HOLY SHIT!!! BBQ!!!

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I love the idea of underground bbq, even if it wasn't being created by my buddy Pat. If you live in San Francisco, you should definitely take advantage of his once-a-week BBQ deliveries. You won't be disappointed. Rubin and I are talking about …

Sorry my profile is wonky

I can't quite get myself to spend the time to format my feeds the way I want. I will get there. So excited about the fact that I can actually do this with Virb without having to dork with a million different things.

Why Siftables Excite Me

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This is totally awesome. Found it via kottke, but I liked the commentary on peterme better.

Where do I get them?!?!?
I first saw Siftables at TED 2009, where David Merrill demonstrated them. I immediately tweeted, “Omg. Siftables are awesome. …

Harrowing commute

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We used to have a zipline in my backyard growing up that we used for fun. It was quite a ride, but this just totally frightens me. These kids have some serious guts. Wish I could afford to build them a bridge!
Locals in Beichuan county in …

Irving Fisher, the forgotten economist | Out of Keynes's shadow | The Economist

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This is a good read. All of these articles always freak me out though. I need to stop reading them.
Today's crisis has given new relevance to the ideas of another great economist of the Depression era

In defence of bonuses

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Interesting arguments.
Everyone’s moaning about “bonus culture.” So I will too. You know what the problem with “bonus culture” is? There ain’t enough of it.
Now, I’m not defending bankers’ multi-million bonuses - they were just …

A Communications Primer: a Film by Eames (1953)

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So neat...


A comment on the previous post, the one that contained the infographic movies explaining the concept of "information" and "architecture", points to a conceptually similar movie by Ray and Charles Eames. "A Communications Primer", …

Get Hulu Content on Your TV without Hulu's Help [Hulu]

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I'm still pissed that Hulu pulled it's stuff off of Boxee... what a mistake.
Let's say a certain web site you liked went and did something kind of stupid, and now the TV shows you were watching legitimately on your actual TV have ...

Wild West not that wild

Which is safer, the Wild West or present-day New York City? A look at the murder statistics shows that you were less likely to be killed in the notorious cowboy towns of the 1870s and 80s than in NYC today.

In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for …

Wild West not that wild

TED Talk

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I would like a definitive answer on how I'm supposed to end parenthetical statements with emoticons...