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@mathowie

Matt Haughey

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Founder of MetaFilter.com, cofounder of Fuelly.com and BuyLocalCycling.com. Huge cyclocross, photography, and web nerd as well.
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My favorite moment in the last Game of Thrones was when Khaleesi decides to bootstrap her ocean-crossing startup instead of taking VC.
"I renamed my iPod 'The Titanic' so that when I plug it in, iTunes tells me 'The Titanic is syncing.' That is all" http://bit.ly/cgz6kH
You can literally get away with murder in the US if you wait until your victim gets on a bike, then you hit them: http://is.gd/gKNKn
This is a first-launch experience of a popular highly-rated camera app on Android http://t.co/Pm0Lhii
Rewatching Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement speech, it's still completely great and pertinent even today http://t.co/ix7Kzs2v
10 Creative Ways to Use QR Codes for Marketing!

Step 1-10: DON'T
If you use Google Chrome and new Twitter, download Embedly immediately: http://labs.embed.ly/ it makes everything work better.
The best science fiction feels exactly like the truth but 6 months to several years from actually happening. Like this: http://t.co/t12YjHz
The underlying theme of the Oscars this year is "Please for the love of god go to an actual theater like we did when we were kids"
The extreme concern in the voices of phone company personel when canceling a phone seems a bit much. I've had romantic breakups go smoother.
"In the future, our names will evolve to become more auto-correct friendly" -- Mate Haughty
Looking forward to seeing startups and online businesses blossom now that people won't have to keep lame day jobs for the healthcare
We've done a #SOPA blackout for MetaFilter (you can click to hide). Read my crazy DMCA story of how I almost lost MeFi: http://t.co/Jfz5cu9h
People think Google's mantra is "Don't Be Evil" but really it's "Never send in a human to do a python script's job"
Someone I greatly admire turns out to be a double-spacer-after-periods when writing sentences. This jeopardizes everything.
The absurdity of the American Tea Party is peasants protesting in the streets with signs demanding "No Taxes on Lannisters, Ever!"
Wow, LastPass just added Google 2-step auth to logins. I had no idea other sites could tie into that: http://t.co/9gVRPg5o I love this.
If you missed my SXSW 2011 talk on managing community and moderation with custom tools, I recorded it at home: http://vimeo.com/21043675