April 2010
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#SeinfeldDerbyHorseNames
I had no idea some of you people were STILL so attached to that show, but it’s turning out to be a funny meme.
snapalicious:
If Zipcar rented moving trucks that would be the most amazing thing ever.
They’re called SUVs
This is why I love (to hate) Time Out New York
From their listing of this weekend’s Five Boro Bike Tour, “Though the ride is sold out, you can cheer on your fellow cyclists along the route.”
I mean, it’s not just sold out, but it sold out 2 months ago, not even a month into the registration period. Some of my friends are pissed that they didn’t hear in time.. as of mid-March. It’s up there on the list of...
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Earlier today, a tipster told Guest of a Guest that Matt Shendell of the Ainsworth, Proof, and the Hill was hoping to turn the Allen & Delancey space into a “high-end sports bar aka a frat house” that would be open till 4 a.m. When we asked Shendell if there was any truth to it…
More than half of the entries I see on my Twitter feed are either about people congratulating themselves, congratulating someone else, or announcing something they just wrote/published. The one nice thing about it is that the tone is generally positive and polite. That’s the only nice thing, really. It makes everyone look like thoughtless drones, feeding a constant stream of branding...
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Fun fact! PALM once traded at $451! And is now selling for $5.70.
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Amtrak is testing a biodiesel train
Results are mixed so far, as the fuel formula needs to be tweaked to reduce the pungent stench of the exhaust. Observers complained that it makes the engine of the train smell just like the inside of the train.
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Journalism.
Everyone wants to be a Flaming Moe, most are just a tall glass of curdled milk.
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Because nothing whets the appetite quite like conjuring up the mental image of Mickey Rourke’s face
SeatGeek
This seems like a nice idea, but when are the price of any tickets to anything worthwhile NOT going up? Hell, even Nets tickets are always increasing in price…
Blogger Isn't A Pejorative
soupsoup: “Blogging and the term blogger are not pejoratives”
Maybe we have an understanding that it’s a respectable profession, but it’s naive to ignore the fact that those terms are used to discredit sources of information. Writing for the web isn’t inherently unreliable, but the idea that all of us are rampant gossipmongers has eroded the profession’s...
juliefredrickson:
Wow. Huh. Was I supposed to pretend I am like everyone else? Or am I supposed to be embarrassed? So paying $13 for a Chopt salad while wearing gold Choos = bad form. Noted. Will refrain.
It’s worth it to clarify that there’s nothing wrong with simply having nice things. But I do think there’s a couple of caveats to that:
Conspicuous consumption is bad and...
I love Brian Van!
bikerfish:
…and I want everyone to know it! WOOOOO BRIAN!
Now THAT’s how you earn a like! And congrats, Paul, because you are
#10,000!
You win nothing except my admiration.
In similar news, I passed 600 followers sometime over the weekend. Mooooooovin!
doree:
I guess I missed the day where we learned that being 27 and running a charity providing music education to underprivileged children meant you could afford “a one-bedroom in the West Village with a newer kitchen and bathroom and a rent of no more than $2,500 per month.”
In all seriousness, though, I really wish when the Times wrote these real estate stories that they added in—maybe even...
adamiss:
“The company did post a statement on a Posterous blog, which only has one post, leading one to believe they started the blog just to address this issue, when they should have been building their social media presence before any issues such as this. The blog is not linked to from Blippy’s website, making it hard to find. Also, the statement doesn’t go far enough. Not once does the company...
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Just when you thought the online startups scene could not get more pathetic…
Where the ladies at? →
boutofcontext:
langer:
For a brief moment there from about 5pm on Sunday until 10am Monday morning it looked like our entire week would be consumed by chatter about Doree’s tech startup cover story—then Gizmodo disassembled an iPhone and the internet found something else to freak out about (a windfall for me, frankly, because the fewer people who read Zach Klein’s quote about how “the skill...
Don't Block Your Facebook Apps
Instead, just feed them a lot of gibberish data so that no one can figure out exactly what you’re up to. Then no one will bother you!
But oh, the Superdive letters will rise again. Owners reveal they are in final negotiations on a space on Third Avenue in the 30’s and another down on the LES that is “bigger and more heavily trafficked.”
— Who’s laughing now?
henryeatspeople:
“Using the “search” feature on Tumblr is like asking a blind man directions. Pretty useless.”
-me
Cosign!
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gifparty:
(dashboard users click through for the best image to win the Internet EVAR)
Borasky: Chirp - A Developer's Perspective
caro:
Ed Borasky:
I don’t buy Paul Graham’s excuses that the nature of web application development and entrepreneurial startups mandates the gladiatorial hacker development style over the disciplines of software engineering and project management…I don’t buy Graham’s claim that Silicon Valley is a better place to raise children than Massachusetts. I don’t buy his claim that ‘hiring people is...
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Bill Gates wants to know:
youngmanhattanite:
“Are the brightest minds working on the most important problems?”
Probably not.
All of the world’s most important problems can be solved by social networking iPhone apps. That is a fact.
re: Doree's article
spiers:
Consumer facing social media companies are not representative of the New York tech scene generally; they’re just a very small slice of it.So for the people suggesting that if this is what New York tech looks like, we’re fucked, this is not what New York tech looks like. There are tons of companies that do b2b apps and, godforbid, develop technologies that have nothing to do with Internet,...
Roger Goodell is a raving egomaniac →
There is no other better explanation as to why the NFL commissioner is keeping the Roethlisberger story in the news every single freaking day — even though, at this point, no one is charged with a crime — in the same way he did with Michael Vick. What’s the point? Decide your fascist punishment and stop wasting our time, dickface.
youngmanhattanite:
andrearosen:
youngmanhattanite:
Hmm.
…and more women at YM! Where is YOUR two-year program?
I don’t know, at your local community college?
Signups are at the back of the bus.
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“Ahaha this is not some sort of new thing — I went to this party in 2007 (I WAS YOUNG AND GUESTLISTED) and had a memorably unpleasant conversation with the guy who founded “Late Night Shots,” which is the DC version of [GUESS THE WEBSITE] except it is an explicit instead of implicit celebration of white power and class privilege”
WHO SAID IT, HE SAID IT! Guess that’s...
This finally snapped my mind
The 140 Characters Conference: New York City (#140conf) will be taking place April 20-21, 2010 at the 92nd Street Y. This event is shaping up to being the largest worldwide gathering of people on Twitter livetweeting a conference about Twitter besides the Twitter conference last week.
The part that really got me is the part that was sort of like saying, “This is going to be the...
charitini:
“Chris Dixon, the 38-year-old co-founder (with Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake) of Hunch.com, recently blogged, “Whenever I see a brilliant kid decide to join Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, or Google, I think to myself: a start-up just died, and as a result our world is a little less wealthy, innovative, and interesting.””
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They’ll come around. And when they do, they will be a...
charitini:
I don’t believe that Si Newhouse never wanted to change the world. He did. Over and over again through the award-winning work he has enabled through the company he built. I love the new media kids, but come on. Let’s not forget about how people like Sy Hersh and George Packer get funded.
That I agree with. I think it’s an admirable goal to merely try to get a business off the...
Oh, and if anyone is going to send a message or...
Noted.
I shouldn’t have to pretend I am happy about something that bothers me.
I don’t run a tech company or community group so my decisions have minimal weight… other’s decisions have much more impact than the talking points I raise.
Ad hominems against detractors did not stop all those web 1.0 companies from sliding into the abyss, and will not solve the fundamental...
