What if this could spell check you as well? “No no, you’re using the wrong De Stijl building again!” that would be high-larious… or maybe I’m just easily amused.
Via Core 77.
Archive for November, 2006
I knew i should have started yesterday
November 15, 2006* The best time to start is when you’ve got enough money in the bank to support all contingencies.
* The best time to start is when the competition is far behind in technology, sophistication and market acceptance.
* The best time to start is when the competition isn’t too far behind, because then you’ll spend too long educating the market.
* The best time to start is when everything at home is stable and you can really focus.
* The best time to start is when you’re out of debt.
* The best time to start is when no one is already working on your idea.
* The best time to start is when your patent comes through.
* The best time to start is after you’ve got all your VC funding.
* The best time to start is when the political environment is more friendly than it is now.
* The best time to start is after you’ve got your degree.
* The best time to start is after you’ve worked all the kinks out of your plan.
* The best time to start is when you’re sure it’s going to work.
* The best time to start is after you’ve hired the key marketing person for the new division.
* The best time to start was last year. The best opportunities are already gone.
* The best time to start is before some pundit declares your segment passe. Too late.
* The best time to start is when the new generation of processors is shipping.
* The best time to start is when the geopolitical environment settles down.
Via Seth Godin.
Use Babelfish at your own risk
November 11, 2006Found while browsing Terremoto, a dutch site on flamenco.
Proud owner of a gazelle
November 11, 2006
Ok so sue me I’m just too damn lazy to post up a picture of my real bike,but I’m really proud of my new (well second-hand) Gazelle bike which I bought last monday for way too much money. The lock was worth half the price of the bike but I am now still counting down the days till it gets stolen…
What Amsterdam gives, Amsterdam takes.
Maybe we're just too boring for the truth?
November 11, 2006
I learnt a new expression the other day: polite fiction which is where “all participants are aware of a truth, but to avoid conflict or embarrassment, all pretend to believe in some alternate version of events”.
And now I’ve been using Jaiku (in the least optimal way I’m the first to admit it, as I just have a computer and no a dataset-enabled phone to play with it) for a week or so and I kept wondering what an alternate expression could be… what happens when all participants are aware of a lie but all ignore it. Does the lie then become invalid and pointless?
Because to be frank, I’ve been lying on Jaiku, I’ve also been lying on Talponia.net and everyone knows it’s a lie, but just one person has asked me about it, concerned.
Why am i lying? Well because i want to blur the lines of presence and eavesdropping.
I started to think about this idea of presence, and in a way voyeurism. Is it really that interesting to know that we are all the same, we all share the same dull things at different times of the day depending on our timezone, such as eating, traveling, shopping, working too much, sleeping too little. Is that something worth eavesdropping on or does it only matters when those lives come into collision with your own?
Are we interested in the entire spectrum of the asteroides or just in the collisions… and more importantly, is it worth capturing everything when all you want to know is if a collision can happen and be engineered?
Late night thoughts on a Saturday night on a rainy night in Kabul…well, not really ; )
Tasty Thinking take 2 (because Blogger sucks)
November 9, 2006Ok so after a first introduction I’m retracting and making a second announcement: Dave and I concluded that Blogger sucks and put together Tastythinking on WordPress instead. So basically it’s a blog about food, health, weird food related services, dieting and everything unique we can collect around those broad topics… if you have some ideas send them along to alex at tastythinking dot come ; )
I don't need to lie anymore, I have Jaiku ; )
November 7, 2006
So Jaiku (love the name) just came out, a very interesting endeavor that exploits online and mobile presence and people’s ever growing need to stay connected on every level. The only things is that so far, i only feel like being subversive and untruthful… maybe it’s just a tuesday afternoon thing…
Stained cups
November 7, 2006
A lovely project by Bethan Laura Wood: a tea cup that the more you use, the more the dotted pattern appears on it’s surface.
Definitely a positive history project.
"Oh, i'm between devices at the moment".
November 6, 2006As if my thesis needed more conceptual evidence of the fickle relationships we have with high tech devices, here’s the the seven stages of owning an iPod or rather being between iPods.
via Valleywag.
