December 2008
22 posts
“The standards couldn’t be met, they said, at anything like a price consumers...”
– Consider the Refrigerator
“‘cheap thrills’ and not ‘free thrills’. I think people more than ever find it...”
– TedR’s comment on Consumer Internet Predictions for 2009 « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog (via rafer).
“Acceptable” and even commonplace and growing
(via betaworks)
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is...”
– Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption - The New York Review of Books
“One clue was provided six years ago by four researchers who, using the Freedom...”
– Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption - The New York Review of Books
Waking Up from the 'Nightmare on Tech Street' →
“The problem is not that [typical manufactured goods] are cheap, or...”
– Waking Up from the ‘Nightmare on Tech Street’ - O’Reilly Radar
A random lie →
“I feel safe among shallow-minded occultists. I do not feel safe among...”
– Popular Sufism | Of saints and sinners | The Economist
“Mentally, we have exiled love… It is considered a relevant conversation...”
– Marianne Williamson, Illuminata
“Money is a dead thing that takes the place of love: If you love doing something,...”
– Ran Prieur
Activist Moving Homeless People Into Foreclosed... →
Activist Moving Homeless People Into Foreclosed Houses in Miami
“the fundamental understanding that is Steve Jobs and Jony Ive’s (Apple’s Chief...”
– The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
– More time = shorter letter | Dangerous Intersection
Don’t change your “self” —...
“Although the most popular religions are very old, L. Ron Hubbard proved the...”
– Steve Pavlina
Bill Ayers speaks →
“I was at home with my mother’s computer recently and I showed her it was...”
– Thieves Winning Online War, Maybe Even in Your Computer - NYTimes.com
