June 2007
30 posts
City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds... →
“These rules will apply to a huge range of casual photography and filming, including tourists taking snapshots and people making short videos for YouTube,” said [NYCLU]’s associate legal director.
“Few managers recognize that their training and experience, designed to protect...”
– Scott Berkun, The Myths of Innovation, Ch 6
“Without timely information, citizens are reduced to mere residents, and...”
– Ted Gup, “America’s Secret Obsession”
“We have good clocks in our heads for roughly three minutes… Once we get...”
– Paco Underhill, retail consultant, quoted in the New York Times article on queue management, “A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket”
“The interests of those in power influenced the adoption, or rejection, of every...”
– Scott Berkun on why the best ideas may not always win, The Myths of Innovation, Ch 8
“If a mind is always open, it never finishes anything; if a mind is never open,...”
– Scott Berkun, The Myths of Innovation, ch 6
“To industries that depend upon free flows of information to deliver their...”
– Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs, Censorship as trade barrier
“By summer’s end, when Sam Mason opens Tailor in SoHo and Jehangir Mehta opens...”
– Peter Meehan, Pastry Chefs, Refusing to Be Sweet
New Subway Cars on Broadway Lines →
R160 cars, featuring the “Flexible Information Notice Display,” are being added 8-10 per week to the N and Q (and perhaps other) lines
Crack Monitor for 2nd Avenue Subway Construction →
An Upper East Side resident’s apartment receives a device to monitor for disruption from subway construction
Driving forces behind companies →
Seth Godin lists a few, like Marketing, SKUs, Litigation, and Egos
Jason Perlow: "More Mango Madness" →
Some details about where all the imported Indian mangoes are apparently going:
“The current situation, which probably won’t be resolved soon, is that 95 percent of all Indian Mangoes destined for the United States already have been spoken for, and are going to high-end restaurants and private consumers. The remaining 5 percent is being sold to Indian grocery stores, and typically each...
Ghost Cities Of 2100 →
“It’s hard to predict, of course, but factors as diverse as climate change and aging populations mean that even as the global urban population continues to grow, some cities are shrinking.”
“Every kitchen has one evil genius who’s tolerated—someone you turn to when...”
– Anthony Bourdain, reminding me of a certain type of developer, in an interview with the Harvard Business Review
“The rest of the business world lives in the business world, where lies can be...”
– Robert Fischer, Theory of Business
“If you get asked to market something, you’re responsible. You’re responsible for...”
– Seth Godin, Responsibility
The Mango Mafia →
On Indian mangoes at Tabla restaurant
“There’s another movie I’ve seen before. It’s the movie where an interesting new...”
– Tim Bray, I’ve Seen This Movie
“Everyone believes the future will come all at once in a neatly gift-wrapped...”
– Scott Berkun, The Myths of Innovation, ch 6
EFF membership renewal time creeps earlier
I received a “Time to Renew Your EFF Membership” email a few days ago. I’ve donated to the EFF each year since 2004, and I felt it was a bit early to be receiving the notice — had it really been a year since I last donated (and gotten a cool t-shirt)? Checking my email archives (thanks GMail! (which a die-hard EFF member would not be using because of privacy concerns)), reveals...
“…this is not really a question of whether, it’s a question of how, it’s a...”
– NY Governor Elliot Spitzer, on congestion pricing, quoted in the New York Times
“Beer is the universal language.”
– Lindsay Cousley, Crumpler USA general manager, quoted by the New York Times on the company’s Beer for Bags promotion
“If you don’t happen to live with a chef, a good rule of thumb is to feel your...”
– Daniel Patterson, The Power of Touch
JetBlue now features Google Maps in its seatback... →
and is encouraging fliers to snap photos for a contest, logging each photo’s location using the map.
“Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level...”
– Leisa Reichelt, Ambient Intimacy
“When a military discovers a vulnerability in a common product, they can either...”
– Bruce Schneier, Cyberwar
“Dreams don’t run on logic: when we follow our emotions, we find both...”
– Scott Berkun, The Myths of Innovation, ch 3
Ridgemont Typologies →
An art piece “about our desire for a mythic lifestyle, one industry’s attempt to fulfill that desire, and what the results look like to a passerby.”
“Until it’s imminent, an emergency, it’s not high enough on the...”
– Seth Godin, The Blind Squirrel Problem (who has written about similar things before)