Month: June 2013
June 30, 2013
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This Coltrane album cover was minimal before minimal was a thing:
http://j.mp/17wBEBc
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“100 Conversion Optimization Case Studies”
http://j.mp/17ep3SO
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“Are You Losing Business With The Wrong Value Proposition?”
http://j.mp/18j4yYd
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What Comes After Facebook? The Future of Social Media (by @baekdal) #insights
There is no such thing as social media fatigue. We are not tired of social, we are tired of all the things that get in the way of being social. 17 PAGES PLUS ONLY FREE FOR SUBSCRIBERS Written by on August 7, 2012 Shared By Plus Subscriber Avinash Kaushik Follow @avinash READ ALL THE PLUS REPORTS…
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How I Learned To Build Products People Care About ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community
http://j.mp/11RW1b1
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June 29, 2013
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If Films Were Reviewed Like Video Games –
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/movie-game-review.php
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How to Spot the Future
Thirty years ago, when John Naisbitt was writing Megatrends , his prescient vision of America’s future, he used a simple yet powerful tool to spot new ideas that were bubbling in the zeitgeist: the newspaper. He didn’t just read it, though. He took out a ruler and measured it. The more column inches…
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James Palmer – Traditional Chinese medicine
http://j.mp/12tDTUm
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“Blurred Lines”
owes a lot to “Gotta Give It Up”
June 28, 2013
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The Mysterious Disappearance of Peter Winston | Observer
Peter Winston It should have been a cakewalk. On a Saturday afternoon in 1972 in a seedy hotel conference room in Midtown Manhattan, two men faced off across a chessboard. Well, one of them was a man—Walter Browne, a six-time United States champion regarded as perhaps the best American player not…
June 27, 2013
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“The Quantified Community” by Esther Dyson | Project Syndicate
NEW YORK – I have written previously about the Quantified Self movement – individuals equipped with the tools (monitoring devices and software) needed to measure their own health and behavior (and, by doing so, to improve them). This movement is not quite sweeping the world, but it is making a…
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When it comes to mammals, how big is too big? | ASU News
http://j.mp/14wHsro
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Instagram’s pivot into complexity
http://j.mp/13ahjSJ
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The one cost engineers and product managers don’t consider
http://j.mp/1c5IoWC
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June 26, 2013
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Feds Charge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Articles | Threat Level | Wired.com
Photo: selfagency /Flickr Federal prosectors added nine new felony counts against well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged last year for allegedly breaching hacking laws by downloading millions of academic articles from a subscription database via an open connection at MIT. Swartz…
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My new porn name is Tad Obscure.
June 25, 2013
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You verb things.
RT @adamrides: I turn nouns into verbs. It’s what I do
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It’s My Birthday Too, Yeah – NYTimes.com
Me, Myself and Math , a six-part series by Steven Strogatz, looks at us through the lens of math. By an amazing coincidence my sister, Cathy, and my Aunt Vere have the same birthday: April 4. Actually, it’s not so amazing. In any extended family with enough siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins, you’d…
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Obama covers Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”
http://j.mp/11X0h4a
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Sometimes to understand a rebranding you need to see it in action:
http://j.mp/1a924wj
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“The Spanish ghost town of Ciudad Valdeluz”:
http://j.mp/11WZHDL
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The Amazing Costume Culture of Africa’s Herero Tribe:
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/06/photos-the-vivid-costume-culture-of-the-herero-tribe/?viewall=true
June 24, 2013
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Given “Pacific State” came out 24 years ago, an 808 State revival is probably overdue.
http://www.vevo.com/watch/disclosure/f-for-you/GBUV71300677
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“The American Dream: A Sand Castle Suburb Consumed by the Ocean”:
http://j.mp/1a91ezD
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“Abandoned Island in the Middle of NYC”:
http://www.backspac.es/r/62JmCbXLb8
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City bylaws require Torontonians to tweet the words “hot” and “humid” at least once a day from June 21 to Aug 31.
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How Nokia hobbled itself with an AT&T-exclusive Lumia 920
Nokia executive vice president of smart devices, Jo Harlow, holds up the Lumia 920. Sarah Tew/CNET Nokia just shut its coolest phone out of more than half the U.S. market. The Finnish handset manufacturer’s decision to strike an exclusivity agreement with AT&T for its flagship Lumia 920 means much…