February 2010
19 posts
“Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions...”
– Shaquille O’Neal talking about curating his current exhibition Size Does Matter.
“An adverb is a part of speech. It is any word that modifies any part of language...”
– From where else?
Sergey Brin's Resume Pre-Google →
chrishughes:
My favorite line of this is the movie section: “The way it works is as follows. You rate the movies you have seen. Then the system finds other users with similar tastes to extrapolate how much the you will like some other movies. It is currently written entirely in Python.”
(via saucy)
“OurBeginning, an online stationery e-tailer that launched its Web site only last...”
– From this Business Week article, again in 2000.
Web Startup Blows 60% of Funding On Superbowl Ads.
“Computer.com, a hand-holding help site for novice computer users [ran] through 60 percent of its funding in 90 Super Bowl seconds.
I quizzed [the site’s co-founder] about the red-faced reactions he must surely get from investors as he seeks more funding.
Doesn’t cartoon steam shoot out of the ears of the blustering moneybags as they roar: “Kid, you just spent $3.5...
First Thoughts On New York
I’ve been in New York a week now.
It’s my third time here. I had a month in 2005. Two weeks in 2008. And now this. A month.
Every time I’ve been here it’s been February. In other words, cold short days. It’s still my favourite city, despite assurances from people here that I’ve only seen the worst of it.
It’s an interesting time to have...
The best community on the web →
tomewing:
kingdrake1:
heyitsnoah:
As far as communities on the web go, I think Metafilter takes the cake. So it was with great interest that I read this interview with the founder, Matt Haughey (via rc3.org). In it he says pretty much everything I’d expect him to say (but as those brands building “communities” never think of).
In my mind the most brilliant feature of the site is the five...
Why picking your friends carefully will help you...
I watched Dan Buettner’s TED Talk twice last night. His topic was lifestyles of longevity.
He talked about how to add more years to your life and life to your years. He studied four communities with longer than average life expectancies to understand what they did differently to live longer. His study concluded that there were certain things these communities did that extended their...
“Used to be that when you would visit someone for the first time, you would scan...”
– Big Spaceship | Think Blog - The Kindle and our Personal Identifiers (via iwc)
January 2010
29 posts
“Great business idea. But did you find a zealot to run it?”
– Jack Welch
One of the interesting things about running an IAC company is that once a quarter you sit in a room with Jack Welch all day and talk about business. It turns out to be an incredibly healthy exercise to have to answer questions from a tough outsider every once in a while. The above...
WatchI spent an hour of Sunday watching this. It’s pretty mesmerising to see Obama dismantle the arguments made against him. This is the best example I’ve seen of his famed bipartisanship.
Watching this made me realise what an enormous amount of crossover there is in ‘adversarial’ politics. To the detriment of democracy, the media warfare at the edges of these debates...
