December 2010
Regifting Report
Last night we went to our friends’ traditional New Year’s Eve Eve regifting party.
Everyone brings their most unwanted, confusing, or repellent holiday gift of the year. All the gifts are placed under the tree, and then after all involved have been drinking for a couple of hours those gifts are re-gifted to random lucky recipients.
This year we gave a cookie jar shaped like an ice...
David Thomas Broughton - Ever Rotating Sky
...
“We see the emerging opportunity to ‘snackify’ beverages and ‘drinkify’ snacks as...”
– Pepsi’s CEO
(via jonathan-deamer)
Oh my god. It is the end times.
Neutral Milk Hotel - Engine
Whether or not you...
Moon Duo - Winter (Rolling Stones cover)
As far...
“The reason that I like social tools as content sources is that I’m not...”
– Me, here.
Bear Mountain - Eden
galapagossound:
Bear...
“In the end, openness is only as important as the user experience it enables.”
– brycedotvc (via betaworks)
The Modern Jazz Quartet - Moving Nicely
Despite...
Cab Calloway - Kickin’ The Gong Around
A...
The Black Keys - I’m Glad (Captain Beefheart...
“never make users do work that machines can easily do”
– Rocky Agrawal
Why haven’t list features on Facebook and/or Twitter caught on? - Quora
Because they are manual and require people to do work. People hate to do work, especially when it’s upfront work for some possible future benefit.
To use a not too far off example: consider the success of Mint....
Sonic Youth Share Captain Beefheart, Martin Mull...
twentyfourbit:
Sonic Youth took to their official Facebook and SoundCloud pages yesterday to share a few recordings from the archives in light of sad recent news of Don Van Vliet’s passing and in celebration of the more joyous upcoming Christmas holiday. The latter tribute, a cover of “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope” by actor/musician Martin Mull (who, BTW, stars in one of the best Tom Waits TV...
This Batch: Food + Tech Connect Interview →
I’m really looking forward to seeing how This Batch develops.
christmasgorilla:
People seem to have really taken a liking to This Batch and I’m starting to do a few interviews before we soft launch. An excerpt:
DG: What’s new about your approach to Community Supported Agriculture? CM: I think a great analogy is to think of local produce in the context of a futures market. In big...
Moon Duo - Stumbling 22nd St.
Microsoft: More than 1.5 million Windows Phone 7s... →
Except that, as seems to be a habit with Microsoft, they’re apparently reporting the sold into retail number rather than the number of phones “sold” in the sense that one normally uses the word. [I.e. Phones sitting in a Best Buy warehouse have been “sold into retail,” even if those phones haven’t been sold to actual people.]
Sure, everybody wants to have a big...
Microsoft: More than 1.5 million Windows Phone 7s... →
Except that, as seems to be a habit with Microsoft, they’re apparently reporting the sold into retail number rather than the number of phones “sold” in the sense that one normally uses the word. [I.e. Phones sitting in a Best Buy warehouse have been “sold into retail,” even if those phones haven’t been sold to actual people.]
Sure, everybody wants to have a big...
Gil Scott-Heron - New York Is Killing Me
If you...
Captain Beefheart - Sheriff Of Hong Kong
Off Doc...
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band -...
Most Visited Page 2010 →
The rush of year-end wrapup posts is already well underway. While I never really do much along those lines, I always poke around a bit towards the end of the year to see whether there’s anything interesting in my personal Web stats.
This year I’ve found that now — with just 21 days left in the year — this picture of Bryce Roberts is neither the most viewed page nor the...
Two people in our office received pints of custom branded ice cream in the mail yesterday. They were sent by a startup that’s building a tool for Web display advertising. Which is interesting because our company neither runs third-party ads on our site nor purchases any meaningful amount of advertising space (and what display advertising we do isn’t controlled — or even...
Bon Iver - listen if you want to know what the...