Jerry Brito
Impulsively redesigning since 1999.
Jerry Brito is a policy wonk and web developer in Washington, DC.
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Things Organized Neatly 
My porn. (Via Tate)
Dirpy.com
Turns any YouTube video into an MP3.
Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive
Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some to get rid of nearly all of their physical possessions - from photographs to furniture to homes altogether.My fantasy, though I kinda draw the line at homelessness.
Food Trucks and DC Legislation
I’m having trouble finding anything concrete that is being proposed in Title 24, but the food trucks I follow in DC are quite concerned that elements of this bill will cause them to close up shop. Comments on the proposition are due by tomorrow, so visit yesontitle24.com and send a note of support in to Helder
I love entrepreneurs, I love food trucks, I love competition, and I love small businesses. And I don’t like the idea of any business being put under due to government regulation. The food trucks in DC are providing interesting, good quality and moderately priced options to DC’s residents and those working in the city, why take those away?
As a frequent lunch buyer, I’m not at all impressed with the lunch options in my downtown office location, thank heavens the food trucks came along and saved me from a life of Au bon Pain sandwiches and food bars, and poor quality ingredients!
If DC is serious about making the city a vibrant, exciting place to live and work, they should start by making it as easy as possible for people to throw their hats into ring.
The End of Management
“Corporations are bureaucracies and managers are bureaucrats. Their fundamental tendency is toward self-perpetuation. They are, almost by definition, resistant to change.”
Fuck Yeah Joe Biden
Thought I would be clever and start a new tumblelog, but I should have known better. Everything worth doing has been done.
Tyler Cowen, a blogger, professor and organizer of rules on how the world works
This is a Washington Post profile of Tyler Cowen, who I work with at GMU. This week I had Tyler on my podcast to talk about Lost, the iPad, blog comments, and much more. You can listen to that episode here. And if you haven’t subscribed to the podcast, why not? Check it out the past guests here and subscribe on iTunes.
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James Lipton used to be a pimp – literally
James Lipton, host of Inside the Actor’s Studio, spent his early years working as a pimp in Paris.
How else do you get to be warden?
How Wired.com Tracked the iPhone Finder[?]
Folks keep linking to this post on Brian X. Chen’s personal blog, about how Wired tracked down the iPhone seller, with the implication that Wired was somehow super sleuthy. But this article tells us nothing about how they found him. Here is how they picked up the trail according to Chen:
It all started with a Facebook comment. The day Gizmodo published its 4G iPhone bombshell, our former intern Rose Roark saw a suspicious-looking note posted by Hogan on someone’s Facebook wall. She pointed it out to me, and I agreed it was telling.OK. So But how did they know to look, on that day, at his comments of the millions on Facebook? How was Roark connected to him? We still don’t know how Wired tracked him down. So they used the Internet to track down an address for a name. Great. But how did they get the name?
Cyberattacks: Washington is hyping the threat to justify regulating the Internet
No, I didn’t pick the title, but here’s an op-ed by yours truly and Tate Watkins that ran earlier this week in the Christian Science Monitor.
Alltock: Alltop Procrastinators Clock
Runs somewhere between on-time and fifteen minutes fast to keep you from procrastinating. Since you dont know how fast its running, you better not cut things too close!
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