July 2011
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A ‘Fucking A’ trade is one that causes everyone else in the...
– Billy Beane, as quoted in Moneyball
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Specialization is for insects.
– Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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The Mac user interface, with its menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, windows,...
– John Siracusa, perfectly summing up the Big Philosophical Problem I have with porting iOS touchy-feely interaction to the desktop OS.
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review
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It’s hard to talk to a person when they have millions, man, because there...
– Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders in an interview with an Atlanta radio station, on cutting ties with troubled Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant, whom he once mentored.
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The Antlers and Neon Indian - Rolled Together
Is there a name for this type of music? Because I think it is now my favorite type of music.
Don’t be a Google bitch, don’t be a Facebook bitch, and don’t be a Twitter...
– Fred Wilson, noted tech investor.
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Wugazi. Of course.
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perpetua:
Beyoncé “Year of 4” The most amusing moment of this EPK is when Beyoncé, seeming slightly confused, notes that “Countdown” is “every hipster’s favorite song” in the bit where she’s discussing which songs to put on 4. Also, I really enjoy the sequence where she’s working with choreographers and dancers to nail the dance created for “Run the World (Girls).” I love how seriously she...