February 2012
10 posts
Ramen Infographic
Created by: Hack College
“Never half-ass two things. Whole ass one thing.”
– There’s a strong Product lesson in here from Ron Swanson (via arainert)
Mark this baby done.
“Did I just step on the world’s tiniest violin? Boo hoo.”
– - The New Yorker, “Plagiarism, Copying, and Creativity”
This is the best trash talk I’ve ever witnessed in my life. It was in response to an apology post from Quentin Rowan, a writer who plagiarized his whole novel, “Assassin of Secrets” from 34+ sources. He claimed...
“My mom played with foursquare for about thirty seconds, found Explore, and said...”
– One of my coworkers, Jed, just made my day.
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A few Manhattan blocks
We moved offices about a month ago - about 6 blocks south, 2 blocks east - a 15 minute walk. I can still get off at Broadway-Lafayette, which was the stop I’d get off for the old office when I didn’t feel like waiting for the closer Q to 6 transfer. All in all, probably as close as offices can move.
But it’s different. Surprisingly different. We moved from East Village to...
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“one of the things that fascinates and baffles me about l.a is the randomness and...”
– Moby Los Angeles Architecture Blog
I’ve been a staunch LA hater, as any red-blooded New Yorker/SFer would be. But recently I’ve been coming around to the idea that LA must exist, for the sake of us all. Moby’s documentation of the weird architecture there is a testament to that.
Christen: Man, it feels like all of our heroes are falling
Josh: Does this mean we're getting older?
Christen: Yeah
Josh: But hey, Michael Jordan is still around. And so is Madonna!
Christen: You know she's on Foursquare, right? Before she's on Twitter?
Josh: ... Have you seen Moby's Architecture Tumblr?
Christen: ... This is shit social media couples say.
