July 2011
18 posts
Answer to Who is history's greatest badass, and... →
“Roosevelt was the first President to fly in an airplane. He was the first President to go down in a submarine. He once killed a cougar with a knife. He was also a sensitive man who loved poetry and…
Data journalism at the Guardian: what is it and... →
The Show :: Replay →
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man i like this episode. i’m finding myself envious of whatever energy i had while making these. I know rationally what a fucking nightmare it was to put these together, but it appears so…
Business & Technology | Price of corn dogs going... →
from the comments: “Is it possible for an article to troll itself?”
Marvel Cinematic Universe - Wikipedia, the free... →
to infinity “In November 2010, Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada outlined his plan to expand the MCU into comic books.”
Walking around a New New York, basketball in a...
The end of the dream was something around throwing basketballs at a hoop in the middle of a marsh. If we missed the ball would make a huge splash into the water, and then pop back out into the air. Some of us tried shooting from pretty far away, on a hill or something Another part, earlier, I was walking around lower manhattan with Stephanie lin, and we were looking for something to do. Something...
What Apple Has That Google Doesn’t - An Auteur -... →
weird to write now as google is unifying a ton of their products
hapticdata/toxiclibsjs - GitHub →
Toxiclibs.js is a javascript port of Karsten Schmidt’s Toxiclibs for Java and Processing. Toxiclibs.js works great with the Processing.js visualization library for but is not dependent on it. It can…
Fab.com Relaunches With Daily Deals & Design... →
“Fab.com has gone through some major transitions since its launch last June. In fact, it began life as Fabulis, a web trend-infused social network for gay men.”
Turntable Kitchen | Connecting Food + Music →
enid →
my sister’s speech as an officiant to her best friend’s wedding made me cry at work:
“Not to put the pressure on or anything, but we’re all - about 100 of us - gathered here today to watch you say…
SUPERCUT.ORG: RANDOM →
supercut of supercuts / also, random supercuts
Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t... →
“It turns out to be easier and faster to iterate from an existing but wrong solution, than to deduce a correct solution from scratch. Even if you have to occassionally press the “clear” button to…
You Call This A Bubble? | LinkedIn →
“There’s a test looming for the 2011 “bubble” in the pending Groupon IPO. Here we have a company that reeks of Bubble 1.0: huge losses and an IPO prospectus that flaunts a contrived revenue metric…
Twitter / @ball4ny: Opening up the discussion! ... →
Senator Ball “Opening up the discussion! So, if you were me, how would you vote on gay marriage? Yes or No?”
Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds - NYTimes.com →
““Retire?” he said. “Unlike your baseball player and your prizefighter and your matador, how does a writer retire? No one accepts that his legs are shot or the whiplash gone from his reflexes….
DEPTHJS | MIT Media Lab →
“DepthJS allows any web page to interact with the Microsoft Kinect using Javascript.”
OPENING DAY: INTERACTION →
robert and veronica helped make this: “On Thursday June 23rd, the opening of SEAT: an outdoor chair show was released to the public. The activity, energy, and attention that W.E.T received was…