Watch the video for the interview I linked to earlier.
Rightfully taking CNN to task — on their own station! “I’m here to confront you, because we need help from the media and they’re hurting us.”
Google away without taking your fingers off the keyboard.
Dreadful dreadful usability, beautifully illustrated in Flickr.
Woo! Yeah! Rawk! etc. Index yer PC with Google.
Now _this_ I like. Create Powerpoint-esque presentations as XHTML with underlying CSS+JS wizardry.
Anyone know where these magnetic “yellow ribbons” have sprung up from? They’re fucking *everywhere* in Massachusetts. I feel like there’s some huge cultural happening that I know nothing about.
“Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.” Sickening, just sickening.
Super Mario 64? Ridge Racer? WarioWare? WANT! WANT! WANT!
“Let it be said that impoverished folk enjoy fried chicken.”
Firefox plugin that re-implements your “Post this to a blog” bookmarklet with a smidge more smarts.
“I hear there’s rumours on the, uh, internets”
The Art of the Start
I hammered through a shedload of books on holiday, but one that I feel deserves a shout out is The Art Of The Start by Guy Kawasaki.
It’s a deceptively slim tome (I managed to read it in its entirity on the 8 hour flight home), but absolutely brimming with common sense on how to get a small business started—How to make sure that everyone shares your vision, how to pitch to potential investors/customers (Clue: A Powerpoint pres with 60 slides of 14 point text that you just read off the screen ain’t gonna do it), how to brand yourself, how to schmooze, how to translate what VCs are telling you, and, oh, so much more.
It’s one of my goals in life that I’m going to start my own company some day. I’m sure that some day, I’m gonna meet someone with a good business brain that I click with, and we’re gonna take a big gamble. The book doesn’t go into huge amounts of depth on any given topic, but it’s given me enough of a roadmap that I’m at least facing in the right direction.
My previous and current jobs have been at small start-upy ventures, and I’m going to be going in on Tuesday with my dog-eared, asterisked copy of the book and trying to see if I can’t get a bit of Guy Kawasaki’s smarts bouncing around internally.
If you’re interested, you can download a PDF of the first chapter at artofthestart.com
We saw loads of these around Paris. They make a bunch of sense for a sprog-free city-dweller
The combover — Both crapply obvious, and patented.
One email address, One vote secret ballot.
Pretty website for very nifty-looking book/CD/DVD cataloging software, but.. erm.. the website only runs in Safari. That’s the most bizarrely-narrow entry requirement I’ve seen.
Enjoy a daily slice of awesomely contrived geek ingenuity.
A soldier in Iraq photoblogs on Flickr.
About as scientifically valid as most polls these days
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