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Oct 28 2009 ∞

Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own - Ars Technica

An interesting story on how the move to create a city-owned fiber optic network for all homes in a Minnesota town sparked a private company to beat them to it. Of course, to the benefit of all the customers!

There seems to be reflections here of what would happen if a government healthcare option were to be introduced… Private companies would beat them to it, of course to the benefit of all the customers!

Oct 26 2009 ∞
“ Twitter is important because it’s a new protocol. Fundamentally it’s a messaging protocol where you don’t specify the recipients. It’s really more of a discovery than an invention; that square was always there in the periodic table of protocols, but no one had quite hit it squarely.
Successful new protocols are rare. There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP (the Internet), SMTP (email), HTTP (the web), and so on. So any new protocol is a big deal. Each one of those protocols has spawned many successful companies. Twitter will too. We want to fund those companies. And the people at Twitter also want to encourage people to build stuff on top of it. So together we came up with a plan: anyone YC funds to do a startup based on Twitter will get priority access to the Twitter stream, and to people at Twitter.
— YCRFS 3: Things Built on Twitter
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(via kmackay)

(via kmackay)

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anyone way to read the text? beautiful. travisekmark: ninakix: Maya Lin’s original competition submission for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Architectural drawings and a one page written summary. It was chosen from 1,421 entries submitted. (via 37signals) Maya’s always been a minimalist, but what’s so striking about this is how minimal it really is - here, you only see the bare minimum of what you absolutely have to see to understand the concept, and nothing more. I find this laudable. As a side note, the choice of colors is fantastic.

anyone way to read the text? beautiful.

travisekmark:

ninakix:

Maya Lin’s original competition submission for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Architectural drawings and a one page written summary. It was chosen from 1,421 entries submitted. (via 37signals)

Maya’s always been a minimalist, but what’s so striking about this is how minimal it really is - here, you only see the bare minimum of what you absolutely have to see to understand the concept, and nothing more. I find this laudable. As a side note, the choice of colors is fantastic.

Oct 24 2009 ∞
Saw them last night at Glasslands. Performances get better and better. francisandthelights: photo by @seansmithhh

Saw them last night at Glasslands. Performances get better and better.

francisandthelights:

photo by @seansmithhh

Oct 23 2009 ∞
21 monitor street

21 monitor street

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21 monitor street

21 monitor street

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At the India travel visa office, 53rd street

At the India travel visa office, 53rd street

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avei: Cups & Clips alight. 2 day studio project. concept is to create a new product from ephemeral products without destroying them, allowing them to be taken back apart to their original state afterwards. via ieva m.

avei:

Cups & Clips alight.

2 day studio project. concept is to create a new product from ephemeral products without destroying them, allowing them to be taken back apart to their original state afterwards. via ieva m.

Oct 22 2009 ∞
Just received the latest EP in the mail from Geographic North. The band is called Landing. My favorite one so far, thanks Farbod.

Just received the latest EP in the mail from Geographic North. The band is called Landing. My favorite one so far, thanks Farbod.

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