SPaceX operates with really with a sort of Silicon Valley operating system and DNA as applied to problem of space transport.
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peHUB » Elon Musk on Why His Rockets Are Faster, Cheaper and Lighter Than What You’ve Seen Before
Very badass. Elon Musk is one of my entrepreneurial heros. Just read his bio. The problems he’s seeking to solve relegates so much else into just noise…
Danny B has a blog, and he’s writing about his mom and grandma; which means, he’s writing about my mom and grandma! Oh snap. I may chime in with stories of my own, but for now Express YO-self goes on the must read list.
Why football—please don’t call it soccer—is the most important sport in history: a lingua franca for 204 countries, an expression of national identity, and a powerful link between multi-millionaire athletes and the man on the street.
(via Instapaper)
This spring Apple, Facebook, and Twitter, made controversial announcements. Apple announced the terms of service for the iPhone OS 4, that restricted how applications developers could use analytics…
(via Instapaper)
AT&T’s $20 charge just to enable tethering is bullshit
— Daring Fireball: The Good and the Bad Regarding AT&T’s New Data Plans
How many governments in the world hold in their charter an explicit goal of obliterating a neighboring state?
“If this rivalry was ‘nostalgic’ and ‘retro’ two years ago, it’s ‘nasty’ and ‘revengeful’ this time around.”
Can’t. wait. Lakers in 7.
“Trade is to culture as sex is to biology. Exchange makes cultural change collective and cumulative. It becomes possible to draw upon inventions made throughout society, not just in your neighborhood. The rate of cultural and economic progress depends on the rate at which ideas are having sex.”
The government doesn’t need to do a deal with Wall Street to regulate it. It always has the power to pass whatever law it wants regarding the financial sector; it doesn’t need permission (even if it acted that way for the past two decades).
