October 2011
A Video Shot on the iPhone 4S →
Not bad for a phone camera.
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Notational Velocity forked: Fullscreen mode,... →
[Quick 10/11/10 update: An observant commenter has pointed out a key bug to me. As nice as it can be to hide your notes view while you type your note, for now collapsing your notes view will keep…
Ben Brooks Got a Blackberry PlayBook Prototype →
And just when we thought the PlayBook didn’t exist.
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How ink is made →
I could watch viscous liquids pouring all day long. (via devour) Tags: how to video
How Ink Is Made →
I favorited a YouTube video: A Chief Ink Maker shows how colour and ink is created from the raw ingredients—powder, varnish, and passion. Everything designers and printers need to know about…
Geoff McGhee has done a fantastic job of... →
Geoff McGhee has done a fantastic job of documenting the tools and people, and some very valid criticism, of data visualization. “Journalism in the Age of Data” is worth an hour of your time…
Addiction, Step One of Twelve, and Focus for A... →
Not too far from my home, is an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting house. They have several meetings a day. I would guess ten to twelve (the house is large enough to accommodate). I regularly observe…
Authentic Jobs Charity: Water Campaign →
Cameron Moll is trying to raise $20,000 to help bring clean water to people in Central African Republic. Clean water — just think for a few seconds about life without access to clean water. Some…
Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to... →
Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers →
Ryan Paul for Ars Technica:
They used TaintDroid to test 30 popular free Android applications selected at random from the Android…
Web 2.0 Expo NY 2010: John Gruber, "Apple... →
I favorited a YouTube video: http://web2expo.com John Gruber (Daring Fireball), “Apple and the Open Web”
September 2010
The Vocal Minority Wins… You Can Now Turn off... →
Today Google announced that it is now giving users the option to turn off GMail’s threaded “conversation” view in its web email client.
And just as an outspoken minority has banded together…
Mr. Williams is Well Suited →
There is a great suit story in the October issue of GQ that was shot by Ben Watts and features none other than Michael Kenneth Williams, who is starring as Chalky White in HBO’s epic new…
LiteSwitch X – Get your hide on switch on! →
LiteSwitch X – Get your hide on switch on!: I’ve had more than a few people ask me since watching the TextExpander/Markdown screencast what was making my Mac only show one application at a time…
The Stratocast #1 -- Banksy-Style Guerrilla... →
I favorited a YouTube video: A Bajillion Hits is very proud to present the very first episode of our new video podcast series, The Stratocast. In this “pilot”, social strat guru-ninja Alex…
Royal Navy Field Gun Competition 1997 →
I favorited a YouTube video: Royal Navy Field Gun Competiton 1997; FAA versus Portsmouth
Ken Block Gymkhana Practice →
I favorited a YouTube video: Ken Block Gymkhana Practice www.kenblockracing.com
Wants & Desires | North Face Purple Label Camo... →
My affection for this duck camo has been expressed before, but I was perusing the fall offerings from the Japan-only The North Face Purple Label and am now obsessed with this parka and…
Curbside Puppy WIN! →
I favorited a YouTube video: Puppy with largest bladder ever marks his territory! Be sure to subscribe for a daily Cute, Win, or Fail video of the Day!
Adjectives →
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization →
I favorited a YouTube video: http://www.ted.com David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple…
Parkour at it's finest - Red Bull Art Of... →
I favorited a YouTube video: More than 4,000 people came out to Tampa’s historic Centro Ybor district to check out a truly unique parkour experience at Red Bull Art of Motion. Parkour…
Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider... →
I favorited a YouTube video: More answers to questions from Sixty Symbols viewers, covering the LHC, exploding stars and galaxies made of anti-matter. Part One is at…
Ballsiest line I've ever delivered during a job... →
When asked this afternoon if I was still interested in joining this particular company I answered, “Well, honestly, I considered showing up today and standing outside in a trenchcoat with a boombox…
What Is A Bajillion Hits? (A Viral Vidifesto) →
I favorited a YouTube video: In the week since BajillionHits.Biz first launched, we’ve driven deafening buzz, engaged hits from countless users across The Stratosphere, and emerged as the…
The reluctant father →
Photographer Phillip Toledano didn’t particularly want to be a father. But then he and his wife had a daughter. Loulou seemed like such an alien thing, that the first time I heard her sneeze, I…
What Is A Bajillion Hits? (A Viral Vidifesto) →
In the week since A Bajillion Hits first launched, we’ve driven deafening buzz, engaged hits from countless users across The Stratosphere, and emerged as the leading tech/social media stat site…
The case against pennies →
Man, that guy really hates pennies, aka “disgusting bacteria-ridden disks of suck that fail to facilitate commerce”. Tags: money video
USC Law talk by David Simon of The Wire. Gripping... →
USC Law talk by David Simon of The Wire. Gripping stuff.
