December 2008
8 posts
“Now here’s the trick: drag the shutter. What that means is, set your flash...”
– Fiat Lux! #protip
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
expectoomuch:
1 // You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested” actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.
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Paladino wouldn’t have it. He said, “Let me just... →
William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash. Terrifying. I will never hire a pilot for my private jet who calls me “dude”.
“Polaroid this week sought protection from its creditors for the second time in...”
– Polaroid files for bankruptcy protection
“The notion that the journalistic skills required for a tabloid evening paper, a...”
– Scottish Review: Kenneth Roy
“Gannett never has owned newspapers. By its own preferred corporate-speak, it has...”
– How Gannett Newspapers Got into This Fix
Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? →
“Part of the answer to that question is that our newspapers are being asked to do something they were never designed to do and something they are fundamentally and structurally incapable of doing: they’re being asked to provide shareholders with double-digit and ever-increasing profit margins.
This is a ridiculous expectation. If you are an investor looking for a 15- or 20-percent...
“Even if Twitter were competently run and profitable, the end result is an...”
– Twitter’s bad news is a bad business