January 2009
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Maple Syrup Smell Moves Around - Gothamist: New... →
How is this not getting more attention??? Smell = chemicals. Whether this is REALLY maple syrup or something else, I feel like “powers that be” should be getting to the bottom of this.
THIS WOULD BE A WICKED DOCUMENTARY! (My Flip is on its way! Project #1)
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instantwatcher.com - Movies and TV to Watch... →
Very nice Netflix API usage! Good Idea!
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AJAX APIs Playground →
This is AWESOME! What a great way to learn and play with AJAX!
Stanford iPhone Class Apps →
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My Inauguration Experiment
So yesterday I got a little bogged down in the morning and my plans to leave City College before the Inauguration had to be modified. I scrambled around and decided to watch the whole thing on the Internet via “the tubes.”
So, I loaded up the Hulu stream and enjoyed Fox News’ wonderful coverage.
Around 11:15 or there about I started to lose the feed. It started to get choppy...
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Live Inauguration from:
Hulu - The Obama Presidency
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Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Digital Short: Doogie Howser Theme
FUUUUUNY!
Note to self...
… Do not go and start deleting Encryption Certificates in Firefox’s preferences! It is a pain in the ass to get your web browser working the way you like it again… smoothly.
I had to not just re-install Firefox, but get all my old bookmarks, shortcuts, and info from my old version into the new one… can you say unnecessary time waster! Back to work.
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Pearson - Prentice Hall Textbook Resources - Math →
Nice ‘bonus’ material to go along with math textbooks… but no video and not very interactive.
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Change is Coming/Scary/Exciting
fred-wilson:
continuations:
I believe that the financial and economic crisis is accelerating the change from the industrial to the information society. The magnitude of the change is likely to be on par with or greater than the transition from agricultural to industrial society (I am intentionally saying “society” instead of “economy” because the change affects all parts of how we live). ...
'Atlas Shrugged': From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years... →
If you haven’t read Atlas Shrugged, read it (and don’t worry, it is better than Fountainhead!)
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So True
I am trying to “get” twitter… I am starting to see the potential, but does teh “average” person really follow twitter?
perspective: I still don’t have a facebook account, because I REALLY don’t get facebook!
fred-wilson:
Twitter is where the influential people are because, hey, if you’re going to speak, might as well do it in a place where everybody is...
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French Teenagers Charged in Attack on Jewish Girl... →
This is very unpleasent to hear about but it does not seem like it gets attention in “the press”.
This might seem funny because this article is in the NY Times via the AP, but its not being talked about, at least the news that I LISTEN to…
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The Maple Syrup Smell... is Back for 2009! -... →
More about last nights maple syrup smell with a map!
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Mysterious Sweet Smell From 2005 Returns to... →
I AM NOT CRAZY!!! I was right! Ha!
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As the fire continues to rage in financial markets, it is hard to imagine when...
– EarlyStageVC: The Coming Venture Capital Boom (via fred-wilson)
In regard...
In regard to that last quote…
I have an idea, remind me to tell you, or even better this will remind me to post the idea when i get back from the bahamas!
Feel like I’ve been away for ever!
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But there is a solution that I’d love someone to build. If anyone could...
– Fred Wilson’s VC Blog