Archive for September, 2009
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Gendered food
Can someone explain this? Is there a women’s version too?
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Using all five forces
I’ve frequently doubted the effectiveness of business frameworks as they’re used in companies and schools. However, I have realized that frameworks are very good at doing one thing: they allow people to pretend that decisions that should be subjective, political, and emotional are actually objective, technical, and quantitative.
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-25
MA should put Atul Gawande in Kennedy's vacant Senate seat. Brilliant! http://bit.ly/1dmohE # Just read Evan Ratliff's 2005 NYer piece, "The Zombie Hunters"–good stuff: http://rickyopaterny.com/shorturl/zh # RT @lmcintire IKEA bookshelf, how does it feel do [sic] get totally owned? That's what I thought. [How does it feel to get sic'd?] # …et al, I'm warning [...]
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-18
That's just Roger being Roger: http://bit.ly/16Qvi1 # US doctors overwhelmingly want a public option or single payer: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/NEJMp0907876.pdf # When will pubs realize that subscription fees for apps suck? Make us pay a larger one-time fee rather than a small, incremental fee forever. # Condé Nast hired McKinsey to help them cut costs. This can't [...]
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Friday, September 11th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-11
The issues with using Adobe CS3 with Snow Leopard: http://bit.ly/NfiE6 # Ugh. I started reading the @NYTimes in high school because I didn't want to read about California! http://cnt.to/hDo (via @paidcontent) # Screening of the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers film version of Where the Wild Things Are in SF on 9/30 http://bit.ly/qfFXD # Police checkpoint on [...]
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
R.E.M. and MoveOn collaborate
As much as I support the public option, I’m not sure about its political possibility right now. However, I am sure that my favorite band, R.E.M., and MoveOn collaborated to produce a video urging its inclusion in any upcoming health care bill. The video is simply a slideshow of MoveOn members holding signs with the [...]
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Leica’s new digital cameras
Leica will be announcing its new lineup of cameras on Wednesday via a live webcast at 9 am EDT. The odds of getting one of these things for myself is low, but I’m looking forward to hearing what my favorite camera maker has in store, anyway.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-04
Took BP at MA yesterday with @tylershores in 102-degree weather. # Listening to a great Fresh Air interview with Ted Kennedy from a few years ago: http://bit.ly/15BRtD # How is it that the New Yorker and NYTM both run profiles of the Bryan brothers in the same week? # PlayRadioPlay is a total Postal Service [...]
