November 2008
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“What Washington needs is adult supervision.”
– Barack Obama (2008)
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“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than...”
– Thomas Jefferson, 1802 (I guess if he was alive, he’d be saying, “I told you so”, right now.
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Irritated.me
by Steve Mathew Yes, I’m Irritated (again). Back in July the .ME domain registrar opened for business. I saw a few great investment opportunities in snapping up some prime “mycooldomainname.me” real estate. I blogged about it here. So, I was irritated (and amazed) that I lost out then and came away empty-handed in my search for the ultimate .ME domain (OK, forget the ultimate...
Nov 13th
I just nominated digsby in the @mashable Open Web Awards. Nominate here: http://tinyurl.com/5r4ry3
Nov 13th
“Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams...”
– Tim Ferriss
Nov 13th
WatchWatch
Oh my … a totally self-driving car. You have to watch this clip. The developers say this’ll be common place within 10 years. I love it! I wonder if they will have driver “modes”. Let’s say I am feeling chilled, and not in a hurry so I flick the switch into “Chilled”, or I’m late, or feeling a little road-ragey, so I flick it into...
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“I can tell you exactly why,” he said. “It’s because your wallpaper is so ugly.”
– Oscar Wilde, when he was asked why he thought America was so violent.
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Nov 7th
The Interrobang
The Interrobang Is one of the most eloquent punctuation marks in the English language, combining an interrogative point, or question mark, and a bang (printers’ parlance for the exclamation mark). These are some sentences which require one: ‘She said what?!’; ‘He ate how many slices of cake?!’; ‘You’re going to have a baby?!’ No one uses them more...
Nov 4th
Seth's Blog: Reacting, Responding & Initiating →
Nov 3rd
“The government put (Zimbabwe’s) inflation at 230-million percent for July,...”
– Zimbabwe eyes high-value banknotes - Mail & Guardian Online: The smart news source
Nov 3rd
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Nov 3rd
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Are you looking for bad news to support your...
by Steve Mathew It occurred to me the other day that we choose our “stories” that support our current sentiment. What I mean is, we look for stories from the news, friends, anywhere slightly credible to back up how we feel about something. Kind of like a faulty Schrodinger’s Cat experiment. It was last Wednesday, and I had had a day of talking to clients and colleagues and over and over the...
Nov 2nd