February 2008
33 posts
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Enables conversations about events as they happen. This is really cool
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that...”
– Lao-Tzu (via navajeet)
Kortina's Twitter Digest: 2008-2-28 →
kortina: @zeemer - send me a link to your tumblog
kortina: @chrispetescia awesome, dude, can’t wait to start using the standing desk. lol, tobias chairs.
kortina: @jbeckerman just saw…
Don Quixote at Lunch
Eating lunch today at Cafe Bar I noticed a copy of Don Quixote next to the girl across the table. Emily turned out to be an MFA in Writing at Columbia and we had a great conversation about school (Creative Writing was one of my majors at Penn), Don Quixote, and New York. More places need the cafeteria style seating that facilitates this kind of conversation. Listen up, lunch joints: ditch the...
My Twitter Digest: 2008-2-26 →
kortina: sifting through 14pages of mlb documentation - fun!
kortina: Nav just informed me that he just sealed a 1.2 mil deal. Holla!
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Twitter Digest for Friday, February... →
kortina http://tinyurl.com/36oebd - @mikegermano - let’s put carrot properties on this map and be #1 on adanomics by this time in 09 writeRelativeTimestamp(1203776645);at 02:24 PM GMT from web
@fredwilson got me thinking about beauty with his post on Audrey Hepburn. Made me recall this gem from Ovid “Siqua latent, meliora putat” ...
“He saw her eyes bright as stars; he saw her lips, and was not satisfied with...”
– Fred’s post about Audrey Hepburn got me thinking about beautiful women, and for some reason this is one of my favorite quotes on the subject. It sounds better in Latin, though. “Videt igne micantes sideribus similes oculos, videt oscula, quae non est vidisse satis; laudat digitosque...
Watchjpix:Quinn and I playing soccer. He is an awesome goalie, Andrew and I want to draft him for intramurals. I taught him everything he knows
Benford's Law
“Benford’s law, also called the first-digit law, states that in lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, the leading digit is 1 almost one third of the time, and larger numbers occur as the leading digit with less and less frequency as they grow in magnitude, to the point that 9 is the first digit less than one time in twenty. This is based on the observation that real-world...
Twitter Digest for Wednesday,... →
kortina @mikegermano - are you happy now that I’m on this thing? writeRelativeTimestamp(1203632571);at 10:22 PM GMT from web
Finally convinced triggermail.com to get their facebook product page up so I could become a fan : http://tinyurl.com/22l3n8 writeRelativeTimestamp(1203632541);at 10:22 PM GMT from web
David's Got It Right →
fred-wilson: David Hyman’s been around online music for about as long as anyone I know. He’s the founder and CEO of Mog, the blogging service for music lovers. He has a post about the future of music up on his mog that I completely agree with. Here’s the meat of the post in case you don’t want to click thru and read the whole thing. Here’s what the labels need to do: drop that penny per track per...
“I am Shiva, the god of death.”
– Michael Clayton. Great movie.
Overheard in New York
navajeet: Girl #1: So, we have a bet — if I have sex first, then I have to wear a shirt that she’s written all over, but if she— [looks around]. Girl #2: If she what? Girl #1: … I’ll tell you later. I feel like people are listening, and I don’t want to end up on some website. -Starbucks, 51st & Broadway Endless amusement via Overheard in New York
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Interview with Yvon Chouinard, via Treehugger.
Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere →
This is awesome
Silicon Valley Arrogance →
fred-wilson:I opened an email this morning that started like this: I read your blog and believe that you have a firm grasp on web trends - especially for someone on the east coast. That’s as far as I got. I replied with incredulity and moved on. I am the first to admit that Silicon Valley has the largest concentration of web entrepreneurs, web developers, and web financiers of anywhere in the...
“I look at every garment when it is done and ask, “Is there anything else I...”
– Scott French
Twitter Down Art Collection
dembot: Alot of people are talking about Twitter being down. I have recently called for Twitter to decentralize, I believe the features of Twitter can be covered by Tumblr, and now I realize that I’m a dedicated Twitter user and plan on staying that way. I cant explain all of the reasons why, but I am sure that its really great and I love it. So I thought it was a great time to finally...