CTRL-C
December23
CTRL-V (via Bad-Control)
Boys are Boys
November14
The Internet is overrun by geeky boys who can give your startup a boost. Realizing this and that geeky boys are like all boys and will stop to look at any mildly cute girl, a site is launched.
GirlInYourShirt
Charging enough so she can get loaded on weekends, this girl will promote your company.(via TechCrunch)
I Suggest That This Get Renamed to the “Bush Bias”
November4
Availability cascade — a self-reinforcing process in which a collective belief gains more and more plausibility through its increasing repetition in public discourse (or “repeat something long enough and it will become true”).
Academia
October21
So it is just like every other industry… except the jocks some how make out like bandits. The Swamp
The Angel of Doom!
September29
Since the early 90s I have been warning that all this nonsense would all end in tears – I am called “the Angell of Doom” because of my predictions about the control freaks who think they are immune to the uncertainty implicit in the real world. Number mysticism, aided and abetted by computer technology, has turned the world’s financial markets into a huge global casino. First we had ‘the chartists’, who claimed to predict stock movements by pattern matching, as if the market was some recurring dendrochronology. Then came the ‘Masters of the Universe’ and their mathematical models. Developed by the likes of Nobel Laureates Robert Merton and Myron Scholes, these methods are designed to beat the system. Accordingly, hedge funds leverage already huge amounts of money into astronomical sums that are then placed as bets. These ‘big swinging dicks’ of Wall Street and the City of London believe in the mathematical guarantee of ‘riskless risk’, that they can beat the system.
Wal-Mart Closes DRM System: Sorry, Your Songs Are Toast
September29
Six months after Wal*Mart jumped onto the music peddling party bus back in August of 2007, they decided to make the switch to 100% DRM-free tracks. Awesome, right?
Unfortunately, any music purchased during that 6-month window before the switch is still at the mercy of Wal*Mart; if they were to pull the plug on the DRM server, the files would become useless on anything but the computer originally used for authorization. In just under two weeks, that’s exactly what will happen.
Why Palm is in Trouble?
September29
The PocketMod is a new way to keep yourself organized. Lets face it, PDAs are too expensive and cumbersome, and organizers are bulky and hard to carry around. Nothing beats a folded up piece of paper. That is until now. With the PocketMod, you can carry around the days notes, keep them organized in any way you wish, then easily transfer the notes to your PDA, spreadsheet, or planner.
PocketMod: The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer
(via Ahn)