February 2012
5 posts
The BCS isn't what's broken about college football →
January 2012
12 posts
A bold prescription.
newsweek:
apsies:
“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.”
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Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful...
“A $250 billion per year loss would be almost $800 for every man, woman, and...”
– The Freakonomics guys call bullshit on the MPAA’s piracy numbers. (via jimray)
WatchEVERYONE WATCH THIS.
mashable:
“Because the biggest producers of content on the Internet are not Google and Yahoo — they’re us – we’re the ones getting policed. The real threat to the enactment of PIPA and SOPA is our ability to share things with one another.”
-Clay Shirky, in his “emergency” TED talk about SOPA and why it would create a “consumption-only Internet.”
“Nowadays, a candidate must believe not just some but all of the following...”
– American politics: The right Republican | The Economist
December 2011
8 posts
“Minus some money for PayPal charges etc, I have a profit around $200,000 (after...”
– A Statement from Louis C.K. (via garychou)
The Day I Saw Van Gogh's Genius in a New Light →
john:
Pretty incredible post
November 2011
1 post
Happy Monday from the real PAC-12 Champions!
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
9 posts
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“We were a hardware company; we didn’t actually have any business doing...”
– Pixar’s lamp shines a light on an animated universe - latimes.com
“Lasseter showed some test footage in Brussels of the lamp hitting a ball with...”
– Pixar’s lamp shines a light on an animated universe - latimes.com
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July 2011
12 posts
Klinsmann Named Head Coach of U.S. MNT - U.S.... →
theworldsgame:
It took Sunil Gulati five years, but he finally got his man. More to sort tactically, what it means for the USSF, etc. but right now it’s nice to know that we’ll have a coach who wears some debonair clothing on the sideline (as far as superficial ish goes.)
The Trillion Dollar Coin Solution →
I am so totally into this.
KEEPS: What Apple Has that Google Doesn't →
keepsdiary:
Great article from The New York Times. I bolded my favorite parts so you can just skim and read those.
“AT Apple, one is the magic number.
One person is the Decider for final design choices. Not focus groups. Not data crunchers. Not committee consensus-builders. The decisions reflect…
8 Pillars of Innovation | Google Think Quarterly →
Awesome read, especially since my team name at Disney is “Innovation.”
WatchComputer!
29 life lessons learned in travelling the world... →
saralouhicks:
Awesome
“People who can’t communicate with each other get stuck making complicated...”
– ZURB – How Design Teamwork Crushes Bureaucracy (via soxiam)
…and, as if to support my previous point about project management software, I scroll down my Tumblr Dashboard to find this! Pretty much the same point I was trying to make about project management methodology as a substitute for effective...
“The story goes that ESPN president George Bodenheimer attended the first Disney...”
– Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN (via @beaucolburn)
The Case for Making Wages Public
An interesting POV I first heard a few years ago. It makes me feel a bit creeped out, but I’m thinking that’s probably just because of how I was raised. It actually probably makes a ton of sense.
theatlantic:
Daniel Indiviglio makes it:
The Facebook generation has a far more liberal attitude towards sharing personal information than previous generations. As it begins to dominate...
“One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate...”
– Larry Summers on the Winklevii (via CNN Money)
Ahahahahaha. Ba-ZING!
(via evangotlib)
Awesome I hate those guys
(via siminoff)
June 2011
3 posts
