February 2012
4 posts
“The decline in young home owners is a puzzling trend. Interest rates have...”
– Derek Thompson, “The End of Ownership: Why Aren’t Young People Buying More Houses?” (via theatlantic)
Let’s see.. Because we’ve lived through like three real estate bubbles, and we know that the value of houses doesn’t go up forever. We also know that the industry is rigged, and filled with...
Blogging Site Tumblr Makes Itself the News →
The popular social blogging site Tumblr is hiring writers and editors to cover the world of Tumblr.
Chris Mohney, a senior vice president for content at BlackBook Media, will be the site’s editor in chief. Jessica Bennett, a senior writer and editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, will be the executive editor and, she said, a kind of Tumblr correspondent.
“Basically, if Tumblr were a city of...
January 2012
13 posts
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“The commentary concludes that we simply can’t rely on any fossil fuel to...”
– ArsTechnica - We’ve hit “peak oil”; now comes permanent price volatility.
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“OK so back to my phone call. The first question I asked was “why does the...”
– Amanda Peyton.
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“Does that mean online piracy is harmless? Of course not. But the harm is a...”
– Julian Sanchez, Cato Institute @ Liberty.
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Reddit IAmA from Riot Games lawyer re SOPA →
Kudos to Riot for letting him do this (and to him for being brave enough to do it!). A quote:
We object to SOPA because it hurts how our users consume legitimate content on in the internet, and it makes it much harder to engage our community. That sucks - and we’re devoting a lot of time and brainpower as to how to stop this from happening.
And another:
This doesn’t hit us nearly as...
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“SOPA/PIPA absolutely will drive US dollars—and jobs—overseas. For...”
– Eric Goldman.
“The USPTO issued more utility patents in calendar year 2011 than in any year in...”
– Patently-O.
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xcom
notch:
xcom xcom xcom
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OMG, XCOM was one of my favorite computer games when I was a kid; pretty exciting if they pull it off properly.
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farandnearer:
i meant to post this earlier but better late than never. i went to see heathered pearls, ital, machinedrum, and sepalcure in brooklyn this past thursday!! so so much energy, i was in straight drunken euphoria. travis stewart and his mustache as machinedrum? GOTDAMN.
and then praveen sharma joined him for sepalcure… pure bliss. pure bliss. pure bliss. pure bliss.
I was at...
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“I’ve long thought that the biggest single problem in the world is the...”
– The Greatness of Ron Paul - Robert Wright - The Atlantic.
Whether or not you support Ron Paul, this is a really sharp observation and something we all should be doing more of.
December 2011
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“[T]he new iconic infrastructure of our age is the internet. Instead of division,...”
– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Law professors Mark Lemley, David S. Levine, and David G. Post note, however, in response:
It would be not just ironic, but tragic, were the United States to join the ranks of these repressive and restrictive regimes, erecting our own “virtual walls” to prevent...
The nightmarish SOPA hearings →
There ought to be a law, I think, that in order to regulate something you have to have some understanding of it. And when people are saying things like, “This is just the rogue foreign Web sites” and “This only targets the bad actors” and “So you want universities to host illegal pirated versions of copyrighted content?,” it’s enough to make you claw out large fistfuls of your hair. No! No!...
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“Given all the foregoing, it perhaps shouldn’t surprise us that the attitude of...”
– Paul Campos - On Bullshit and Law Schools - Lawyers, Guns and Money.
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““Well, yes,” they’d have to say. “If you add code to the browser that implements...”
– Stewart Baker - SOPA-Rope-a-Dope - The Volokh Conspiracy.
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“Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I’ve barely looked at for the past...”
– Alan Moore via NYMag Daily Intel.
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"That's how I roll." →
For those who don’t know, Buttermilk Channel is a rather upscale Southern food restaurant in Carroll Gardens (the cheddar waffles are amazing). Nowhere is safe, apparently.
A group of teenage goons attacked a 38-year-old on Court Street on Dec. 2, leaving him with a smattering of bruises.
The victim was having a cigarette outside of Buttermilk Channel near Nelson Street at 9:50 pm...
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“But even as the need and desire to enact some degree of Internet regulation has...”
– John Timmer - Setting smart Internet policy requires data we don’t have, aren’t getting - Ars Technica.
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“This suggests that nice guys finish last because people are subtly biased...”
– Jonah Lehrer - Do Nice Guys Finish Last? - Wired Science.
November 2011
34 posts
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“An injunction requiring Google to “de-list” sites is one remedy...”
– Technology & Marketing Law Blog.
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Making your own luck →
In general, you make your own luck by not being too focused on any one thing and being open to intuition and new opportunities. Apparently random lucky (or turning-out-to-be-lucky-in-hindsight) things are bombarding us all the time, but many people are blind to them because they are so focused on a singular goal or otherwise obsessed with something else that they don’t give those...
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“Today, I’m thankful for 47 USC 230. Whenever I think about it, I am still...”
– Professor Eric Goldman.
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“It appears that Tumblr built in a day or two what no D.C.-based technology...”
– MediaShift Idea Lab . #DontBreakTheInternet: How The Web Became a Political Force vs. SOPA | PBS (via matthew)
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Deutsche Bank: If Merkel Doesn't Budge, 'Our... →
mattlehrer:
This is real.
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“I feel like we’re working in an office building in Grand Theft Auto.”
– Sean, on the sirens and helicopters outside all day (via mattlehrer)
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“The DMCA online safe harbors have worked pretty well over the past 13 years. I...”
– Professor Eric Goldman.
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“Instead of hiding behind obsolete court decisions, big city mayors must...”
– Professors Bruce Ackerman and Yochai Benkler.
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I Believe In The Internet - The Content Industry...
bradburnham:
I have always believed that the entertainment industry’s effort to stop piracy by asking search engines and ISPs to make it more difficult for their users to find pirate sites was the wrong way to solve the problem, but it could never put my finger on why I felt so strongly about it. After all, the entertainment industry argues that they are only targeting the worst pirates and are...
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“I had zero impact. Zero. As I sit here at the end of 2011, the software patent...”
– Brad Feld - Another Day, Another Patent Troll.