September 2008
16 posts
August 2008
34 posts
caro:
First reaction to Sarah Palin: I bet she could drink me under the table.
Guitar Praise - solid rock →
How Do Geeks Get In Shape & 13 Tips To Get Started... →
Bingo: Points 4 and 7 resonate particularly with me.
4. you are geeks, get gadgets to measure and share. I use a Garmin Forerunner 305 that posts to Google Earth and keeps track of your runs, I “collect” them around the world while some others prefer NikePlus I like it too but I need the GPS and the Heart rate monitor, more on this soon
7. feed your brain with audio podcasts as you...
Basevich is the man
BILL MOYERS: You call us an "empire of consumption."
ANDREW BACEVICH: I didn't create that phrase. It's a phrase drawn from a book by a wonderful historian at Harvard University, Charles Maier, and the point he makes in his very important book is that, if we think of the United States at the apex of American power, which I would say would be the immediate post World War Two period, through the Eisenhower years, into the Kennedy years. We made what the world wanted. They wanted our cars. We exported our television sets, our refrigerators - we were the world's manufacturing base. He called it an "empire of production."
BILL MOYERS: Right.
ANDREW BACEVICH: Sometime around the 1960s there was a tipping point, when the "empire of production" began to become the "empire of consumption." When the cars started to be produced elsewhere, and the television sets, and the socks, and everything else. And what we ended up with was the American people becoming consumers rather than producers.
BILL MOYERS: And you say this has produced a condition of profound dependency, to the extent, and I'm quoting you, "Americans are no longer masters of their own fate."
ANDREW BACEVICH: Well, they're not. I mean, the current debt to the Chinese government grows day by day. Why? Well, because of the negative trade balance. Our negative trade balance with the world is something in the order of $800 billion per year. That's $800 billion of stuff that we buy, so that we can consume, that is $800 billion greater than the amount of stuff that we sell to them. That's a big number. I mean, it's a big number even relative to the size of our economy.
Is it elitist to be disturbed by the high USA Today to New York Times ratio on this plane?
Idea: iPhone todo standards
So what if the iPhone lacks a proper todo manager, it seems like every third app is a new task manager. That said, because there are so many it’s hard for other apps to take advantage of task creation natively. So let’s come up with a task management system standard URL scheme that can be implemented by almost any task manager or todo system. An app could pass a todo: URL with a bunch...
On Wordpress for iphone →
The iPhone is not the place to compose the Great American Novel.
NEW JAY-Z: Jockin’ Jay-Z (produced by Kanye...
“I’m sure there’s a consultant somewhere getting paid a lot of money to tell some...”
– murketing
That “consultant” is probably also, like, 14 years old.
(via catbird)
I’m not sure even doubling that age would be enough.
H: stop your west wing fantasies of getting important conference calls everywhere
H: and realize you're just another douche with an iphone
H: SUBMIT
H: (west wing owns though)
caro:
TWX 2Q earnings, short version: AOL losing subscribers (HEATH LEDGER!!!!!!), display ads down (BATMAN!!!!!), ad market sucks (DARK KNIGHT!!)
Why is Don Draper the single most sensible voice...
whatwoulddondraperdo:
In a crisis, do what people do: go home and be with your family.
The First 1 Million 3G iPhones: Where Did They Go? →
ranajune:
magerleagues:
Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research last week published some interesting statistics on the sale of the first 1 Million 3G iPhones. We took a quick look and made some observations. It’s a typical…
Security guide to customs-proofing your laptop →
“Nation, with weeks to go before the convention, both presidential candidates are...”
– Dr. Stephen T Colbert DFA (via caro)
Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter →
(via azspot)
@litmanisms, @ranajune - this is for you