May 2008
16 posts
Broken Toilet Adds Urgency to Weekend Launch of... →
Silverjet ceases operations →
Oh, no! Anyone want to replace my tickets on Silverjet in July with those from another airline? Anyone? Anyone??
Synthetic Indignation
She did something unartful, and then, the American capacity for synthetic indignation kicked in. And everyone got lathered up, treating this as what it obviously wasn’t.
George Will on ABC’s Face the Nation. He’s discussing Clinton’s slip the other day on primaries in June, but more exciting is that brilliant phrase: “Synthetic Indignation”.
Current Firefox Tabs
How Thinking Costs You (Washington Post, via Paul Kedrosky)
The Next American Frontier; self-employment as aspiration (WSJ via Zach)
Tim O’Reilly on MicroHoo & The Internet OS (oreilly)
Big Hairy Audacious Goal (wikipedia)
Livescribe’s 1GB Pulse Smartpen (livescribe.com)
PR Secrets for Startups (techcrunch)
A Peek at Pimco’s Long View (Business Week)
Build your...
The Telectroscope →
An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope has been installed at both ends which miraculously allows people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa.
McCain Can Run, but Bush Won't Hide
Frank Rich’s op-ed in today’s NYTimes explores McCain’s difficultly in distancing himself from the Bush administration, despite recent attempts.
Some Democrats are outraged that [Karl Rove] is now employed as a pundit by Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal as well as Fox News. Instead of complaining, they should be thrilled that Mr. Rove keeps inviting Republican complacency by...
TechCrunch on the Microsoft / OLPC Deal
The last thing Microsoft wants is for anyone who’s computer literate to think that a world without Microsoft Windows is possible.…My guess is Linux worked just fine as an operating system for these machines.
This story is lazy reporting on Arrington’s part. After buying & donating one OLPC a few months ago (details here) I’ve found the hardware quite friendly but the...
auto charging my credit card
I should be able to tell American Express to deny automatic charges from specific vendors.
Slow Political News Day
I wish TV news came with an Importance Meter that would tell me at a glance when there was important news and when they were just filling CNN Election Center with nonsense the day before a few straggling primaries.
This American Life
This American Life, originally on NPR for many years, is in its second season on Showtime. It is a beautiful show that I highly recommend.
Bureaucracy (video game)
The player is challenged to confront a long and complicated series of bureaucratic hurdles resulting from a recent change of address. Mail isn’t being delivered, bank accounts are inaccessible, and nothing is as it should be. From Wikipedia, (via Erin)
Retail Investor Fog
Most retail financial information is from either 1) brokers telling you trade more often or 2) news-providers discussing today’s market activity. Both are totally worthless to the retail investor who needs to limit expenses and make long-term investments in a way that doesn’t raise stress or demand hours a day.
Both types, however, serve the sellers’ needs. the former by...
The Action Office
Nikil Saval in N+1 discusses the Birth of the Office and his short-lived career as a freelancer in New York.
There are many like me — too many. I have to get up early in the morning to find a seat, which I claim with a valuable laptop. I’m afraid to get up to use the bathroom — the other freelancers might not steal my laptop, but they’ll certainly steal my seat.
No...
Small Startups Are the Best!
Thanks for this, I just talked to engineering and that ATM issue should be fixed in our next release which goes out tonight. The other one maybe too… Feel free to send me any bugs with as much info as you can provide and I’ll be sure to address it… it helps us a lot.
- Jason M. Putorti, Lead Designer at Mint.com