Grizzly Bear + Feist — “Service Bell”
I’m slightly obsessed with Grizzly Bear of late. This is a track I can loop for half an hour and not tire of in the least; absolutely beautiful.
Chris Anderson’s feature article in Wired for his new book Free (unabridged audiobook here) includes this great nugget from Cory Doctorow:
The dandelion doesn’t want to nurse a single precious copy of itself in the hopes that it will leave the nest and carefully navigate its way to the optimum growing environment, there to perpetuate the line. The dandelion just wants to be sure that every single opportunity for reproduction is exploited!
This is sage advice from Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital on the balancing act of shipping a technology product.
I learned a lot of valuable lessons working with Steve Perlman at WebTV Networks and Moxi Digital.
If you worked or met with Steve you would easily agree with me that his passion is nothing but extraordinary. He is positively obsessed about building amazing products.
I learned other things from Steve as well. One of my favorites is V.S.C.F. VSCF is how he would keep priorities in order.
Those letters stand for: Vision. Schedule. Cost. Features. And in that order.
This is how how Steve explained it to me […]
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Augmented reality iPhone application for finding London tube stations. Another step toward the inevitable future.
Radiohead — “How to Disappear”
Recorded live, complete with theremin, at BBC Studios, London
“Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that’s their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small. ” —Carl Sagan
(image via sandraaa)
