January 2011
23 posts
bijan:
Cat Stevens - If You Want To Sing Out,...
rafer:
“I’m in the “ho hum” camp. Y Combinator is great, the Valley is great, consumer web start-ups are great, etc., etc., etc., but they DO NOT represent anything remotely resembling the investable universe. I’ve had a pretty good time finding good companies in which to invest both as an angel and as a seed stage venture capitalist without ever touching a Y Combinator company. Really. So the...
“In a remarkable display of protest and challenge by oppressed people against...”
– Haitian Farmers Burn Monsanto ‘Aid’ Seeds (via thetart)
Rafer sez: Go humanity, go.
(via rafer)
This is amazing.
tpdsaa:
“Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert (via graphicalundertones)
Brilliant.
“E]very mobile device connects instantly to every other unit by WiFi, Bluetooth,...”
– The Greatest Scam in Tech
The Emporer has no clothes, and he is us. WIN.
“How did I do it, really?
First, spend 15 years working hard on projects with no...”
– Andrew Plotkin: How I raised $24,000 on Kickstarter - Nov. 15, 2010
How to succeed overnight on Kickstarter.
(via hackernews)
“LONDON – The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on...”
– Journal: Study linking vaccine to autism was fraud - Yahoo! News
This vaccines-autism link has been thoroughly discredited, but new allegations of actual, out-and-out fraud and results-doctoring by the originator of the meme deserve over-posting.
“A successful mass-market iPad competitor needs to be so good that people will...”
– Marco.org - There really isn’t much of a “tablet” market (via Instapaper)
“If RSS dies, we lose the ability to read in private”
– blog · RSS Is Dying Being Ignored, and You Should Be Very Worried
“The conundrum is that the language to describe the ineffable splendors and...”
– Finding Time | Rebecca Solnit | Orion Magazine