October 2010
57 posts
Procrastination « You Are Not So Smart →
“Procrastination is all about choosing want over should because you don’t have a plan for those times when you can expect to be tempted.” and “Your brain evolved in a world where you probably…
Profiles: Werner Herzog, The Ecstatic Truth : The... →
“I try to understand the ocean beneath the thin layer of ice that is civilization,” he said. “There’s miles and miles of deep ocean, of darkness and barbarism. And I know the ice can break easily.”
2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter... →
“As it stands, the Department of Defense is the largest polluter in the world, producing more hazardous waste than the five largest US chemical companies combined.”
Marco.org - The Mac App Store isn't for today's... →
“One of the reasons the iOS App Store is so successful is that app-buying has become a form of casual, routine entertainment for iPhone and iPad owners. We gladly go and browse the App Store even…
Giles Revell, Photographer →
slit scanny, field aestheticky, gorgeousness
The Daily What - Fainting Goat Kittens →
“They’re like little fuzzy dominoes.”
A Hidden Genius at the Apple Store / Duncan... →
“I wonder how many other issues in Apple products get addressed, in part, because of the data gathered in Apple stores by Apple employees. There are several trends in Apple’s product design, but a…
Issue 713 - gmaps-api-issues - Directions for... →
what is the saddest thing “Given that this is such a popular request I just wanted to provide some context around why it has not yet been implemented, and why in all honesty it is unlikely to be…
Paris vs New York, a tally of two cities →
adorable illustrations of paris vs new york
The making of Ephemicropolis on Vimeo →
oh my god it’s full of staples
ASCII by Jason Scott / Archiveteam! The Geocities... →
“While it’s quite clear this sort of cavalier attitude to digital history will continue, the hope is that this torrent will bring some attention to both the worth of these archives and the ease at…
This Tract →
“This Tract is a view into U.S. 2000 Census data for every tract, built in anticipation of the forthcoming 2010 Census data release. ” nice migurski
Hacker News | China - The Mother Of All Grey Swans →
“I think a lot of the developmental sclerosis affecting America comes down to the relative affluence of the people impacted by development.”
Painting with light an entire city /Pintando con... →
wow, toledo lightpainted by 50 people
Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn't Get... →
“People in Hollywood couldn’t imagine that someone would build something because they were interested in building things, so they had to create another, perhaps more “movie-compatible,” motivation…
Cluster Buck Rogers! | Redfin Corporate Blog →
wow, hardcore
BA attacks U.S. airport security demands - CNN.com →
“Mr Broughton said no one wanted weak security, but he added: “We all know there’s quite a number of elements in the security programme which are completely redundant and they should be sorted out.”
These included the requirement to remove footwear, brought in after British “shoe bomber” Richard Reid hid explosives in his shoes on a transatlantic flight in...
Can Indie Movies Survive? →
weird thinking about movies as startups and Focus Features as an angel investor “Almost all remaining players have drastically changed their acquisition strategy. Sony Pictures Classics does not buy…
Public Safety Committee recommends awarding... →
” “It doesn’t smell fishy to me,” he said. “It’s unfortunate, but not fishy.” “
tax.com: Scary New Wage Data →
“This orgy of money exhibitionism has created a society in which commas count more than character” and “In nearly three decades of Reaganism, however, we have become a society of mine-here-and-now….
Interactive blobs →
mr doob does blobs
Running Yahoo! Pipes on Google App Engine »... →
whoa
Dawn of a New Day « Ray Ozzie →
i will trade archispeak for exchiefsoftwarearchispeak any day
The Virtual Paintout →
“The artist must use a view found through Google Street View as the reference for the painting or drawing.”
My Weeplaces « Nokeydokey's Blog →
so awesome
Robot "Hand" Made of Coffee Grounds and a Balloon... →
awesome
Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you →
“Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it. The two biggest blocks to serendipity seem to be ego-fear and “other plans”.”
5 Innovative Uses of an API [Mashable Awards] →
Swarmation :: The Pixel Formation Game →
so cool
Channel 4 axes 4iP | Media | guardian.co.uk →
rip 4ip
Wikileaks Iraq war logs: every death mapped |... →
cityofsound: Shanghai Expo 2010: universal... →
“Nor is their room for the rich voice of experience, such as Sidney Rittenberg in this excellent interview also in The Economist. He sees China—as a “we society” rather than a “me society”, in his…
Sears: Online department store featuring... →
zambeez
Mozilla pays 12-year-old San Jose boy for hunting... →
“Alex is a bug hunter, but the bugs he’s uncovering are unlikely to end up in any entomological reference book.”
Thoughtware.TV - Water Droplet Bouncing on a... →
HOW TO: Export Your Illustrator Images to HTML5... →
whoa
Project Kangaroo – Live 3D Physics for... →
wow, physics comes to grasshopper
AOL Might Buy Yahoo →
“It would be a deal of unprecedented irrelevance.”
Hire Art: Five Artists on What It Means to Work... →
“Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow. Let’s start a company, let’s watch it fail, and then let’s start another one.” … “Let’s just fucking tell people we’ve read Infinite Jest and move on.”
Plan - Stepping up →
“Design thinkers over-simplify by presenting design to business as a clear and codified process of methods, tools, and steps that can be learned by nondesigners. While explaining design as an…
Japanese Firm to Buy iPhone Game Company Ngmoco -... →
ouch sorry jason
YouTube - The Coffee Wars →
wow, epic documentary
HTwins.net - The Scale of the Universe →
“Zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime and learn the scale of things along the way!” also wrong version!
Social Software Sundays #2 – The Evaporative... →
so great “There are two fundamental patterns of social organization which I term “plaza” and “warrens”.” … “It’s also interesting to note that the real world is intrinsically warren while the…
iPhone app lets you scrub off Shibuya gals' makeup... →
so curious but don’t want to pay $1.99 to find out
I've resigned from CloudMade - SteveC →
steve coast ghosts
YouTube - YELLE - La Musique →
Music video of animated gifs. also a cat explosion
So, that was a bummer. | Foursquare Blog →
on the foursquare outage — also, from the comments”We should get a badge for surviving it. ;)”
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web... →
“This paper examines the act of association, the art of framing and the participatory nature of robots in creating artifacts and story-telling in projects like Flickr Galleries, the API-based…
You Can't Innovate Like Apple — World's most... →
“the world divides into two camps:
There are those who open their presents before Christmas morning.
There are those who wait. They set their presents under the tree and, like a child, agonize…