January 2012
8 posts
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Kill Hollywood →
Paul Graham and Y Combinator are looking to fund startups that will compete with movies and TV:
The main reason we want to fund such startups is not to protect the world from more SOPAs, but because SOPA brought it to our attention that Hollywood is dying. They must be dying if they’re resorting to such tactics. If movies and TV were growing rapidly, that growth would take up all their...
“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton (via Merlin Mann)
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“This map exhibits remarkable structural features that delight topologists.”
– Rida Farouki on the Hopf map
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The President’s challenge →
Nat Torkington lays the smack down on the Obama administration’s bullshit challenge to the tech community (see also Tim O’Reilly’s posts: 1, 2, 3).
(via Daring Fireball)
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50 States and 50 Metros →
Who wrote the infamous Ron Paul newsletters? →
Gene Callahan has a pretty convincing theory.
How Doctors Die →
Ken Murray:
It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little.
(via Kottke)