August 2010
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May 2010
2 posts
April 2009
6 posts
WatchWell worth a listen - the “adventure capitalist” on present day economic circumstances. Disarmingly candid. [via]
"Disemvoweling" Comments
Whenever Nielsen Hayden encounters a nasty post—an ad hominem attack, for example—she leaves it up but removes all the vowels: y r fckng sshl, for example. The result is incoherent enough that it’s neutered, yet coherent enough that no one can cry censorship. The comment hasn’t vanished.
Best of all, because disemvoweling is visible, it trains the community. “You’re teaching the other...
March 2009
15 posts
“If it doesn’t go to $hit, it’s gonna be a grand slam.”
– An investor friend summing the venture industry’s mantra rather nicely. Bumper stickers from Zazzle on the way.
“The Great Depression suppressed economic activity, but not the commercial...”
– David Brooks, exuding patriotic commercial optimism in his latest column. Thank god for the “apotheosis of the entrepreneur.” Hard work should be exalted.
“For the next few decades, journalism will be made up of overlapping special...”
– The now much-linked to Clay Shirky piece, “Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable”
The Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years
30. Anti retroviral treatment for AIDS (Health Care) 29. SRAM flash memory (Electronics) 28. Stents (Health Care) 27. ATMs (Finance) 26. Bar codes and scanners (Retail) 25. Bio fuels (Biotechnology) 24. Genetically modified plants (Biotechnology) 23. RFID and applications (e.g. EZpass) (Electronics) 22. Digital photography/videography ...
“…immigrants are critical to the country’s long-term economic health....”
– [via]
Just like any company, our country’s long-term success relies on talent attraction and we need to step it up. Something to keep shouting as the recession elevates unemployment and hardens views on US citizen job retention.
Paul Curerri - The Heavy Deal
“Sing me...
February 2009
9 posts
WatchFix it, then do it with your Valentime! (SNL from Saturday)
Friend: “Ok, now go save the VC world…fix it, then do it! Do it!”
“It’s like two little porcupines going around, and you don’t want to...”
– Palm CEO Ed Colligan regarding intellectual property posturing (here, Palm v. Apple)
“Jailer” by Asa
Heard Asa on NPR...
January 2009
6 posts
“If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, says Lee Wild in Investors Chronicle, then...”
– A diamondiferous, kimberlite pipe-bearing spam mail.
Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros [feat....
November 2008
1 post
October 2008
9 posts
Watch“The bumptious Texas dauphin,” Maureen Dowd writes of W.
Catch this Comedy Central clip where she discusses George Jr. overcoming “Jeb’s primacy in the family.” Boy does she have a way with words.
Ben Sollee - “A Few Honest Words,” If...
