Finally set up my Flavors.me! What a great service. I can’t wait for it to launch so I can share mine with people.
(Awesome photo by Noah Kalina. Buy the shirt from BustedTees)
Who should I be fellating to get myself an invite? I’ve had nicholasmolnar.com sitting empty for too long.
This is one of my favourite This American Life stories ever. It’s just about perfect. David Rakoff tells a story of infidelity, human nature, and wedding toasts - and he does it all in rhyme.
Ignore everything else I have ever written and just listen to this.
The decision to consider the 1961-1990 period as ‘normal’ was CRUs. Had CRU chosen a different period under consideration, the IPCC graph would have shown less warming, as discussed in one of the Climategate emails, from David Parker of the UK meteorological office. In it, Parker advised Jones not to select a different period, saying “anomalies will seem less positive than before if we change to newer normals, so the impression of global warming will be muted.
– Skewed science - FP CommentVirality is something that has to be engineered from the beginning…and it’s harder to create virality than it is to create a good product. That’s why we often see good products with poor virality, and poor products with good virality. The reason that over $150 Billion is spent on US advertising each year is because virality is so hard. If virality was easy, there would be no advertising industry.
–Redeye VC: Let’s just add in a little virality
I wrote a piece for the new @thirdi website that talks about this very issue. Virality is a commonly misunderstood notion. You should be able to read it soon.
This will cost you about half a day of your life. I am just going to postpone even looking into the list until the weekend.
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