Archive for February, 2010
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
President Obama on baseball
Why this video doesn’t have more views, I have no idea. How fun it is to hear President Obama talk about the sport.
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-27
Why President Obama should have never said that he "hated the bank bailout": http://bit.ly/cuINEI #
I would trade legislative transparency for a health care bill. I've read Eating Animals. I don't want to see how it's made! bit.ly/9CgSCc #
Thinking about social media as a return to a pre-literate and not desirable age. #
Getting ready for game [...]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Why Obama was wrong to say he hated the bailout
As anyone who discussed Obama’s State of the Union address with me knows, I absolutely hated the speech’s opening in which Obama expressed his own hatred for the bank bailout. I hated it because Obama’s words seemed to me so, so untrue—or at least they should be untrue if he’s at all listened to the [...]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-20
Why underdogs risk more in competition: http://bit.ly/98Eum4 #
"[GDP] measures everything . . . except that which makes life worthwhile." -R.F.K. #
Getting ready for South Africa: "A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies." #
I think I'm going to read Patti Smith's "Just Kids" and Edmund White's "Rimbaud" [...]
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Why do drugstores and gas stations appear in clusters?
Marketplace covered the acquisition of Duane Reade by Walgreens and suggested that drugstores in New York are on nearly every corner because consumers seek convenience. That’s true, but to really understand why they are all over, you need to understand a little game theory. Presh over at Mind Your Decisions has a very simple explanation [...]
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Listen to the new K’s Choice single “Come Live the Life”
One of my favorite albums, which I discovered by chance at FNAC ten years ago, is Almost Happy by K’s Choice. The brother and sister duo broke up and is now back together, releasing their first album since. It’s called Echo Mountain and its first single is called “Come Life the Life.” I heard the [...]
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Why should underdogs take big risks?
For the answer, see Jack Hirshleifer’s article, “The Paradox of Power.”
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-13
Of course, pubs stagger release dates. If you want the cheaper, more portable edition, you gotta wait. Why should ebooks be any different? #
Why would I ever vote for a gubernatorial candidate who wants to run California like a business? #
"In what way do technological systems have moral characteristics?" http://bit.ly/d9unn1 #
Anyone know how to search [...]
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-06
Why isn't the Twitterverse reviving the #amazonfail chorus over the bookseller's dropping all Macmillan titles? #
Is Amazon nudging people to do the right thing and buy from independent bookstores?! http://nyti.ms/b0RKgS #
Amazon/Macmillan standoff is over. Now, stop licensing eBooks to readers and start selling them! #
Why haven't many people pointed out that the iPad can handle [...]
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Buy Atul Gawande’s new book, just not an Amazon
Macmillan ran an ad for The Checklist Manifesto in yesterday’s New York Times and took a shot at Amazon. Cheap?
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
On Facebook
Charles Petersen’s article, In the World of Facebook, in the New York Review is probably the best essay I’ve read about any tech company in the past year or so.
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Y-3 Spring/Summer 2010 ad campaign with Zinédine Zidane
This is awesome.
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Awesome, heartbreaking David Foster Wallace interview from 2003
Get ready to give 90 minutes of your life right now.
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Because your MacBook should look like a real book
Clearly, you want the BookBook from Twelve South.
