June 2011
“After his speech, Colbert accepted credit card donations to his “super PAC” using an iPad application.”
—Serious FEC Ruling On Stephen Colbert’s Campaign Finance Joke
Soup: Google + →
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Creating an online community may work for the Mashables of the world, the Seth Godins and Robert Scobles who make a living as tech pundits, but it will never catch on with real people. Honestly, if you need to make a video (or series of videos!) explaining how a website works, you’ve already lost.
There are now 151,350,260 over 13 year-old Americans on Facebook. There are now 245,000,000 over 13 year-olds in the US. Apparently the tech pundits now outnumber the real people.
What do you think of Goog+?
I think it will enjoy a significant advantage if for no other reasons than a) it’s not facebook and b) you are allowed to make your groups from the getgo, rather than later, when it’s too late, and you don’t want to bother going back. Other than that, it’s still confusing to me, but I am enjoying the friendfeediness of it a bit. It needs better mobile integration too. I need SMS n stuff. But I am liking it so far.
“The Internet was thought to be too arcane, insecure and slow to meet real business needs. Even after the team introduced Mosaic, the world’s first browser, almost nobody thought the Internet would be significant beyond the scientific community—least of all the most important technology industry leaders who were busy building proprietary alternatives.”
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Why the Browser Matters // ben’s blog
Rafer sez:
So why does a16z believe in proprietary mobile apps?
(via rafer)
Aww come on. I’m old. I remember that period. There were PLENTY of people touting the commercial potential of the internet, and most of the naysayers weren’t decrying that potential on technical potential, but on either “it’s not here YET” grounds or ideological ones.
Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? →
huffingtonpost.ca
You know who doesn’t give a fuck anymore? The University of Oxford styleguide:
As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’.
Game changer.
I just…between that and the no more double space after a period….
Why does this have to evolve?
You will pull this comma from my cold, dead, and frozen hand.
Blah Blah Blog.: Why Pixar's "Cars" Universe is deeply disturbed. →
blog.rachelmercer.org
This is a blogpost sparked by a heated debate between myself and my friend Dave Chen of the Slashfilmcast.
If Cars don’t procreate - who or what is their creator?
We understand (or are told) in Cars 2 that the individual cars are created in factories. This of course means we don’t have…
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Brand New Love
Sebadoh
Sebadoh - Brand New Love
I will never, ever tire of this song. Listened to the remastered Bakesale on vinyl today, too. Hand’t listened to that one in a while. What a great band.
“In a recent speech in New York, Bharara surveyed the extensive rot of illegal activity on Wall Street and concluded, “The bigger and better question may not be whether insider trading is rampant but whether corporate corruption in general is rampant; whether ethical bankruptcy is on the rise; whether corrupt business models are becoming more common.” The Galleon case helps to answer these broader questions about the culture of the financial world: it illustrates how, over the past decade, cheating and self-dealing became the principal ways to succeed on Wall Street. Bharara’s campaign of deterrence has had a particularly strong effect at hedge funds. Several New York attorneys told me that clients have called in a panic. “There are a lot of nervous people out in the Hamptons,” one criminal lawyer said. Stanley Sporkin, a retired judge who was regarded as one of the S.E.C.’s most aggressive enforcement chiefs when he served, in the nineteen-seventies, told me, “People on Wall Street are going to be coming to work with brown pants on. It’s going to change the way they work for a long time.”
—Preet Bharara Takes on Wall Street Crime : The New Yorker
