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An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc.

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Thomas Hawk:

In your letter to your employees you say, it’s ‘no secret that we’re cutting investment in underperforming and non-core products so we can focus on our strengths (like email, the homepage, search, mobile, advertising, content and more)’

Email? The homepage? search ? mobile? advertising? Yawn.

You know what I don’t see in there? Flickr. Photos. I’m assuming that you consider Flickr one of those ‘underperforming and non-core products.’ …

Flickr will be here long after you are and its cultural significance to our world will outlast your quarter to quarter financial results. While not being your most profitable unit by any measure, understand what it is that you have. Use its strengths. Be its cheerleader. Figure out how you can harness the social networking potential there.

Posted 1 year ago
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What’s The Difference Between Regular and Decaf Coffee?


What's The Difference Between Regular and Decaf Coffee?

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mrgan: A suggestion for Mac OS X Lion: since the team is trying to integrate the menubar into the desktop a bit more, to make it less prominent - the translucent menubar was an attempt at just this - why not go all the way and make it black? This way, it’ll blend into the bezel of (most) new Macs. Black menus are already all over iLife ’11, and it would be another step toward unifying the look of iOS and Mac OS. Yes, this change would break many Mac apps if they didn’t update to support it. Apple’s no stranger to that, though. Love it! Do it, Apple!!!

mrgan:

A suggestion for Mac OS X Lion: since the team is trying to integrate the menubar into the desktop a bit more, to make it less prominent - the translucent menubar was an attempt at just this - why not go all the way and make it black? This way, it’ll blend into the bezel of (most) new Macs. Black menus are already all over iLife ’11, and it would be another step toward unifying the look of iOS and Mac OS.

Yes, this change would break many Mac apps if they didn’t update to support it. Apple’s no stranger to that, though.

Love it! Do it, Apple!!!

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Effects of Radioactivity Over Time

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Posted 1 year ago
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newyorker: nprfreshair: Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz on Glenn Beck: “Glenn Beck is trying to give [viewers] a version of American history that is supposedly hidden. Supposedly, all we historians — left, right and center — have been doing for the past 100 years is to keep true American history from you. And that true American history is what Glenn Beck is teaching. … It’s a version of history that is beyond skewed. … But of course, that’s what Beck expects us to say. He lives in a kind of Alice in Wonderland world, where if people who actually know the history say what he’s teaching is junk, he says, ‘That’s because you’re trying to hide the truth.’ “ Thanks for posting, Mel. Everyone should also join Wilentz’s live-chat at 1 P.M. E.T. today. Ask him your questions about the Tea Party, its roots, and its current supporters.

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nprfreshair:

Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz on Glenn Beck: “Glenn Beck is trying to give [viewers] a version of American history that is supposedly hidden. Supposedly, all we historians — left, right and center — have been doing for the past 100 years is to keep true American history from you. And that true American history is what Glenn Beck is teaching. … It’s a version of history that is beyond skewed. … But of course, that’s what Beck expects us to say. He lives in a kind of Alice in Wonderland world, where if people who actually know the history say what he’s teaching is junk, he says, ‘That’s because you’re trying to hide the truth.’ “

Thanks for posting, Mel. Everyone should also join Wilentz’s live-chat at 1 P.M. E.T. today. Ask him your questions about the Tea Party, its roots, and its current supporters.

Posted 1 year ago
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A Brocken spectre is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun. (via kateoplis)


A Brocken spectre is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun.

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Zoë at Hopworks, in the SunlightJohn S Lens, Blanko Film, No Flash, Taken with Hipstamatic

Zoë at Hopworks, in the Sunlight

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Posted 1 year ago
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It’s remarkable how much I love reading the New Yorker on the iPad. Last week was the first issue released on the iPad as well as in print. And while it’s only slightly cheaper than the newsstand edition - and I could get it, I’m sure, a lot cheaper via subscription - the iPad features are really neat. They include videos of some of the things they’re talking about. It has a really nice layout, with all the little extras of the print edition like the cartoons. And more. I found myself reading it “cover to cover” over the weekend. I never do that!! I would say it’s an overwhelming success, as far as I’m concerned. They’ve taken what’s best about their print edition, and brought it to the iPad. Great job.

It’s remarkable how much I love reading the New Yorker on the iPad. Last week was the first issue released on the iPad as well as in print. And while it’s only slightly cheaper than the newsstand edition - and I could get it, I’m sure, a lot cheaper via subscription - the iPad features are really neat.

They include videos of some of the things they’re talking about. It has a really nice layout, with all the little extras of the print edition like the cartoons. And more. I found myself reading it “cover to cover” over the weekend.

I never do that!!

I would say it’s an overwhelming success, as far as I’m concerned. They’ve taken what’s best about their print edition, and brought it to the iPad. Great job.

Posted 1 year ago
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Unfortunate advert :0