September 2009
I just ousted @nedward as the mayor of Spring Lounge on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/6mlRS
I’m at Spring Lounge (48 Spring St, at Mulberry, New York). http://bit.ly/6mlRS
I’m at Soho House (29-35 9th Ave, btw 13th & 14th, New York). http://bit.ly/xhEV8
August 2009
“Gamberini et al found that twice as many visitors gave up their information if...”
– Conclusions from this study. (via innonate)
I’m at La Colombe Torrefaction - Soho (270 Lafayette St, btw Houston & Prince, New York). http://bit.ly/2o5rsy
GE / Nuclear Power / Saving the world... →
jayparkinsonmd:
I was privileged enough to meet Eric Loewen. He works for GE’s nuclear energy division. They’ve invented something called a PRISM reactor. It uses nuclear waste for power.
The US uses 3 terawatts of energy every year. The nuclear waste already buried across America can produce 300 terawatts of energy using a GE PRISM reactor, thus powering the US for 100 years with no new...
“How harmful is it swallow a small amount of nail polish remover?”
– A support email sent to Tumblr today (via marc) (via david)
That’s awesome. We get crazy shit in our support queue too. Crazy shit.
“When I am shooting on the street older women and larger size women often say...”
– The Sartorialist: So What Do We Think About This?
via langer
(via sexartandpolitics)
(via gauntlet)
Does Your Startup Have The Right DNA?
continuations:
In 1997 I started a company with two professors from MIT in the emerging Internet healthcare field. We made a lot of mistakes, but probably the biggest mistake was made at inception. We did not have the right DNA in the company for what we were trying to accomplish. The two professors were academics and I had a consulting services background (albeit a consulting startup). Their...
NY Times: Afghanistan election is fraud-y, fraud-y... →
unsolicitedanalysis:
(via inothernews)
People who call what happened in Afghanistan “election fraud” have no concept.
My dad was over there leading up to the election. Rockets are being fired daily, the Taliban flat-out runs large parts of the hinterlands, and there is nothing resembling basic social order. People live in one room at night while the bombs go off and the businesspeople...
lvlewitinn:
Eliot Spitzer gets caught with a hooker and he’s demonized and drummed out of office. Ted Kennedy drives a car with an unconscious girl into the water to suffocate her to death but he’s somehow the Lion of the Senate for 40 more years. Why are we not begging Spitzer for forgiveness on how he was treated when he did something between two consenting adults that didn’t end in a woman’s...
“Ajmal is among roughly half a million users who are eschewing proprietary maps...”
– GPS Satellite via Wikipedia
GPS Hackers Blaze Own Trails With Crowdsourced Maps | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Rafer sez: A half million isn’t a bad user number at this stage. Anyone know where they might have plucked it from?
(via rafer)
No idea, but I’m a huge fan of OpenStreetMap. Super...
“A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to...”
– 57% Of Voters Would REPLACE Entire CONGRESS [Digg] (via hilker) (via mikehudack)
In other news, what % of Americans don’t believe in evolution?
(via caterpillarcowboy)
What does one have to do with the other?
(via mikehudack)
Just saying, there are a lot of ill-informed people in the world....
“The Munich Agreement was an agreement permitting German annexation of...”
– Munich Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A top priority for the new government will be simply maintaining the unity it...”
– Japanese Opposition Wins Elections in Landslide - NYTimes.com
“Analysts, however, saw the vote less as an embrace of the Democrats than a...”
– Japanese Opposition Wins Elections in Landslide - NYTimes.com
“A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to...”
– 57% Of Voters Would REPLACE Entire CONGRESS [Digg] (via hilker) (via mikehudack)
In other news, what % of Americans don’t believe in evolution? (via caterpillarcowboy)
What does one have to do with the other?
“Mr. Hatoyama, who is expected to assemble a government in two to three weeks,...”
– Japanese Opposition Wins Elections in Landslide - NYTimes.com
“A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to...”
– 57% Of Voters Would REPLACE Entire CONGRESS [Digg] (via hilker)
“It was Sen. Grassley himself who rammed the GOP’s most astonishing pro-death...”
