January 2012
20 posts
“Note to [Larry] Page: When you make Apple look like the easy and reasonable...”
– Page Rage Escalates As Google Cancels Twitter Android Meeting | PandoDaily
“The speaker for the last 10 years has been an influence peddler in Washington,”...”
– Freddie Hired Gingrich for Business Goals - Bloomberg (via tedr)
“Most interesting to me, Yonatan Zunger, Chief Architect of Google says:
...”
– Google Failed Because of Real Names « Emergent Chaos
OMG an untested idea turns out to be false? That never happens! Ever! <sarcasm off>
Moral of the story? Always assume your hypothesis are hypothesis and more often then not will be wrong in the face of real world testing.
“Mr. Gotlieb’s apparent belief that he and other advertising agency leaders can...”
– Wither the Giants? The Arrogance of Aging Incumbents | Disruption: David Pakman’s Blog
Tumblr: 15B pageviews per month by 120M people →
caterpillarcowboy:
125 pageviews per person per month, or 4 page views a day. That’s actually less than I would have thought. I probably contribute 30-50 pageviews a day, just refreshing the dashboard or loading the next page. How many times a day do you refresh?
Huh? Tumblr which runs the Quantcast tag shows ~50 page views per person per day. And it shows 100M people a month who do 150...
“But the message Dodd most seemed to want to get across was that “the white noise...”
– Sundance 2012: MPAA’s Chris Dodd Calls Piracy Defeat a ‘Watershed Event’ - Hollywood Reporter
Rafer sez: If you start the negotiation at a reasonable place, it may well end at a reasonable place. If you start by proposing to end Free Speech as we know it, you are asking for an out of control...
“Less than 2% of the beginners and 9% of the experienced snowboarders wore...”
– The Research Report: A New Weapon in the Fight Against Superbugs - WSJ.com
The key point - the supposed safety equipment doesn’t actually make you more safe. Kinda sounds like the TSA.
“Why don’t Americans trust their government? It’s not because they dislike...”
– Where Are the Liberals? - NYTimes.com
This captures my politics in many ways. Call it the fight against rent-seekers. I call it the fight against cronyism. It’s a fight against those seeking to rig the system in their favor against the merits of ideas, work and fairness.
And these ideas...
“Since rejoining the Company in 1997, Mr. Jobs had not sold any of his shares of...”
– Apple’s 2012 Proxy Statement
In a world where the likes of Steve Ballmer and many others routinely sell huge portions of their shares, Jobs kept all of his. $2,319,515,000 worth, as Dustin Curtis points out.
That’s dedication and loyalty. That’s putting your money where your mouth is. (via...
“Drumming is a physical release for me. When I was a kid I’d have fights with my...”
– Bill Kreutzmann, adult vandal in 1972 (via fuckyesgratefuldead)
this is an interesting quote. A few weeks ago we had an argument with our 9 year old over something inane, and it ended with him going over to practice his guitar and pounding the crap out of it
(via newspeedwayboogie)
Andy - what...
“Yahoo has become the Sick Man of the Internet, akin to the Ottoman Empire’s role...”
– Digiday - Yahoo’s Choice: Double Down on Data
“But he finds the stagnation at the bottom alarming and warns that it will...”
– Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs - NYTimes.com
Not the twitter- or bloggesphere will notice this - but these studies are essentially limited to people born before 1970. So it is effectively a study on the policies of the past NOT the present. This could be a huge indictment of the...
“A Colorado woman dropped her pants at a museum and rubbed her rear end all over...”
– Woman Scratches, Rubs Butt Over $30M Painting | NBC Los Angeles
Police believe she was drunk? Really, couldn’t have guessed that one. ;)
Bring Back Boring Banks - NYTimes.com →
Yep.