There are many like it But this one is mine.

"So, if you ever catch yourself playing mind games with your code, just stop and make something...."

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:21:56 -0500

“So, if you ever catch yourself playing mind games with your code, just stop and make something. Pretending is poison. Stop drinking it!”

- Stop pretending - Saverio Mondelli

wow. I got chills watching this.

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:43:53 -0500

wow. I got chills watching this.

"When, a few years ago, G.M. actually did eliminate one of its brands, Oldsmobile, it had to shell..."

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:43:10 -0500

“When, a few years ago, G.M. actually did eliminate one of its brands, Oldsmobile, it had to shell out around a billion dollars to pay dealers off—and it still ended up defending itself in court against myriad lawsuits. As a result, dropping a brand may very well cost more than it saves, since it’s the dealers who end up with a hefty chunk of the intended savings.”

- Dealer’s Choice - James Surowiecki

"I am pining for a new regulatory regime. One that values small over big, individual decision making..."

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:13:34 -0500

“I am pining for a new regulatory regime. One that values small over big, individual decision making over institutional decision making, and innovation and the future over protecting the past. And a test for that new regulatory regime is whether the people who are participating in the creation of a new technology and industry can actually profit from it without having to [be a VC].”

- Getting A Piece Of My Action - Fred Wilson

"it may be necessary to develop a pricing scheme that will reward BGP for avoiding the Internet core..."

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:55:28 -0500

“it may be necessary to develop a pricing scheme that will reward
BGP for avoiding the Internet core whenever possible”

- New Model of Internet Topology using k-shell decomposition

“Crown of Thorns” - Pearl Jam covers Mother Love...

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:58:15 -0500

“Crown of Thorns” - Pearl Jam covers Mother Love Bone

"Perhaps the most frustrating part about Ruby, to me, is the outrageously outdated state of the..."

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:35:25 -0500

“Perhaps the most frustrating part about Ruby, to me, is the outrageously outdated state of the current Ruby interpreter. There is basically no way to avoid writing software that leaks memory.”

- The Opposite of Momentum - Kirin Dave

Video

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:49:11 -0500

Dull Flame Of Desire - Björk

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:17:58 -0500

Dull Flame Of Desire - Björk

"Today, our troops are in 130 countries. We have 700 foreign bases. We can spend far less and have a..."

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:31:50 -0500

“Today, our troops are in 130 countries. We have 700 foreign bases. We can spend far less and have a stronger national defense than we do right now. But if you question our foreign policy, you are branded as un-American. And we’re told that if we don’t “fight them over there, we’ll fight them over here.” That’s absurd.”

- Ron Paul Answers Your Questions, Part Two

"I am the ranking member of the Monetary Policy subcommittee in the U.S. Congress, yet I can get more..."

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:28:22 -0500

“I am the ranking member of the Monetary Policy subcommittee in the U.S. Congress, yet I can get more information about the internal workings of the C.I.A. than I can about our central bank. This secrecy is fundamentally wrong”

- Ron Paul Answers Your Questions, Part Two

I have got to start writing some code like this. More art from...

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:45:12 -0500

I have got to start writing some code like this. More art from code

"It’s worth spelling this out in full, because I doubt I’ll have the opportunity to talk..."

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:40:59 -0500

“It’s worth spelling this out in full, because I doubt I’ll have the opportunity to talk about numbers this big very often on this blog: Zimbabwe’s inflation right now is somewhere north of 89,700,000,000,000,000,000,000%. At this rate, it might eventually reach 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000%, or one octillion.”

- Zimbabwe Datapoint of the Day - Felix Salmon

Four Bad Bear Markets

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:21:56 -0500

Four Bad Bear Markets

"We have too long taken the view that what we would term to be minor crimes are not important,”..."

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:31:47 -0500

““We have too long taken the view that what we would term to be minor crimes are not important,” [Obama’s presumptive Attorney General] Holder said, referring to current attitudes toward marijuana use”

- Obama’s Attorney General on Drugs - David Weigel
That’s the type of Change we need: harsher penalties for marijuana. Good start, Obama!

New York City in 1880 versus 1930

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:39:54 -0500

New York City in 1880 versus 1930

"That first replicator took over the world - in what sense? Earth’s crust, Earth’s magma,..."

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:50:04 -0500

“That first replicator took over the world - in what sense? Earth’s crust, Earth’s magma, far outweighs its mass of Life. But Robin and I both suspect, I think, that the fate of the universe, and all those distant stars that outweigh us, will end up shaped by Life. So that the universe ends up hanging quite heavily on the existence of that first replicator, and not on the counterfactual states of any particular other molecules nearby… In that sense, a small handful of atoms once seized the reins of Destiny.”

- The First World Takeover - Eliezer Yudkowsky

LUIS BACALOV/ EDDA DELL’ORSO -“The Grand Duel”...

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:41:06 -0500

LUIS BACALOV/ EDDA DELL’ORSO -“The Grand Duel” (1972)

"Drawing inferences about individual behavior from aggregate data is a classic example of what..."

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:40:53 -0500

“Drawing inferences about individual behavior from aggregate data is a classic example of what statisticians call an “ecological fallacy.””

- “The Bigot Belt” - Eric Oliver

Strange, in the past I’ve called it the “economist’s fallacy” since they seem to make it so frequently, Perhaps I should give economists a break, since they just have more opportunities to do so.

"Rule 1 of programming: If it’s a hard problem, cheat."

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:17:33 -0500

“Rule 1 of programming: If it’s a hard problem, cheat.”

- DRMacIver