February 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Kanye West (16)
Burial (13)
Drake (12)
The Decemberists (11)
MF DOOM (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
January 2011
“I think the Decemberists are one of the best bands at writing musical myths. And...”
– Alyssa Rosenberg on The Decemberists in We Both Go Down Together (via Instapaper)
Women's College Basketball: Homophobia is... →
Emily Nkosi, who as Emily Niemann hit five three-pointers for Baylor in its 2005 title win against Michigan State, remembers that when recruiters came to her Houston home, as they did by the dozens in 2002, they had to pass a test. “On home visits,” Nkosi says, “my dad was assigned the question: ‘Do you have a bunch of lesbians on your team?’” Nkosi says her youth coaches abetted the process,...
“Mario Perez is a 22-year-old college student in Nacogdoches, Texas, who came to...”
– Black Fraternity Comes Out in Force for Their Undocumented Brother (via Instapaper)
“If there’s a broad call at the company to integrate social networking features,...”
– Larry Page’s Google 3.0 (via Instapaper)
“A seemingly constant stream of breaches, accidents and misfires have given the...”
– Your private data pays for ‘free’ Facebook and Google (via Instapaper)
“This chorus seems to me to describe and enact exactly the struggle of my own...”
– The Zen of Young Money: Being Present to the Genius of Black Youth (via Instapaper)
“I really truly and honestly wish all of them could be here, but definitely...”
– Phife Dawg at the premiere of their new doc that they no longer want to be released (via Instapaper)
“After Hurricane Katrina there was plenty of talk about what to do with New...”
– Today’s Love Is For New Orleans’ Rethinkers (via Instapaper)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band (19)
Ghostface Killah (18)
James Brown (17)
The Polyphonic Spree (15)
Drake (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Even the most bullish estimates for iPad sales were not bullish enough. In the...”
– Apple’s iPad Is Everywhere! (via Instapaper)
“When you have a developer who spent a full day reworking a feature, and they...”
– Making it Better: How do I close the loop? (via Instapaper)
Article: Product leadership →
Build relationships: Product managers depend on others in engineering, marketing, sales, etc. for their success (this is core to my opening assertion). This dependence makes building relationships essential. People are assets; the only way to effectively work with others is to build positive, effective working relationships. Listen to them, consider their circumstances, show empathy, then move...
“We do big things.”
– Barack Obama, President of these United States of America.
“Like other Northern institutions, too, Yale – although it had educated many...”
– Disunion: Freaks at Yale (via Instapaper)
“America is afraid of its past. Whether it’s how it treated Native Americans,...”
– Elon James White (via meloukhia)
“As part of the Smithsonian, the museum bears the burden of being the “official”...”
– The Thorny Path to a National Black Museum (via Instapaper)
“The audience at the Palace of Versailles that November of 1973 was star-studded,...”
– Black Models Celebrated As Runway Revolutionaries (via Instapaper)
“Craigslist sex trafficking, offshore Internet gambling, and wind energy. Sure,...”
– How do mobsters make a living in the 21st century? (via Instapaper)
“Back then, Tombstone had far stricter gun control than it does today. In fact,...”
– Gun laws were tougher in old Tombstone (via Instapaper)
Really?: The Claim: Eating Ginger Helps Reduce... →
Ginger, a member of the same plant family as turmeric, contains anti-inflammatory compounds and volatile oils — gingerols — that show analgesic and sedative effects in animal studies. So last year a team of researchers looked at whether ginger might do the same in humans.
In the study, published in The Journal of Pain in September, the scientists recruited 74 adults and had them do...
“Despite its faithful appearance on holidays, the brussels sprout is the American...”
– Brussels sprouts: America’s most hated vegetable.
I love Brussels sprouts. Bought some at the farmer’s market today. More for me, I guess. —misterjt
(via Instapaper)
“One of the most striking songs on 1,000 Years — the one that connects to the...”
– Corin Tucker: ‘1,000 Years’ Of Emotional Longing (via Instapaper)
“But it’s difficult to hear his songs and not feel a nagging desire for the...”
– Sam Cooke At 80: The Career That Could Have Been : The Record (via Instapaper)
“Today marks the 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that...”
– President Obama’s statement on Roe v. Wade (via coketalk)
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