May 2008
30 posts
Raspberries - Go All The Way Today’s music...
Episode #355 of This American Life does a great... →
Listen to the episode for free online.
Thirsty Barcelona imports drinking water →
Matt Lehrer wrote me:Last week, Barcelona’s mayor, Jordi Hereu, chartered a fleet of 10 tankers to ship drinking water into the city at a reported cost of £17m a month. Critics say the move, which meets just 6% of Barcelona’s daily needs, is an expensive publicity stunt and will serve only to scare tourists away.
Billy Bragg and Jeff Tweedy’s rendition of...
“But the Internet had changed, and my place in it had changed, too: I no longer...”
– Blog-Post Confidential by Emily Gould Excellent piece in this weekend’s Times Magazine, via Becca.
2012 Super Bowl awarded to Indianapolis →
Eat our shorts, Ohio.
The Republic Tigers - Buildings and Mountains
“There’s a history of a lot of crazy people trying this sort of thing, and...”
– Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies
British companies formed to colonize and capitalize the New World were known as adventures, later shortened to ventures.
“Half of all new college graduates now believe that self-employment is more...”
– The Next American Frontier - WSJ.com
“We’d be better friends if you still used instant messenger.”
Digitalism - I want I want It’s the time of...
Need help in LA
A couple of 20-year old Germans I’m supervising need a floor to crash in LA tomorrow (friday) night. They’re arriving at LAX at 8:45am and could probably take a cab to your place, but it would be superb if they could get a ride, and dropped off at the Amtrak station a day or two later. Email me at zklein@google if you can help.
I love Dropbox →
Thanks for the invite, CP.
Merle Haggard - Okie from Muskogee
“A woman can’t switch her phone’s Bluetooth feature on in a public place without...”
– Love on Girls’ Side of the Saudi Divide
When I was traveling with my friend Meg back in...
Adobe Fireworks →
I’m officially adopting Fireworks over Photoshop for website prototyping because of one particular feature. Like Flash, with Fireworks you can create a ‘symbol’, let’s say a thumbnail border, and place multiple instances of that thumbnail border on a page. If later I decide to change the color of the border, I can simply edit the master symbol and the change would filter...
Want Ad: Beautiful Minds →
Met Brad Grossman this morning (profiled in above New Yorker piece) who up until three weeks ago was Brian Grazer’s cultural attaché, a job concept that he and Grazer apparently popularized in Hollywood. Basically, Brad was responsible for keeping Brian informed of any and everything, from organic chemistry to the outcome of the World Series, as well as arrange for him to meet interesting...
Would love to know what other startups selected...
I’m registering an LLC for a new venture. When you file with New York State, the first question on the online application is “What is your business type?” Then you have to search their database and chose the one that best fits. So I type “Internet” and click enter. The results: Mail Order Sales Internet Sales Online Retail Sales Internet/Online Auction Gift Baskets...
