Mike Hudack

spiegelman: When I heard that Fisher Stevens was coming by the...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:53:19 -0500

When I heard that Fisher Stevens was coming by the office to pick up some artwork, did I ask if he would bring his Oscar just so I could take a photo with it and post it to Tumblr?

Yes, yes I did.

"We wake up every day and there is some new competitor out there — a Roku or a Boxee. People like to..."

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:58:18 -0500

“We wake up every day and there is some new competitor out there — a Roku or a Boxee. People like to think of cable operators as monopolists, but we face a lot of competition just to keep the business we have.”

- Melinda Witmer, Time Warner Cable Inc.’s programming chief, in “Apple Waits in Wings as Cable’s TV Everywhere Stamps Out Free”
If the cable providers made any effort to deliver extra value for consumers instead of cable companies, they’d face a lot less competition. The difference between this mentality and that of Jeff Bezos is perfect.
(via mattlehrer)

Squashed: On those Texas School Board hearings

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:57:05 -0500

Squashed: On those Texas School Board hearings:

robot-heart-politics quotes Texas Hearing Considers Deeper Conservative Stamp on Textbooks - NYTimes.com:

“Dr. McLeroy still has 10 months to serve and he, along with rest of the religious conservatives on the board, have vowed to put their mark on the guidelines for social studies texts.For…

lessin: relatively sure I just figured out where Kontami got "up up down down left right left right b a select start" from ... it is in ender's game

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:55:31 -0500

lessin: relatively sure I just figured out where Kontami got "up up down down left right left right b a select start" from ... it is in ender's game:

(via lessin)

Continuations: Investor Signaling (Adding to Chris Dixon)

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:02:17 -0500

Continuations: Investor Signaling (Adding to Chris Dixon):

Chris Dixon had a great post yesterday about “the importance of investor signaling in venture pricing” that every entrepreneur should read. Leaving aside the classical economics strawman from the first paragraph (does anybody think that classical economics would apply to a small numbers…

rafer: Rafer sez:Why not Flash? Because video needs to be a...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:55:57 -0500

rafer:

Rafer sez:
Why not Flash? Because video needs to be a first-class html media citizen that can be programmatically mashed up however and whenever. Click through and walk the edge, baby.

(via chuckolsen)

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:54:06 -0500

(via chuckolsen)

bliptv: We’re saying farewell to Flickr. After four years of...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:41:17 -0500

bliptv:

We’re saying farewell to Flickr. After four years of cross-posting episode thumbnails to the photo sharing service, we’ve decided to terminate the feature. It’s currently only used by a tiny fraction of blip users and is no longer particularly relevant to blip.tv or Flickr.

We will be terminating Flickr cross-posting on March 29th. Please contact support/at/blip.tv or support.blip.tv with any questions.

alconpowersauce: Hudack BINGO The guys in the office put...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:09:00 -0500

alconpowersauce:

Hudack BINGO

The guys in the office put together a BINGO game for my phone calls and meetings.

foursquare: Happy birthday, foursquare.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:04:38 -0500

foursquare: Happy birthday, foursquare.:

It was exactly a year ago when Naveen and I flipped the switch on foursquare. It was the day before we headed down to SXSW - back when we were still feeling 50/50 on whether people would think the “let’s turn real life into a game!” idea was really interesting or whether they’d laugh us out of…

newsweek: alexblagg: getthatlook: Oops! And people say...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:26:39 -0500

newsweek:

alexblagg:

getthatlook:

Oops!

And people say magazines aren’t interesting anymore…

"But I do think the press has got it right, that the administration has a disengaged, aloof president..."

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:46:36 -0500

“But I do think the press has got it right, that the administration has a disengaged, aloof president who has not set the tone with regard to legislation.”

- Karl Rove

Karl Rove has ‘sympathy’ for David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com

southpol: Climate Change’s PR Disaster | Mother Jones The...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:45:08 -0500

southpol:

Climate Change’s PR Disaster | Mother Jones

The Republican Party has largely decided that climate change simply doesn’t exist. It’s a hoax. And that leads them to oppose everything, even programs that have light footprints, don’t cost a lot of money, and don’t require massive regulation. After all, why should they support them if the problem they address literally doesn’t exist?

This is why so many environmentalists have switched gears recently, suggesting that climate change action should be disguised as energy research, national security programs, or competition with China for market share in the green market. And maybe that will work for a while. But just saying something doesn’t exist doesn’t make it so. Eventually even the GOP is going to have to acknowledge this.

Would you support a decision to rename this blog “Facepalm America”?

Rainblog: Say hello to the sidebone

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:45:06 -0500

Rainblog: Say hello to the sidebone:

A friend posted a link to this picture, showing a leaf whose main vein has been deliberately damaged. The picture illustrates how smaller veins, arranged in loops rather than branching structures, ‘route around’ the damage, ensuring that nutrients continue to reach the rest of the leaf. Without…

chuckolsen: Note the poster in background: “All Art Is Shit!”

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:40:08 -0500

chuckolsen:

Note the poster in background: “All Art Is Shit!”

xplanes: Yakovlev Yak-25RV (Razvedchick Vysotnyj,...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:27:25 -0500

xplanes:

Yakovlev Yak-25RV (Razvedchick Vysotnyj, “high-altitude reconnaissance”) variant, circa 1959

jayparkinsonmd: palahniukandchocolate: Human ingredients

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:33:07 -0500

jayparkinsonmd:

palahniukandchocolate:

Human ingredients

Marco.org: Overdoing the interface metaphor

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:01:39 -0500

Marco.org: Overdoing the interface metaphor:

We’re often told that we should design our websites and software to mimic real-life objects. The iPhone strengthened this idiom, and Apple has been driving this home hard for the iPad.

But it’s not absolute, and it’s not always the best idea. My favorite counterexample is the typical calculator…

spiegelman: There’s a whole lot of awesome going on here,...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:31:27 -0500

spiegelman:

There’s a whole lot of awesome going on here, that’s for sure.

jared: GOOD: Training for a Mars mission “What happens when...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:15:07 -0500

jared:

GOOD: Training for a Mars mission

“What happens when you put five astronauts in a small ship for 500 days and fly them to Mars?”

(via: itsfullofstars)

An ex-girlfriend of mine spent a couple weeks at the Haughton-Mars Project once. She was training for life on Mars.