January 2012
6 posts
A Tribute to Limewire
okonokos:
Sum_41_-_Scotty_doesnt_know.mp3
nirvana_-_here_we_are_now_entertain_us.wma
gorillaz_-_sunshine_in_a_bag.exe.mp3
system_of_a_down_-_legend_of_zelda.wav
blur_-_woohoo.wma
beetles_-_all_the_lonely_people.mp3
stairway-ledzepplin.mp3
The_who_-_teenage_wasteland.ogg
bob_marley_-_dont_worry_be_happy.wma
dbz_linkinpark_crawling_amv.wma
i_get_knocked_down.mp3
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Jonathan "JZ" Zittrain on the legal machinery of... →
“If you look at it from a historical perspective, the American book publishing...”
– Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA
Austerity For Dummies: A 3-Minute Guide To A Very... →
Richard RJ Eskow, crooksandliars.com
“I feel stupid,” someone said the other day. “I consider myself well-informed, but I have no idea what the term ‘austerity economics’ really means.” Actually it’s not that complicated, and most of the lesson plan can be found in…
Austerity: a simple guide to a terrible idea
December 2011
2 posts
What Were They Thinking? by Elizabeth Drew | The... →
As we play the government shutdown game again, it’s helpful to see from whence we came. (No not from Newt Gingrich’s 1995 government shutdown because he got a bad seat on Clinton’s Air Force One.) No, I mean the first real government shutdown threat this year (what are we up to now, three, four?). The personal politics at play with the failure of The Supercommitte were near...
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
“Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google don’t recognize any borders; they feel...”
– The Great Tech War Of 2012 fast company’s primer on how the four tech giants are remaking the economy and what will be left in their wake
Malcolm Gladwell on Bruce Ratner and the Barclays... →
An absolute must-read on real estate, eminent domain, taxes, oh and basketball
September 2011
1 post
“By 2014, Reed had calculated, a city of a million people, the 10th-largest city...”
– Michael Lewis - California and Busthttp://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/11/michael-lewis-201111.print
August 2011
3 posts
“How many tons of coal are burnt to support laziness or a lack of optimization in...”
– Cost of Computing in Coal
“Whatever the results of the government’s actions against Swartz—and whether or...”
– Was Aaron Swartz Stealing? | The Awl
“Here’s what the newspaper business sounds like: the modestly talented son of the...”
– Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic « Clay Shirky
July 2011
5 posts
“Washington’s informal arrangement with Japan and China had institutionalized the...”
– Stop Blaming Wall Street
“But, surprisingly, it was the new user interface to the model, that I built...”
– Financial engineering as a career: Part 1 | Emanuel Derman
June 2011
6 posts
“Conservative or even liberal agendas that cede responsibility for job creation...”
– PIMCO Founder Bill Gross
Six Sigma - The New GOP Fad? →
Serious ROI for the GOP.
(Notserious)
A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 →
It’s not brief but it is a damn near brilliant read. I’ll be posting excerpts all day.
“Groupon is essentially holding a portfolio of loans backed by the receivables of...”
– Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse
“Comedians are the only ones paid to tell the truth in public discourse....”
– Keith Olbermann on Why He Left MSNBC - and How He Plans to Get Even
May 2011
9 posts
“Today, your phone knows who you are, where you are, where you’re going, to...”
– Google’s Eric Schmidt, on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” today
It has nothing do do with permission. It’ll happen whether you opt-in or not. It’s not up to users any more. It’s up to power-users to set the standard for what defaults MUST be to protect privacy. It’s up to...
The Public Library Manifesto: Why Libraries... →
Despite their enormous popularity and widespread use, public libraries have rarely been well funded. Librarian Robert Reagan offers one reason: “Everybody loves libraries, but mostly they are mute about it.” Libraries “are plagued by the image that we are nice, but not essential” one librarian complained to the Washington Post. People will defend their libraries, but only when the lights are...
Dial up like it's 1999
cnnmoneytech:
It has come to my attention that we as a generation whine too much about technology. So, I’d like to propose a new holiday: National 1999 Day. ISP’s around the world will slow down service to the connection speeds of the 90’s. Buffering, glacial downloads and annoying connection sounds of eeeeee-bing—-eeee—bing-bing will prevail. After 24 hours of the bad old days maybe we could...
“Coal kills fewer people at one time, which is highly preferred by politicians.”
– Bill Gates, on nuclear power. (via TechCrunch)
April 2011
4 posts
You can make fun of hipsters for wearing keffiyehs...
aatombomb:
themattsmith:
but you can’t do both.
Excellent point.
“There was also the matter of the eye tests. For five straight days, González had...”
– [The Fragile Success of School Reform in the Bronx longform.org]
March 2011
7 posts
“The front-line in Mogadishu was just beyond the ruined cathedral. You could hear...”
– [Digital Africa longform.org]
February 2011
4 posts
“Nothing is more powerful than a community of talented people working on related...”
– Paul Graham - Taste for Makers (via Instapaper)
“Even if we can’t change the past, we have the beginnings of digital time travel.”
– said by Jack Eichenbaum, Queens Borough Historian and moderator of Social Media Week’s panel Future Library: Socializing History with Maps, which took place today at the New York Public Library. He was talking about maps from the past, maps from the future, and how we can overlay maps. (via nypl)