February 2012
2 posts
✚ The Kindle Touch: 90 Days Later →
Inside Instagram: How Slowing Its Roll Put the... →
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January 2012
1 post
Incredible Tool [IFTTT] →
IFTTT is a great site that let’s you do things like sync your twitter profile picture to your Facebook profile picture. Highly recommended…
December 2011
5 posts
America’s Drunkest Cities of 2011, From Las Vegas... →
Percent of population that are heavy drinkers:7.4% Percent of population that are binge drinkers:20.1%
The intrepid SI photographer spent the last 50... →
As far as photography goes, Jordan and Kevin Garnett are the best I’ve seen in front of a camera. They never change their posture or their faces. If I put a camera up to you, you’re going to worry whether you’re in the wrong position or whether you look like s—-. They understood the camera, and they knew they looked good.
If you have some time read the piece by Walter...
Morning tells the truth - (37signals) →
There’s a reason why you’re told to “sleep on it”:
The end of the day has a way of convincing you what you’ve done is good. The next morning has a way of telling the you truth.
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November 2011
13 posts
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INSIDE GROUPON: The Truth About The World's Most... →
Great piece on the debacle of the Groupon IPO:
What a turnabout from a few months earlier, when Groupon was the talk of Wall Street. Then, Groupon was one of the fastest-growing companies in history, spurning $6 billion takeout offers from Google, preparing to go public at a valuation fo $25 billion. And now everyone was talking about it running out of cash!
So what happened? How did things go...
Four Keys To Apple’s Success - Tech Europe - WSJ →
”Courage drives a lot of decisions in business. Don’t hang on to ideas from the past even if they have been successful for you. You don’t build a product just because everyone else has one. ”
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Apple's Supply-Chain Secret? Hoard Lasers -... →
About five years ago, Apple (AAPL) design guru Jony Ive decided he wanted a new feature for the next MacBook: a small dot of green light above the screen, shining through the computer’s aluminum casing to indicate when its camera was on. The problem? It’s physically impossible to shine light through metal.
Ive called in a team of manufacturing and materials experts to figure out how to make the...
Boston Red Sox GM Ben Cherington was born to lead... →
Jackie MacMullan has a pretty good piece on the new GM of the Sox. I’m trying to stay far away from the offseason turmoil, but this is a great read:
“I put a value on that. I prefer to have players for whom the game means something, as opposed to players who don’t care so much about the game.”
Mayne Event: When Tom Brady met Gisele Bundchen -... →
“It was Tom Brady’s good fortune to have gone to the beach on the right day,” Mayne reveals.
Apparently 12 mesmerized his future bride by having her run routes while he heaved the pigskin.
“I was pretty accurate that day,” Tom reveals. “I didn’t know until then that she was crazy about 20-yard incuts. Imagine if it was a post corner!”
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“If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn’t know...”
– Mark Zuckerberg
Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst... →
The new Google Reader explained perfectly:
I have nothing against visual consistency (and in fact, this something that Google should be doing), but it’s as if whoever made the update did so without ever actually using the product to, you know, read something.
One glaring omission though, the new reader kills Chrome with its memory usage.
Incoming: A Native Gmail iPhone App. Finally.
parislemon:
Ever since I bought the original iPhone in 2007, there’s been one app above all others that I’ve been sorely missing: Gmail. Of course, back then, there were no native third-party apps. But a year later, when those came, Gmail was still nowhere to be found.
At first, the talk was that Apple wasn’t going to allow another mail app on their device. Then it was that Google was simply...
October 2011
6 posts
WatchHistory of Rap 3 (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) (by NBC)
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com →
Absolutely worthy ready
Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.
Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.
Steve’s final words were:
OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
The Book Bench: Is Self-Knowledge Overrated? : The... →
Looking forward to reading Thinking, Fast and Slow after I read this piece in the New Yorker:
Kahneman has given us a new set of labels for our shortcomings. But his greatest legacy, perhaps, is also his bleakest: By categorizing our cognitive flaws, documenting not just our errors but also their embarrassing predictability, he has revealed the hollowness of a very ancient aspiration. Knowing...
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
3 posts
The Mission to Get Osama Bin Laden : The New... →
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July 2011
2 posts
Spotify is Finally Here →
I’m slightly excited…
June 2011
1 post
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you...”
– Conan O’Brien
May 2011
1 post
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
March 2011
3 posts
“Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the...”
Thirty-One Days Till...
Opening day…
February 2011
9 posts
“Someday everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion,...”
Two spaces after a period: Why you should never,... →
Most ordinary people would know the one-space rule, too, if it weren’t for a quirk of history. In the middle of the last century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual typewriter—invaded the American workplace. To accommodate that machine’s shortcomings, everyone began to type wrong. And even though we no longer use typewriters, we all still type like we do.
January 2011
8 posts
Why 3D doesn't work and never will. Case closed. -... →
And lastly, the question of immersion. 3D films remind the audience that they are in a certain “perspective” relationship to the image. It is almost a Brechtian trick. Whereas if the film story has really gripped an audience they are “in” the picture in a kind of dreamlike “spaceless” space. So a good story will give you more dimensionality than you can ever...
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Soul-crushing
Being a sports fan is a difficult and emotional ride. Largely it is heart-breaking & soul-crushing. Tends to be that way more often then not…
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Jets Continue to Mouth Off
Often times what gets lost in sports is the difference between confidence and egotistical behavior. There’s a clear distinction between “I know we’re prepared” to “We’re going to smack you around”. Now I’m not stupid enough to believe that trash-talking doesn’t happen in sports. It obviously does and to a very large degree. Where I start to...