August 2010
60 posts
“Head & Shoulders said on Monday it had taken a $1 million Lloyd’s of London...”
– Football star Troy Polamalu’s hair insured for $1 million | Reuters (via evangotlib)
AAAAND back to ridiculousness.
What A CEO Does →
whatconsumesme:
I am posting this as a MBA Mondays post. But I did not learn this little lesson at business school. I learned it from a very experienced venture capitalist early in my post-MBA career.
I was…
I find CEOs in general to be fascinating, and what he says seems pretty much on the money.
“The music industry has already been disrupted. The book industry has been...”
– The Full-On Assault On Cable Is Underway
Essential Monday morning reading.
Yes this is. This is why I work at blip.tv. So much opportunity.
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you know i don't really
think about how my life has turned out kind of differently than I expected. it’s just the way it goes, and that’s fine. the only time I have any pangs of hmmm how did this all go wrong is on emmy night, because I remember being 17 and watching the emmy awards and being CERTAIN that one day I would be there, that TV was my obvious destiny. and, um, I guess it wasn’t. which makes...
my dvr box broke
and the cable person said there was nothing I could do and my shows were gone for good. which was VERY traumatic (anyone with a DVR understands this completely). so the guy was here switching out the box and fixing my internet which was also broken and he asked if I wanted the other premium expensive channels, not jut HBO. In a moment of sadness and weakness, I said yes and OH MY GOD, this is...
so john mayer
posted the picture of keith urban LITERALLY 43 seconds ago, and IMMEDIATELY there were 93 notes (as of the last time I looked. there are probably 237 by now, and by the time I finish this there will be 548 and in ten minutes it will be 8,723). Fame is very…interesting.
The Facebook Effect: Foursquare Had Its Most... →
soupsoup:
Leading up to Facebook’s location announcement, there were two schools of thought. Either you thought Facebook Places was going to destroy Foursquare. Or you thought that this new service would help the startup by bringing more awareness to the location field. It appears that the latter is happening.
"If Snookie starts carrying a Valextra bag, it is... →
what i have done today
found out that joseph gordon levitt has a tumblr. nothing more can really be accomplished after getting that news. i heart joseph gordon levitt a million millions. he makes my list of men who i would totally marry even though they are shorter than me. the list is not very long, and he should be pretty psyched that he’s on it.
The “mystery flavor” Dum-Dum Pop is truly random....
ohyeahfacts:
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I really miss dirtylittlestylewhore as a tumblr contributor. She was so…fashion forward, but a real person too
Anecdote of the Day: Negative Double Positive
thedailywhat:
Based on a true story:
An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. “In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah,...
