February 2012
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A rare cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs....
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“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I.
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In 1980, Detroit presented Saddam Hussein with a...
mentalflossr:
Saddam had made donations to the city’s Chaldean Sacred Heart church.
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Consumer internet and privacy: Weighing in on the...
A few years ago when I was in Oracle, our entire product team got a mandate to make the an older version of an application “accessibility compliant”. This included a huge number of super boring tasks like adding alternate text to images so that the visually impaired who rely on screen-readers could better understand the web page contents. In the consumer tech world, where our...
Top five regrets of the dying
nevver:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.more
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Adventures in TodoLand
I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, Sir, because I’m not myself you see.
~ Alice in Wonderland.
A long time ago, when I was still in school, I used pen and paper to make TODO lists. Stuff like “copy exercise #4 from V and submit tomorrow”. Yeah, I was kinda using GTD years before I heard the term.
Over the past five years, I have had a string of affairs...
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A great letter template for acquired startups →
Dear soon-to-be-former user,
We’ve got some fantastic news! Well, it’s great news for us anyway. You, on the the other
hand, are fucked. We’ve just been acquired by:
[ ] Facebook
[ ] Google
[ ] Twitter
[ ] Other: _________________
As you are aware, we’ve always provided a free service, and have never even tried offering a for-pay option. This means we’ve...
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January 2012
45 posts
“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...”
– George Orwell (via nevver)
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Paris vs. New York: Minimalist Illustrated... →
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Beautiful Web Type →
9-bits:
A showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory.
The project is also on Github.
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Bukowski's "The Blue Bird," Beautifully Animated |... →
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see you.
Check out the link for the beautiful poem and accompanying illustrations.
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Wat — Destroy All Software Talks →
The most hilarious lightning talk ever. Go watch!
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Vintage illustrations of phobias →
(via @brainpicker)
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What Your Favorite Blog Says About You →
Gawker: You tell your friends jokes about their ethnicities and sexual orientations. They grin and say “Bitch!” and pretend to smack you.
Huffington Post: Most of your pleasures are guilty pleasures.
Daily Kos: You own a “Disappearing Civil Liberties” mug.
Laughing Squid: You own an unconventional bicycle.
BuzzFeed: Your giggle is too high-pitched.
Gizmodo: You correct people in...
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"Intruders shall be gunned down"
In true Sheldonian fashion, I managed to stay away from outdoor activities during most of the winter here in Delhi. Last Sunday however, in a classic battle of nouns, boredom overcame lethargy and I decided to head out with a camera. My partner in crime was an equally bored friend who shares my love for adventure, and together we decided to take a long walk in the Ridge.
For those...
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Movies reimagined for another time & place |... →
Introducing Tom Cruise as Mystery Baby…
Awesomeness (via @openculture).
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[NSFW] Love-making, in M.B.A lingo
She really had taken her M.B.A course to heart. Sex for her was like a business model.
We did some swift, efficient asset stripping, carried out the required amount of research and development, and then I was invited to position my product in her niche market. I did my best to satisfy her high demand with as much supply as I could muster. After a period of violently fluctuating market...
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Introducing iFixit.org →
We have been traveling to developing countries in Asia and Africa, visiting e-waste scrapyards and small repair shops, meeting “fixers” who breathe new life into gadgets that the western world has tossed away, and photographing the journey. Part travelogue, part investigative reporting, part soapbox, iFixit.org promises only one thing: a clear-eyed, thoughtful look at global repair culture.
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Women are from Venus
Girl: I want to find a guy who's loving, caring, intelligent and interesting to talk to!
Loving, caring, intelligent, interesting guy: (Speechless)
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Economies are made in bedrooms not markets!
Hans Rosling explains world population growth using mugs.
(~via Curiosity Counts)
“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me — they’re shy and they live in...”
– Woz on Creativity: Work Alone | Brain Pickings ~via @brij
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Elevator Groupthink: A 1962 Psychology Experiment... →
Excellent piece on the psychology of conformity, with a hilarious video from the sixties to drive home the point.
(This post actually led me to subscribe to the Brain Pickings newsletter today).
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Newsletters
I’m a big fan of email newsletters. I think they’re a great way to summarize a whole lot of useful articles from the web and read (some of) them later. I use my inbox as a to-do list, archiving all emails that don’t need my attention (kinda GTD-ish), and I process newsletters in my spare time and read them in one go, after which they go into the archives. Most of the...
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“Nowadays, bowling in Cricket is like an HR function.”
– I laughed out loud (literally) when my I heard a friend say this.