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November 7th, 2009

Charge (fanfare)

“junior at the University of Southern California in the fall of 1946.[citation needed] The fanfare consists of six notes followed by rooters shouting, “Charge!” Occasionally, the fanfare is repeated one or more times in the same key or in successively higher keys, or is preceded by a lead-in vamp.

Cinelli Laser, from today and tomorrow

What a crazy crazy bike.

Picture+1 via FFFFOUND!

November 6th, 2009

Visor, via Buamai

The Ultimate Light Show , by My Modern Metropolis (via kottke)

It really bothers me that the definition of success has changed from profits to followers, friends, and feed count. This crap doesn’t mean anything. Kids are coming out of school thinking, I want to start the next YouTube or Facebook. If a restaurant served more food than everybody else but lost money on every diner, would it be successful? No. But on the Internet, for some reason, if you have more users than everyone else, you’re successful. No, you’re not.

The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals, in Inc Magazine

I wince a little inside quoting Fried, but this is pretty much exactly what I think every time anybody talks about how successful Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are. Popular, yes. Successful, as in they have succeeded? No.

November 5th, 2009

US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs, via Strange Maps.

California’s GDP is the same as France? Nebraska’s is the same as the Czech Republic? Illinois is the same as Mexico? Oregon is the same as Israel? MIND BLOWN.

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