Month: January 2013
January 23, 2013
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You should turn on the Raptors vs. Heat game. Tied up at 109 going into OT.
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If you need a 9-page PDF to explain your prices you are clearly doing it wrong.
January 22, 2013
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Watching the UK series “Misfits”. It’s like an R-rated British version of “Heroes” with a great soundtrack.
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We love you Steve! RT @NPsteve: I did all of the illustrations for this site!
https://ting.com/
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Do you know anything about Techno? Watch.
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Stop Cleaning Inside Your Ears: It’s Bad for You
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/stop-cleaning-inside-your-ears-its-bad-for-you/#.UP8kZuKf3XQ.twitter
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Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Fire Up Your Creativity – Health – The Atlantic
Yes, caffeine helps. But new research shows that the moderate noise level in busy cafés also perks up your creative cognition. Global X/ Flickr PROBLEM : To optimize creativity, how quiet or noisy should your workspace be? Media Multitaskers May Have Sharper Senses Bilingualism May Boost Attention,…
January 21, 2013
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Daring Fireball: Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
Watching the Microsoft Surface event video , I sensed uneasiness. Not panic, but discomfort. Some will argue that I’m simply spoiled by Apple’s on-stage polish, but Monday’s Microsoft event struck me as rushed and severely under-rehearsed. Ballmer offered nothing but blustering bromides, and nothing…
January 20, 2013
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Norman pic.twitter.com/f3SgSqRf
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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word:
How to Write with Style: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word
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Most new gTLDs could be closed shops | DomainIncite – Domain Name News & Opinion
Most new gTLDs could be closed shops Kevin Murphy ,June 21, 2012, 16:12:11 (UTC), Domain Registries ICANN’s new generic top-level domain program could create almost 900 closed, single-user namespaces, according to DI PRO’s preliminary analysis. Surveying all 1,930 new gTLD applications, we’ve found…
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Is it just me or do shortcuts to @brainpicker articles look naughty on my desktop? pic.twitter.com/okM9hQVE
January 19, 2013
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What’s .Google want with 101 new .domains, anyway?
It’s easy to dismiss Google’s big play for a slice of the expanding Internet domain universe as just another side project from the Googleplex. Perhaps too easy. Google, we learned last week, has applied for 101 domains — or, more precisely, 101 generic top-level domains, or gTLDs — and the number…
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<insert teenage boy joke>
RT @randymatheson: Subway Says ‘Footlong’ Is Not Intended To Be A Measurement Of Length
http://read.bi/Xnuffh
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The New York Times still has Hardcover and Paperback bestseller lists. Format distinctions seem anachronistic.
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Bet the trailer for Warren Ellis’ police procedural “Gun Machine” makes you want to read it:
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The rebranding of F. Ménard is quite lovely. Great work.
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Grey is the colour of the day. #dlws
January 18, 2013
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Following 0?
The ego on this guy! pic.twitter.com/Bjl3oLks
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What a jerk. RT @DalaiLama: Compassion brings peace of mind and with it better health; so cherish compassion.
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He’s been better this lifetime. RT @zoeschafer: @kenschafer seems like you and the Dalai Lama are on good terms these days?
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Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? – NYTimes.com
Michael, a 9-year-old whose periodic rages alternate with moments of chilly detachment, with his mother, Anne. Elinor Carucci/Redux, for The New York Times One day last summer, Anne and her husband, Miguel, took their 9-year-old son, Michael, to a Florida elementary school for the first day of what…
January 17, 2013
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Not really happy that there have been TWO fires at @lucyschafer’s school this week. Suspicious.
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Here’s why the Facebook iOS app is so bad (UIWebViews and no Nitro) | Mobtest blog
It’s the week of the Facebook IPO, and a lot of talk in the Facebook roadshow is about its mobile strategy. Out of the 900 million monthly active users, 500 million use Facebook on mobile . Mobile is booming and will so the next few years as these numbers are showing, so rightfully so a lot of…
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Thank you Internet for delivering Charles Darwin’s first impression of bananas to me this morning.
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The Ramones ride the subway:
http://tsutpen.blogspot.ca/2013/01/artists-in-action-736.html