Foursquare list waiting to happen.
https://foursquare.com/harryh/list/the-20-most-beautiful-bookstores-in-the-world
:)
buzz:
The absolute best moment in the entire three season run of “Deadwood.” Al Swearengen is my hero. “The world ends when you’re dead. ‘Til then you’ve got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man and give some back.”
Words to live by.
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Start the New Year Fresh! « Flickr Blog
Good. (It’s always hard to blog about your old companies. Like picking at scabs.) Curious to see what Flickr IS going to focus on.
I’ve loved Flickr since back in the day and have been saddened by the lack of innovation in the product so I’m happy to hear that there’s someone at Yahoo! that still wants to make it a better. Also, hooray for focus.
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I am skeptical. Someone needs to buy Flickr and save it.
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FTFY: SomeoneRick Webb needs to buy Flickr and save it
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I’m really rooting for Google.
I believe in Android as a bulwark against iPhone’s greedy closed system of iTunes and its hypocritically Orwellian “freedom from porn” (and its “we’ve already solved podcasts” (and its love of Hitler (and its intolerance for satire))). (Plus Android’s Gmail,…
Do you deploy directly from github to your ISP?
OATV.com is now hosted on Github pages!
Let’s make one more addition to GitHub’s Box of Fact:
Number of VC websites with a GitHub repo: 1 (well, the only one I know of at least)
When we launched the new OATV.com there were a number of folks asking how we did what we did and whether they could use some of the same parallax effects.
So, Renee came up with the idea to put it all up on GitHub. Phoebe was game and the two of them got to work. It’s now live at github.com/OATV.
It’s unlikely to be the next big open source project but we love what github is doing and their values resonate with ours. If we can share something that ends up being helpful to someone there, we should. So we have.
Now have at it.
(Or at the very least, bet against it with me on the other side of the wager so I can make some money off the deal. Any takers? Rex? Felix?)
No way I’m taking the other side of a bet against spiers, but I hope that someone does so I can watch!
This is very helpful since when I curse the cabbie who won’t take me to Brooklyn I always forget to get their name, medallion number, or really any other helpful information.
Better idea: argue for a fairer pricing structure that doesn’t obligate hard-working drivers who operate on a thin, diminishing margin (thanks to rising gas prices not offset by fare increases) to make long, non-lucrative trips with no hope of a return fare, thus personally subsidizing the lower cost of living in the outer boroughs. (Doubling all fares from Manhattan to the other boroughs would come closer to covering the true cost to the driver.) And a phone dispatch system (or an app!) to match Brooklynites headed into Manhattan with cabs returning empty.
For once, I 100% agree w/ Mr Feld. If cab drivers are refusing to take your money than clearly the pricing system is broken.
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Man with multiple degrees fails standardized test for children
We need more of this.
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Honestly, it sounds to me like the guy taking the test was an idiot. He knew none of the answers to the math questions? A 10th grade exam is what? Algebra, geometry, and maybe some trig? An adult should be able to do these things.
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caro:
fek:
+1
I dunno, when people ask me how I’m doing I routinely tell them “God, it’s killing me.” I think the rigors of a leadership position at a startup (or really any position at all) are a pretty common topic of discussion these days. Pretty much everyone understands that working at a successful startup is likely to have a strong negative impact on your life, health, relationships, and overal mental state. I’ve also had quite a few discussions on the importance of combatting this and methods to do so.
Relavent to this discussion is Ben’s post on Managing Your Own Psychology.
