February 2012
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The Path Fiasco Will Lower Your Conversions
Regardless of your opinion of Path’s sneaky activities, if you are part of the startup community, you should think twice before you forgive and move on. Their lapse in judgement will lower your conversions.
When the news broke that Path had been peeking into users’ address books and saving a copy on its servers, I didn’t much care. Sure, I thought it was immoral at best to do...
January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
3 posts
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The Internet Makes TV Better
This is kind of awesome. Even if you’re not a “Community” fan, check this out.
1. On Thursday an episode of “Community” aired. The episode, “Remedial Chaos Theory” explored several different parallel timelines.
2. A really perceptive viewer Tumbled his theory that events in the prior episode are clues that timeline we are lead to believe is...
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September 2011
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August 2011
4 posts
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Videogum's Fake Interview with Emma Stone
Gabe in fine form…
Videogum: Can I tell you what is weird to me about your friendship with Taylor Swift? Emma Stone: … Videogum: It’s just how, like, you have sort of built this career on being this smart, cool, funny girl. You know? Emma Stone: … Videogum: But then Taylor Swift is this super-earnest, very chaste, boring pop sensation. Based on your public image you should be friends with...
July 2011
4 posts
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Though we are grateful for the affection 30 Rock has received from critics and...
– Tina Fey, Bossypants (via everythingtv)
But it’s a hot load of bullshit that [Nick] didn’t get a nomination, and you can...
– Amy Poehler to Hitfix re: Nick Offerman’s Emmy Snub (via popculturebrain)
Amy Poehlr is The Best.
June 2011
7 posts
joemande:
This is the best.
The very best.
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'The Killing' Writers to Graduate College Next...
On Vulture, Monday:
There was tone of condescension about this entire project from the start — all the talk of defying audience expectations, of how the writers would sort of “figure out” the killer’s identity as they went along. All of this reeked of poorly thought out elitism, like a college freshman clutching a half-read copy of Siddartha and explaining to everyone how they just “don’t...
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May 2011
12 posts
Don’t Peak in High School. Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super...
– Excerpt from Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
(via rufustfirefly)
Required reading for every 15 year old.
The original version of this article incorrectly stated that Mark Pincus’s home...
– Vanity Fair: Ol’ Mark Pincus Had a Farm… by Vanessa Grigoriadis
tv hangover: Which TV characters schooled you in... →
tvhangover:
Which TV characters schooled you in acting? Laverne and Shirley was physical and broad, and I loved those characters. Law & Order’s Lieutenant Anita van Buren is a great example of a tough lady among men. Omar Little from The Wire—one of the best bad good guys, or good bad guys, on TV. Animal…
Definitely a piece worth reading in its brief entirety.
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April 2011
7 posts
How to IM With Your Sibling
Kathryn: yooooo
(7 minutes later)
Kathryn: YO i said
Reed: sorry, im not too good with computers
Kathryn: oh that's right
Kathryn: i forget sometimes
(2 minutes later)
Kathryn: I FORGET SOMETIMES, i said
Reed: sorry, i was GETTING WATER
Kathryn: GOD
Kathryn: who do you think you are
Kathryn: A CAMEL
Kathryn: right guys?!?
Reed: WRONG
Reed: how's things? how was NY?
(4 minutes later)
Reed: HOW WAS your weekend in NEW FUCKING YORK, i said
(6 minutes later)
Kathryn: you didnt asnwer me so i dont answer you
Kathryn: IM GETTING WATER
A series of pictures last Sunday of covers of the magazine Tiger Beat, with an...
– Today in NY Times corrections. (via cajunboy)
Hey, web series folk, let's make a list to end all... →
lizlet:
So a reader asked if a list of “successful” independent web series existed anywhere — with success defined as the series being sold to a major distributor, making real money through independent distribution, and/or leading to a deal for the creators to do a larger project based on the series. I…
March 2011
9 posts
I work at Apple as a manager at one of its stores in Japan. The earthquake hit...
– #urbancomputing
XXXXX, Great Tohoku Earthquake Survivor 2011 (via ericmortensen)
Despite the virtual daily cooking of beans, I still don’t salt until, forgive...
– Steve Sando, proprietor of Rancho Gordo, as quoted by Michael Ruhlman, on when he salts his beans.