August 2011
“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers...”
– Joan Robinson (via west2nd)
July 2011
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May 2010
“It will contain all the news on every sphere of human interest, and the news...”
– Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, describing their new magazine, TIME, to potential investors in 1923.
This sums up most of today’s media startups, too.
(via zachklein)
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Dear Aardvark, I can't trust you because of Mark...
Recently, I disabled about half the Facebook applications that have access to my data, because I just can’t trust what information Facebook will give out, and what information Facebook collects in return. They’ve shown time and again that they’re untrustworthy.
One of the applications I disabled was Aardvark, a cool service that routes your questions to subject matter experts to...
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david:
via Nik Fletcher and David Chartier
February 2010
Once In A Lifetime
louismarino:
“You may find yourself the dictator North Korea, and you may ask yourself HOW DID I GET HERE?!”
January 2010
“Is this any kind of life for a dog? It is a vicarious, low-level existential...”
– From NY Magazine
Apple Store madness.
lewiskingblog:
Apple stores don’t have “no smoking” signs. Legally they need them but they “ruin the design of the store”, so for every apple store in the UK they pay £50 a day to keep their windows sign free. Crazy shit.
EDIT: I forgot to include the source, it’s a friend who works in the Apple Store in Norwich, The evidence is the fact that they aren’t actually in the windows.
Get a $4 Amazon On-Demand Video Credit
somewhatfrank:
$4 credit for Amazon Video On-Demand, use code: AVODGIFT (redeem now, credit goes in your account). Watch a new movie on New Years!
(via @greggersh)
The Smell Factory →
Great New Yorker article (abstract only for non-subscribers… booooo!) about the creation of compounds that fool our senses and are in nearly every processed food we eat. Fascinating and well-balanced piece.
There are fewer than five hundred flavorists in the United States and they almost never speak about their work outside their laboratories. If you like neon-colored sports drinks, or...
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Complaint #555
whitewhine:
Ugh, I can’t believe nobody ‘liked’ my “Festivus…for the rest of us” facebook status today.
-Whine by Claire
December 2009
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