April 2010
31 posts
Innovation is almost insane by definition: most people view any truly innovative...
– Ben Horowitz (via entrepreneurwisdom) (via caterpillarcowboy)
When you start to die … don’t.
– Advice from America’s last living WWI vet, Frank Buckles, when asked about the secret of his long life.
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We recently found our Prodigal iPod Touch, so I now have my own.
One of the benefits is that “Nursery Rhymes” and Jim Weiss (a storyteller) will stop showing up in my Last.fm toplist.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Jim Weiss (72)
Architecture in Helsinki (60)
Nursery Rhymes (58)
Imogen Heap (25)
French Letter (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
How to Build Your Own Treadmill Desk →
A pretty sweet setup. I wonder if I’d be able to walk / program at the same time. Also: where to put it?
This is some excellent copywriting:
Our Bullard Field Pant is far more than a pair of khakis, it’s a lifetime experience. At its core is our 10.2 ounce Bullard Twill that has been aggressively washed to a familiar state of softness and comfort. Fabric of this weight and construction has little or no practical use in an age of planned obsolescence. Not only will these khakis endure the...
Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their...
– (via gothamgalry) (via fred-wilson)
Charlie says: There comes a time in every young man’s life — it’s rare, and should be acted on as quickly as possible — when the appropriate response actually goes something like “in your PANTS!”
In shopping mall design, the Gruen transfer refers to the moment when a consumer...
– Gruen transfer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via kevintwohy)
I like the name, logo, treatment, etc. of the pharmaceutical company Gilead:
It’s especially nice, when you consider that their original name was the hard-to-choke-out “Oligogen, Inc.”
“Gilead,” by the way, is a reference to the “balm of Gilead”, which was a salve in the ancient Near East, referenced in the Old Testament as a curative, and alluded to...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
The Mountain Goats (53)
Imogen Heap (44)
Jim Weiss (33)
The Walkmen (31)
Nursery Rhymes (25)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-11) →
Doctor Octoroc (32)
Jim Weiss (18)
Andrew Bird (10)
Animal Collective (5)
Norwegian Recycling (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I'm quitting the Internet. Will I be liberated or... →
Via Hiten.
My entire abdominal cavity throbbed as though Saruman had set up a supplemental...
– Alan Jacobs
If your success depends on sickening the poorest and least educated portion of...
– Seth Godin
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-4) →
Tanya Morgan (27)
Phish (23)
Trevor Pinnock: The English Concert (20)
Norwegian Recycling (17)
Reinhard Goebel: Musica Antiqua Köln (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by…
How to merge changes from a remote github... →
Easy as pie. Thanks, Stack Overflow!
You know … I always thought the Apple patents were a little creepy.
I had no idea they were grounded in reality.
I keed, Apple hand model! Please don’t kill me!