January 2012
3 posts
“I think it’s kind of silly that it would take the University a couple of years...”
– This is what competition looks like now.
Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website | News | The Harvard Crimson
December 2011
4 posts
Top economists reveal their graphs of 2011 →
joshsternberg:
Some pretty interesting, and highly depressing, graphs.
November 2011
16 posts
Sometimes people say “we can put a man on the moon, but we can’t..[do big challenge X]” where x is end smallpox, or feed children, or some similar ambitious but solvable problem.
But I wonder if we could put someone on the moon today? It feels like if we can’t, it’s because of a general loss of confidence, ambition and leadership rather than having the raw skills....
“As soon as an organisation starts to compromise with itself and its own internal...”
– Thinking aloud about public service reform on Catherine’s blog
Open by default and design | Curiouscatherine’s Blog
“If meaningful scientific and technological progress occurs, then we reasonably...”
– Peter Thiel on The End of the Future - National Review Online
I think this might be wrong in the short term. Quoting here to think more about later.
DVDs of Atlas Shrugged are being recalled because the copy on the back reads: “AYN RAND’s timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice comes to life…”
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From Flavorwire:
As the film’s producer Harmon Kaslow stated, “As we all well know, the ideas brought to life in Atlas Shrugged are entirely antithetical to the idea of ‘self-sacrifice’ as a virtue. Atlas is quite literally a...
“Are we really going to accept an Interface Of The Future that is less expressive...”
– Brett Victor, A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (via maxistentialist)
“One nurse visited her progressive Congressman to ask him to support the tax, and...”
– G20: The Verdict | Robin Hood Tax
“The question I’m trying to answer right now is how the final act will be played....”
– Eurodämmerung - NYTimes.com
The Euro story is increasingly horrible.
October 2011
27 posts
“I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really...”
– Steve Jobs hates your exit strategy. (via gbattle)
“Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is...”
– Bruce Sterling on privacy
maxistentialist:
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson:
Jobs was so furious that Palm was hiring some of his former employees that he complained to Bono, who was a cofounder of a private equity group, led by the former Apple CFO Fred Anderson, that had bought a controlling stake in Palm. Bono sent Jobs a note back saying, “You should chill out about this. This is like the Beatles ringing up because...
“If you’re an entrepreneur, why would you be anywhere else? The sun isn’t rising...”
– Erik Hersman, PopTech 2011 (via poptech)
“My Sweet Adeline,
Our fortunes have taken a turn for the worse this week. The...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Angry Birds — Letters from the Front Lines.
“We present ourselves differently in different contexts, and that’s key to...”
– 4chan’s Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
Slovakia, now famous for refusing to fund the Euro bailout. Previously famous (in my experience at least) as a country where a monkey in a waistcoat is still an acceptable travelling companion.
Jockeys planning strike over new whip rules →
Jockeys are about to go on strike over rules on whipping horses. Surely the answer is to hit them with whips until they do what they’re told?
It’s the logic of the ducking stool. If we can whip them to within an inch of their lives and then they go back to work, then they were right. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.
“I think Dalston is more about fashion, and looking stylish now. Peckham is more...”
– Meeting the Cast of The Only Way Is Dalston | VICE
Good grief.
“Our cult of decade anniversaries—the tenth of 9/11, the twentieth of...”
– Norton Juster’s “The Phantom Tollbooth” at 50 : The New Yorker
Henley Half Marathon - Garmin Connect →
I hate that bloody hill.
“As much as I resigned from the Daily Star because I’d come to believe it...”
– Richard Peppiatt: Journalistic Practice
“Can there be a better advertisement for a non-instrumentalised higher education,...”
– Joining up the dots: Steve Jobs and “good capitalism” | openDemocracy
“She is a devoted wife and mother, a former Olympic athlete, a humanitarian, a...”
– The Official Website of HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein
Beat that for a biography.
“He was a hippie: who else drops out of Reed? But he was an authoritarian, too....”
– News Desk: The Next Steve Jobs (And the Last One) : The New Yorker
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