David Crow
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Why Kodak’s bankruptcy should scare Nokia
By Om Malik, gigaom.comYesterday, a friend of mine, someone who is quite savvy about technology and the startup landscape stopped by for a chat. Our conversation veered towards the state of the web, media and of course Silicon Valley. The gist of his…
RT @om: Why Kodak’s bankruptcy should scare Nokia http://t.co/kaLPYqot “You can’t fight the future!”
(via emergentfutures)
Very interesting OpEd piece in the Toronto Star. I take my kids to Riverdale farm twice a month. Riverdale farm defines the type of Toronto I want to live in.
Is Shame Necessary?
Jennifer Jacquet:
Financial executives received almost $20 billion in bonuses in 2008 amid a serious financial crisis and a $245 billion government bailout. In 2008, more than 3 million American homes went into foreclosure because of mortgage blunders those same executives helped facilitate. Citigroup proposed to buy a $50 million corporate jet in early 2009, shortly after receiving $45 billion in taxpayer funds. Days later, President Barack Obama took note in an Oval Office interview. About the jet, he said, “They should know better.” And the bonuses, he said, were “shameful.”
What is shame’s purpose? Is shame still necessary? These are questions I’m asking myself. After all, it’s not just bankers we have to worry about. Most social dilemmas exhibit a similar tension between individual and group interests. Energy, food, and water shortages, climate disruption, declining fisheries, increasing resistance to antibiotics, the threat of nuclear warfare—all can be characterized as tragedies of the commons, in which the choices of individuals conflict with the greater good.
lol.
Next it will be crazy things like governments as innovation factories and labour unions as effective tools for startups.
(via fred-wilson)
Dave Grohl kicks fan out for fighting! Makes me an even bigger fanboi!
FOUND VIA buzzfeed VIA laughingsquid.com
Interesting article in the Guardian about how the tribes have become like the mafia. Influence on money, power, media. Very insightful piece.
A read-only web based interface to your MongoDB data:
We use MongoDB pretty heavily at work (along with Postgres and an in-house db), but I haven’t found a good data browser like you get in Futon for CouchDB. There’s a port of Futon to MongoDB, but the data models don’t quite line up and I wanted something read-only and simple. I went ahead and wrote such a one in Python using the Aspen web framework. I’m calling it Mongs, after a local dairy. Check it out if you want a nice clean Python-based data browser for MongoDB.
You can get it from GitHub . Add it to the previous list of nice UI tools for MongoDB.
Original title and link: Mongs: Data Browser for MongoDB (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
Not for the faint of heart. This is a series of PSA’s running in Montana for a new anti-meth initiantive called the Montana Meth Project. Supposedly these graphic commercials have caused a 70% decrease in meth use.
(shout:http://www.montanameth.org/)
Dear the rest of Canada, This is a perfect example of something that is deeply wrong with us as a nation: This man should be our Prime Minister, not that dough-faced hairpiece currently in office. HE IS WEARING A FRIGGIN’ STARFLEET UNIFORM FOR CRYING OUT LOUD (and still working that wonderful moustache). He and Olivia should be Canada’s Mum and Dad.
dustinjohnbromley:blownspeakers:
Jack Layton at a Star Trek convention held at Toronto City Hall in 1991. Olivia Chow confirms that it’s not a photoshop job. (via Maclean’s)
The Brother IntelliFax 2800 App Store (by wondertonicvideo)
Here are the annual prices of a variety of services, all of which allow users to access the service from the web and across multiple devices with a single unified subscription. See if you can pick out which one is the outlier:
As Frédéric Filloux and others…
