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Twitter Updates for 2009-08-02

August 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

First interesting (to me) Photoshop plugin in a long time. Converts CS3 (no CS4) files to WordPress templates(!) http://bit.ly/72EJr # @imanto eager to know how it works for you. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Dying Newspapers? No Hand-Wringing From Wired’s Chris Anderson

August 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Coworker Jason Preston and I frequently discuss what role the traditional press will have in a world where the printing press is largely irrelevant. He even has a blog dedicated to the future of publishing. During these conversations, my attitude is characteristically laissez-faire and could be described as “hey, journalism happens.” In other words, if […]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-20

July 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

@jasonp107 WSJ: India Rejects U.S. Proposal of Carbon Limits. http://tinyurl.com/mxvgjy # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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“Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.”

July 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

Gee. Ya Think? See page 20. As my old professors used to say: “intuitively, we know that…” Intuitively we know that taking money from productive members of society to build Lawerence Welk (or Sparta Teapot) Museums is probably bad for national productivity. Regrettably, many require deep empirical research from an ivory-tower institution to prove what […]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-12

July 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

How many nuclear bombs within range of Seattle? 4568 from Russia, 121 from China. http://nukeometer.com/ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-08

July 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

@chrismessina is in the Seattle area — would love to grab coffee with him… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-07

July 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

In @AirCanada lounge. S. Kuwahara (from @AllNipponAirUSA) just paged us, alerted us there is a wall between our seats. Is moving us! Wow. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Holy Crap. I’m Staying at Osato Chemical

June 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

So, I landed in Tokyo yesterday and have been touring the city. The first movie I ever saw that primarily took place in Japan was You Only Live Twice, so I decided to surf for some of the locations where they shot the film. Who knows? I thought maybe a few of the sites might […]

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-24

June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

@christinelu I am in Beijing! # @kegill I am in Beijing at this very moment! When will you be over here? # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-13

June 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Datatoy looks interesting. It applies structure to tweets and generates charts from the information. http://datatoy.net/ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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