying criminals according to the principles of our Constitution considered being “politically correct”?
It seems like today’s Republican party...
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“If you want to give Ringo less, that’s up to you.”
– Lorne Michaels, SNL producer
(via Andy Baio)
Easter Eggs
Fun indeed.
buchino:
When I was little, we called it litter.
Now, in the age of five-cent deposits and refunds, bottles and cans are more than just roadside litter. They afford a population of bums the opportunity to make a little scratch by collecting and returning rogue liquid containers. It’s like one big Easter egg hunt—if you collect 100 cans, you get $5.00!
I can’t imagine how much...
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“If you subscribe to the Market Share gospel, it’s perhaps very hard to wrap your...”
– John Gruber
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“Ultimately, I figure with the money I save on mortgage, I can rent out the...”
– Jay Shafer of Tumbleweed Tiny House Company on the misplaced priorities of people who own huge houses.
(via 37signals)
“Life’s too short to drink bad coffee or read bad blogs. Make the effort to care.”
– Marco Arment
“Tumblr seems to be predominantly women in their 20s and early 30s living either...”
– Abhay Khosla
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“10,000 people submitted applications for the new Upper West Side store. Just...”
– Ron Johnson (Apple Senior VP of Retail) as reported by Matt Buchanan
(via John Gruber)
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“Watching the Planets” by The Flaming Lips →
buchino:
See Portlanders do what Portlanders do best: get naked and ride bikes.
What a wonderful video, though likely NSFW if your workplace is sucky…
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above...”
– James Cameron
(from Dana Goodyear’s profile in The New Yorker; via John Gruber)
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Capitalism's Fundamental Flaw →
But there is another less obvious bug in capitalism that I don’t believe regulation can quite handle. It is the fundamental flaw that our celebrated system rewards speculators much more than creators. A relatively junior hedge-fund manager or a bond trader on Wall Street makes a great deal more money in his career than Charles Kao, who invented the basic physics making optical communication a...
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“Why Google is universally loved by the same geeks who condemn Apple for being...”
– Marco Arment
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“‘Wrong’ is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.”
– Catbert: Evil Director of Human Resources
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“So, how many disobedient children have you stoned recently?”
– LKM’s Stuff (via marco)
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WatchWonderful… and I whole-heartedly agree, the middle finger is just plain half-assing it.
seoulbrother:
Sometimes* @gruber is right.
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