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Posted at 10:44, January 30 2010

That’s one angry lady. Scary!

Photo from a BBC article about why Americans are angry about Obama’s healthcare reforms

Posted at 19:45, January 29 2010

Saw this dude wearing a furry hat, mitts and a tail when at the cinema and he was wandering around like it was normal.

Had to get a photo!

Posted at 21:23, January 28 2010

The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak

Wow, Paul English gets a lot done!

Some interesting and inspiring things about the company culture.

Thanks to mjs

“We have an open office environment… Most engineers are introverted. Here, when people overhear a discussion, we encourage them to walk over and say, “There’s another way to do that.”

“Why would you pay an engineer $150,000 to answer phones when you could pay someone in Arizona $8 an hour?” If you make the engineers answer e-mails and phone calls from the customers, the second or third time they get the same question, they’ll actually stop what they’re doing and fix the code. Then we don’t have those questions anymore.”

When I am hiring, I try to get people to accept the job before I tell them about salary or title. I promise to make that person dramatically more productive, and that working for Kayak will be the most fun job he’s ever had. I need two things in return: a promise to strive to be the absolute best you can be. And that you will be an energy amplifier — someone people are excited to work with.”

“I do all of the firing. At times, I’ve fired maybe one out of every three people I’ve hired. That might make people think I’m bad at hiring, but I think I’m quite good at hiring. The only way 100 people can ever build a larger company than one that has more than 8,000 people — that’s what Expedia has — is by hiring Olympic-quality, unbelievable all stars of technology. My favorite metric is revenue per employee.”

Posted at 00:47, January 27 2010

Sue Sylvester: This is what we call a total disaster ladies. I'm gonna have to ask you to smell your armpits.

Cheerleaders: *sniff sniff*

Sue Sylvester: That's the smell of failure, and it's stinking out my office.

Glee - End of Episode 3

Posted at 00:30, January 27 2010

london street food: golborne & portobello roads

Wow, looks amazing, the article has more yummy photos. Will need to check it out some time if I can.

Via LDN

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adlandsuit.com - Mark Lund’s Advice To Suits

10 points. "Problem-solving is a group activity, and Suits should be responsible for harnessing the power of that group. Pitches are won and great work created by having the right people working together in the right way – the best Suits are selfless, and will lead that process."

8 February 2010 - 10:13

Tagged: advertising, industry, business, suit, list
Lay Off the Layoffs | Print Article | Newsweek.com

"If people are your most important assets, why would you get rid of them?"

7 February 2010 - 16:42

Tagged: work, business, downsize
The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak

wow, very productive person!

28 January 2010 - 21:14

Tagged: kayak, process, leadership, inspiration, business, management, work, profile
Pmarchive.

An archive of the best articles from the now sadly defunct blog.pmarca.com

23 January 2010 - 15:35

Tagged: vc, career, business, advice, entrepreneur, startup
A Little Less Conversation

"Now, we all know that communication is very important, and that many organizational problems are caused by a failure to communicate. Most people try to solve this problem by increasing the amount of communication: cc'ing everybody on an e-mail, having long meetings and inviting the whole staff, and asking for everyone's two cents before implementing a decision. But communications costs add up faster than you think, especially on larger teams." - Get someone to own the project!

23 January 2010 - 01:01

Tagged: meetings, management, joelonsoftware, communication, leadership, business, productivity
How To: Drupal Panels | GotDrupal.com | Drupal Tutorial Site

Useful primer video about Panels module - tis a bit cheesy tho

22 January 2010 - 00:30

Tagged: panels, screencast, drupal, video
40+ Essential Drupal Modules | Nick Lewis: The Blog

21 January 2010 - 23:46

Tagged: drupal, modules, list, resource
Speeding Up The Snail

Like all frameworks, Drupal comes with a performance cost, but there are many ways to minimise that cost.

21 January 2010 - 23:27

Tagged: presentation, drupal, cache, performance
The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend) - Charlie's Diary

"The continual plaint in newspapers around the world is that the news media are in big trouble. Au contraire: what's in trouble is their monetization model."

21 January 2010 - 09:46

Tagged: publishing, newspapers, economics, journalism, business, advertising, google
Open Letter From OK Go, Regarding Non-Embeddable YouTube Videos - ok go - Gizmodo

"The internet isn't as anarchic as it was then. Now there are Madison Avenue firms that specialize in "viral marketing" and the success of our videos is now taught in business school. But here's a secret: zillions of hits was never the point. We're a rock band, and it's a great gig. ... because the only thing we are expected to do is make cool stuff." - comments are interesting

20 January 2010 - 23:52

Tagged: music, youtube, monetise

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@emmawebb stayed up but fell asleep just after the interception, was pretty exciting. Been hoovering the coffee today. 8 February 2010, 5:54 pm
Damn you stoopid comment forms! 8 February 2010, 3:22 pm
@philclandillon that is brilliant! hahaha 8 February 2010, 2:05 pm
@imcconchie it's awesome! Haven't spied any freaks yet tho 8 February 2010, 1:34 pm
@galvogalvo ah well, at least BBC should stick it on their site. Watch the network slow to a crawl during games... 8 February 2010, 11:39 am
@galvogalvo where are ya now? Have u a prime position for viewing of the TV for world cup games? 8 February 2010, 11:30 am
@emmawebb @salks have you guys got ur hotdogs ready for the superbowl? 7 February 2010, 10:28 pm
Feeling a little bit sick 6 February 2010, 12:12 am
@baldboss nah it didn't. It was a mighty dissapointment tho 5 February 2010, 10:22 am
@da_lune hah, u actually did it! 4 February 2010, 2:03 pm
Confused n hungry 3 February 2010, 9:58 pm
@emmawebb http://tr.im/MFpf I thought it was brilliant too n tried it because of the name. It's not very good tho. KFC rools! 3 February 2010, 12:52 pm
Had a Chicken Legend meal from MaccyD's last night. It was definitely not a legend....very disappointing 3 February 2010, 12:26 pm
@emmawebb that is just disgusting 2 February 2010, 11:52 pm
@lergik tis a little fat? 2 February 2010, 11:51 pm