November 2011
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It sounded sort of like the Nyan cat, but in my head it was a samurai.
– CR upon hearing a Philip Glass piece at Carnegie Hall just now
October 2011
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New Mexico woman goes directly to jail after... →
I just received word that after our successful game night last night, we demonstrated enough skill to be invited to play Cosmic Encounter in the future. I have heard many a legend of this game, and hope that it won’t result in anything like this Monopoly game above.
(My coworker just told me she thought of me when she saw this story last night. Awesome.)
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French Fry Baby
Girl sitting on train: Excuse me... Do you want this seat?
Me: Oh, no thanks. I only have a few more stops.
Girl: I'm sorry I took the seat; I didn't see [gestures at my stomach].
(burn. Luckily I was coming from yoga and eating sausages and french fries, so my confidence is high!)
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RIM’s BBM Music promises to let users of its BlackBerry Messenger service...
– Google Links Music Store, Social Networking (WSJ)
Once again, Blackberry is the absolute shittiest among its competitors. $5 a month for 50 songs vs. every song ever recorded in the history of time for $5 a month from Spotify. Hilarious.
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A New Look for Gmail →
parislemon:
Google pushing hard to get Gmail looking like Sparrow.
That search box blows my mind.
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Jenna Lebel,managing director of strategy at Likeable Media, says the “Like” is...
– What Facebook’s Changes Mean for Marketers (Mashable)
Her company is called “Likeable Media” and she’s talking about how “Like”ing things is becoming less relevant! I “like” it.
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So I was listening to “Till There Was You,” and I was listening to...
– composer Alex Temple (Huffington Post)
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See you Tuesday!
– Coworker on his way out as I was on my way in just now
Three words that say so much on a Thursday at 3:30.
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Three anti-Google articles I read this week
Secret Court Order Seeks E-mail Data (WSJ)
Hacked! (Atlantic)
Google Engineer Accidentally Posts Rant about Google+ [on Google+]
I haven’t finished the second one yet (but thanks to BenPaper, the Android app for Instapaper, I will on the train tonight), but it definitely makes me question my complete trust in the cloud. Local e-mail/contacts/calendar backups and password services are in...