Archive for February, 2009
- Arabiatube – Iraqi police get motivational speech by Army solider. classic. reminds me of being in the Corps at A&M
- Mac OS X 10.5: Disk Utility’s Repair Disk Permissions reports issues with SUID files If you see "acl found but not expected on…" when you run repair disk permissings, you can type this "sudo chmod -N /FILENAME" into Terminal.app where FILENAME is the name of the file with the problems to remove the warning. But you don’t need to either.
- The Omni Group Releases Four Applications as Freeware
- Daring Fireball: Untitled Document Syndrome
- 20 Corporate Brand Logo Evolution | instantShift
- What I’ve Learned from Hacker News
- Initial Hypothesis » Blog Archive » 13 things to tell startups by Paul Graham
- Going rogue inside a big company (a la Best Buy) – (37signals)
- bit-tech.net | Review – Replacement iPhone earphones on test
- Kindle Design – Still Sucks | Greg’s Head
Pretty good movie here that explains a lot about the credit crisis we’re in now:
Just watched “The Darwin Awards” on a plane ride from SLC to AUS, and I have to say this has got to be one of the best movies I’ve ever watched. Joseph Fiennes is hilarious, and Wynona Rider is super hot. There are some great cameos in the movie that make it totally worth watching… [...]
- The Secrets of Super-Productive CEOs – Timothy Ferriss – 4 hour Work Week "It’s very empowering to define your worst-case scenario. Entrepreneurs often find themselves paralyzed because of ambiguous fear."
- Andrew Rhodes Bourland (1955 – 2009) – Bourland.com RIP brother. RIP.
- peHUB – HBS Study Finds VCs Need Successful Serial Entrepreneurs Way More than Vice Versa "…successful entrepreneurs have a 34 percent chance of succeeding in the next venture-backed firm, compared with 23 percent who failed previously, and 22 percent chance for new venture-backed entrepreneurs."
- SkyGuy awesome for kids!
- Anxiety – Lightweight To-do Management
- Versions – Mac Subversion Client (SVN)
- Skitch.com + Skitch = fast and fun screen capture and image sharing. pretty cool app
- Paparazzi!
- MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- MAMP: Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- ColorSchemer | Instant color schemes for your Mac with ColorSchemer Studio OSX
- ExpanDrive: Ridiculously simple SFTP and FTP drive access on your Mac awesome
- 15+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers
- Time to Fail
- AIG Implodes: The Two Cows Version great story
- Apple’s design process – BusinessWeek
- Readers Pick: 30+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps for Web Design
- April Winchell » Barack Obama is tired of your motherfucking shit
- 20 Ways To Increase Laptop’s Battery Life | MakeUseOf.com
- Gmail Labs: Ten Gmail Labs Features You Should Enable
- Best Image Croppers ready to use for web developers
- Ultra small code to drag everything in HTML pages
- 60+ Resources For Entrepreneurs To Step Up and Take Charge | Applicant – The Advice Bank
- 100 Blogs that Will Save You Time & Make You More Productive | MatchACollege.com
- Surprising stories behind 20 Muppet characters – CNN.com
- Twitter / SiliconValleyCEO: CEO tip: I wouldn’t worry … "CEO tip: I wouldn’t worry too much about your carbon footprint if you don’t make your number this quarter."
- the sopranos, uncensored. on Vimeo fuckin’ hliarious
- How Bad Is It? :: Swampland – TIME.com it’s bad.
- TED Blog: Twitter Snapshot: Hans Rosling, a perennial favorite
To All My Valued Employees
6 Comments Published February 9th, 2009 in leadership + management, small business, startupThis kind of says it all, doesn’t it: To All My Valued Employees, There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the good news is this: The economy doesn’t [...]
- The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age – Ars Technica
- DesignAday – Truism “Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever.”
- tlvx: the tumblelog of luke crawford – The technical story of Muxtape
- Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering
- Davenetics* : Peeling Cucumbers on the Front Stoop
- A Review of Two Things: One For the Mac and One For iPhone – Shawn Blanc
- Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code
- Make Something Cool Every Day – a set on Flickr
- 140 Characters » How Twitter Was Born
- Derek Powazek – Don’t Work for Assholes "Nine times out of ten, the first impression someone gives you is exactly who they are. We choose not to see it because we need the money, or we want the situation to be different. But if someone rubs you the wrong way at the first meeting, chances are, it’s only going to get worse."
- Seth’s Blog: Email campaign case studies (one good, one bad)
- SCI FI Wire: Official Star Trek Super Bowl trailer is now live
- gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": kidnapping fish & dogs with the hardvard lampoon Great story about family…
- Not All Earnings News Is Bad
- Glam: The success of the network « BuzzMachine Great read… inspiration for StuffGeeksWant.com and that business…
- The lie of print advertising (followed by good news) « BuzzMachine must read article: "Smaller rates in a larger universe beat larger rates in a small one, once the walls around media came down."
- Google Bails On Print Ads (And Newspapers)
- Seth’s Blog: What is school for?
- Seth’s Blog: What are you good at? One of the reasons that super-talented people become entrepreneurs is that they can put their process expertise to work in a world that often undervalues it." here, here.
- Seth’s Blog: What would a professional do? "Be an amateur on purpose, not because you have to."
- Internet Newspapers (in 1981) | NSLog(); this one is for Andy ;)
- Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise : This Is Not A Recession
- 50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
- Wired’s February Issue Is 3 Millimeters Thin
- Slashdot | Largest Data Breach Disclosed During Inauguration
- Webby :: Webby
- Neven Mrgan’s tumbl
- inessential.com: New publishing system / tour of my head
- Steve Jobs a music visionary? Judge for yourself | Digital Media – CNET News
- Fraser Speirs – On the Flickr support in iPhoto ‘09
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