Joshua Bryce Newman

It’s easy to see Zuckerberg being attracted to the idea of living like, say, Mike Bloomberg, running a multi-billion-dollar company exactly how he wants, without constantly being second-guessed. And remembering too the cautionary tale of Apple, where the founder, Steve Jobs, was forced out by angry shareholders when the stock failed to perform.

A good argument for why Facebook may never go public.

Women laughing alone with salad. (See also: black ladies really excited to be shopping.)

CrossFit NYC in today’s Wall St. Journal.

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Trend forecasting firm JWTIntelligence‘s excellent list of 100 things to watch in 2011.

Chorus Niagara flash-mobs a mall food court to sing Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.

200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes.

How to make Google beatbox.  Or, for the lazy.

Fun with Amazon reviews:

We live underground. We speak with our hands. We wear the earplugs all our lives. PLEASE! You must listen! We cannot maintain the link for long… I will type as fast as I can. DO NOT USE THE CABLES! We were fools, fools to develop such a thing!…

The $6,800 AudioQuest K2 Speaker Cable

“The abundance of books is distraction”

-Seneca, 1st Century AD.

Complaining about information overload is nothing new.