Jim Willis

  • Count Basie Remodel: Had a chance to walk through the theater this afternoon and take some pictures. The rest of the photos will be posted in some different news articles around the web, but here’s a sample.

  • No Firewire port on the new macbook means no video editing. That’s bit lame. AAPL forcing consumers to buy MBPs to do video?

  • watching apple notebook event on engadget. sad that no matter how good the laptops are, AAPL will fall on jobs’ noticeable weight loss.

  • Happy, encouraged and maybe feeling a little vindicated as a result of Krugman winning Nobel in economics: http://tinyurl.com/4lpbv9

  • Commercial Alert — Protecting communities from commercialism

    Commercial Alert — Protecting communities from commercialism

    Commercial Alert’s mission is to keep the commercial culture within its proper sphere,
    and to prevent it from exploiting children and subverting the higher values of family, community, environmental…

  • What about austerity? – The Boston Globe

    What about austerity? – The Boston Globe

    The bailout package is essential to keep the credit markets open. But absent sentences that include the word austerity all the bailout will accomplish is a temporary postponement. Bailout and…

  • NYCDOT – DOT Installs David Byrne-Designed Bike Racks

    NYCDOT – DOT Installs David Byrne-Designed Bike Racks

    DOT Installs David Byrne-Designed Bike Racks

  • Thinking that free market capitalism must be hiding in the same place as Iraq’s WMDs.

  • Sending out first flag football email of the season. Let me know if you want to play but didn’t receive an email.

  • Lessig on McCain on Tech

    Lessig on McCain on Tech

    Lessig (who knows more about this stuff than most people) responds to John McCain’s technology platform, focused upon the decline in US broadband penetration rankings globally.

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Reading Notes

  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]

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