Random Articles

• Take 40% Off the Top “Trees must be cut down, hauled to factories in trucks, and pulped into rolls of paper, which themselves must be transported to other factories, where they are chopped up, covered in ink, folded, stacked, and loaded onto a third set of trucks. These trucks then fan out across the region, dropping bundles at distribution points,
• What Dial-Up Doesn’t Mean Calling up your sister with DSL and asking her check something online for you.
• The New Phonebooks are Here, Please Recycle  Growing up, I always looked forward to the new phonebooks. Visiting my grandparents, I spent hours exploring the big city via their encyclopedic yellow pages. Steve Martin’s classic Jerk only amplified my enthusiasm and provided a chorus. “The new phonebooks are here! The new phonebooks are here!” Today, unexpected as always, a new phone book lay
• Three Thoughts on Demand Supplying Itself “So what do you do when the deer have guns, You get into the ammunition business.” - Gordon Borrell “Attention tuning will reduce RSS overload but not noise to signal.” - Steve Gillmor “[Real Estate] Sellers and buyers can figure out pricing via Zillow; they can bid via Redfin; they can list via PropertyShark or Craigslist.” -
• A Different Garrick, A Different Palace of Stuff Since Garrick is a fairly uncommon first name, I’m always amused to find those who share it. Especially when they have their own Palace of Stuff (thanks to Jeff @ manicwave). The sponsored link in Google’s results for ‘garrick’ also amuses me: