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"You have to admire people who sing these songs. It takes a certain amount of courage to get up in a..."

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:45:15 +0100

“You have to admire people who sing these songs. It takes a certain amount of courage to get up in a coffee-house or a college auditorium and come out in favor of the things that everybody else in the audience is against ,like peace and justice and brotherhood and so on.”

- Tom Lehrer, intro to “Folk Song Army”

"There are only 3 things that are certain in life: Taxes, Death, and the Blue Screen of Death."

Wed, 28 May 2008 14:43:32 +0100

“There are only 3 things that are certain in life: Taxes, Death, and the Blue Screen of Death.”

- Carlos Eduardo (Chromewalker)

I'm in the NYTimes!

Wed, 28 May 2008 14:00:09 +0100

….kind of. I’m an avid reader of economics blogs and the Freakonomics blog, hosted by the NYTimes, is one of my daily reads. Stephen Dubner, one of the two main co-authors, is a fan of aptonyms (when someone’s last name is well-suited to their profession). As part of my daily tech reading, I came across an aptonym in an article on Google, sent it in to Dubner and made it to the Freakonomics’ “This Week in Aptonyms” post.

Sitar Teli of London sent this aptonym:

The relevant paragraph is the 5th one down: “Cost per employee? San Jose-based caterer Abe Caterman (really!) guesses it would cost Google about $15 per day, per employee, for breakfast and lunch. But Prentiss Hall, a helpful exec at Aramark Business Dining Services, thinks Google could be spending closer to $30 a day, based on the quality and level of service the company provides.”

The full post here :)

NYTimes Reader available for Macs

Fri, 23 May 2008 10:50:00 +0100

My friend and colleague Carlos “The Awesome” Eduardo has a new post up on Chromewalker about the NYTimes Reader for Macs. I haven’t tried it out yet, but he’s an Apple fanboy and generally hard to impress when it comes to design / UI, so if you have a Mac (and like the Times), check it out.

Chromewalker

Another great headline from the NYTimes…

Mon, 19 May 2008 17:01:40 +0100

Another great headline from the NYTimes…

via kottke

Thu, 15 May 2008 14:34:12 +0100

via kottke

Gregory Crewdson at White Cube, Mason's Yard

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:55:00 +0100

After lunch, I went with a couple of colleagues to the White Cube gallery, which is about 2 minutes away from our office to see the Gregory Crewdson exhibit.

I had read about Crewdson once before (I can’t find the article now, otherwise I’d link to it) and found his photography really interesting and very different from anything I’ve seen before, but I didn’t know until yesterday that he was exhibiting just down the street! The exhibit is fantastic and I’m definitely going to see it again before it leaves White Cube. You can read more about the exhibit here. One of my favourites is a boy staring up a bridge with a crowd of people behind him (almost hidden by mist), but I can’t find an image of that one online. Instead, here’s one of the other ones I liked:

Brief Encounter by Gregory Crewdson

- by David Shrigley

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:58:00 +0100

- by David Shrigley

"One less-discussed flaw–and one worthy of note for anyone trying to sell a product or service–was..."

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:46:33 +0100

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One less-discussed flaw–and one worthy of note for anyone trying to sell a product or service–was the plan’s name: “congestion pricing.”

Neither word is too upbeat by itself. Strung together, the combination evokes thoughts of opening one’s wallet while suffering a sinus headache.

”

- Tom Weber, Buzzwatch

Brings back memories of when I did market sizing analyses in...

Wed, 07 May 2008 10:00:00 +0100

Brings back memories of when I did market sizing analyses in investment banking

Turtlewheels!!

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:17:44 +0100

Turtlewheels!!:

via http://kottke.org/

Clippy is Dead!

Fri, 02 May 2008 11:56:41 +0100

Clippy is Dead!

"Anticipation has a habit to set you up / For disappointment…"

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:41:52 +0100

“Anticipation has a habit to set you up /
For disappointment…”

- Arctic Monkeys, “View from the Afternoon”

via the always entertaining www.pud.com

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:32:51 +0100

via the always entertaining www.pud.com

Writers are not sexy

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:47:00 +0100

“When readers think of the magical process of writing, publishers would prefer the image to be Tolstoy scratching out Anna Karenina in a wintry Russian landscape and not someone staying up all night on Ritalin to cut and paste together a biography of Heath Ledger immediately after his death.”

from a review of the 2008 London Book Fair: http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article04180801.aspx

The whole thing is well-written and worth reading (but not sexy…not at all)

This One's For Ana

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:12:00 +0100

This One's For Ana

I Heart McArdle

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:04:00 +0100

I Heart McArdle