Morrie the Toupee Salesman

By Owen Byrne

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Entries from June 2008

Digg List for the Day

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments

As posted a while back, this is again, last week’s most popular unpromoted stories. Msaleem takes his customary spot at the top. 304: Essential Tips and Techniques for Food Photography 280: Hollywood is a very small town 270: Captain America Casting Scoop! Marvel Wants A Titanic Star 265: 6 Ex-Conflict Countries Worth Visiting 262: WWDC [...]

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Criticism

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been sorely criticized for a post I made a while back (The Hulk is…) so I’d just like to point to an article by Slate’s Eric Sofge – who supports my argument. Though, uh, he does expand it some.

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Marvin Hunts Peas

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Marvin Hunts Peas, originally uploaded by ojbyrne. Sunday with the Rats…

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Cheap & Easy

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments

The best ideas are simple but far-reaching. They can be described in a sentence, but their potential effects take pages to describe. I think this idea has those characteristics: “Westinghouse said it had committed to using a smart power technology developed by a start-up company, Green Plug, that aims to let people use a single [...]

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Under Water

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Under Water, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Voices in the Wilderness

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments

The prevalence of groupthink on the web is a real problem. During the early days of digg, when I still had a voice in the direction of the company, I hoped that it would become something more than the various other group amplification devices out there. Alas it was not to be, digg has gone [...]

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My CEO theory

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve long had a theory that the easiest way for most companies to improve just about everything is to take their CEO outside and shoot him in the head (though less violent methods of dismissing him also work – they just don’t sound as dramatic in a blog post). I think that the yahoo mess [...]

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Jeff Mathews Solves the Yahoo Problem

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Here.

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Seat

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Seat, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Greetings from Ottawa

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Visiting for the weekend. It’s nice to be allowed on a plane! It’s nice to be able to photograph another city – my secondary goal for the weekend (I’m here for a job interview) is to try and outdo this impressive picture.

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