April 2011
19 posts
Joe Queenan on the Frank Gehry Glut | Moving... →
“An Iowa-based philanthropist and architecture aficionado has offered a $300 million reward to any city anywhere in the world that dares to hire someone other than Frank Gehry to design its gleaming…
Elon Musk on Running Tesla Motors and SpaceX -... →
“Professional managers—MBA CEOs—are not very creative or adaptable, and their skills don’t suit a startup. Business is like a multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. The rules aren’t set, and the…
URL Linter - Facebook Developers →
inspecting your pages for facebookiness
The Sagan Series →
OpenFeint - Developers →
woo, go jason!
Tangled Webs 7.6 - The Black Team →
“Team members took a well-deserved pride in their abilities and began to cultivate an image of villainous destroyers. As a group, they began coming to work dressed in black and took to calling…
Obama: I Want People To Feel The Same About The... →
“I want people to feel about the next big energy breakthrough and the next big Internet breakthrough the same way they felt about the moonwalk.”
10 Charts About Sex « OkTrends →
“Frequent tweeters have shorter real-life relationships than everyone else, probably via some bit.ly hack.”
Saudi Arabia's Proposed Mile High Tower Will Get a... →
can’t believe these sentences even need to be written “Dropping $17 billion on a huge new skyscaper is quite enough. Throwing in a city is going too far.”
Dog bubble toy lets you blow bacon bubbles for... →
“The original Scented Bubble Blowing Dog Toy for dogs! Includes one 4 fluid ounce bottle of Sizzlin ’Bacon scented bubbles for hours of chompin ’fun. Easy to use for kids and adults, simply pull on…
A List Apart: Articles: Conflicting Absolute... →
what the hell why did i not know this
Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the... →
Had a dream with Kevin Spacey:
There were a lot of previous parts. There was a scene in the forest where all these people were shooting or aiming lasers at something and then there was this pink dust that covered people and turned them into monsters There was also a part where I was in a cafe talking to someone when I saw over their shoulder that there was this soldier guy in purple armor walking towards us (putside). He...
1.1/utfgrid.md at master from mapbox/mbtiles-spec... →
The UTFGrid encoding scheme encodes interactivity data for a tile in a space efficient manner. It is designed to be used in browsers, e.g. for displaying tooltips when hovering over certain features…
A long dream about a movie called The Downward...
Had a dream we watched a movie, I was watching a movie before going to sleep, 6 teenage guys and girls went to this island and the movie was called nightfAll or retreat or something. They thought they were all strangers but then when they gotto the islamd there was no host. There was also something with an older woman who couldn’t talk. Then there was stuff like beware of the dark, in the...
Endless by Dirk van der Kooij - Frame Magazine -... →
“‘I adopted a retired robot,’ he says. ‘With this robot I can build a chair out of one plastic string and refine it endlessly. The colors can be determined by adding different pigments.’”
Squat and Gobble's 'parklet' comes with a catch →
“When the Castro district’s Squat and Gobble Cafe got a permit for a “parklet” - taking a parking space in front a business and turning it into a space where the public can sit - it seemed like a…
File:Cicada molting animated-2.gif - Wikimedia... →
jtnimoy - Tron Legacy (2010) →
“I also got irritated with the way the Carbon sliders would not slide all the way to the minimum and maximum values. It totally messed with my zen thing. Also, after a job like this, it’s clear that…