January 2011
25 posts
Natural Earth version 1.3 release notes | Natural... →
“Null Island in Natural Earth is scaleRank 100, indicating it should never be shown in mapping. Side note: Rank 30 (zoom 29 in Google speak) is 1:1 scale and would require over 288 billion million…
redis: the AK-47 of databases - flazz.me →
“There are more and precise guns out there, but you can’t pack them with wet dirt and expect them to fire unconditionally.”
North American Numbering Plan - Wikipedia, the... →
i wonder if movie characters actually end up calling other movie characters..
” In fact, only 555-0100 through 555-0199 are now reserved for fictional use, with the other numbers having been…
dhtml5 →
totally had this red follow text on the website we made in middle school
phantom city →
diller scofidio, reiser + umemoto, etc
Guernica / Detroitism →
“A long-abandoned modernist skyscraper coincidentally undergoing demolition served as a backdrop for battle scenes between American guerrillas and the Communist occupiers, now Chinese. For weeks,…
Casey Weldon » Blog Archive » Kitty Kitty →
“I painted a series of four eyed kittens in an attempt to double the cuteness. I’m not sure it worked out so well. “
Vi Hart: Math Doodling →
Matter Battle! - there is a lot to say, of this we... →
“Matter Battles generally involve actions for which “undo” costs a lot of time, money, or both. This is because matter tends to exhibit characteristics such as: heaviness, largeness, crumbliness, and…
Jobs Talks About His Rise and Fall - Newsweek →
wow — “And so I used to go into work, I’d get there and I would have one or two phone calls to perform, a little bit of mail to look at. But … this was in June, July … most of the…
How and Why to Start a Journal | The Art of... →
“As each year passes, the pixels of our memories burn out and the haze sets in.” see also twitter
A long dream involving earthquakes and...
We were driving, or something, down mission st. The ground started rumbling and we realized it was an earthquake. The dirt and rocks on the street started buzzing, like they were dancing on a booming subwoofer. We tried to drive but couldn’t move. We were somewhere facing Valencia. I was afraid the houses would collapse in on us. We ended up on the roof somehow, and were wondering what was...
Hacker News | Why Chinese Mothers are Not Superior... →
well played sir “it’s not really socially acceptable to criticize people for mediocrity”
Su-Shee at blogs.perl.org: And suddenly, you're... →
vim as vinyl
Had the best flying dream. Rocketing around the...
There were these awesome curling rollercoasterlike constructions, spiraling up into the air. We were waiting at an entrance, and watched a plane zoom by. Before this I was being quizzed by some woman, and started floating. I was explaining that we discovered the way to flight but it involved ignoring a couple of Newtonian Laws of Physics. She was skeptical but as we were leaving some pageboy type...
YouTube - Home Movies - Get away From My Mom 1/3 →
man, i loved this show so much
Demonstrations of silencing, a visual illusion →
“Silencing is a new illusion that shows it’s hard to notice when moving objects change.”
the show with zefrank :: popular shows →
saving again
Alfred Lawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“He also developed his own highly unusual theories of physics, according to which such concepts as “penetrability”, “suction and pressure” and “zig-zag-and-swirl” were discoveries on par with…
Dreaming about Mario Kart and crossbows
I dreamt we were playing Mario Kart, the nintendo 64 version. We were sitting in a room and in the game were driving around and shooting green shells at each other. We left and went into the other room and then I think Dteve Kim started playing, so I asked Andrew if he wanted to join. We were all sitting on the floor. We were trying to pick a level and there were a bunch of mini levels of Rainbow...
Read the fucking HIG. →
“all the guys just watched and held down the interface conventions of mac os x as the developers of ringtone maker raped them time and time again, laughing and saying things like ‘lets add some…
The Rise of the New Global Elite - Magazine - The... →
“Whether they maintain primary residences in New York or Hong Kong, Moscow or Mumbai, today’s super-rich are increasingly a nation unto themselves.”
Trulia Expands With Acquisition of @Movity |... →
Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three... →
“1) Assume you’ll lose your money and 2) Plan on investing in a large number of companies. (my third bit of advice is to attend YC demo day) I think my experience so far validates this advice.”
Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion... →
“In a rare move, Goldman is planning to create a “special purpose vehicle” to allow its high-net worth clients to invest in Facebook, these people said. While the S.E.C. requires companies with more…