Neha Narula

"I hate it when businesses take advantage of customers when they're at their most vulnerable. Like, when you're standing on a corner waiting for your taxi to arrive, looking at your watch and freaking…" - Neha Narula

cab companies are the worst: http://www.yelp.com/biz/yellow... - Roshan Vyas

"Amazon.com customers will be able to buy wine through the e-tailer's Web site as early as this month, a spokesman for the Napa Valley Vintners Association said Wednesday. Amazon has been working with the nonprofit group, which represents 315 vintners in the Napa Valley, to arrange workshops with wine producers that might be interested in selling wine through the retail giant, said Terry Hall, the group's communications director." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

If that doesn't work for you, Bret, I'd be happy to bring you some! - Anne Bouey

Winery-to-consumer shipping still illegal in 15 states? Totally archaic. - Richard Chen

No wine to Massachusetts - why? Puritans! Silly belt buckles on their shoes Puritans! - Andreas Matern

found via kottke.org - Neha Narula via Bookmarklet

The next time I move (and have to change my address anyway) I'm totally signing up for one of those we-scan-your-paper-mail services. - ⓞnor

Some people on the blog assert that there's some kind of hard latency requirement for lookup. Those people are wrong. John K Lin asserts that carefully filing your bank statements into neat little alphabetized folders is warm and human, but putting it all in storage for later and getting on with your life is cold and robot-like. John K Lin is weird. - ⓞnor

eggy: two things. First, there was a bunch of extra stuff like envelopes that I didn't need to move. Second, it gives me happiness to put things in file folders. - Neha Narula

baker has a blog! - Neha Narula

jesus christ. - Neha Narula

How to hang picture frames. Useful and hilarious: "I am the reason the plaster is crumbling under the weight of the nail, it's my fault, and maybe if I had just tried harder his life wouldn't be so unbearable." - Tessa MacDuff

hamlet, the facebook news feed. via omar - Neha Narula via Bookmarklet

congrats! i hope your trip is lots of fun. - Neha Narula

You witty sonofabitch. - Josh

:) - MG Siegler

Awesome use of the new someecards build your own card tools. - Christopher Sacca

Very nice... - Bindu Reddy

awesome. we need more fashion in technology. - Neha Narula

a piece on the head chef at el bulli, who is one of the geniuses of our time. - Neha Narula

these are awesome. take 10 minutes out of your day and watch the BMW one at #2. - Neha Narula

"I am often asked if the Olympic village - the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world's top athletes for the duration of the Games - is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be. My answer is always the same: too right it is. I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point. That is to say twice, which may not sound a lot, but for a 21-year-old undergraduate with crooked teeth, it was a minor miracle." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

I want to know if she has a license to sell those crawfish. - ha3rvey

Pics or it didn't happen. - sergiooo

do you live in the mission? get involved! attend the supervisor debate. - Neha Narula

from http://friendfeed.com/nectarin... - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Hmm, that's awesome. Excellent advertising opportunity - Sam Allan

It looks like it's depositing chocolate or cinnamon powder. Does anybody have more information about how it works? - Gabe

most songs start slow, so it take a long time to decide if I start at the beginning. If I like it, then maybe I'll go back. The same thing goes for the "next song" button on the iPod. Speaking of, why doesn't the iPhone have a "next song" button? I have to unlock the thing every time I get tired of the current song. The radio is much closer to what I want, except the music is generally awful and there are commercials, but I like to jump fast. - Paul Buchheit

I wish Amoeba had this feature on their winamp listening stations - that's exactly how I start evaluating a new CD. - John Harding

for dance/electronica - yep. Tiesto's sales would double. - Bill de hÓra

it seems almost... wrong to see christian louboutin flats. - Neha Narula

"This week’s feature is a bacon alarm clock, the cleverly named Wake n’ Bacon, that wakes you up with the smell of real cooked bacon, rather than the traditional, grating, cruel, terrible, gruesome alarm-clock sound." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

LOL, one would quickly come to hate bacon. :P - Tanath

"At Maker Faire earlier this year, Robert Bruce Thompson gave a talk (video unfortunately truncated at both ends) that highlighted how attitudes towards chemistry have changed since he was a kid, starting with a tour of the powerful chemistry sets available in 1964 (courtesy of the Sears Catalog), and tracing the dumbing down and rising fear of liability that doomed them, until, as Kevin Kelly noted in a recent review of Robert's book, we reached "the so-called chemistry sets today which boldly (and insanely) advertise they contain 'No Chemicals!'" Why are we failing at math and science? Because it isn't fun any more. When you put safety on the highest altar, what do you give up? When fear of lawsuits -- not to mention fear of technology -- drives product design, marketing, and public policy, you eliminate science at its roots, in the natural experimentation of kids who want to know how the world works." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

I don't think this article has much to do with the real failure in our schools (elementary, middle, high school) to teach kids basic math and science, and more importantly, to make it INTERESTING. - Neha Narula

Well, here in the USSR (when it still was) things were pretty restricted, but the 'Young chemist' set still contained everything from hydrochloric acid to kalium permanganate to Prussian blue and more exotic (nowdays) substances a kid with an itch could use to blast or poison if not half a block than at least the neighbor's apartment. There weren't any accidents widely reported :) - Alex