Mar 11 2010

But it worries me that this Toyota thing worries us so much. We live in a world where responding irrationally to risk (say, the risk of a terrorist attack) can lead us to make mistakes (say, invading Iraq).

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Mar 10 2010

Today they censor nipples, tomorrow editorial content.

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I dislike Michael Arrington, so I never read anything on TechCrunch (even when they write about me or my products) and have taken technical measures to ensure that I never even land there accidentally and give them whatever tiny profit that one pageview is worth.

Marco.org: News flash

Marco has excellent thoughts about entitlement but this quote is hilarious. Brilliant.

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Mar 9 2010

There isn’t going to be a stream of marketing, The way agencies have made money is there’s a constant cycle of marketing. It’s not going to be that way anymore.

— Tony Quin, CEO of IQ Interactive

Digital Agencies Get Back to Business

It sounds a lot like agencies are in the business of building robust applications that will live regardless of platforms. Web, mobile, tablet, social and whatever evolves beyond social.

Welcome to digital. If this doesn’t excite you, I have no idea what will.

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Great essay on how Steam changes everything for Mac gaming. Digital distribution makes the rest of the competitors look antiquated.

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The future of books.

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Mar 8 2010

An amusing rumor about John Roberts’ Retirement spins wildly out of control because of an anonymous source.

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29 € for 60 minutes on Orange, ready to use and contract-free. Jason Bourne would be proud. Wonderful concept.
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29 € for 60 minutes on Orange, ready to use and contract-free. Jason Bourne would be proud. Wonderful concept.

qiring:

pinto:

vvvxxx:

pwei:

Contract-free mobile phone - BIC® phone

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Mar 3 2010

What you can learn from Queen Yuna:

  • Go beyond your rivals
  • Find special skills and hone them

What about nerves of steel? This is hilarious.

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Mar 2 2010

Movies today are, on average, much pinker than the films of half a century ago. Their shot structure has greater coherence, a comparatively firmer grouping together of similarly sized units that ends up lending them a frequency distribution ever more in line with the lab results of human reaction and attention times.

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