May 2009
66 posts
“Nixon, like Johnson, had a habit for making those around him uncomfortable....”
– (via klaatu)
“Microsoft Bing! = But It’s Not Google.”
– Bing! The New Upcoming Search Engine of Microsoft (via jpcyr)
“Programming languages are written by and for men. They are designed for the way...”
– Why are there fewer female developers? » Trogger (via mikehudack)
“I think its a real disappointment to see where Internet video has come,” Cuban...”
– Right. We don’t have any advertising standards at all. Idiot.
Cuban: Internet video progress ‘disappointing’ | Beyond Binary - CNET News (via mikehudack)
My co-worker Angus (@angusm) is far too witty
Angus’ response to an email thread titled “Summertime is a great time to get in shape”…
From: Angus
To: Everyone
Subject: Summertime is a great time to lie on the beach
Summertime is a great time to kick back and do nothing. But you can’t count
on idleness and weight gain happening by themselves. Experience has shown
that in summer particularly, people are...
Without Meters, Fresno Water Beyond Measure →
jacobjoaquin:
Fresno, the region’s largest city, charges single-family households a flat rate, regardless of how much water they use… ”Can you imagine what our energy consumption would be like if electricity was at a flat rate?” he (Martin McIntyre) asks.
Having meters would go a long way in encouraging people to do the little things, like turning the shower while soaping up, or investing...
How is loading a dishwasher like using social...
I’m not sure yet, but I have less than a week to figure it out..
why can't I have...
whileyouwereout:
cross browser native vector graphics in html? it’s getting annoying.
Canvas isn’t good enough?
Eating less meat
marco:
I’ve made a dramatic shift in my diet over the last few weeks: eating almost no meat. (update: thoughts on fish.)
There are plenty of good reasons not to eat meat, including:
The treatment of the animals is awful. The more you know about industrialized meat production, the less you want to support it. (And it’s not just for cows. Chickens and turkeys aren’t much better, and pigs...
What's in your CTRL+V?
heyitsnoah:
From Buzzfeed: “Do it! I dare you. Respond to this post by hitting Ctrl ‘V’ (or Command V if you’re on a Mac) and pasting whatever you have saved to your clipboard. We will try to figure out more about you as a person from whatever you post.”
At the time I read it, mine was http://data.gov
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July 1st - The Big Apple App Store Clean Up
jpcyr:
July first, all the active iDevice developers must renew their iPhone Developer Program membership in order to submit new apps, but also to retain the ones currently in the App Store. So we can call this the Apple Big Clean Up for the ones who will not (or forget) to renew their membership.
marco:
Starting this July, the first iPhone developers from last year will start having their...
Watchmikehudack:
Some really cool video shot from the space shuttle Atlantis as it does a fly around of the international space station. The video is sped up. It took much longer than 2:48 to fly around it. Video from NASA.
theuptake.org :: TheUpTake
Justin: keep playin that [Mafia Wars while] on the phone with lawyers and you'll have the most expensive iphone app ever
Mike: hahhahahah! these are free conversations
Justin: yeah the lite version is always free
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MakerBot makes Darth Vader head, then sings... →
This is absolutely amazing! I can’t wait to get to work on mine this Saturday.
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Cold Brewed Coffee using a French Press →
ericmortensen:
jacobjoaquin:
“Luckily it eventually dawned on me that cold brewing coffee doesn’t required special tools. The real magic is in letting the coffee and water sit together. The Toddy’s real strength was in making it easy to strain a lot of coffee. While pondering this I realized that the French press was also good at straining coffee grounds, and I set off on a path of discovery.”
“If you live in the US, you’ve probably received illegal telemarketing calls...”
– FTC nukes “extended warranty” robocallers from orbit - Ars Technica
It’s about time! (via mikehudack)
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NYSAT Map Released
rocketboom:
The NYSAT project which replaces illligal street advertising with art work released their interactive map to the public today. It had previously only been private:
“This map shows illegal/unpermitted NPA City Outdoor locations located in Lower Manhattan. All the ads together cover approximately 29,450 square feet of our public environment.”
In an email today from the lead...
The Google Ad Decline →
heyitsnoah:
John Battelle points to an interesting blog post by Gian Fulgoni of Comscore that examines the decline in paid search traffic. Fulgoni offers an interesting hypothesis: That it’s actually because search queries are getting longer, which means fewer of them have keyword ads associated with them (I wrote a bit about longer search queries in April). Fulgoni explains:
An analysis of...
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Watchasonnenberg:
schlomo:
Note that the Dina Kaplan Embeddable Widget cannot be paused or muted. This is intentional and is not a bug. Please do not contact technical support.
(via The Dina Kaplan Embeddable Widget 1.0 )
The Dina Kaplan Embeddable Widget 1.0
Thanks to the incredibly advanced technology developed in-house here at blip.tv, you can embed your very own Dina Kaplan on your web...
“A bootstrapped startup is a pressure cooker. Say goodbye to vacations, dentists,...”
– Ten lessons in bootstrapping from the founders of Urbanspoon - TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source (via datainsightsideas) (via mikehudack)
My tumblarity sucks. I’m too busy making shit to blog. What to do?
