links for 2007-05-30

kudos to these guys for rescuing the baby bobcat

QoTD: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

interesting SMB type spreadsheet question from jwz – be sure to read some of the comments

i’m a big, big fan of Anthony’s creation, and this interview is a great look behind the scenes

interested and subscribed

or, as Mike Meyers once put it, Boston fans love baseball, Yankees fans like winning; i miss having O-Cab around

“Lift takes all that is good about the Rails framework for Ruby but performs 6x faster and is fully multi-threaded.” – that’s one way to get on our radar

interesting business case: premium branding a commodity in search of better revenues, with better sustainability as a potential by-product. i’ll pay extra for that.

” ‘As a result, newspapers such as The Chronicle must make staff cuts to survive…’ Or instead of just cutting, and this is just me being crazy here, maybe they could, you know, do things better?” – amen

“One of my clients has been outsourcing a large software development effort to an Indian team. The time zone differences, experience level of the staff, and turnover have been a big drag on productivity.” – heard this a few times in the past few weeks

“Can truly great things be created without arrogance?” – i hope so

this impressed the hell out of James when he heard about it, and Sam’s a fan as well it would seem

“That was the best Memorial Day weekend evah” – it may well have been