After hearing a story about Foursquare’s co-founder, Dennis Crowley, walking into a press event in athletic wear and eating a banana, I developed a theory that bubbles might be predicted by fashion: when tech founders can’t be bothered to appear businesslike, the power has shifted too much in their favor. Believe it or not, this goes deep into the interior mentality of the engineer, which is very truth-oriented. When you’re dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn’t, no matter how good of a salesman you are. So engineers not only don’t care about the surface appearance, but they view attempts to kind of be fake on the surface as fundamentally dishonest.
(Source: The New York Times)
Why Work Doesn't Happen at Work -
This is my favorite TED talk so far. It’s about how incredibly destructive meetings are.
I love Everlane. How could I not do this?
Opening Statement:
Summer is here and after the response from last season’s giveaway by Two Inch Cuffs, they decided to team up with us to give our readers a chance to get their hands on the same brands we all feature daily. Brands such as Shwood, Penny Stock, Field Notes Brand, and Vans have always been a part of our collective season essentials and now they can very well be a part of your wardrobe. Both of us recognize all the support that we have been getting from our readers, so consider this our way of saying thank you. Enjoy your summer!
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Dr. House: Words have set meanings for a reason. If you see an animal like Bill and you try to play fetch, Bill’s going to eat you, because Bill’s a bear.
Little Girl: Bill has fur, four legs, and a collar. He’s a dog.
Dr. House: You see, that’s what’s called a faulty syllogism; just because you call Bill a dog doesn’t mean that he is … a dog.
” — House, M.D. ep 3x10, ”Merry Little Christmas”
True Story.
It’s a little known fact that Stanley Kubrick had a lifelong fascination with Napoleon, and attempted several times to turn his life into a movie. He once explained to a colleague: “it’s impossible to tell you what I’m going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.”
The movie was obviously never made, but he got as far as writing a complete screenplay, which is an amazing read.
This album is outstanding. If Deadmau5 was Moby, this would be his Play. Which is to say, four or five awesome songs and a bunch of really competent songs. Also the analogy doesn’t hold quite as strongly since dubstep has very little appeal for car commercials.
Standouts, in the order in which I love them:
The full mix is on Youtube.
“As a side note, data caps are actually a very poor way to manage demand and limit Internet congestion. All of the costs of supplying residential broadband are for supporting the peak loads, typically Sunday nights for residential customers. Bandwidth consumed off-peak is completely free; it literally has no marginal costs. If ISPs really wanted to limit their costs and congestion, they would limit speeds at peak times. But if their goal is instead to increase revenue, then making consumers pay $1 or more per gigabyte is an excellent strategy.” — Netflix, Inc. Form 8-K filed Apr-25-2011
“Okay, look. We both said a lot of things that you are going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science… you monster.”