Monthly Archives: March 2008
links for 2008-03-29
The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6 Marc Andreesen of Netscape walks through a speech by Charlie Munger, cofounder of Berkshire Hathaway. Do not be intimidated by the brains in this blog, many valuable treasures lie within. Steal them and put them in your headmeats. (tags: books business education management entrepreneur toread psychology [...]
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links for 2008-03-20
Victim of the Brain 1988 docudrama about “the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter”. It was created by Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos. Features interviews with Doug Hofstadter and Dan Dennett. (tags: video consciousness theory cognition) Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) Jakob’s article that condemns nonstandard links. Jakob is kind of a nudge [...]
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links for 2008-03-19
Lovd By Less — Who loves you, baby? Built with Ruby on Rails this open source project has all the basic features you will need to setup a basic social network. Includes following, messaging, flickr and youtube integration, etc. (tags: framework opensource rubyonrails socialnetworking software socialsoftware) Whitechapel – The Devil in Fiction Nice thread with [...]
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links for 2008-03-18
B: Matt Stuart: What Was He Thinking? (tags: street photography photographer interview photos) TasteSpotting beautiful website full of food (tags: food, menu,)
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I am a strange, sordid loop
I am reading Douglas Hofstadter’s amazing and brain churning I Am a Strange Loop, so I’m noticing loops and recursion everywhere. This dog machine loop is fascinating, I think it is a way for tennis balls to become soaked in saliva. Maybe it is a way to generate dog orgone? Perhaps it is a dog [...]
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links for 2008-03-14
Electronic Crafts | Main / Shakelight How to make a shaker light for yourself! Will never actually make but will always long to make it. (tags: diy flashlight electronics led interesting hardware) Domain Lookup Firefox Extension In case you were trying to pick a domain, see if phrases that catch your eye are available (tags: [...]
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links for 2008-03-13
Why you don’t talk on your cellphone in the restroom…. This is not safe for your brain. (tags: poop humor funny) 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You — Cory Doctorow — InformationWeek What makes a site blogger-unfriendly? I’ve been keeping a list for the past couple of months. These are simple design [...]
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links for 2008-03-12
Steep and Cheap – Fuel Your Addiction from Steepandcheap.com Instant alert firefox plugin for huge deals on sports shit (tags: bargains cheap deals shopping skiing snowboarding firefox plugin) Cetaceans, sex & sea serpents Reports of ancient sea serpents might be the result of sightings of ancient whale penises. Page also has a picture of the [...]
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It’s not just vandalism, is it?
Grafitti isn’t just a bunch of crap tags scrawled out on a building. Sometimes it is much better. This is where talk about property rights becomes more interesting. Look at the cross-section of folks who stop to look, photograph and enjoy the street art Banksy put up. How much jail time should he serve for [...]
links for 2008-03-30