Month: October 2013
October 24, 2013
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This is a real domain:
Domain names are in for a massive shift over the next few years.
October 23, 2013
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OK, American Horror Stories is going seriously perverse this season.
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What a jerk.
RT @DalaiLama: Love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.
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I wish my girls were still small so I could do this to them:
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Excess as a virtue:
60-track Van Morrison “Moondance” reissue.
36-track Tears For Fears “The Hurting” reissue.
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All Dashboards Should be Feeds – Anil Dash
Last week, we announced the new beta release of ThinkUp (if you’re a geek or developer, try it out!) and one of the reasons I was most excited to talk about the new release is because it has a whole new user experience which exemplifies a belief about analytics that I’ve become pretty adamant about.…
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Who Runs The World? (Squirrels!)
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Security as profit center.
RT @DomainNameWire: Airport announcement says you face a $250 fine if you leave your bag unattended.
October 22, 2013
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Why The Next Social Media Frontier Is The Past | Fast Company
"What are you doing right now ?" Facebook asked its users in 2007. The social network, and its peers, have since become less dedicated to the present moment. Facebook has created Timeline, a historic presentation of daily posts. Foursquare has turned its vault of real-time check-ins into a valuable…
October 21, 2013
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Why did infinite scroll fail at Etsy? | Dan Nguyen’s blog
Descending down a Manhattan Subway My point is not that infinite scroll is stupid. It may be great on your website. But we should have done a better job of understanding the people using our website” – Dan McKinley, Principal Engineer at Etsy A few weeks ago, Etsy engineer Dan McKinley gave a talk…
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Making art out of old mugshots. Pretty amazing.
October 20, 2013
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My Hobonichi Techo arrived last week. Seeing what people do with them in Japan, I feel unworthy:
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Presentation Skills Considered Harmful:
http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/10/4/presentation-skills-considered-harmful
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Apparently women have their very own kind of gross out humor:
http://www.mommyish.com/2013/10/14/vagina-cakes/
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HTC learns in 2013 what Apple knew back in 2007: Widgets aren’t widely used | iMore.com
For years there’s been angst over iOS’ lack of Home screen widgets. Nokia/Symbian/Meego/etc. has had them for what’s probably been decades. Android has had them for years. Even Apple had widgets on OS X going back to Dashboard in OS X Tiger in 2005. iOS on the other hand has eschewed them completely…
October 19, 2013
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This picture is just so weird. It’s reminding me of Cloverfield for some odd reason.
http://laist.com/2013/10/15/rare_18-foot_oarfish_found_off_of_c.php
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If you search for “Tupac”, Google Images shows results in categories – including “Westside”: pic.twitter.com/jGq3o1I7S0
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Now to connect to everyone I’ve met in the last seven years.
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I decided to make my LinkedIn profile more like blog posts than a traditional resume.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kenschafer
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Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World
57.3K Flares Filament.io Made with Flare More Info ‘> 57.3K Flares × IN THE SUMMER of 1995, a young graduate student in anthropology at UCLA named Joe Henrich traveled to Peru to carry out some fieldwork among the Machiguenga, an indigenous people who live north of Machu Picchu in the Amazon basin.…
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I think I’ll work on my LinkedIn profile today. Haven’t updated in seven years.
Hopefully co-workers won’t freak out.
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I spend my Saturday mornings reading so you can spend your Saturday afternoons reading.
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Words evoke positive/negative feelings separate from their meanings.
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/why-its-apt-psycho-acoustically.html
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I’m Daisy Coleman, The Teenager At The Center Of The Maryville Rape Case:
http://jane.io/19WePLh
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10 Simple Tips to Prevent Rape:
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Science in action! 3 week into psych class, he took on Positive Psychology’s big shots and won:
http://narrative.ly/pieces-of-mind/nick-brown-smelled-bull/
October 18, 2013
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Forget big change, start with a tiny habit:
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Watch as notification and confirmation system.
Your “phone” stays in pocket or purse for “power user mode” when needed.
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Necklace as streaming camera.
Always records last five minutes. Tap to save to archive if something memorable happens.