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therandompenguins: The children had to listen to fifteen...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:05:56 -0500

The children had to listen to fifteen minutes of talk about migratory patterns this morning after finding their elf in the same spot on the shelf as yesterday. Because when Phil panics, he gets wordy.

I had to make up some BS story for the kids just the other morning. I’m actually a little disappointed in them for not calling me on it.

Squashed: Mitt Romney thinks you need to take responsibility for your life

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:15:08 -0400

Squashed: Mitt Romney thinks you need to take responsibility for your life:

squashed:

Generally, there’s nothing wrong with asking people to take responsibility for their actions to avoid social ills. Stop littering. Spay or neuter your pets. Vaccinate your children. Get up early enough to eat breakfast so you’re not so grouchy at work. If your diet is making you sick, change it….

The Slow Web

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:26:13 -0400

jackcheng:

One of the better spots to enjoy a bowl of ramen noodles here in New York is Minca, in the East Village. Minca is the kind of place just out of the way enough that as you’re about to get there, you start wondering if you’ve already passed it. A bowl of noodles at Minca isn’t quite as neatly put together as those of other ramen establishments in the city, but it is without a doubt among the tastiest. There’s a home-cooked quality to a bowl of noodles at Minca. And there’s a homey vibe to the restaurant. Minca is a good place to meet a friend and sit and talk and eat and drink, and eat and talk and sit and drink some more.

The last time I was at Minca, I had an especially enjoyable conversation with Walter Chen. Walter is the CEO of a company called iDoneThis, a quiet little service that helps you catalog the things you’ve accomplished each day. iDoneThis sends you a daily email at your specified time, and you simply reply with a list of things you did that day. It’s useful for teams who want to keep track of what everyone is working on, and for individuals who just want to keep track.

I first reached out to Walter because I was mesmerized by this koan at the bottom of the daily emails:

iDoneThis is a part of the slow web movement. After you email us, your calendar is not updated instantaneously. But rest up, and you’ll find an updated calendar when you wake.

iDoneThis is a part of the slow web movement. The Slow Web Movement. I’d never heard that phrase before. I immediately started digging around—and by that I mean I googled “Slow Web Movement”—and the lone relevant search result was a blog post from two years ago. If you run the search again today, you’ll find Walter’s writeup on his company blog, which reflects a lot of what he told me over dinner.

As we talked further, I said to Walter that as soon as I saw “the slow web movement,” I assigned my own meaning to it. Because it’s a great name, and great names are like knots—they’re woven from the same stringy material as other words, but in their particular arrangement, they catch, become junctions to which new threads arrive, from which other threads depart. For me, “The Slow Web” neatly tied together a slew of dangling thoughts.

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Thursday Pooties, Woozles, and Pootie Picture Radio

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:56:49 -0400

Thursday Pooties, Woozles, and Pootie Picture Radio:

Our cat makes it onto Daily Kos. He’s the one with the headphones on.

Path: Introducing The Personal Network

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:50:03 -0500

Path: Introducing The Personal Network:

It was inevitable I suppose. We went from blogging to Twitter. Now Facebook to Path. What other companies need to be started to place further constraints on us?

pathinc:

Today we are proud to launch The Personal Network. Practically all of us carry a camera phone, and our photos tell the stories of our lives. Starting today, we hope that Path is the place you will always feel comfortable being yourself and sharing the story of your life with your closest friends…

Coderspiel: Exchange "remote wipe" is a terrible, terrible bug

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:11:34 -0400

Coderspiel: Exchange "remote wipe" is a terrible, terrible bug:

coderspiel:

Let’s say you know someone who works in a fairly small company. He handles a good amount of off-hours office email but was never offered a Blackberry as these were doled out not according to need but status, for which they quickly became an important symbol. And anyway, this employee didn’t want a…

Since my IT department is my IT department, I’m somewhat less concerned about this. That said, screw ups happen, and I’d prefer that a screw up in Exchange only screw up my company data.

Inception

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:43:37 -0400

halphillips:

Inception is one of those movies people theorize about, so here’s my take. I have not read about it or looked it up except to check the characters’ names, so this is based solely on what I got from watching it. Needless to say, tremendous spoilers follow for those who have not seen it.

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Duncan's Journal: Android VM Performance is not a Factor

Thu, 27 May 2010 15:09:11 -0400

Duncan's Journal: Android VM Performance is not a Factor:

Listen kids, this has all happened before and it will happen again.

Indeed, desktop VMs got faster and faster, but unless you’re quite the outlier, your probably aren’t running that many Java desktop apps.

But Android’s eventual fate will have little to do with how fast the VM is or how long method dispatches take on the iPhone. Instead, it’ll have to do with harder things like user experience, service plans, interoperability, and excellent applications.

…

But what do I know? I’m just a photographer these days.

Seriously self-effacing, but as the creator of Tomcat and ant, Duncan does know enough about Java to comment intelligently.

robertreich: “Why Public Education is More Important Than Wall...

Fri, 07 May 2010 22:53:11 -0400

robertreich:

“Why Public Education is More Important Than Wall Street, and What We Must Do”

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Last year, America’s top 25 hedge fund managers earned an average of $1 billion each — enough to pay for 20,000 teachers.

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tj: potjie: tedjseverson: moltz: potjie: Now that...

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:45:21 -0400

tj:

potjie:

tedjseverson:

moltz:

potjie:

Now that healthcare is done, maybe education. Perhaps start with math.

Whaaaaaaaa?

In fairness, there could be a large block of unreported undecideds, thus making 41% the plurality winner. But either way, that’s still sloppy reporting.

OK, fair enough. To close the loop, full numbers:

41% went too far

24% not far enough

18% just right

14% shouldn’t have done anything

I read that as 83% thought healthcare needed to change but disagreed on how. 14% wanted status quo.

But no matter how you read it, still a horrible headline for this completely unscientific poll of people wo happened to answer the phone this afternoon.

…

JANE
Listen, a Liberty Foundation poll’s about to come out…

JOSH
A poll!?

JANE
68% say we spend too much on foreign aid. 59% want foreign aid cut.

[later]

JOSH
So, if we’re lucky, foreign aid’s going to be funded for another 90 days at 75 cents on the dollar. No one who’s ever said they wanted bipartisanship has ever meant it. But the people are speaking. Because 68% think we give too much in foreign aid, and 59% think it should be cut.

WILL
You like that stat?

JOSH
I do.

WILL
Why?

JOSH
Because 9% think it’s too high, and shouldn’t be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, “I have utterly no idea what you’re talking about. Please, God, don’t ask for my input.”

West Wing episode “Guns, Not Butter”

Transcripts from http://communicationsoffice.tripod.com/4-12.txt

I know I’m probably Toby, but I like to think I’m Josh.

(Actually I’m probably the guy who sweeps up after they’ve left for the day, but it’s my fantasy world, so let me have this.)

More than anything else, this makes me miss The West Wing.

cocktailstraw: biorhythmist: suitep: Click on through for...

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:39:25 -0500

cocktailstraw:

biorhythmist:

suitep:

Click on through for huge, because it’s lovely.

I love this. So. Hard.

Perfect indeed. And awesome.

"TextMate: the text editor that proves that the patent-pending Duke Nukem Development Model™ need not..."

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:00:55 -0500

“TextMate: the text editor that proves that the patent-pending Duke Nukem Development Model™ need not be reserved for video games.”

- gecko (via hack-the-planet)

"The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender..."

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:11:05 -0500

“The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you’ve lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that’s bigger than you are and that controls you.”

- George Carlin (via marco)