DISQUS

Yes, wow, good. Love it.

This single has been out of stock for a very very long time on amazon. Very sad about that. I _think_ you can get it on iTunes, though.

This was in the first 500 days of summer trailer along with some serious-sounding voice-over by Leslie Nielsen.

See also: Science of Fear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vkXxn65ec&fmt=18

You also might like Rogue Wave: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86YGj5D6I3k

Love the last bit here -

"...you'll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you..."

Thanks for this.

Love it. Love, love, love.

Firefox + Addons means that if a human can read it, technology can pluck it out easily. Seems so odd that they work so hard to avoid the one thing that makes them popular and a centerpiece for content on the web.

Weird. I'm made crazy by the bajillion plastic bottles that are used. But beyond that? I could care less. (Other than we need a general carbon tax that might be included in the price of a shipped bottle of water.)

This is my saddest thought on the recent US federal bailout: it's $800BN without a single purpose. Money spread around to spur economic growth without growing anywhere in particular. What's the future to be?

To use a (bad) comparison I feel like they are trying to fill potholes in the current road instead of taking the road to somewhere else it needs to be.

Great stuff. Keep it coming.

There's no Y axis. :)

Tim O'Reilly's recent essay on working on things that matter seems relevant here:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-...

"Take Microsoft. They started out with a big goal, "a computer on every desk and in every home," and for many years unquestionably created more value than they captured. They helped grow the PC industry as a whole; they built a platform that helped many small software vendors to flourish. But over time, they began to capture more value than they created: as the cost of PCs plummeted, hardware vendors had to survive on the slimmest of margins while Microsoft collected monopoly rents; bit by bit, Microsoft consumed its own developer ecosystem by building the features of successful startups into their own products, and using their operating system dominance to crush the early movers. As I've written elsewhere, I believe that Microsoft must re-commit itself to big goals beyond its own profitability, and to creating more value than it captures if it is to succeed. (Danny Sullivan wrote a great piece about the strategic relevance of this very idea just last week, Tough Love for Microsoft Search.) "

I tend to agree with this. Big companies with leverage need to be able to walk away from possible value with the understanding that the soft value of the ecosystem is more important than the short-term value of competing with those who complement them.

I think that one of the main problems is that that "soft value" is very hard to measure when compared with the hard dollars you realize that you're leaving on the table. And if you can't measure it it's hard to compete in a conversation inside of one of those companies. I can almost hear it in my head now where one guy says "these things help us" and someone else says "that's money we can return to our shareholders and they might grow to kill us anyway." So the money-left-on-the-table argument wins.

This is one reason why I'm a fan of companies that can look past the next quarter, or don't have to worry about that pressure at all. And I wonder what Microsoft would look like if it went private.

There's this moment in this video, about 3:30 in that I love:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1jyta_fleetwo...

When she's singing and he raises his hand up to his chin. Gets me every time. Something really special there.

For what it's worth I had not seen either the MLK or the speech on race. And I am blown away by both of them. Finally, someone who talks to people like they are adults on the topic and someone who can at least give some hints as to the underlying story on all sites. Pretty excited and hopeful about tonight.

I wrote up my own comments after living with the G1 for a couple of days:

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=852

Sounds like you have a different starting point, coming from the blackberry and outlook. Interesting to get that other viewpoint.

Haha, I tried this with whoisi. The lack of being able to create a place and sense of identity, create accounts and network with other people turns out to be kind of anti-user. I think that fundamentally that people like to connect with people.

I just leave this and the previous tab open and play them every once in a while through the day. This album will be in my hands shortly.

I'm using Things now. It's changed the way that I work. Love it.

He's got a new tour going, you know. Going to be in Boston soon. I have a tab open in a window to remind myself to get tickets.

My very first blog post was on September 10th, 2001. A strange date, turns out. I just re-posted something that my brother wrote on the 11th because I didn't know what to say.

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/html/2001/09/index.sh...

It's especially interesting given the way that the animation industry works. I did a little work with the studios at my last job and the usual model is that people are hired on in project-driven contracts. i.e. you're there to help render the latest toy story movie and that's it. The best people are offered contracts for the next project and most are let go. It's a brutal system.

It's good to see some thoughts on this front from one of the studios.

Woot. Very excited to not see three posts from you every time you post something on whoisi.com.

You are so right. I saw this on TV back when TV was something you had to watch live.

I have no idea what it is. But it sure looks neat.

I had the same problem with whoisi.com which used the unauthenticated API as well. However, once I made the request they quickly whitelisted an account for me to use and I was back up and running in very short order.

I would happily use the authenticated API if it means that twitter can offer better service to its users and people like me that are using it in ways that twitter did not expect.

Huge piles of awesome. Thanks, John! Made my day.

whoisi just grew support for identi.ca