words of wisdom turned on their head, to make awesomeness
I think it’s time we started trusting a big butt and a smile.
400 points and a loss
awesome trailer of my neighbor
Poker scene from Louie now up on Youtube.
Brittany Bohnet: Email from Woot CEO after Amazon acquisition
I’m dying laughing. This is one of the best company emails I’ve ever read.
(Full post at TechCrunch)
Date: Weds, 30 June 2010
From: Matt Rutledge (CEO – Woot.com)
To: All Woot Employees
Subject: Woot and AmazonI know I say this every time I find a picture of an adorable kitten, but…
My takeaway “There is not a lot of dough in making stuff private” .. also Merlin wants livejornal back with tumbler like look and posting/creating toolchain or Tumbler with a LiveJournal like level of privacy granularity.
Or … People who make shit please start making the most conservative privacy option the default.
Merlin Mann - Bold Ideas and Insane Possibilities (Keynote @ WebVisions 2010)
May put this up on 43f later, but if you’re interested in my something something social media talks (and think Facebook is as terrifying as I do), have a look.1
Again, winged it. Again, turned out not so bad.
Yes, Van Hœt: I’m working on getting an audio-only version; no, Van Hœt: it won’t be in .flac or .ogg. ↩
Andrew WK @ the Blind Pig In Austin During SXSW2010
E-Book Readers Bomb on College Campuses
Haven’t read this article but I really enjoyed studying with two copys of every book this spring .. using a PDF on the iPad and a PDF on the laptop .. was able to switch back and forth without having to move my place. now the PDF’s were obtained from the internet and I had the real paper books in a pile so I think I’m clear as far as copyright goes but the people who made the PDF’s are not? This is the same issue as buying something on vinyl and torrenting the MP3’s or is it not. I think its a question of getting used to. It seems hard to write in an ereader and then flip through and look at your notes .. I think this is more of a the students need to learn to use the tools situation.
Hopes were high last fall when the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle DX was distributed to a group of students at seven universities around the country in a classroom pilot program for the electronic reader. With students able to download class materials and textbooks easily onto the slender 10.2-ounce device, many thought the era of carrying heavy textbooks would soon be over. Just a few months later, their hopes were dashed, as students reported that the Kindle was a poor replacement for a textbook, hard to use in the classroom, and difficult to navigate.
“It’s an amazing device for recreational reading, but it’s not quite ready for prime time in higher education,” says Daniel Turner, associate dean of the masters and executive education programs at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business (Foster Full-Time MBA Profile), one of the schools that participated in the pilot.
» via BusinessWeek
iVelcro
wonderful except for the blank strips everywhere when the ipad is somewhere else.
Suffer-Not-Injustice: Inaction Figures
So, as I’m sure you’re all aware, there was a delightfully long Maximum Fun Marathon Friday night. That means I was going to have to sit still and focus my attention on a single thing for 8 hours straight.
I asked for volunteers to keep me just distracted enough to pay attention.
I have…
Well it certainly captures my hair/beard combo, and you made me much thinner!
Ted Leo, Aimee Mann, Paul F. Tompkins, and John Hodgman join Tom Scharpling on Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” for the WFMU pledge drive.
This is guaranteed to get your day started off right. I want to heart this about a bazillion times.
