Posts from August 2009

Aug 22, 2009

How you know it’s a good startup idea

Today I was going through my expenses for the month, and thought to myself, entering numbers off receipts onto Excel and categorizing them is ridiculously tedious. And it’s not like I do anything with all this data I collect about my spending habits. This is really unnecessary and obsessive-compulsive. What if I designed an application (More…)

Aug 12, 2009

Jewish Torture Porn?

Jeffrey Goldberg does a profile on Quentin Tarantino and his new movie Inglourious Basterds. Hostel director Eli Roth plays a soldier in it: “It’s almost a deep sexual satisfaction of wanting to beat Nazis to death, an orgasmic feeling,” Roth said. “My character gets to beat Nazis to death. That’s something I could watch all (More…)