Emerging start-up savvy

Tweetage Wasteland : Start-ups, VCs and Assholes in the Age of the Personal Brand: "There are a couple of key trends you need to understand to really get what’s happened in the start-up world. First, it takes a lot less money to build a compelling product than it did during the original Internet boom. A couple of kids in their undershorts can build a site or app that can easily scale to serve millions of users. Second, since the Internet industry has matured, there are a lot more former entrepenuers who are looking to rotate some of their sizeable earnings back into other start-ups."

'via Blog this'

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I knew it (Video with fracking ad)

Obama: America does not give in to fear - US news - 9/11: Ten Years Later - msnbc.com:

I knew the damnable fracking ad would appear before I could hear Obama. So the same desecration of earth segues into memories of human desecration of our soul and life.

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9/11 or NFL?

New York Post Disturbed By Lack of 9/11 Coverage On TV: "Yes, the Post believes that most Americans would rather watch 9/11 tributes than FOOTBALL. "

Let is first say there is no comparison. And then engage in a recondite silence.

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Shakespeare was an image-maker

Shakespeare was an image maker Setting images in placeThat's the task of every artistLook into the human faceTake it break it make it new  In this way we win the race
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If we are headed for a cliff this is the best description I can offer

Abba's Way: 62 On Hearing and Seeing:

"So many hear, but do not understand.
So many see, but they do not perceive.
So many are wrapped up in cloaks of pride.
They think their education sets their worth.
Such valuation is a great mistake."

This was written before I had ever heard of Peirce or triadic thought or, for that matter, of Barack Obama. It builds somewhat on Nietzsche. Click the link above to read the whole.

When all is said and done the center holds

Johnson and Roosevelt Legacies at Stake in Fiscal Fight - NYTimes.com: "The accelerating debates over taxes, spending and economic policy amount to the most fundamental challenge yet to the achievements of Johnson and President Franklin D. Roosevelt a generation earlier."

That is to say, the binary casting of this crisis is wrong. It will never be as either end wishes. It will always be in the middle. The swing is less in reality than in the mind. And what the mind does is give you the freedom to look at this as it is or fall into the mentality of extremes.

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Not to mention that they supposedly have a job to do

Which One is the Real Entitlement? - Digg:

Congress is entitlement to the nth power.

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