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19 links, first saved April 28, 2009, latest January 12, 2023.
- Is This a Good Idea? – Garrick van Buren
- Don’t Reschedule; Commit or Cancel – Garrick van Buren
My friend Garrick van Buren giving some "real talk" about managing your time, and not "sort of" committing to activities.
- Your Calendar is Your Humanity – Garrick van Buren
- Garrick’s Recommended Reading List – 2014 Edition | Garrick van Buren
- Facebook and CraigsList Feel the Same
Brilliant observation by my friend Garrick. "Both are wrapped around boobs."
- Scott Adams on Opt-out
- Speedtesting Qwests Heavy Duty DSL
After a decade with Speakeasy, I switched to Qwest for my DSL. From what I understand, Qwest has fiber running to the my block with copper the house. Additionally as I understand…
- Plain Text Persists
“Relying on these application files for our precious words is a mistake. Standards and preferences change. What your computer can understand today, it may not tomorrow.” I’ve got…
- Imported from Detroit
Best Superbowl ad since 1984. I alternated between shouting Hell Yeah! and crying. This is the message Chrysler needed to give, Detroit needed to give, and America needed to hear.…
- Peerless
Spooky, but true.
- Arise, Mechanical Turks, Arise
- Terms of Services Kinda Like Open Licenses – But Evil
The Combined Arms Research Library has a good post on the upside of the latest version of Twitter’s terms of service (”Twitter can do WHAT with your photos?“) . The language is…
- Minnesotas Startup Scene in Twin Cities Business Magazine
Saving Innovation Dan Haugens article on our vibrant meet-up scene and how it supports innovation & entrepreneurship was published in the October 2010 issue of Twin Cities…
- Top 9 Things I Want In a Blog Engine
self-hosted easily template-able easily customizable supports email-to-post supports XML-RPC supports RSS output internal search engine an writing UI encouraging writing 200+…
- “Remember that time you quit Twitter”
One of the Ebook Backers noticed that while the essays in the ebook (and on this blog) talk about how I zero’d out my Twitter account after a month long hiatus – but as of his…
- Thesiss Next Opportunity: Un-WordPress Itself
- What Does a Successful MN Tech Firm Look Like?
- Garricks SXSW 2009 Showcasing Artists Picks
- More Usable URLs: Twitter.com
URLs are consistently the least usable aspect of our interaction with web-based information services - which is terribly unfortunate considering their prominence in how we access,…