Ideas, Execution, and the Rare Auteur (23)
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ideas are just a multiplier of execution - O’Reilly ONLamp Blog Derek Sivers’ short blog post from 2005 has been making the rounds lately — it came to me via Chairman Gruber — and I have to say, I can’t stop thinking about it. I think this is really profound thinking around the fundamental misunderstanding many people have about the value of ideas. In a nutshell, Derek says ideas are valuable only inasmuch as they ...
Whole Foods beef part of massive recall (2)
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Another day, another E. coli recall from the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. This time the recall is for 1.2 million pounds of “primal cuts, subprimal cuts and boxed beef” packed by Nebraska Beef in Omaha, Nebraska, bringing Nebraska’s bad beef total to a whopping 6.5 million pounds. Primal cuts are large sections of beef like the chuck (shoulder) and round (rump), while subprimal cuts are smaller divisions, like the blade and the arm ...
Monitor110 Learnings: The Good, The Bad, and The Really Bad (4)
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The response to my Monitor110 Post Mortem was pretty shocking. I want to thank those who commented, sent emails, and simply took the time to read the post. If some of you are really able to take my experiences to heart and to avoid some of the mistakes made by myself and the team, that would be terrific. To that end, I am going to spend some more calories drilling down on key areas of ...
The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook: Fried Green Tomato Hornworms (1)
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The Eat-A-Bug Cookbook by David G. Gordon cooking with insects and other surprises.
Another Slog Success Story (1)
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Yesterday I posted instructions for getting Dex to remove the useless phone books they left on our porches. Writes commenter Daniel: I called and told them I had 100 books in my lobby. They're sending someone over to pick them up next week. Sweet! Again, the information you need: Dex: (877) 243-8339, wait for the auto-bot to finish a short spiel, then press “1.” Phone lines are open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., CST. ...
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Paul R Brown said:
This is excellent. I don't know why they thought they could litter on my porch in the first place.
Mount St. Helens is Done Erupting (For Now) (2)
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Mt. St. Helens courtesy of Seattlest Flickr Photographer LaFemmeMonkita After three and a half years of eruptions, Mt. St. Helens has had five months of silence and the St. Helens eruption of 2004-2008 has officially been declared over. The U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory has removed an elevated warning of eruption from their classification of the volcano, downgrading its status from advisory ("elevated unrest") to normal. Despite being considered a minor eruption, the USGS ...
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Paul R Brown said:
I remember being able to see the ash plumes from the eruptions of the early 1980s from my family's house in Portland.
ignoranus (1)
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(noun) A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
Monitor110: A Post Mortem (27)
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Turning Failure into Learning Writing a post mortem is hard, particularly when the result is failure: a failed deal; a failed investment; a failed concept. That said, without a post mortem, without deep reflection, honesty and introspection, how can we get better and do better the next time? Quite simply, we can't. My involvement with Monitor110, as an investor, Board member and leader, was one of the most interesting and informative experiences of my life. ...
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bhc3 said:
"By being simply too good at raising money, it enabled us to perpetuate poor organizational structure and suboptimal strategic decisions." My old employer, Pay By Touch, had exactly this problem. $270mm raised, company ended up in bankruptcy.
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dan said:
Great analysis of a recently failed startup...one that had a fantastic idea, product, and founders
Sound of jello wobbling (24)
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The University College London placed a tray of jello in the shape of St Paul's cathedral in an anechoic chamber and recorded the sound it made when it wobbled. Sound artist Douglas Murphy, who recorded the sound says: "It is refreshing to explore the sonority of a much neglected physical property: the wobble factor. Jelly entices us into a strange but compelling world of organic sounds. The sonic wobble is captured in two ways: by ...
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Audrey said:
this is for jiayi. :)
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MikeD said:
It's been a good day on boing boing.
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Corvus said:
This is disturbing. Close your eyes and imagine hearing that in a dark alley. Ew!
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Clay said:
um... omg. lol!
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Ryan Deschamps said:
Eww! ewww! ewwewwewwewwewweeeeewwwwwwwww!
Petition to Google: Please Add 'Bike There' Feature (16)
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Led by Peter Smith, the Google Maps Bike There Team has started a petition with merit. Take a minute to add your signature today. Mine is 34708 if you want to check out Google Petition signatures! The text of the petition is also shown here below: Petition to Google for a Bike There Feature To: Google, and the Google Maps team We would like a 'Bike There' feature added to Google Maps - to go ...
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Paul R Brown said:
Yes, please. (And make the public transit routing smarter...)
REST in the front, RPC in the back (6)
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Let’s see. We’ve got the newly released Protocol Buffers, courtesy of Google. I’m guessing to counter-weight Facebook’s Thrift? Guess who else has RPC? Hadoop, of Yahoo fame. And so does Cisco, with Etch. What do all four have in common? A thirst for bandwidth and big networks for one. Also, a keen interest in social software networking. Yes, Cisco too. Waiting for the MySpace shoe to drop. I don’t know if the interest in social ...
Industry’s high fructose corn syrup campaign leaves a sour taste (6)
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By Debra Eschmeyer Earlier last week the Corn Refiners Association launched a multimillion-dollar media campaign to defend high fructose corn syrup as a “quality” sweetener, in the face of mounting public perception that this cheap, ubiquitous compound has played a not-so-sweet role in making Americans chunky and sick. (See Marc’s May post on the connection between HFCS price and consumption patterns.) Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just announced that the number of ...
Writing vs. Typing (2)
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I've been doing a lot of program/api design work lately in my favorite medium, a blue col-erase pencil + paper. Usually I use tiny ruled graph paper, but I've run out of it and there are all these empty sketchbooks laying around... So anyway, I've noticed that I'm way faster at typing than I ever was at writing. Which annoyed me at first but then I realized that this slowdown actually gave me a little ...
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zappy said:
Writing hurts my hand.
