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…
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…
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…
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—.
Mike's Clear Task at Hand Tech Tour | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
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 and user-interfaces which trick your users into..."
“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…
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…
‘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.
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.
Best Buy CEO: iPad Is Cannibalizing Laptop Sales by 50 Percent
Your “holy shit” statement of the day.
When will that post, Tumblr? My mental arithmetic isn’t up...
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…
