June 2009
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Ben Gibbard, Thriller - Michael Jackson Cover
“Instead of watching TV or playing Grand Theft Auto, work on your idea. Instead...”
– 37signals on not quitting your day job (via marco)
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Or in the words of Gary Vaynerchuk Stop Watching F#$%ing Lost
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“But this journey is not one that can be undertaken in a car - you’d miss the...”
– Sen. Charles E. Schumer: Exploring New York By Bike (via noneck) (via whitneymcn)
So true. I’ve been writing a love story in my head every morning as I ride to work and every evening as a jet from affair to affair, and then home again. The love story is one I have with New York, the finer details...
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“After three days of ducking the press — and telling the Wall Street Journal that...”
– From a Fortune article on Steve Jobs.
I find this introductory paragraph absurd and completely representative of how invasive the recent Steve Jobs’s health media blitz. Methodist University Hospital did *not* “finally admit” anything. A better way to phrase Methodist University Hospital’s...
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Thanks innonate for introducing me to Ghostland...
Instapaper Pro now on sale at $4.99 →
Instapaper Pro is now on sale for $4.99 in celebration of the amazing iPhone 3G S, the new $99 3G, and iPhone OS 3.0, all of which improve the experience for developers and users and will significantly expand the iPhone’s installed base.
To clear up a common question: Instapaper Pro 1.3 owners will get the 2.0 upgrade at no additional charge. Developers currently have no way to charge for...
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"Who do you think you are, __________?"
ronen-v is a brilliant man even without his appendix:
There was this kid. His name was Mozart.
He was so fucking good at what he did- (he made music) that now, when some bad parent’s child is making music, the derisive parent will sarcastically write off the child who is making noise by saying, “Who do you think you are? Mozart?”
This kid Pablo Picasso.
He excelled at what he did. When he was...
“Have you ever looked at a piece of social software and thought, or worse,...”
– Double word: Tony Stubblebine » The Real Lessons From Twitter
Word. It doesn’t make a difference what you think about a product or what an expert thinks about a product. If it’s used it’s valuable. Everything else is just ego and opinion. (via tedr)
