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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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