August 2009
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Jeff Beck ft. Seal - “Manic...
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The Church - “Milky Way” - Starfish....
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“A note about NDAs: 1) almost no experienced entrepreneurs/VCs will sign them (in...”
– cdixon.org
Chris is crushing it on his blog right now.
(via mokoyfman)
gbattle sez:
NDA’s and Confidentiality Agreements are exactly what they appear to be. Texbook lawyer busywork to book billable hours at the expense of an entrepreneur’s inexperience. Chris’ Aug 22nd post...
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Steve Gadd - “Live Drum Solo”. Sorry...
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Abstract Truth - “Get Another Plan”....
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Mariano Yanani - “Play The Game” -...
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Institute for Human Continuity →
Anyone who believes this IHC stuff is real should suck on the business end of an exhaust pipe. I hope it fools enough people into going to see the 2012 movie (pre/post apocalytpic film dujour - think Y2K for the Gen Z set) and that some actual Mayans earn a buck off this appropriation of mythology. Until then, duck and cover dummies.
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“The top 10 traded-in vehicles were American brands and 8 of the top 10 purchased...”
– The Final Numbers on ‘Clunkers’, NYT. Whoa, plan backfired. (via fascinated)
gbattle sez:
A $2B economics lesson. This is the real teachable moment. How many more do we need?
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DJ Fede - “Ghana” - DJ Fede Presents...
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Hitting Milestones Earns You Deferred Revenue Joe →
I wrote the below in response to Joe Weisenthal’s assessment of Tumblr’s use of capital. Apparently, my comment got cut off without warning. Lucky for me, I always copy comments to the clipboard before I post. And here we go …
A VC (pun intended) who allows an investment the latitude to iterate and Spark (pun) growth with an aggressive curiosity and deferred pressure on...
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WatchBob Parsons, CEO of GoDaddy.com, gives his take on Twitter with hot chicks, wacky graphics, and soapbox banter. The infomercial style video has been around a while, but I only saw it today for the first time. Yes, the same guy that made buying domain names sexy is a better Twitter salesman than Biz, Ev or Jack (sorry guys) ever could be for the mainstream set. Don’t be fooled by...
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Kirk Franklin - “The Declaration (This Is...
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Twitter Is Just A Faster, Centralized Yet...
Apparently, on August 22, 1991, at 2:23pm EST (exactly 18 years ago) I was commenting on the newest Metallica album on USENET. Wait, you’ve never heard of USENET? You never used that NNTP address your dialup ISP gave you in the 90’s (just the SMTP address for email)? Never played around on DejaNews before Google bought them? Don’t worry, most people didn’t and...
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The Moon People - “Hippy Skippy Moon...
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Can - “Vitamin C” - Ege Bamyasi. ...
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Manu Dibango - “Soul Makossa”. Yes,...
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Godwin's Law: The Guiding Principle Behind The... →
“Godwin’s Law (also known as Godwin’s Rule of Nazi Analogies)[1] is a humorous observation coined by Mike Godwin in 1990, and which has become an Internet adage. It states: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.”[2][3]
Godwin’s Law is often cited in online discussions as a deterrent...
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Yesterday’s New Quintet - “Marcus,...
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Bill O'Reilly's brilliant 10-second defense of... →
rafer:
(via nickdouglas)
Rafer sez: I can’t figure out if this is a better advertisement for Canadian healthcare or Canadian education. O’Reilly’s going to die young and unable to do any math at all.
GBattle sez: I find this tragically comedic and deserving of the rarely ever seen, double facepalm. The asshattery continues.
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Bullets Over Beltway: Explanation of Guns at Town...
Jon Stewart: What is it about this healthcare debate that is inspiring people to bring assault rifles to Presidential events? It seems like they are exercising a right completely unrelated to healthcare.
Wyatt Cenac: They're not unrelated. It's about tyranny. If Obama and Congress can pass healthcare reform, what's to stop them from coming into my home, killing my family, and taking all my guns? It's a slippery slope.
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Bobby Hutcherson - “Yuyo” - Montara....
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Tal Wilkenfeld - “Cosmic Joke” -...
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Street Sweeper Social Club -...
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“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”
– Frank Zappa
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“A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.”
– Benny Green, jazz saxophonist
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“The current health care debate underscores the problems with real-time public...”
– Me, Greg Battle, just now, to a friend, rehashing some recent thoughts applied to the current Town Hall absurdity. (The last phrase was used to punctuate my point.)
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“Before starting to teach any dog a teacher should be familiar with how a dog...”
– Excerpt from “Dog Training” manual. Feel free to replace “dog” with whatever you wish - child, subordinates, soldiers, spouse, the American people.
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Eric Johnson - “Manhattan”. The...
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“Let me guess, everybody in town told you you were easy on the eyes so you...”
– Jim Carrey in “Me, Myself & Irene”, explaining Renee Zellweger’s character’s New York story. Too common. I <3 NY.
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PrimoSpot →
caterpillarcowboy:
My friend Will showed me this neat site / Google Maps mashup that maps all of the NYC street parking rules.
I’m very happy that someone finally did a street parking rules Google Maps mashup. I’ve been thinking about doing this idea for 18 months. I pitched this exact idea a few times, down to the photos of the signs. Great minds think alike. I’ll be using...
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Gangstarr - “Mass Appeal”....
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“It takes a big man to admit that he’s wrong. I am not a big man.”
– Fletch
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J-Live - “Braggin Writes”....
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“Justice is what love looks like in public.”
– Dr. Cornel West
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The Roots ft. Roy Ayers - “Proceed...
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Dexter Gordon - “Cheese Cake” - Go....