– It’s Republicans, not Democrats, who are trying to kill the elderly. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine (via indefensible) (via soupsoup)
Is Tumblr becoming LiveJournal? Discuss.
“In every aspect of your business (and personal life) try to allow others to...”
– New Rules for the New Economy (via heyitsnoah) (via jayparkinsonmd)
It should be obvious by now that I agree wholeheartedly.
(via taylordavidson)
This is what we call the Platform Play.
(via mikehudack)
One of the reasons Old Media will go away is precisely because they do NOT view working with...
McCain Denies Giving OK to a CIA Torture Tactic →
I don’t think I believe him.
There's nothing better than having an apartment...
Somewhere you can hang out when you’re tired and still have a good time. Feel good. It’s a wonderful thing.
“In every aspect of your business (and personal life) try to allow others to...”
– New Rules for the New Economy (via heyitsnoah) (via jayparkinsonmd)
It should be obvious by now that I agree wholeheartedly. (via taylordavidson)
This is what we call the Platform Play.
I went to a complimentary personal training...
andrearosen:
The first thing my trainer said to me was: “I don’t care if you come see another trainer and I don’t care if you just work out on your own, but, girl, I just want you to get to the gym regularly.”
The last thing my trainer said to me was: “I really, really, want you to come see me once a week. Ten sessions are $599.”
In between that, he repeatedly told me I was very...
“We know that she’s one of the most famous people to have an Erdös-Bacon number,...”
– Jake Gyllenhaal interviews Natalie Portman (via benjaminpalmer)
Republicans, please stop lying.
squashed:
People are confused enough already. And now Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyoming is saying, “These bills would expand comparative effectiveness research that would be used to limit or deny care based on age or disability of patients.”
No, that’s not what comparative effectiveness research would do. Comparative effectiveness research would simply compare how effective one treatment is...
John Mayer's Mug Shot Earns $25,000 For Animal... →
nickdouglas:
It’s getting harder and harder for me to hate John Mayer, and easier for me to really adore him. He challenged TMZ to dig up a 2001 mug shot of his, and gave $25,000 to charity when they met the challenge.
I’m at Iggy’s Keltic Lounge (132 Ludlow St, btw Rivington & Stanton, New York). http://bit.ly/5Rr6D
I just ousted @bwrightson as the mayor of Iggy’s Keltic Lounge on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/5Rr6D
"Illegal File Sharers spend the MOST on Legal... →
spytap:
tanya77:
“… results revealed that users of P2P technology spend considerable money on traditional media and entertainment. They are, in fact, important and valued customers of the traditional media companies. Our survey shows that the P2P user attends 34% more movies in theaters, purchases 34% more DVDs and rents 24% more movies than the average internet user.”
So there’s “piracy” for...
“2. Nothing so protects a company like network effects. In the CL case, it is the...”
– What We Can Learn From Mess (via brooksjordan)
“Network effect” is just Internet entrepreneur speak for “customer.” I find it much more beneficial to use the traditional term ;)
I also prefer to describe the technology-side of web services as commodities, as most - Craigslist being a perfect...
I’m at Rocketboom Satellite Studio (200 Central Park West, 79th St, New York). http://bit.ly/Dapme
Cool. Good. Just woke up. Back from my trip and exhausted.
“An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies...”
– The Associated Press | 09-01-05 (via retropolitics)
I’m finally going to see Inglorious Basterds today. Let me know if you’d like to join.
“Prices, which dropped about 25 percent in the second quarter of the year,...”
– Contract Signings Rise, and Deal-Watchers Exhale - NYTimes.com
I take this to mean that the NYC real estate market has dropped roughly 30% since the peak (on a per sq ft basis) and has roughly 10-15% further to fall, depending on your neighborhood and type of unit.
In other words, if you were...
“During the harshest period of my interrogation I gave a lot of false information...”
– Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in How a Detainee Became An Asset - washingtonpost.com
I recommend reading the whole article instead of simply this out of context quote. It gets to the heart of how effective torture was (and still doesn’t answer the question.) Here’s what happened:
KSM wasn’t...
I’m at San Francisco International Airport (SFO, San Francisco). http://bit.ly/ojWeK