Travel - Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-8-9 through 2011-8-19

August 19, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-8-9 through 2011-8-19:

What they’re "protecting" us from – Anil Dash It's a choice whether you, or anyone else, wants to accept the falsehood that liberal values are somehow in contradiction with business success at a global scale. Indeed, it would seem that many who claim to be pro-business are trying to "save" us from exactly the inclusive, creative, tolerant values that have made America's most successful company possible. I side with the makers, the creators, and the inventors, and it's about time that the pack of clamoring would-be politicians be put on the defensive for attacking the values of those of us on this side.
Ex-Health Insurance Executive: Rick Scott HMO Debacle Goes Against His "Obamacare" Rhetoric – Broward/Palm Beach News – The Daily Pulp Wendell Potter — a former health care insurance executive who most recently left his post as the head of communications for CIGNA — has been following up on the Pulp's post on Florida's newest HMO policy for state employees, and agrees that the decision to allow just one HMO provider per county is a bit strange.
The way Potter sees it, Gov. Rick Scott is now "doing exactly what he falsely claimed federal reform would do."

Now working as a senior analyst at the Center for Public Integrity, Potter says Scott used to be at the forefront in the crusade against the so-called "Obamacare," and even though the governor wasn't dropping facts about the new program, he's doing exactly what he led people to believe would happen — limit competition.
Firicat.com online collaborative Wolof dictionary
21 ways to monetize your game – blog – 36peas.com
Kuriositas: The Secret Cities of Yemen

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Links for 2011-01-17 through 2011-02-02

January 17, 2011 by Mike Cohen

Links for 2011-01-17 through 2011-02-02:

Allerta – Allerta is an open source typeface designed for use in signage. Allerta was designed to be easily and quickly read from a distance. Each letter exploits the most unique aspects of that individual letter so that each character can be easily distinguished from any other.
Omnifocus Themes – Make OmniFocus less ugly with themes.
Picture Imperfect – Praise for Hipstamtic
Advanced drawing using AppKit –
MTA.ME – Animated musical MTA map
How Egypt did (and how your government could) shut down the Internet –
iPad App Marketing Case Study: Flickpad –
Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink — PaulStamatiou.com –
TextMate user – Using the best tool for the best job. TextMate – A great collection of TextMate tips & goodies.
Crash-only software: More than meets the eye [LWN.net] – Many Linux systems actually boot faster when recovering from a crash than from a clean shutdown & startup.
365 Days, $10 Million, 3 Rounds, 2 Companies, All With 5 Magic Slides –
Change Default iCal Event Length | Mac Tricks And Tips – I was looking for a way to change iCal's default event length to 30 minutes when I was scheduling meetings for MacWorld and I found this. It works nicely.
The F Word – You cannot advance the game by simply making it harder. This tactic hasn’t been acceptable since Space Invaders.
Scouting NY –
Dear Me: Get to work | 43 Folders – GTD is all about rapid, intuitive selection of what you need to be working on now. Whip out your context list appropriate for the time-place-opportunity-space you are in now. Scan through it, then do.
For the longest time I was having a problem with this. I'd scan through my context lists and I'd see things like:
Pack box up
Ask Bob about meeting
Review new design book
Send Cherry income information
Scanning down a list of actions in a context list should be like running your hand across a silk sheet. Scanning through these tasks felt less like silk and more like sand paper. Pack what into the box? What did I need to know about the meeting? Review the book for what, specifically?
Mobile & App Store WordPress Themes –
Persisting model state in Obj-C | XPerienced Blog –
Parallels Consumer Tech Blog: Do your classes require Windows? – Fact: 27% of college students use Macs (more than any other computer). Learn how to maximize your capability…

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Last day in Vancouver

November 30, 2007 by Mike Cohen

Today was my last day in Vancouver. I’m leaving early tomorrow morning, so I’m already packed & ready.

I had my best (and cheapest) meal of the trip tonight at Hon’s on Robson street. They give huge portions and almost everything is less than $10. Most of the time I was here we had lots of rain, but today the weather was clear. I did some shopping and lots of walking around downtown. Unfortunately the high Canadian dollar made it a lot more expensive this trip than it was in the past.

My musical discovery for this trip was the Red Elvises. I had seen them in the movie Six-String Samurai, but this is the first time I’ve heard any of their music. They play surf music with a Russian flavor. Charlie’s Music City had a few of their CDs.