Month: March 2013
March 24, 2013
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An incomplete Venn diagram of stuff I think is utter bullshit:
http://imgh.us/venn.svgz
March 23, 2013
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We’d defrost the fridge. A pot of hot water in the freezer until the ice could be pulled off the walls to melt in the sink.
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If your tweets rhyme,
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Learning to See | Information Architects
http://j.mp/YpaDci
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This Wired article on swarming is a great intro to the emerging science of collective behavior:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/powers-of-swarms/all/
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‘Parallel Universe’ of Life Described Far Beneath the Bottom of the Sea:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/oceanic-crust-ecosystem/all/
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A Brief History of Applause, the ‘Big Data’ of the Ancient World – Atlantic Mobile
http://j.mp/11uwUrW
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Free works –
http://Marco.org
http://j.mp/Ypa2HJ
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Why Organizations Are So Afraid to Simplify – Ron Ashkenas – Harvard Business Review
http://j.mp/ZjxeX9
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Incredipede is a really neat in-browser game.
http://incredipede.com
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“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.”
– Frank O’Hara
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/15741
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Here is “Meditations in an Emergency” by Frank O’Hara.
Don Draper read this in Season 2.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/15741
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Fast boat, fast river | Lean Analytics Book
http://j.mp/YvGs6B
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The Anatomy of a Parking Sign That Actually Makes Sense – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities
http://j.mp/11vWnoT
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DIY Email Referrals |
http://SachaGreif.com
http://j.mp/1026Kdw
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March 22, 2013
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Stop Publishing Web Pages – Anil Dash
Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused on a single, simple stream that offers a river of news which users can easily scroll through, skim over, and click on to read in more depth.…
March 21, 2013
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How does @feedly make money?
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The Pretty New Web and the Future of “Native” Advertising | The Awl
Choire Sicha Co-founder, The Awl. The Awl Be less stupid.
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The businessman parks his SUV on the side street. I can hear “Forever Young” playing, but can’t see his tears.
March 20, 2013
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/cc @weakerthans RT @zoeschafer: Writing an essay on the lyrics of “left and leaving” by the weakerthans, woohooo, actually kinda excited 🙂
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Daring Fireball: Pixel Perfect
I’ve spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels. I remember first seeing a Pac-Man coin-op arcade game, wondering how it worked, and deducing the basic gist: the screen was a matrix of dots, like animated graph paper. I loved graph paper. The first font I ever…
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Lunch at Cora’s restaurant. Joy Division’s “Atmosphere” floats almost sub-audibly from the kitchen staff’s tinny radio.
March 19, 2013
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HEARD ON THE STREET: Bruised Mobile Carriers Fight Back at Apple – WSJ.com
The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry and made Apple AAPL 0.43 % the world’s most valuable company. But it hasn’t been all good news for the mobile carriers. The biggest benefit of the iPhone, and the touch-screen devices that followed, has been a rise in average revenue generated from…
March 18, 2013
March 17, 2013
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I’m about to binge-watch Mad Men.
The first episode is trying SO hard to show how socially barbaric the 60s were.
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If Landing Pages Were People – 3 Nasty Habits That Drive Prospects Away
http://j.mp/Z87n46
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Information Diet | The Law Everyone Should Hate
http://j.mp/ZzJk0B
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“Those poor teenage rapists, this must be so tough for them.”