February 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much...”
– Steve Jobs
(H/T Dustin Curtis)
Watchmerlin:
From Jan 8, 2010:
merlin:
Please don’t let me hit the ground
Featuring an extremely rare public performance of my critically-acclaimed “Ian Curtis Move.”
That’s me again this morning. Now 45.
I’m thankful for Merlin Mann.
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October 2011
13 posts
Liberals Are Cool: House GOP's "Job Creating"... →
House Republicans took the government to the brink of shutdown last spring by demanding across-the-board budget cuts to many vital programs. Instead of focusing on job creation, as Americans wanted them to, the GOP turned its attention to slashing funds for programs that…
“The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar...”
– Stephen Fry
(H/T John Gruber)
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New Census data show Recovery Act kept 6 million... →
jaison96:
We previously described the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) as one of the “most effective pieces of anti-poverty legislation in decades,” saying its temporary expansion of the safety net kept 4.5 million people out of poverty in 2009. Actually, the impact was greater than we thought.
“People sometimes have goals in life. Steve Jobs exceeded every goal he set...”
– Steve Wozniak
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“No! We’re getting to that park. That was my goal for today; to get to that...”
– Steven Paul Jobs, shortly after his 2009 liver transplant.
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Steven Paul Jobs
Until today, I’ve never been sad about the death of someone I didn’t personally know. Steve Jobs was a brilliant man. Without him, personal computing as we know it wouldn’t exist.
Your work changed my life. Thanks, Steve.
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“I installed a sort of innerSteve, an Angel of Better telling me to make it...”
– Neven Mrgan
Rest in peace, Steve.
And thanks. My life and career wouldn’t be the same without your work.
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September 2011
9 posts
“I think you earned every dollar, you should get to keep every dollar that you...”
– Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), at last night’s GOP debate
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore, etc.
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August 2011
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“Mr Buffett explained that, like many top earners, his income came entirely from...”
– BBC News - Warren Buffett demands to pay more tax (via mememolly)
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Obama: Debt Ceiling Deal Required Tough... →
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July 2011
5 posts
“I think that people have lost the art of super hard work, really focusing on...”
– Rogie King, in this fantastic interview.
“I love making the stuff, that’s sort of the core of it. I love creating the...”
– I’m not 100% certain we deserve Louis C.K. (via jimray)
Roger Ailes' Secret Nixon-Era Blueprint for Fox... →
wilwheaton:
Republican media strategist Roger Ailes launched Fox News Channel in 1996, ostensibly as a “fair and balanced” counterpoint to what he regarded as the liberal establishment media. But according to a remarkable document buried deep within the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the intellectual forerunner for Fox News was a nakedly partisan 1970 plot by Ailes and other Nixon aides to...
June 2011
9 posts
“[An] essential component of what makes Apple successful is that it is extremely...”
– Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Pixel Perfect
