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Archive for August 2004

Notes from a Weekend

1. Happiness is a Gama-Go sample sale. I have never seen so many hip people buying even hipper clothes. For…

The Real Heroes of the Web

With all the hoopla in the news about the Google IPO, let’s take a moment to remember the real heroes:…

Things Mom Was Right About

As Illustrated by Three Short Stories of Conversations with Professionals Someone once told me that one of the signs of…

The Original Dropped E

I knew there was a reason I liked the missing E in Flickr. Then, sitting on the throne in SFO…

Duh

Wired News: It’s Just the ‘internet’ Now “Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the ‘I’ in…


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