January 2012
I think today qualifies as a rough day.
“The top-level goal for most people is to convince others they are the...”
– Mark Hendrickson on social networks | The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast (via courtenaybird)
Whoa, that’s something to chew on. (via tedr)
NY bill would make crimes out of SAT test cheating →
infoneer-pulse:
New York would make felonies out of cheating on the SAT college entrance test under a bill released Tuesday as part of a legislative investigation into a scandal in an affluent New York City suburb.
The measure proposed by Sen. Kenneth LaValle of Suffolk County would create new felonies of facilitation of education testing fraud and of scheming to defraud educational testing and...
Intentionally Untitled: emotionalcreativity:... →
emotionalcreativity:
That’s A Spicy Meatball
Follow the link and get the recipe for the spicy pork meatballs I had on Sunday. Delicious! Definitely going to make these (I may swap out my mom’s pickled hot peppers for the hot cherry peppers). … although upon further review it seems like…
If you buy the ingredients, I will make it happen.
Anyone have a link to the SOTU?
Got home late from a recruiting dinner and missed the whole thing.
“Q: 4G and larger screens are growing in the market. Has popularity of larger...”
– I love the response by Tim Cook when asked whether the iPhone should add larger screens or 4G compatibility now to compete better with Android, even though both have been shown to have large negative effects on battery life.
(via Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in Q1 2012: $13.06 Billion Profit on...
Profits and Revenue
khuyi:
irvingruan:
Apple announced its Q1 2012 earnings today. Here’s a re-cap:
$46 billion in revenue
$13 billion in profit
37 million iPhones sold
15 million iPads sold
5 million Macs sold
15.4 million iPods sold
Google, for Q4 2011, posted $10.6 billion in revenue. Apple’s profits this quarter beat the former’s revenue. Talk about perspective (this quarter is a new record for...
BBC News - Star Wars crowdsourced film reaches... →
Congrats to Casey! He and his brother both work at General Assembly (on VHX and Profitably, respectively).
The 2012 Epic 2012 NYC Xiao Long Bao Tour –...
marksbirch:
Best way to describe last week’s dumpling tour? The staff at the last restaurant had to roll us out of the restaurant because we were so stuffed full of Xiao Long Bao, or better known in these parts as soup dumplings! I think I can still taste the faint flavor of dumplings a week later.
We came, we ate, we conquered. And eating was certainly a big part of the evening’s...
americastestkitchen:
Cooking Tip of the Day: To mellow cut onions, soak for 15 minutes in water and baking soda to neutralize pungent sulfur compounds.
“On Friday, New York Magazine reported that more than 100 people were laid off,...”
– Gilt Groupe Cuts Include 10 Percent of Employees and Two Executives - Tricia Duryee - Commerce - AllThingsD
Man, what is life without Pellegrino??
Strong Opinions @marksbirch: The Mediocrity of the... →
marksbirch:
mediahascookies:
“Crowdsourcing doesn’t always lead to the wisdom of the crowds. It sometimes leads to bland mediocrity”
—
Economist correspondent Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran speaking on a panel at the DLD (Digital - Life - Design) Conference
I was never much of a believer in the wisdom of…
I think the difference is a matter of scale. The stock market does a pretty good job...
Tumblr: 15B pageviews per month by 120M people →
125 pageviews per person per month, or 4 page views a day. That’s actually less than I would have thought. I probably contribute 30-50 pageviews a day, just refreshing the dashboard or loading the next page. How many times a day do you refresh?
What do I do with bacon jam?
Got some in a Foodzie tasting box.
“The reason webviews feel less responsive is that there is an artificial 300ms...”
– Simon Willison’s answer to Does Facebook’s iPhone app use a proprietary web rendering engine instead of UIWebView? - Quora (via datainsightsideas)
The biology and evolution of music: a comparative... →
“3-5 inches of snow in NYC… Winter weather advisory in effect from 1am - 4pm EST...”
– NY Weather Alert - weather.com (via jryu)
What's up with Groupon?
khuyi:
Was looking through my most recent credit card statement tonight and came across a charge for $6.50 from Groupon on 1/4/12.
I have not purchased a Groupon since 2010, so needless to say, was a bit confused.
Logged into Groupon. No recent Groupons in my account history. But my credit card is linked.
Then I looked back through some older credit card bills in more detail, and found the...
Fab Launches New Social Shopping App for Facebook...
betashop:
With 1.8 million members (more than doubling in the last 3 months), Fab is rapidly emerging as the world’s #1 website for design.
Fab.com is also the leading innovator in converging social and commerce.
Today we are upping the ante with our latest innovation: Social Shopping.
Fab’s new Social Shopping features enable Fab members to more easily share the products they are buying with...
Room(mate) for Rent: The Case of the Peanut Butter... →
roommateforrent:
When I received the Scout Mob deal yesterday for 50% off at Peanut Butter and Co. in the West Village, I thought of one of the unsolved mysteries of my first apartment: the Case of the Peanut Butter Thief. It sounds like a mystery for the files of Encyclopedia Brown, but, in reality, the…
Ha, good story.
“Lucifer, V8, Anal, Christ: these are among the baby names rejected by New...”
– Few decisions are more personal than the naming of offspring. Yet laws regulating parents’ choices are common around the world. (via theeconomist)
SQL Injection attacks are still the best. (XKCD)
