January 2008
20 posts
Barack Obama talking casually with the Reno... →
It’s easy to find videos of the positively electrifying speeches that Senator Obama has delivered, but rarer are records like this: sitting around a table, chatting thoughtfully on issues with a handful of Reno journalists. If you think he’s all style and not substance (or if you know anyone of that mind) give it a watch.
It’s 49 minutes long, so get comfortable.
Kevin Kelly on gratitude →
You tell me
issy: And, speaking of being busy, when would I have time to do more than "microblog" via Twitter (and thus generate enough content to warrant something like a tumblelog)? :-)
phi: I don't know, you seem to have an easy time keeping up with this stream of email replies ;-)
issy: Yes, but aren't replying and generating new content just a bit different from one another? :-)
Kahan
VELVEL Gender: Masculine
Usage: Yiddish
Other Scripts: װֶעלװֶעל (Yiddish)
Means “wolf” in Yiddish. This name can also be used as a Yiddish form of WILLIAM.
“In the past year, both Intel and Microsoft spent a gazillion dollars for...”
– Michael Feldman, editor of HPCwire, in his comments on last year’s article on the manycore future of computing.
He neglects to mention that with market caps of 60 and 73 hojillion dollars, respectively, a gazillion is a relatively small comittment on the part of Intel and Microsoft.
Dutch treats →
That’s what you get when you give Rube Goldberg a copy of Flash.
“Look for someone with girlie smooth hands who can go to lunch whenever they...”
– Merlin Mann in InfoWeek, on how to identify knowledge workers.
“Our goal: Global harmony in 30 years. Thanks to Mass Interpersonal Persuasion,...”
– BJ Fogg, Persuasive Technology Lab, Stanford University Abstract from his upcoming talk at PARC
In our time, man, in our time!
“You may be able to avoid Periodic Finance Charges, see the reverse side for...”
– My credit card statement, viewed on my computer monitor.
The reverse side, indeed.