May 2008
20 posts
LSD inventor Albert Hofmann dies →
nwsppr: Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died of a heart attack at his home in Basel at the age of 102. Mr Hofmann first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of a crop fungus. He accidentally ingested some of the drug and said later: “Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror”. He argued for decades that LSD could...
Are today’s organizations creating hardworking... →
krs: “Don’t ask questions. Don’t cause problems by thinking, or waste time on coming up with new ideas. Don’t think about the future, or try to anticipate problems before they arise. Just keep at it, do exactly what is expected of you, and always get the most done in the least amount of time and at the lowest cost. If von Manstein is correct, the result will be that more and more employees will...
I like that advice...
tylerriewer: Pinpoint one thing you enjoy doing that scares the hell out of everybody else. Then do that for a living.
April 2008
28 posts
aggregated: love, hate, think, believe, feel and... →
unlike emily i love twitter. i also love this visualization. i expect to see more organization around all of this user generated content that leads to emergent value greater than their peices alone.
digitalsnacker:
i hate twitter. but i love pretty data aggregation visualizations. so i’m secretly ashamed at how long i was on this site. via designnotes
“Much the way Hollywood people have shuttled between Los Angeles and Manhattan...”
– Brooklyn is the new Soma Sisters in Idiosyncrasy - New York Times (via fred-wilson) (via tylerhwillis)
yes please.
bijan:
Need You Tonight - Of...
“Third, even within the tech world itself I’ve seen Twitter “haters” turn into...”
– Much atwitter about nothing? » VentureBeat (via bijan)
The future of mobile ads
ad and mobile people take note.
bijan:
Here’s the thing. I never understood mobile ads. text ads or banners. I know they can be targeted in brand new ways but text & banner ads in a browser. DIdn’t get it and I’ve never clicked on one. but we have a portfolio company that has quietly launched a service with a large carrier and using AdMob mobile ad network. And guess what? The click thru...
“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”
– Barack Obama (via marco and azspot) (via david)
“Morale is tremendously important to a startup—so important that morale alone is...”
– Be Good - Paul Graham: Essays (via bijan)
WatchTwitter in plain english.
Exploring the mystery behind the reflection in...
be sure to click on the zoom button.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does...
“Whatever’s convenient wins.”
– Bob Pittman (via jakoblodwick) (via tylerhwillis)
The Do-Nothing Effect
tylerhwillis:
cubicle17: It occurred to me recently that on the days I spend most of my work day doing nothing (or at least nothing intellectually stimulating), I spend my night/weekend doing the same. I acclimate to doing nothing and that’s a hard cycle to break. Sure, I may force my way through my RSS feeds, I may “read” a few of the more interesting-looking articles, and I may even blog...
Who needs friends?
bijan:
Robert Scoble wrote an excellent post last night discussing and comparing the friends factor on different social web services. One thing he has been saying a lot lately is that the key to Twitter is how many people you follow vs follow you: “People still aren’t getting this. They didn’t get how I was using Twitter and still don’t. I follow the world’s best early adopters, business...
“Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago” in heavy rotation http://snurl.com/23vtu
MIRO is pretty cool for webtv http://www.getmiro.com/ — like an open-source itunes focused on video
Stuff White People Like →
"Possible Nazi Theme of Grand Prix Boss’s Orgy... →
Ugly Casanova: Things I Don’t Remember (via pitchfork.tv) http://pitchfork.tv/node/128 — lead singer of modest mouse + more
Aphex Twin: Nannou (via pitchfork.tv) http://pitchfork.tv/node/149 — very impressed with pitchforks selection so far, but no embedd code???
Of Montreal: Gronlandic Edit (music video via pitchfork.tv) http://pitchfork.tv/node/280
want to control itunes from your iphone? check out signal — pretty good, though interface could use some help http://snurl.com/23n4p
word of the day: filching via http://snurl.com/23kwj via nivi from @venturehacks
some crackhead stole the catylitic converter out from under my car - sounds like a motorcycle.0cpq0.00070080*