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Archive for August, 2009

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins !

via lonelysandwich.com Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins is one of the great and underrated flicks out of the ’80s. And was there ever a better creepy/noble mentor figure than the great Chun ?

Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess

via wired.com Very nice look at the history of Craigslist and founder Craig Newmark.

Office Slavery « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry

via stephenfry.com I love that Stephen Fry does the blogging thing. He’s one of my favorite authors, so seeing his take on technology and the strange ways of the modern world is always a lot of fun.

RDF to debut interactive cartoon series

RDF to debut interactive cartoon series ‘Sleuths’ allows viewers’ avatars to appear onscreen By James Hibberd Aug 24, 2009, 08:04 PM ET RDF is looking to launch the U.S.’ first interactive animated series. The reality production company behind such shows as Fox’s “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” and ABC’s “Wife Swap” is teaming with new-media company Artificial Life to design a [...]

Mad Men, Season 3 TV Club – Slate Magazine

via slate.com It’s one of my (not so) secret ambitions to be invited to partake in one of Slate’s TV Club sessions, where writers and subject experts are brought in to gab — in pleasantly old school letter/e-mail format — about selected shows… and can you get much better than Mad Men? Posted via web from [...]

Share Tweets with Friends Right in GMail – The Steve Rubel Lifestream

via steverubel.com I’m really interested right now in the interaction between Google products (gmail, Google Reader), Posterous, and Twitter. And FriendFeed? Still trying to figure out where FF fits in these days.

Giants' display tiny air attack in preseason loss to Chicago

via nydailynews.com Uh oh. Plaxico, why did you have to go and be so dumb… Posted via web from Eric Berlin\’s posterous

Is Inglourious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino all washed up—or just hitting his stride? – By Dennis Lim – Slate Magazine

via slate.com Pretty great analysis of Inglourious Basterds (which I haven’t seen yet — but I must and will soon) and Tarantino’s overall body of work. I do think that Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction are masterpieces both, whereas Tarantino’s followups have been merely good (Kill Bill) to very good (Jackie Brown, the second half of Death [...]

Success & Motivation: What Entrepreneurs Should NOT Do « blog maverick

I get deal pitches daily.  I want all of you to understand the code words that IMHO are sure fire signs that the entrepreneur has no idea what they are doing and is destined to fail.  This is from an email today, redacted of course to protect the guilty.  My interpretation of the letter is [...]

Lessons Learned: The Promise of the Lean Startup

Welcome to Lessons Learned by Eric Ries. Want to learn more about me? Try About the author. Trying to learn more about lean startups? See The lean startup comes to Stanford or The lean startup.Twitter. Yes, I’m on it now: http://twitter.com/ericries via startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com Eric Ries’ Lessons Learned is a great blog, and I totally dig the concept [...]