April 2011
6 posts
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Bertrand Russell
“There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by...”
– Barack Obama
February 2011
2 posts
“The light is the open web. The smoke monster is MS/IE, Jacob is the W3C, the...”
– @alittletooquiet’s description of how LOST is an allegory for the browser wars. Too good not to share.
October 2010
1 post
“We keep on making all these machines to do our work for us. We should be like...”
– http://www.metafilter.com/96573/You-have-nothing-to-gain-but-free-time
September 2010
1 post
Mosey: I have to sign a condolences card for someone's dog
Mosey: Talk about not in my wheelhouse
joshjs: just write "I'm sorry for your loss"
Mosey: someone took that one!
joshjs: damn
July 2010
1 post
“If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet...”
– Clay Shirky
June 2010
1 post
Blind Designer
Josh: communication is hard.
Matt: sometimes I wish I was mute
Matt: so I could have an excuse not to talk to people
Josh: Maybe at my next job, I'll tell them I'm deaf.
Josh: and mute
Josh: and paraplegic. gotta work from home.
Matt: I'm also blind
Matt: blind designer
Matt: "JOSH, WHAT COLOR IS THIS?"
May 2010
9 posts
“Facebook is the people you went to school with. Twitter is the people you wished...”
– (via)
beta
Andy: OMG
Andy: U GOT A RESPONSE FROM @GOOGLEREADER
Josh: :D
Josh: AND they solved my problem. Excellent. :)
Andy: yeah dude. it's google
Andy: they are probably putting out a cure for cancer next week (in beta of course)
“…[I]f you talk to people who disagree with you, that helps your brain wake...”
– (via)
April 2010
8 posts
How To Tie Your Shoes →
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
29 posts
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
We want to watch Jurassic Park →
The College Bubble →
“For years, colleges have treated their students as consumers, building ever more elaborate facilities and hiring ever more dazzling star scholars to lure applicants. They did this regardless of how high these investments drove tuition, since easy credit meant families could stretch to cover the costs. But with the credit crisis comes signs that the college bubble is bursting…”
Love Connection: Hamas gets into matchmaking biz →
(Found via Tyler Cowen, whom you should be reading regularly.)
Comedy Central Orders 13 New Episodes of Futurama? →
(Still technically a rumor, but let’s go ahead and get our hopes up.)
“In England, two of the best sources of information, the BBC and the Guardian,...”
– Matt Yglesias
How to Teach a Child to Argue →
“An argument is good; a fight is not. Whereas the goal of a fight is to dominate your opponent, in an argument you succeed when you bring your audience over to your side.” (via kottke)
