“Whom the Gods would destroy, they first put on the cover of Business Week.”
—and i say, the steve will defy this as he has all else. bingo.
March 2009
Dinky Interactive Toys →
tapbots.com
That looks too beautiful for something so useless. Is that the future of iPhone apps, beautifully designed dinky interactive toys?
that would seem to be the case. i expect they ran out of useful in the first three months, don’t you?
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And yet, those two sights—the stack of books and the unread count in my feed reader—evoke dramatically different responses. To the books, I feel excitement, eagerness; I look forward to the hours I will spend lazily in bed, flipping from one to the other. I dread the unlikely event that I will ever read them all, that I will ever finish a book and not have another ready to turn to that very second.
The act of reading is always unfinished, and unapologetically so—within a library, there is no concept of completion.
” —a working library (via kvasir) in-fucking-credibly smart!
“Whether it’s the Geithner Plan, the Detroit Bailout, or the stimulus, the Obama team ignores clear, crippling conflicts of interest. Why is that a problem? Simple: because the strategic expertise of the private sector can very easily be applied to looting the public sector.”
—reblog harvardbusiness.org (via kvasir)
sorry, is this piece suggesting the obama administration is about looting the public sector? i just want to be clear.
sorry, is this piece suggesting the obama administration is about looting the public sector? i just want to be clear.
“Our regular plans have a hard traffic limit. This means that your video’s are switched off after you hit your traffic limit.”
—bitsontherun sent me email’s
“@samruby i enjoyed your html history. very zen-like, unencumbered as it was by facts, context, or perspective of any kind. well done. —Mark Pilgrim”
—yee-ouch! (well-done, sir.)
“You’d also think that after all these years, the state of Colorado might have organized choo-choo train service from Denver into the ski valleys of the Rockies, given how important the ski industry is to the state’s economy – and how incredibly fragile the airline service is. But that would be too sensible for a nation determined to become the Bulgaria of the western hemisphere. So, instead, they get up every single morning in Aspen and try to figure out whether commercial aviation works out there, and half the time it doesn’t. ”
—determined to become the bulgaria of the western hemisphere indeed. we’re workin’ on it.
“Mr. Obama heads to Europe now where official hostility is rising against the Anglo-American method of pounding monetary sand down the rat-holes of “non-performing” debt, bankrupt enterprise, and bubble-levitated bonds.”
—kunstler: way with words
“I celebrate myself, and tweet my 20,000th follower.” ~Walt Whitman”
—fake_cluetrain gettin’ literary on us
“Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism.”
—same
“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution.”
—clay shirkey and thinking the unthinkabke
“There’s one guy on ICQ still wondering where we all went. I can just feel it.”
—i bet there is.
“President to Astronauts: “Do you guys still drink Tang up there?”
—obama makes a funny
“Industry groups that oppose the ban contend animal deaths would go up, producer costs would rise, meat output would drop and consumers would see prices climb. They contend there is no evidence that a public health threat has occurred because of the use of antibiotics in animals.”
—that’s not what i hear
“The health insurance industry offered Tuesday for the first time to curb its controversial practice of charging higher premiums to people with a history of medical problems.”
—not out of the goodness of their hearts, but still—holy shit!
“There’s no denying that by replacing the title bar with the tab bar the way Apple did, the company has made selecting and moving Safari windows more difficult and less intuitive than before.”
—hey, the apple we know and love
“Time creates the space in which we think and imagine.”
—julian jaynes
“AIG is what happens when short, bald managers of otherwise boring financial bureaucracies start seeing Brad Pitt the mirror.”
—isn’t that what i said? well, no, not as succinctly as this
