January 2009
76 posts
Watchfascinated:
The energy in this video is crazy: Mindless Self Indulgence - Mark David Chapman
kortina’s bit: tight. been listening to these guys since high school when a friend gave me a copy of strictly for the hardcore—insane but fun and to be taken cum grano salis.
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“Start-ups that are staffed with tinkerers, tweakers, tuners and trackers have...”
– Bryce Roberts
Nice alliteration from Bryce. Trackers.
(via betaworks)
kortina’s bit: Tinker with everything you can get your hands on, play with new toys and technologies, try to use them in unintended ways. By using a new technology, bending it, and breaking it, you can gain insight on...
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Chat with Mom About @365workouts and i365...
Mom: I'm trying to come up with an i365 idea for you-stay tuned!
Me: Come up with the content and you'll be rich.
Mom: not looking for rich, looking for retirement
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New Soul Nation - Escalate
Going to see a reunion...
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“Our investment strategy is to arbitrage the difference between the capabilities...”
– USV strategy via http://bit.ly/wXr1
Full article here: http://bit.ly/ao9A - awesome read
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“The A Train to Far Rockaway on Friday nights was the hippest party in town. A...”
– via http://bit.ly/MLNjv
kortina’s bit: loving this blog that Neil and Andy turned me on to. Apocolypse is nigh
Herbie Thrust Coincidence
G-BAttle: ahhhhhh.......
gotta love herbie hancock covers.
dude, do you own Herbie Hancock "Thrust"?
me: fucking a
G-BAttle: if you don't, download it NOW.
me: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3462/3236914926_bfa1796f45.jpg
look at what i am f-ing listening to right now!
holy shit
that's ridiculous
G-BAttle: dude, that's INSANITY!
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Maceo Parker - Chameleon, live
This song is, as...
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Angelique Kidjo - Seyin Djro
Love...
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Stevie Wonder - Sugar
Drop your shiz, put on your...
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“The best money comes from customers, not external investors. I think...”
– Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan — HBS Working Knowledge (via datainsightsideas)
kortina’s bit: Agreed. I like to think of external money as a catalyst for growth accleration, rather than an operational dependency.
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Get with the Programmer
We’re accepting nominations for the Don Juan of the Database. Do you know a worthy Gigabyte Gigolo?
To nominate your resident RAMcake, just fill out our quick, easy form telling us why he should win. On February 4, we’ll announce the finalists on our website and invite you readers to vote.
So what should be my strategy for winning this contest? Gbattle, I know you got some...
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The Roots - Essaywhuman
Another old school Roots...
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Overhead Squats: Ultimate
“The overhead squat is the ultimate core exercise, the heart of the snatch, and peerless in developing effective athletic movement. This functional gem trains for efficient transfer of energy from large to small body parts—the essence of sport movement. For this reason it is an indispensable tool for developing speed and power. The overhead squat also demands and develops functional...
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Jackson Five - I Want You Back
When the DJ plays...
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WatchGary V riffs on lemons to lemonade. Very cool stuff.
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How Melissa Met Crossfit
Melissa: "What the %*#$ is this?"
Eric: "This is CrossFit."
Melissa: "Well what the %*#$ is that?"
Eric: "Do a workout and you'll see."
Melissa: "Well, I already worked out."
Eric: "No you didn't, that was just a warm-up."
via http: //bit.ly/10t43
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Nas - One Mic
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“Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not...”
– Obama’s inauguration speech video: http://bit.ly/nkV5 transcript: http://bit.ly/CZI
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The Tech Behind Stevie Wonder. →
iqrammusic:
Love it!
kortina’s bit: I read first sentence, “Twenty-two-time Grammy winner Stevie Wonder…” and had to sit down.
Though blind, Wonder has mastered the visually-oriented personal computer—both PCs and Macs. He edits all his music using sophisticated programs such as Steinberg Cubase and Apple Logic Pro.
