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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, all my friends and family, old and new!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Annex Israel/Palestine?
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At the current time, people speak of “two-state” solutions. I propose instead a “two-star” solution, Two Stars for Peace. When America welcomes Israel and Palestine as the 51st and 52nd states of the union, the age-old dream of peace and prosperity in the land of milk and honey will have been achieved.
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Trailer for 21
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Based on the trailer, 21, the movie based on MIT’s blackjack team captured in the book Bringing Down the House, looks like it’ll be pretty good. Trailer below.
Yay Metro Times!
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One of my friends pointed out to me that a search for dc metro times on Google shows my lil’ web app in third place. Nice!
Peter of iStrategyLabs recommended that I get it it’s own domain name, no more piggybacking off skeevisarts.com (which I redesigned by the way, check it out!!) and see what I can build out of it.
Entrepreneurship in the DC Area
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I had been planning on writing my thoughts on this for a while, but spurred on by the announcement of a local tech incubator launching in the coming months, I felt it was time to write something. Tech entrepreneurs, who dedicate so much of their lives to connecting people regardless of geographic location, still rely on real-world networking and face to face interaction. Online companies still...
On Productivity
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Having such lofty goals, and so little time to do it, maximizing my productivity is crucial. Every minute has to be devoted to doing something useful, and I have to ensure I have the mindset and the motivation to do it. You could spend hours on Lifehacker and similar sites, reading other people’s productivity secrets (including celebrities), but it takes time to discover and tweak what...
FireEagle and thoughts on location sharing.
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Justin posted the other day about social objects, particular aspects of us (pictures, bookmarks, status, etc…) that can be shared with other people. I was going to write a post about how my “killer” social object would be location. I ended up scrapping it, but given Yahoo’s announcement of FireEagle, a platform for personal geographic information. This looks absolutely...
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah
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Amazing. From 30 Rock.
OpenSocial, Or Not
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Google released a set of standards called OpenSocial, which will allow developers to, instead of writing, say, a Facebook application which only works on Facebook, an application that will work on any social network that supports OpenSocial (which a lot of the other social networks other than Facebook/MySpace do). It’s not the open social network. It’s not going to unseat Facebook or...
The Creativity Sinkhole
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I’m a technical person, a hacker. I happen to also be a pretty good designer, at the same time. While they both are weaved together so often, they often form a bizarre dichotomy. Spending a good chunk of my high school and college years learning to be a pretty programmer/scientist, I was taught from the ground up to be a problem solver. I know how to identify a problem, then design and...