benhuh: The Paranoid Mind of A CEO: Here’s a list of thoughts that haunt me. From talking to dozens of founders and CEOs, ... http://bit.ly/cfzCfD

In Ristretto, Oliver Strand, the curator of the Times Topics coffee page, explores the world of coffee gadgets, coffee beans and why it’s never been easier to get a perfect shot of espresso. I just came back from Paris, a city where the cafes are as central to daily life as running water and…

fchimero: How To Split Up the US: http://bit.ly/9FW9hk Stayathomia and the Nomadic West are nice insights. And, yep, Missouri is akin to TX.

leahculver: A must-read on the red-blue state political-sexual divide: http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/st_20100501_5904.php

Chrysaora: In case you don't know what to make for dinner: http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/

DeWitt Clinton’s screed on URL shorteners, especially directed at Twitter’s usage thereof, is interesting, not only for the actual content (which is broadly true, and fairly sensible), but for the meta-message: Google is increasingly threatened by Twitter as the prime mover in the “Real-time web.”…

There is no financial upside for Apple to enable a direct path for nonprofit and charitable support. And note that there is no "Apple Foundation," no "Apple Grants." In fact, Apple has been called out as one of America’s least philanthropic companies. It's also one that just passed Microsoft's…

As a freelance software engineer, I very frequently need to take a client’s specifications or requirements, and design a new piece of software (whether it’s a component or a full application) to meet those specs. Having to turn a feature-list into actual software architecture on a roughly weekly…

I won’t lie to you—it took two weeks with my iPad before I knew whether I loved it (or, to be more accurate, why I would inevitably love it). There was this uncomfortableness after the purchase. I’d known for weeks that it was to be a miraculous addition to my life. I’d enumerated why, publicly and…

I hadn’t expected much coming out of college. I knew that recessions were not kind to the young and inexperienced, so I was surprised when I received an offer from the Boston Consulting Group to work as a business consultant in Dubai. It seemed too good to be true — what did a business strategy firm…

I settled in a studio apartment on the thirteenth floor of an apartment complex in a western, unfinished area of the city. It was simple but spacious, and despite my zeal to be as frugal as I could, was still far more than I needed to satisfy my college student tastes. Still, my coworkers laughed at…

nevali: @nevali http://www.markthomasinfo.com/section_writing/default.asp?id=33

The new Steve Jobs scoffs at the naïve idealism of Web partisans who believe the new medium will turn every person into a publisher. The heart of the Web, he said, will be commerce, and the heart of commerce will be corporate America serving custom products to individual consumers. The implicit…

longreads: The New Yorker: Kid Goth--Neil Gaiman’s fantasies. By Dana Goodyear http://bit.ly/6QzF6N #longreads

tristanf: "...start by designing a better social networking service and then determine how open specs will help you build that" http://bit.ly/cmxeBu

terrisenft: New Yorker profile on Chat Routlette founder: http://bit.ly/aVbaak

They take something small, simple, and painstakingly well considered. They ruthlessly cut features to derive the absolute minimum core product they can start with. They polish those features to a shiny intensity. At an anticipated media event, Apple reveals this core product as its Next Big Thing,…

blech: sees that the Conservative-LiberalDemocrat deal is actually out in the open now. Not perfect, but somewhat promising. http://j.mp/d1ZlY9

echonest: We're letting anyone play actual music in their echo nest apps (via play.me) http://bit.ly/d0dkjZ http://bit.ly/cORPVs

Ian Bogost: But what does it say about the state of programming practice writ large when so many developers believe that their “rights” are trampled because they cannot write programs for a particular...

Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. —Herman Melville, Billy Budd Who in the rainbow can draw the…

kortina: .@jennykortina, hmm: Turn Cheap Steak into Prime Steak http://bit.ly/bGe3L5

timhwang: Randomly re-combine the duration, objective, etc. of existing sports to create a new one http://bit.ly/cIz5br (via @jesperjuul)

Originally published April 29, 2010 at 9:39 PM | Page modified April 30, 2010 at 3:50 PM Erik Martin, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved…

I received an email from a woman named Laura, who had recently moved to a new city for a new job. She was overwhelmed with anxiety and asked me to write her a song to help her calm down. Im a fan of Songs You Already Know. If you make another, could you please make a song for “Song for when you’re…

mja: The best way out of the global financial crisis is to find another planet to trade with — http://instapaper.com/z1dmwbxX /in @nybooks

douglaswolk: A brief appreciation of birthday girl Lady Gaga: http://u.nu/5rmx7

xamat: #Pregel: #Google’s other data-processing infrastructure http://is.gd/aNUCY #nosql #distributed #graphdb #mapreduce @rgaidot

Gurdonark: a classic: the Lester Bangs interview of Brian Eno: http://bit.ly/3005Lv

zedshaw: Holy crap, RIAA laws used against Canadian LABELS for $60 billion: http://tinyurl.com/yz8rfo5

timhwang: Today on BrosephStalin: trying to express the @BerkmanCenter School of Thought (http://j.mp/4BAbon)

andytpr4: IT pros always self-organize around those who make the work easier, while shunning those who make the work harder. http://tiny.cc/i100e

timse7: RT @gwendal: Great blog post about academic research and web. Toward the decline of peer-review http://tinyurl.com/nqqmws (via @ogemarques)

haynes_dave: RT @fredwilson "why playdar is the most interesting thing i've seen or heard in the music sector in a long time" http://bit.ly/50fy1P

timse7: [reading] The skinny on Apple's HTTP Live Streaming: Digital Content Producer just published an article that I wrot... http://bit.ly/1OReCF

Resource Oriented Computing (ROC) is the core idea behind and abstraction implemented by NetKernel. While you may not have heard of it before, it has deep roots that can be traced back to the work of Alan Turing in the 1930s. Briefly, ROC combines the core ideas of Unix and REST into a new and…