I can see and I haven’t done shit. Bowing...
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Eva Cassidy - Wade in the Water
Eat your heart...
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The Fastest Way to Compose Gmail Messages -...
I send lots of emails via Gmail, and I hate waiting for the full Gmail UI (chat list, inbox, etc) to load every time I want to send a quick note. Jenny and I riffed on this topic awhile back on Hackaddict, where we talked about a nice little bookmarklet for composing messages ( http://bit.ly/11Xgv ). This works pretty well, but still takes quite awhile to load.
This morning, I suddenly had the...
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Anthony's Letter to Grace from Bottle Rocket
Dear Grace, I enjoyed your letter. I agree Camp Douglas isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It never was. But if you’re feeling lonely or homesick even I recommend that (1) You call me. I’m staying at Bob Mapplethorpe’s and (2) that you keep extremely busy. It’s working for me… I’ve got a whole new program. Bob and I get up at 5:30 every morning...
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local neighborhood around this singularity somehow...
alimentary:
Today, I think the primary antagonist to the survival of a byte of information is the overwhelming amount of other information. I’m afraid that a great thought will be diluted by the sea of other thoughts: there is too much noise to even detect a signal.
Maybe I’m just pessimistic. Network analyses have shown that “great” ideas, or hot websites, or popular people, don’t simply stand...
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alimentary:
Musically and lyrically...
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Beck - Sissyneck
Every time I’m at Welcom...
“So why am I optimistic about investing in 2009? Because entrepreneurship is an...”
– David Hornik “Innovation Doesn’t Take a Vacation in an Economic Downturn” (via betaworks)
kortina sez: I think it’s not unlike the drive of a sculptor or inventor or musician.
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The Roots - The Unlocking
Mesmerizing spoken word...
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Fix git "Not currently on any branch" Problem
This is quite geeky (goodies linked later :), but I want to post so I can find this fix later and because I didn’t see a whole lot of others posting about this problem, so others may find it useful as well. I did a git svn rebase To update a local repo with changes from the master svn repository. There was a conflict, and after resolving I ended up in the “Not currently on any...
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“It’s not about building a list; that’s too simplistic. It’s about building a...”
– via Music Think Tank, http://bit.ly/how4
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What We Can Do
continuations:
Use less energy / support clean energy. Even if everyone does just a bit, it will have a meaningful impact on our energy consumption. I will start by finally replacing all the old bulbs around the house, adding a bunch of smartstrips and switching our electricity supplier to one using mostly renewable energy sources.
Albert is right—one of the easiest wasy to be a better...
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Bob Marley - Redemption Song
Had this song in my...
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The seven hottest startups of MidemNet 2009 →
artistspaid:
Stuart / Music Ally:
1. Catch Media - They want to ditch all the acronyms - MP3, WMA, AAC etc - and just let people listen to music, he says. So Play Anywhere comprises technology, licensing, a clearing house structure and a business model, all in one. 2. Passionato - It’s a “site for people who love Classical and Jazz”. 3. SoundCloud - SoundCloud is about making it easier for...
artistspaid:
fred-wilson:
Why? (The King Of...
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Stevie Wonder - So What the Fuss (Remix featuring...
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Venture Investors are Obsolete
Why are venture investors failing to seed new industries and markets? Because venture funds invest not just in all the wrong places, ignoring clear supply and demand signals - but, worse, in all the wrong and same places. Where one pioneer invests, a slew of imitators follow, and so tremendous amounts of cash are poured into the same business design or market space - ad exchanges, social...
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Icahn Proofing Your Board
The magazine Corporate Board Member is scheduled to come out with an article in their January issue entitled “How to Icahn-proof your board,” according to marketing materials the publication sent out.
Naturally I await this article with keen interest, particularly since I serve on a number of boards that apparently failed in this regard.
With the 2009 proxy season looming large and...
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John Legend - Alright
Love this song. Good bits...