Month: October 2013
October 18, 2013
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A Bluetooth ring that’s a mic.
Turn mic into palm for whispered conversations, turned out for ambient sound.
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Bluetooth earrings as headphones.
Slip dangly part into one ear to listen.
Put both earrings in for music.
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“Functional Jewelry” is a paradigm shift.
Watches, necklaces, earrings with embedded tech.
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The more stylistic and ornate Wes Anderson’s movies become, the more I like them.
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OMG OMG OMG
New Wes Anderson Movie!
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The Benefits Of Modular Design – Vanseo Design
In the mid 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright developed what he termed Usonian homes (PDF) . They were designed to control costs during the great depression. They had no basement, no attic, and little in the way of ornamentation. They were built from inexpensive and modular concrete blocks. These…
October 17, 2013
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“Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes”)
Edison Lighthouse(Lead singer not in video!)
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“A Whiter Shade Of Pale”
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“Stuck In The Middle With You”
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“In The Summertime”
Mungo Jerry(Bonus points for having most insane sideburns ever.)
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And now, FIVE songs you did not know had music videos…
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Hilary Mantel · Royal Bodies · LRB 21 February 2013
Last summer at the festival in Hay-on-Wye, I was asked to name a famous person and choose a book to give them. I hate the leaden repetitiveness of these little quizzes: who would be the guests at your ideal dinner party, what book has changed your life, which fictional character do you most…
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Never eat cornbread muffins at a business lunch. My guests must surely be covered in corn flecks now.
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Found a banana in my computer bag. Don’t remember putting it there.
October 16, 2013
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Or is it just me? #martiandickpics
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Martian dick pics.
RT @WIRED: There are some really strange things on Mars:
http://bit.ly/16b1fmf
pic.twitter.com/aOk5qC3Kkp
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STOP! Before You Add That Feature, Do You Know The Real Cost?
You’re excited! And, why wouldn’t you be? This could be the one. This could be that feature that unlocks the holy grail of viral user acquisition. This could be the one that drives your cancellation rates down to microscopic levels. This could be the one that the tech press writes about. This could…
October 15, 2013
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Flat UI and Forms
http://j.mp/18jGX8H
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The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food –
http://NYTimes.com
http://j.mp/1ao7MG6
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Almost Flat Design | Matthew Moore Design
Flat design is both hot and controversial in world of user interface. Microsoft led the charge to introduce it to the masses and many others have followed suit: LayerVault , The Next Web , and more . Many designers have been calling it a fad since early on, thanks in large part to the UX problems it…
October 14, 2013
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Scopitone: ’60s Music Videos You’ve Never Seen | Collectors Weekly
Before MTV, and long before we could stream music videos on our cell phones, mid-1960s American hepcats gathered around 500-pound, 7-foot-high contraptions to watch 16-millimeter Technicolor films of B-list pop stars gyrating to their latest hits. The contraption in question was usually a Scopitone,…
October 13, 2013
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Also, I am Banksy.
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Banksy sets up a stall in Central Park selling signed prints for $60, earns $420.
http://www.banksyny.com/2013/10/13/central-park
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The business singularity – Strata
An example of a simple function with a vertical asymptote Exponential curves gradually, inexorably grow until they reach a limit. The function increases over time. That’s why a force like gravity, which grows exponentially as objects with mass get closer to one another, eventually leads to a black…
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On Being Good: the Secular Virtues – Alain de Botton
http://j.mp/GVEbgc
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Be Unapologetically Focused: Why Having a Great Strategy Matters
http://j.mp/16SETS9
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Understanding Fairness is the Key to Keeping Customers – N. Taylor Thompson – Harvard Business Review
http://j.mp/1gc6Ltc
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Kirk Goldsberry introduces a new way to understand the NBA’s best scorers – Grantland
http://j.mp/19j5fOl
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Google Now: The Tip of A Very Long Spear | John Battelle’s Search Blog
http://j.mp/1cgv4kp
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The core Internet institutions abandon the US Government | IGP Blog
http://j.mp/15ZaeXr
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