May 2009
28 posts
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“Big enough is big enough, biggest isn’t necessary.”
– Seth’s Blog: Infinity—they keep making more of it (via hiten)
Rafer sez: Sustainable and scaled are orthogonal criteria.
(via rafer)
More:
You’re never going to be the biggest, so it seems like being better is a reasonable alternative.The problem with getting bigger is that getting bigger...
April 2009
43 posts
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Vim Autocomplete
ctrl+n and ctrl+p are the autocomplete commands in vim.
Was looking for this as I’m spending a lot of time in Vim today. Google led me to:
Consider you have following file contents.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /somefilepath1/.* RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /somefilepath2/.*
Now if you want to add another RewriteCond, and you have reached till “Rewri”
All you have to do is press Ctrl+P,...
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WatchStand By Me audio video collab
Jenny sent me this vid. I love the emerging collaboritive video / digital-postal-service art form.
Sync Config Files with Dropbox
I just moved some important configuration files into my Dropbox folder so that my command line utilities and preferences follow me across multiple machines. Plus, I know have a backup of these files, which have been continually customized over years and are very valuable to me now. I highly recommend doing this.
mv ~/.bash_profile ~/Dropbox/nix/bash_profile ln -s ~/Dropbox/nix/bash_profile...
“Third, discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance...”
–
Peter F. Drucker (via jakelodwick)
This is something i’ve been thinking a lot about lately.
(via brevitic)
kortina’s bit: Iqram has raised this same point to me many times.
“Google Analytics can analyze the optimum placement for fire hydrants and the...”
– Chartbeat Blog (via betaworks)
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“Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now...”
– Jim Rohn (via affremblequotes)
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Gmail App Store
I’m using about 10 Gmail Plugins from the “Labs” section (just enabled Canned-Responses, eg) and am thinking about 10 more features that I want to have. I know 3rd party developers can develop gadgets for Gmail, but these are pretty well sandboxed right now.
Gmail needs to open up deeper access with the plugin architecture and create a marketplace for developers to sell plugins....
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A Little Twitter Tool I Want
When someone follows me on Twitter, say, @userX, do a Summize search for tweets to:@userX and filter to those that were authored by my friends. I want some quick context of how I might know this person and what my friends are saying to this person.
Please let me know if this exists or if you build this!
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“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via affremblequotes)
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Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon
For example, when PayPal first launched, it was pretty clear that their product violated the operating rules for Visa, Mastercard and American Express — and violated banking regulations is more than 40 different states.
PayPal’s bet was that they could ultimate resolve these issues after their product had won in the marketplace. (And that if they didn’t win in the...
Jimmy Smith - Hobo Flats
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-12) →
Jimmy Smith (34)
Bruce Springsteen (20)
Stevie Wonder (18)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (16)
Angélique Kidjo (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Don’t make a better x, make a better user of x”
– Kathy Sierra
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Improving Oral Health by Changing Diet
My teeth stopped decaying and some breakage (broken tooth due to mechanical damage, 5 years ago) begun sealing itself with new enamel on my high animal fat, low carb diet of the last 10 years. I still have all my teeth including wisdom teeth. My teeth no longer develop plaque/scale and thus no need to descale, and I no longer develop cold sores on my gums. I haven’t been to a dentist since...
Victor and Jeff Jam, from the Flecktones...
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“They Are Us.”
– Someone at SXSW told me they saw this quote about wall street finger pointing by the rest of America.
WatchOMG, I just hit the motherload.
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“Boomer and post-boom parents with more money and autonomy than their...”
– http://bit.ly/T5OBR
Pretty much.
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Tumblr Search / SEO - ARRGG!
Tonight I was trying to find a link to this post on my blog of a great cover of Hey Jude: http://bit.ly/aG4H
It took me 2 failed searches using Tumblr search ( blog.kortina.net/search/term ), 2 failed Google searches, and a third Google search that finally led me to Disqus where after 2 pages I was able to locate the post.
If I can’t even find things I know that I posted here, how is...
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Bruce - Growin Up, Live 07 Jul 1978 at The Roxy...
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WatchHello Health, Jay Parkinson on what medicine / primary care should be.
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Bye Bye Amazon Affiliate Arbitrage - From My Inbox
Dear Amazon Associate:
We’re writing to let you know about a change to the Amazon Associates Program. After careful review of how we are investing our advertising resources, we have made the decision to no longer pay referral fees to Associates who send users to www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, or www.endless.com through keyword bidding and other paid search on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other...
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Easy, Efficient Alternating Rows Toggle CSS Class
I’m sure this is not a new thing, but I thought this was a pretty slick move that I came up with today:
var even_row = 0; for (var i=0; i < items.length; i++) { html += “<li class=’r”+even_row+”’>”; html += items[0]; html += “</li>”; even_row = 1 - even_row; };
I don’t think I’ve ever realized the sugar that...
A Big Week for Little URLs
betaworks:
bitly:
We had a busy week at bit.ly. We announced our funding, decoded almost 24 million clicks, and saw some great posts on the subject of link shortening.
bit.ly is already starting to evolve beyond URL shortening but shortening is core to the work flow so here are our views. We believe URL shorteners are an important part of the emerging social distribution network. As...
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“if you’re gonna walk to the ATM, you might as well net the Kung Pao Shrimp...”
– Cash is king, but monarchies are dead. via Thrillist http://bit.ly/3D4rRR
Let’s stop moving atoms to exchange bits.
Reversing Tooth Decay (among other things)
alimentary:
kortina:
a decaying or broken tooth has the ability to heal itself. Pulp contains cells called odontoblasts, which form new dentin if the diet is good.
…
In group 1, oatmeal prevented healing and encouraged new cavities, presumably due to its ability to prevent mineral absorption. In group 2, simply adding vitamin D to the diet caused most cavities to heal and fewer to form....
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WatchPeter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics
Pop quiz: You’re flipping a coin. Which pattern are you more likely to see first, HTT or HTH?
This video made me feel like I was back in University.
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Reversing Tooth Decay
a decaying or broken tooth has the ability to heal itself. Pulp contains cells called odontoblasts, which form new dentin if the diet is good.
…
In group 1, oatmeal prevented healing and encouraged new cavities, presumably due to its ability to prevent mineral absorption. In group 2, simply adding vitamin D to the diet caused most cavities to heal and fewer to form. The most striking...
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Twitter Biz Idea for the Time Rich
Think of this like selling a MMORPG account that has lots of money/items.
1. Figure out how to amass followers—in a certain niche. A possible option: expect 10-20% follow backs when you follow strangers. If you want to sell the account to a technologist, follow anyone who talks about iPhone or foursquare, or some other germane topic. Another option: start retweeting people in your niche or...
newspeedwayboogie:
jenrobinson:
The Beatles...