September 2009
therealjanelle:
Remember in the late 80’s, early 90’s, when you used to listen to the Smiths all the time and I thought they were dumb? Well you were right and I was wrong and I’m sorry.
You know, funnily enough I have recently been thinking the exact opposite? “You know how I thought they were so awesome and you thought they were dumb? You were right and I was wrong.”
Police to review death of Rolling Stones' Brian... →
Police are reviewing the investigation into the death of The Rolling Stones’ guitarist Brian Jones after the emergence of new evidence.
OMG this is crazy. NEW EVIDENCE? WTF. Please please someone file a full report on this. This is crazy.
August 2009
Bob Dylan to voice sat nav? | News | NME.COM →
I would buy this in a second. You know, if I ever got lost, or was heading to the desert.
iPhone Moving Beyond AT&T in 2010? Maybe →
I am especially looking forward to when this happens, because one hundred thousand especially loud bloggers will immediately take it for granted, and find a new thing to complain about the iPhone with. And three weeks later, they’ll have forgotten, ever, about how important this was to them at the time.
Disney to Buy Marvel and Its 5,000 Characters for... →
So how does everyone feel about this? I suppose it makes a lot of business sense, but I can’t help but be a little sad. I can’t really place why, though. I was happy about the Pixar acquisition. But this one, I think, messes with my childhood a smidge too much.
FT.com / Europe - Berlin bids to halt ‘too big to... →
This seems like a very good idea.
New Order spin-off band Bad Lieutenant to play UK... →
So we’re gearing up for one of those interesting periods in the life of an English pop band, this time with New Order. New Order has split, and two bands have come out of it - Peter Hook’s Freebass, and Bernard Sumner & Phill Cunningham’s Bad Lieutenant. Both are readying albums - the first Bad Lieutenant track appeared on their Myspace page recently.
The Jesus and Mary...
The Pirate Party Is Coming to Canada →
I can haz pirate party in America, s’il vous plait?
Prosecutors Drop Criminal Inquiry of Gov.... →
So… One year after Richardson had to bow out of his nomnination to the Obama cabinet, he is more or less exonerated. Poor guy. I don’t know the details about this, but I do always love his appearances on the Daily Show.
The Cranberries to reform for US tour | News |... →
One time in 1995 or so I got so sick of my sister playing the Cranberries that I took the CD out of the player, walked into the street and shattered it with a baseball bat.
That being said, I do think I’d like to see this show.
My sister was always smarter than me.
“As he told us, “…[I]ndividual faults and frailties are no excuse to give...”
– Text - President Obama’s Eulogy for Senator Kennedy - NYTimes.com
Prosecutors Drop Criminal Inquiry of Gov.... →
So… One year after Richardson had to bow out of his nomnination to the Obama cabinet, he is more or less exonerated. Poor guy. I don’t know the details about this, but I do always love his appearances on the Daily Show.
Halting Recovery Divides America in Two - WSJ.com →
Whenever you ask “how’s work?” This is a pretty excellent overview of the s**t that is going down in the world that has nothing to do with a small business’s profit or loss or clients or how things are going - the world around them has changed markedly, and it’s having some serious ramifications. It’s kind of fascinating, in a way, to watch the world change...
Obama to Reappoint Bernanke as Fed Chief - WSJ.com →
My friends Ryan, Rob and I had a long argument about this very topic at a ridiculous tropical restaurant in Chinatown this weekend. Rob’s position was that Obama, like most presidents, pretty much had to keep Bernanke. I think he had some flexibility - the amount of criticism was strong enough that he could have gone either way. Personally, I am glad for this, and I’m also pleased he...
“So, have we fixed things? Have the points of failure of Katrina been remedied?...”
– How Katrina Saved Lives - Page 2 - The Daily Beast
“I was following my Dad in his truck when all of a sudden I started to black out....”
– I was shot in the head 2 years ago. This is what it like to be shot in the head: AMA : IAmA
More Parents Thinking Kids are Spoiled →
heyitsnoah:
Last month I wrote about an article outlining why old people think young people are spoiled. Well, the author has written a followup, this time outlining two more factors: Social mobility and increasing resource inequality. It’s another great and simple explanation of some economics/sociology stuff.
The best part, though, might be in the footnotes where the author wonders aloud...
TiVo Sues AT&T And Verizon Over DVR Patent... →
Ooo oo please let this turn into one of those crazy big lawsuits with potential preliminary injunctions that would turn off all non-TIVO DVRs, etc. We haven’t had one of those in a while.
Excessive Caution →
heyitsnoah:
Felix Salmon offers a take on the financial crisis I hadn’t heard (or thought of) before:
One of the themes of my talk was that it wasn’t an excess of greed and speculation which led to the financial crisis, but rather an excess of overcaution, with an attendant surge in demand for triple-A-rated bonds. Investors didn’t want risk, and investment banks made billions of dollars,...
