October 2008
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July 2008
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June 2008
3 posts
The Onion on the future of videogaming →
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so...”
– J.K. Rowling at her Harvard Commencement speech
May 2008
24 posts
“I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, “That’s not fair.” When...”
– P.J. O’Rourke [source] [tip]
“The hands, Dario says, are everything. With them, cooks express themselves,...”
– Bill Buford in Heat
“American gasoline is also dirt-cheap compared with gas in other countries....”
– Robert Bryce on how gasoline is cheap [source]
“On Sunday, Oxfam warned that the death toll in Burma could reach 1.5 million...”
– Juliet Lapidos talking about how organizations estimate natural-disaster death tolls
“if there is any one nigh unto universal institution that can be found in the...”
– the author of an awesome blog talking about how religion can benefit development
“Private philanthropy is 50 percent greater than government assistance, and...”
– Chris Blattman on the results from the CGP’s 2008 Index of Global Philanthropy [source]
Last.fm + iPhone + YouTube = Time Killer →
joelaz: From your iPhone, go to http://icanhaz.com/musicvideos and click on the edit field to enter your Last.fm user name, then click “run”. You’ll see a list of some of your favorite tracks from the last few months. Bookmark that page for future reference. Then click a track and the video will open up in the iPhone’s native YouTube player so you can watch the video full-screen.
Powerset and the hijab →
Powerset A powerful contextual-semantic search engine (right now only searching wikipedia and freebase) Loving and Leaving the Head Scarf What hijab’s revolving door says about the religious…
Stamps and pc ethics →
Should HIV get you kicked out of the Peace Corps? Stamps Increasing by One Cent to 42¢ on May 12
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11) →
Calexico / Iron & Wine
The Decemberists
R.E.M.
Weezer
Tilly and the Wall
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Law schools and another look at the kindle →
Law schools committed to open access Megan McArdle on the Kindle
Social and socioeconomic →
Pain and inequality Facebook Connect the platform’s next step
Gadgets, science, and copyright →
Eye-Fi Card (an SD card w/ built-in wifi) neat technology, poor execution Indigo: Home Automation and Control Server Harvard Law votes Yes on open access | Berkman Center Scientists’ favorite reads.
Expensive living →
Inside The World’s First Billion-Dollar Home
Acquisition, subscription, and release →
Microsoft’s letter to Yahoo May 3, 2008 Eric Jackson spearheading YHOO shareholder revolt from Reuters Page2RSS Create an RSS feed for any web page Reflections: Letting Go David Sedaris in the New Yorker
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-4) →
Kojo Antwi
Jagjit Singh
Akatakyie
Kofi B
V I P 2005
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Politics →
Analyzing the chances of Clinton winning in the primaries by Tim Noah of Slate
Productivity →
Mozy Online Backup like carbonite Minutes dashboard timer a simple/useful dashboard widget AppMenuBoy puts a hierarchical view of your apps in the osx dock Marc Andreessen on MS/YAHOO
Design and donate →
Things to remember when reading news about OLPC ivan krstić on why negroponte is not olpc Walter Bender leaves OLPC from the AP Visigami an image search app for the mac Promoting education in Ghana.
Leading and fertilizing →
Shortages Threaten Farmers’ Key Tool: Fertilizer The Crash of Morgan Stanley Executive Zoe Cruz from New York Magazine
April 2008
14 posts
Free reading →
Project Gutenberg Offline Catalogs Free kindle books and other ebooks
Hack-searching on the mac →
The Power of mdfind
“There is something very morally challenging in field work among the very poor....”
– Chris Blattman talking about Venkatesh’s new book
The untold history of the newspaper →
Birth of Newspapers, part 1: The very first newspaper
Medicine and wireless →
Firework bribe diary blows up in China`s face Wireless power for handheld devices about Wipower’s wireless charging station Jott an informal dictation service for the web In Massachusetts, Universal Coverage Strains Care.
“Orthodox strategy was made for an industrial massconomy. And that, I think, is...”
– Umair Haque talking about how hiding information and making things less liquid is no longer an effective strategy [source]
“People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious...”
– Albert Einstein in a letter to a friend
“Money, as it turns out, is very often the most expensive way to motivate people.”
– Dan Ariely in his latest book, Predictably Irrational, talking about utilizing social norms to get things done
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Publishing and hydrating →
Make a book with blurb Frame a photo with imagekind Who says you need to drink eight glasses of water a day? Nina Shen Rastogl on how the myth was debunked
Art and film →
TED2008 in Sketch a 200pg book of idea sketches using BigViz Irshad Manji on Anti-Muslim film, Fitna
The economy and the MBA →
Wall Street-Bound Graduates Watch, Wait and Worry
Gas, words and affirmative action →
Obama on Affirmative Action by Dahlia Lithwick of Slate Wordie a home for interesting words Will Diesel Save the World the environmental trade-offs of giving up gasoline
“The typical Singaporean lives to the age of eighty, and the cost of the system...”
– Tim Harford from The Undercover Economist
March 2008
1 post
February 2008
13 posts
“In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from inside Yosemite National Park....”
– [source]
“In 1976, the average American drank 1.6 gallons of bottled water a year,...”
– [source]
How to get on the Internet in Ghana
If you’re living in rural Ghana, sure you might not have electricity or running water — but that doesn’t mean you can’t have Internet access! With a few bucks a month and some patience (the connection isn’t exactly blazing), you can do it, and here is how… [drum roll please]… Buy the equipment 1. Buy an unlimited data SIM card from MTN ($20/month) or...
