Letter from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, in social network’s IPO filing
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to
rate chicks on their relative hotness.
Rachel wins the internet today.
RATE CHICKS ON THEIR RELATIVE HOTNESS. (it bears repeating)
(Source: sec.gov)
F*ck You. Pay Me.
Thanks to the gpcz on Hacker News, here’s a video on how to avoid such situations.
2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from San Francisco Creative Mornings on Vimeo.
Video recommended to all freelance creatives. (Site is entertaining too.)
Put this way, it sounds so simple. And actually, it should be this simple.
Unfortunately, this discounts the fact that Hollywood is run by people with their heads up their asses. Like this guy. It’s a fucked up nightmare of politics and greed. It’s amazing that anything good comes out of the system at all — it’s a testament to the true creative talent behind the films themselves.
You can bet that Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and all the rest have tried to talk Hollywood into the system above. They’ve probably been doing it for a decade, if not longer. Instead, we get bullshit like UltraViolet — a giant middle finger to consumers.
Rafer sez:
Going to be reblogging you twice this morning (Wed SG time).What people in NorCal rarely appreciate is that the politics and greed are secondary at best. At an individual level, you’ve got a bunch of VPs and SVPs making a lot of cash every year, who have no noticeable equity in the businesses they run. They are mainly trying to keep the money flowing until they can retire and make it the next person’s problem. The mantra is ‘just three more years….’
You can generalize that mantra to the CEO’s, CFO’s, and boards of directors of most of these companies. They’ll blame institutional investors and analysts, who are just doing their jobs — the real problem is no one wants to be the one to take the hit when markets get shrunk. Rather than fight a younger man’s game that will re-price their market cap to new market realities, these guys try to squeeze the last drops of cash out of a familiar business model, even if they have to disingenuously fight the future, create “innovation” strategies that never exceed their institutional constraints, lie to congress, etc. And that problem goes all the way to the top.
So Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure today announced that they will no longer give any funding to Planned Parenthood.
This funding allowed Planned Parenthood to provide breast examinations and referrals for mammography and ultrasound to patients at their health centers, patients who were able…
(Source: amaditalks)
The Crowd: White people who like Stuff White People Like.
– Wilco - Hollywood Palladium - 1-24-12 - Los Angeles Music - West Coast Sound
A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the mid-1950s, describes the many deaths from botched abortions that he saw. ‘The deaths stopped overnight in 1973.’ He never saw another in the 18 years before he retired. ‘That,’ he says, ‘ought to tell people something about keeping abortion legal.’
– Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via motherjones) Via Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr“Please, Ms. July, we’re just trying to understand!” an exasperated Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said at one point during the hearing when July dumped out a large shoe box full of buttons of various sizes and colors onto the Senate floor and began sorting them.
Brilliant.
(Source: nedhepburn)
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