JWT, WPP Sued Over TV Advertising for Microsoft's... →
This article is interesting, not necessarily because of the topic, which is mildly interesting to those of us who follow holding company antics. It’s interesting rather because it’s totally not clear what is actually happening, and every comment after the article asks the same question: “how can this company patent the technique of using television sets for product...
GQ: America's 25 Douchiest Colleges: GQ Features... →
#18: Boston University:
Home of: The Future Marketing Executives of America Douche
Most likely to: Major in communications and take it seriously.
Overheard at the “Winning in a Down Time: How to Brand Yourself” seminar aftermingle: “CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!”
Thesis topic: “Those Axe Ads: Totally Funny, Bro.”
Huh, well, I guess they got me pegged. I am a marketing...
Does the world need digital strategists? »... →
Noah pointed me to an interesting article over on the Naked blog from a few days ago about whether or not the world needs separate digital strategists.
I think it’s an interesting debate, and from the implciit perspective of where the author is coming from, I think he’s dead on - there’s a toolset to gain mastery of in digital, but from any other perspective, it’s not...
“SHE COMES TO ME WITH THE GIFT OF SONG AND IN RETURN I TREAT HER WITH THE RESPECT...”
– Nick Cave Online - LETTER TO MTV
“Many observers are currently tempted to cast certain players in the health care...”
– It’s very nice to read a straight-to-the-point summary of what needs to change in health care. NEJM — The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited (via heyitsnoah)
I often think about this with respect to the banking meltdown as well. Why are we hooting and hollering that a bunch of math nerds exploited...
un-fucking-believeable
lauraglu:
rickwebb:
lauraglu:
rickwebb:
vulgarlad:
Citi Bank has already received $45 Billion in government bailout money.
Two weeks ago they lobbied the Obama administration to okay $130 Million in bonuses to a mere 2 individuals.
Now they’re saying that they’ll need another $44 Billion from the government in order to stay solvent…but they swear this is it! Well I would certainly...
un-fucking-believeable
lauraglu:
rickwebb:
vulgarlad:
Citi Bank has already received $45 Billion in government bailout money.
Two weeks ago they lobbied the Obama administration to okay $130 Million in bonuses to a mere 2 individuals.
Now they’re saying that they’ll need another $44 Billion from the government in order to stay solvent…but they swear this is it! Well I would certainly fucking hope so…because I...
Publishers Are Killing Web Advertising’s Potential... →
This is a really interesting article. There are parts of it that are a little beyond my expertise, and a few things I don’t necessarily agree with, but I do think it’s premise that there is less different between print ads and interactive than we suppose is cathartic. And I think his rallying cries for publishers are a good move. Advertisers - and especially the media companies - are...
The Powderhouse Camera Project :: Somerville MA →
This is awesome!
This saturday, my excellent friend and former business partner and band mate, the Boston-based artist Annie Smidt will be turning the historic powderhouse building in Nathan Tufts Park in Somerville, MA into a giant Camera Obscura. She will then use the powderhouse camera to photograph members of the Somerville community in the park.
If you’re in the Boston area, I...
un-fucking-believeable
vulgarlad:
Citi Bank has already received $45 Billion in government bailout money.
Two weeks ago they lobbied the Obama administration to okay $130 Million in bonuses to a mere 2 individuals.
Now they’re saying that they’ll need another $44 Billion from the government in order to stay solvent…but they swear this is it! Well I would certainly fucking hope so…because I know, sure as shit, that...
Look What Tumblr's Done With All Its Money →
God, these posts. If you focus on growth, they give you shit about not paying attention to your core users. if you focus on your core customers, they give you shit about growth. So here’s Tumblr, growing like gangbusters and also focusing on their best users? QUELLE HORREUR.
“Inestimable Privilege. In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the...”
– The Law: Can Atheists Be Parents? - TIME
This is totally upsetting and crazy. Wouldn’t the same logic be applied to anyone? If I am jewish, my perspective would impact my children. If I am lutheran or baptist it would too. WTF.
Twitter's Future Foretold →
anishvshah:
Overheard in a Palo Alto cafe this morning (the speaker was a veteran venture capitalist):
“Twitter had better sell out before it’s too late. Young people don’t like Twitter. My kids think…
Woah! Did people stop getting older or something? And shit. Those booze companies better quit while their ahead - I heard kids don’t use booze that much.
Brad Pitt Pulls Them In to Put ‘Inglourious... →
I am very happy about this. I have been following the schadenfreude around The Weinstein Company, and I had read somewhere that supposedly everything was riding on this film. I’m glad it did well. Benjamin tells me it’s good. I wanna go see it this week. But I mean, I have a soft spot for Harvey. People say he’s an a**hole, but what he did for independent cinema was pretty...
