Archive for January, 2007

I wonder how the LPs feel (via Mattishness)

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I have the good fortune of working with Matt Johnson at Judy’s Book. Matt is insightful and absolutely bloody hilarious. If you’re in the mood to be entertained while you’re being educated, run, don’t walk to his blog. He has a post up there today about some pictures on a VC website. The partners are [...]

Are you reading Buffett's Shareholder Letter? You should be

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Here’s Warren Buffett on the type of acquisition candidate he’s looking for: We continue, however, to need ‚Äúelephants‚Äù in order for us to use Berkshire‚Äôs flood of incoming cash. Charlie and I must therefore ignore the pursuit of mice and focus our acquisition efforts on much bigger game. Our exemplar is the older man who [...]

Right Click Preview in Gmail

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If you’re using the Better Gmail extension in Firefox, you can get a right-click message preview in Firefox. The goal of enabling users to scan messages without unnecessary clicks is a noble one, but I don’t think it¬† should come at the cost of the expected right button behavior. I think a mouseover preview would [...]

Magnusson Park – Doggie Heaven

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If you are a dog owner in Seattle, you owe it to your four-legged friend to take him or her to Magnusson Park at 65th & Sand Point Way. It’s a huge off-leash park with areas to play fetch in, a secure beach to swim from and even a separate park for ‘small and shy [...]

NPR Interview with Bob Iger (Disney CEO)

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On my drive (mercifully short) back from work, I heard a great interview with Bob Iger (CEO of Disney) on NPR. In it, he talked about the power shift from content producers and distributors to consumers of content. He said that at Disney, they were focused on the user experience and on using digital technology [...]

Funniest Bumper Sticker Ever

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I’m not a fan of bumper stickers and generally mock them as I see them. On a walk to coffee last year however, I saw this one which had me in tears. If you have any favorites, add them in the comments. the switch characters

Content Links from Amazon

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I just got a note from Amazon with the following information in it: Context Links are a quick and convenient way to add links to your website and monetize your content. Context Links automatically identify and link relevant phrases within your page content to Amazon products, unlocking new ad inventory and saving you the time [...]

Music Label for Videogames (via WSJ)

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The WSJ has an interesting article this morning (username/pw required) about¬† EA forming a music label to sign artists for video game soundtracks. I don’t know much about this field, but this is fascinating. the green hornet film divx Although Artwerk is not focusing exclusively on music for videogames, the first signed artist is Junkie [...]