don’t go half-way
via The Seductive Danger Of Half Measures, by Aaron Harris on TechCrunch: Keeping a conscious eye on what the point of a test or iteration is, not just to itself, but to your overall plan and mission how building a…
old-timey infographics from the london underground
The London Transport Museum has put up a collection of 7,000 posters dating back to the 1930′s for users to browse, allowing them to search by artist, theme, date and color (or colour, as the case may be). The collection…
charles bukowski on the literary hustle
Via this isn’t happiness: Charles Bukowski outlines his modest terms for a poetry reading. If you hire Bukowski, I’d imagine you wouldn’t know what to expect. However, as he notes, “Auden gets 2,000 a reading, Ginsberg 1,000, so you see…
total world destructive power
Flickr user Chris Spurgeon has some great pre-lunar presentation slides from NASA, including this chart on the destructive power of weapons through time. His collection also includes several artist renditions of various stages of a mission to the moon —…
death cab for cuite, the new year
So this is the new year And I have no resolutions For self assigned penance For problems with easy solutions…
lego year in review via the guardian
Occupy Wall Street from the 2011 in Lego: the year’s news – in pictures via guardian.co.uk. Other moments The Guardian memorialized in Legos for their year-end review include the royal wedding, Obama et al. watching the Bin Laden takedown, and…
tribute to calvin and hobbes snowmen in trouble
via YouTube user JimFrommeyer. This video recreates some of the more memorable Calvin and Hobbes snowmen massacres Bill Watterson graced us with over the years. In addition, someone’s created a best of gallery of these cartoons over on AngelFire.
boingboing reviews catbut coffee
Cat-butt coffee: A critical review via. Boing Boing. Kopi Luwak sells for $420 pee pound. “[It] is very different from that cheap, gauche coffee you and I drink every day. This is because each hand-harvested bean of Kopi Luwak has…
random links found through feedly
This is where I have to give a big shout out to Feedly, my RSS reader of choice, that every morning feeds me a fresh page of content based on my Google Reader subscriptions. Feedly presents the best content from…
four keys to apple’s success
Focus— “It means saying no, not saying yes. We do very few things at Apple. We are $100bn in revenue with very few products. There are only so many grade A players. If you spread yourself out over too many…
