Month: April 2013
April 15, 2013
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Shame on @oracle for exploiting #aaronswartz and the #CISPA fight! pic.twitter.com/rJnnWphNWk
April 14, 2013
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Even though I’ve seen (and quite liked) “The Place Beyond The Pines” I don’t know what the title means.
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The Nocebo Effect: How We Worry Ourselves Sick : The New Yorker
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Stanford researchers discover the ‘anternet’
Stanford Report, August 24, 2012 A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet. Katherine Decktar Harvester ant foragers waiting inside the…
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Justin Bieber visits the Anne Frank House:
April 13, 2013
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A speech by the late David Foster Wallace | Books | The Guardian
T here are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how’s the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is…
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People care less about polar ice caps than Tim Horton’s Ice Caps™
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April 12, 2013
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@codyrennie
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Why Do Programmers Hate Internet Advertising So Much? – Forbes
Facebook ad question (Photo credit: renaissancechambara) Another week, another pontificating programmer slamming online advertising. What is it with these guys? The latest example is a steaming heap of linkbait from software developer and entrepreneur Patrick Dobson entitled Facebook Should Fire…
April 11, 2013
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I need an Emoji to English translator.
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Ting MVNO starts selling LTE smartphones for Sprint’s network – FierceWireless
The Samsung Galaxy S III is one of a number of LTE phones now available from Ting. Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) MVNO Ting has started selling a handful of smartphones that run on Sprint’s growing LTE network, becoming the first U.S. MVNO to offer LTE service. Ting has started selling the Samsung Galaxy S…
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I tweeted that because I’m working in Excel and had to remind myself of my humanity.
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The three most assuring words a person can hear are “you are loved”.
April 10, 2013
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True facts about the hedgehog:
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♫ “Bye, bye Li’l Sebastian” ♫
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Genome Brings Ancient Girl to Life – ScienceNOW
An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of a 50,000 year-old Siberian girl using a new technique: http://t.co/EYWQgMy2
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OH: “We’ll always have Snowmageddon.”
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I appreciate the reply though!
RT @Dove: Hi Ken, each brand in Unilever’s portfolio speaks to a different target group.
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Yes, that is exactly the problem. RT @Dove: Hi Ken, each brand in Unilever’s portfolio speaks to a different target group.
April 9, 2013
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The @dove “real beauty” campaigns irk me because I WANT to like them. But it’s all SO disingenuous because of Axe.
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Does @axe have anything to do with how they feel?
RT @thecharlesworth: Standout campaign from @dove in Toronto pic.twitter.com/Q9kk9SgJeM
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How Long Do You Want to Live? – NYTimes.com
SINCE 1900, the life expectancy of Americans has jumped to just shy of 80 from 47 years. This surge comes mostly from improved hygiene and nutrition, but also from new discoveries and interventions: everything from antibiotics and heart bypass surgery to cancer drugs that target and neutralize the…
April 8, 2013
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Please re-elect mayor Goldie Wilson.
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The Fallacy of Funnels | The Intercom Blog
The funnel is a lousy metaphor for measuring conversion. In real life, funnels let everything pass through–a 100% conversion rate if you will. A better metaphor would be a sieve, or buckets with holes in them. But my problem with funnels isn’t the metaphor. It’s the mindset. The funnel ignores how…
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Sadly, my knowledge of Thatcher comes solely from New Wave bands.
“Stand Down Margaret”
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12 Possible Mad Men Endings
The sixth and final season of Mad Men has started and it’s got me wondering about how the series will end. Here are a few possible ways I can imagine the writers wrapping everything up for Don.
- Sally Draper follows in her father’s footsteps, becoming a partner at the firm, just as Roger Stirling followed his father. She’s hard drinking, philandering and brilliant — just like her dad.
- Baby Gene discovers Don’s secret and decides to change his name… to Marilyn Manson.
- A decrepit and abandoned Don suffers from Alzheimer’s and can’t remember ever being Don Draper. He keeps asking for someone named Adam.
- The final scene shows us a now retired Don Draper walking to a breakfast reception for the firms old partners at the firm’s new office. We see him meeting all the cast members as he checks details on the invitation. We zoom in and see the invite is for 8:30AM on the 47th floor of 1 World Trade Center. The date is September 11th, 2001. The camera tracks up towards the clear blue sky and fades to black as we hear air traffic control chatter.
- Don witnesses the fall of Saigon and is astonished when a young Captain named Richard Whitman dies in his arms. He realizes this fate telling him to return to old life, and he does.
- Glen gets Sally pregnant.
- Glen gets Betty pregnant.
- While celebrating his involvement in the faking of the moon landing, Don sees two CIA agents walking slowly towards him and realizes this is not only his greatest marketing coup, it is his last.
- Don worries about having missed the boat on the Internet boom and decides to invest his life savings in a new start-up called… pets.com.
- Don wins the Quanta Airline account and, after visiting their head offices, looks forward to seeing his fourth wife when his flight — Oceanic 815 — finally lands.
- Don, Betty, Sally and Bobby meet in a New Jersey diner for a happy family reunion to celebrate having put their difference behind them. From a jukebox we hear Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” begin to play.
- Pam Ewing wakes and, hearing the water running, goes into the bathroom and finds her husband Bobby in the shower. Everything in Mad Men was a dream.
How do you think the show will end? With a bang, or with a whimper?
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