About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
The Combined Arms Research Library has a good post on the upside of the latest version of Twitter’s terms of service (“Twitter can do WHAT with your photos?“) . The language is very similar to the MIT/X11 License in that the copyright holder is licensing their work to others and the licensees can do as …
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Abbey Cyser Recipe 4 Gallons of Apple Cider from Hy’s Cider Mill purchased from Whole Foods in St. Paul 2.5 pounds of honey from Pine Tree Apple Orchard 1 package of WYeast Trappist High Gravity 3787 According to the package, the yeast like it between 70-75°F. To accommodate it, I combined the cider and honey …
“We are deeply in a situation in which the few are supporting the many: the bottom 50% of income earners paid only 2.7% of total income taxes in 2008, and 52 million taxpayers paid no income taxes at all” – Scott Grannis
“Total U.S. trade with the rest of the world (sales of U.S. products to consumers and firms in other countries PLUS purchases of foreign production by American consumers and businesses) reached a 22-month high of $354.1 billion in August, the highest level since October 2008, and 44% above the April 2009 cyclical low of $246 …
Next Wednesday – Oct 20th @ 7pm – I’ll be giving a talk on failure to the Lean Startup Circle group. If you’re interested in how I define success and failure for the projects I so frequently talk about here join me. I’ll be discussing these projects; their opportunity, challenges, brief success, and their ultimate …
“If your genius lies in some kind of creative field, then there’s a good chance you have actual mental illness to deal with” – By Elizabeth Benefiel, David Wong
“Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis), is a term applied to the study of nature and the physical universe that was dominant before the development of modern science. It is considered to be the precursor of natural sciences such as physics.” – Wikipedia It seems significant that Western culture’s first …
‘Saving Innovation’ – Dan Haugen’s article on our vibrant meet-up scene and how it supports innovation & entrepreneurship was published in the October 2010 issue of Twin Cities Business Magazine. Dan did a great job on the topic – with quotes from some of my favorite people in town as well as yours truly. The …
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self-hosted easily template-able easily customizable supports email-to-post supports XML-RPC supports RSS output internal search engine an writing UI encouraging writing 200+ words at a time an reading UI encouraging reading 2+ essays at a time Update 11 Oct 2010 Add these to the list; memorable, human-readable URL constructs doesn’t bias how or what I publish
Stick your head out the window and yell. Bonus: A super fun Kleptones mashup with Howard Beale [mp3] Update 13 Oct 2010: My favorite line from the monologue: “You people are the real thing, we’re the illusion.”