December 2011
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OOTAlum Jonathan Bittner '07 (co-founder of... →
yaleootb: OOTB congratulates our own Jon Bittner (‘07) for making the Forbes 30 Under 30 list! Jon co-founded Splitwise with another OOTBite, Ryan Laughlin (‘12) as a way to help friends painlessly track shared expenses, and to make sure that everybody gets paid back. Congrats to Jon, OOTB’s rockstar physicist/entrepreneur, for this amazing accomplishment, and also to Ryan...
Dec 21st
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November 2011
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“The most forceful statement is understatement”
– Luciano Barbera
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October 2011
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– Steve Jobs
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September 2011
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“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to...”
Sep 22nd
July 2011
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“100% of made-up statistics are useless.”
– Me.
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June 2011
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Ideas: How do they work?
For the past 8 months or so I’ve been building a spreadsheet full of web project ideas. The one thing they all have in common is that they fit needs of my own — problems that I have been meaning to solve or apps that I know I would use. For any of these I might only need a couple weekends to produce a working prototype, but to truly see an idea through might take months. Because of...
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March 2011
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That moment when you're reading a book and you...
Mar 30th
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Yesterday...
…I stopped by Barnes & Noble to grab a book on my to-read list, and was utterly disappointed to see that there were more bookcases dedicated to “Paranormal Romance” than to the neighboring “Teen” and “Teen Fantasy” sections combined. C’mon people!
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July 2010
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Jul 30th
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10K Apart →
rofreg: An interesting challenge: build a fully-functional, cross-browser web app in less than 10KB. I am all over this. (Also, a brilliant move by Microsoft - this is a very smart way for IE9 to begin winning its way into the HTML5 crowd.) This actually sounds quite fun. First step: coming up with a good idea…
Jul 30th
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Vintage Game Club →
Book of the Month Club meets video games. A compelling idea, though the message board format is a slight turnoff for me.
Jul 21st
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Jul 21st
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"Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life" - back... →
*rejoices*
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BP Doomsday? →
grantjonah: Well, that sucks. Um… the only two sources having anything to do with the current BP blowout are: An article pointing out unusually high amounts of methane near the blowout which can potentially cause oxygen-depleted dead zones in which normal marine life cannot exist. So, that’s really a cause for concern, but not on the scale of “explosions and...
Jul 11th
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June 2010
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“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out...”
– Vincent Van Gogh
Jun 30th
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Jun 30th
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Dear ,
You were great. I mean really. You were a tiny skitter across the floor at 4am that left us wholly confused and buzzing with adrenaline. Not an easy thing to accomplish. The cat still yearns for you. She paces back and forth, sniffing at all of your favorite corners and crevices. We try to tell her you are gone, but she just doesn’t believe us. Perhaps you aren’t gone. Perhaps...
Jun 30th
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You Are Not So Smart: Confirmation Bias →
People who already supported Obama were the same people buying books which painted him in a positive light. People who already disliked Obama were the ones buying books painting him in a negative light. Just like with pundits, people weren’t buying books for the information, they were buying them for the confirmation.
Jun 25th
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A New Blog
me: I started a new Ruby on Rails blog:
me: http://acts-as-waffle.tumblr.com/
brother: Cool
me: Do you like the footer?
brother: Yes
brother: It smells good
Jun 24th
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Allie Brosh on thegloss.com →
If you’re a fan of Hyperbole and a Half, definitely check out Allie Brosh’s work on this “more than just fashion” blog.
Jun 24th
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“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a...”
– Banksy, from Cut It Out
Jun 24th
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“I don’t care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.”
– Kevin Rose
Jun 22nd