Fun with ad-hoc bathroom signage →
Passive-aggressive office signs always annoy me more than they probably should. In this case, someone else on the same floor as the Tumblr office put up this sign in the bathroom: What…
"The older the technology, the more likely it will... →
“The older the technology, the more likely it will continue to be useful. Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.” - Kevin Kelly (via onethingwell)
What we…
How Shazam works →
Every time I use Shazam, it feels like magic. Here’s how they make the magic happen. The Shazam algorithm fingerprints a song by generating this 3d graph, and identifying frequencies of “peak…
Mr. Frogger →
This chilled me to the bone.
I was touring Steve’s Retro Room, and I leafed through his newly acquired collection of arcade cabinet marquees. I pulled this one out and felt a million guns of…
wrıter. →
wrıter.: A text editor for the iPad, with Dropbox support and a natty default font, Nitti Light). If you find the interface distracting, try competitor ū—.
Giant centipede catches bat! →
I’m just gonna go ahead and be crass…this is some crazy-ass shit right here. Watch as a foot-long centipede catches and eats a bat. Nature wins again! Make sure you have the audio…
A movie that tells time →
Christian Marclay is working on a 24-hour film called The Clock. “The Clock” is a montage of clips from several thousand films, structured so that the resulting artwork always conveys the…
James Dyson on Engineering vs. Marketing →
The 20 Sep issue of The New Yorker has an interesting profile of inventor, designer, engineer and pitchman James Dyson, who is famous for creating the “dual cyclone”-powered Dyson vacuums — an…
Mike's Clear Task at Hand Tech Tour | Apartment... →
Mike’s Clear Task at Hand Tech Tour | Apartment Therapy Unplggd:
Nice clean setup. Click the link for a tour of the whole space and details.
(via Julio Ojeda-Zapata)
"The act of creating deliberately confusing jargon... →
“The act of creating deliberately confusing jargon and user-interfaces which trick your users into sharing more info about themselves than they really want to.” - Privacy Zuckering, a great…
September 16, Jobs Day →
Interesting fact: Jobs was forced out of Apple on 16 September 1985; he rejoined on 16 September 1997. So, he was there for seven years, gone for 12, and has now been back for 13. Update: Chris…
Acorn 2.5 →
Nice update to Flying Meat’s “image editor for humans”. Among a slew of new features: layer masks.
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Best Buy CEO: iPad Is Cannibalizing Laptop Sales... →
Your “holy shit” statement of the day.
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Dave Winer on Unread Counts →
Dave Winer: Why does Twitter work better for news than Google Reader? Simple, Twitter gives you what’s new now. You don’t have to hunt around to find the newest stuff. And it doesn’t waste your…
When will that post, Tumblr? My mental arithmetic... →
When will that post, Tumblr? My mental arithmetic isn’t up to the job. Mightn’t it be better to adopt a format users can understand at a glance? Something like this, maybe: Will be published…
‘Don’t Be Evil’ →
Dan Frommer: All’s fair in business, we suppose. But Google is now basically acting like heyday-era Microsoft here, throwing its weight around and screwing over small companies for its own gain.
Secrets →
Secrets: A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X.
A Social Network For Low-Income Immigrant... →
Hoodr is a hyper-local community platform built to strengthen the social fabric of marginalized areas, providing its denizens a means to debate and express local events and opinions while…
Looxcie →
If you don’t have a problem walking around with a camera sticking out of the side of your head, then you won’t have a problem with the Looxcie ($200). This… Visit Uncrate for the…
lickystickypickyme:
After 15 days of... →
lickystickypickyme:
After 15 days of investigation, India’s Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences concluded its study of 82-year-old yogi Prahlad Jani on Thursday, May 6. …
Rush 24 Backpack →
Ribbed, rugged, and relatively affordable, the Rush 24 Backpack ($100) is your new everyday, tactical carry-all. Made from water-resistant 1050-denier nylon, the 24 features flexible main…
(Pic) The Customer Is Not Always Right →
The PSFK team spotted this abrupt policy sign in the new Eataly NYC store,