May 2009
Science Gives The Withdrawl Method A Big Thumbs Up →
hono-lulu:
(via onefootinthegrave)
heh.
Trouble.
I'm hooked on Spymaster.
Thanks a lot, Sarah.
If you want an invite, give me your twitter name?
Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships →
azspot:
Now we’re swimming in information. We can call up nearly every bit of news, music, and entertainment we want on demand. In fact, there’s so much of it that we need filters to block the boring or irrelevant stuff and help us find the bits we need or desire. This has created what many call the “Attention Economy.” Says Bernardo A. Huberman, director of the Information Dynamics Laboratory...
EveryBlock.Com
tsparks:
I have been using EveryBlock, on a daily basis. It is one of a few sites I checkin with everyday and track via RSS to make sure I see new entries.
EveryBlock filters an assortment of local news by location so you can keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city.
Here are some the items Everyblock keeps track of:
Building permits
Business...
“Bing, of course, stands for But It’s Not Google. The problem, as far as I can...”
– Seth’s Blog: The next Google (via daryn)
“Google is not seen as broken by many people, and a hundred million dollars...”
– in other words, advertising is the cost of having a product that is not remarkable
Seth’s Blog: The next Google
(via fred-wilson)
Eating saltines straight out of the box.
Just. Can’t. Stop.
Wish I had some cream cheese to spread on it.
“If humans were to live in a “natural state” (I know, whatever the...”
– How Much Affection Is Normal? | Psychology Today Blogs
I find that concept fascinating… what is our “natural” state of affection? Cultural pressures are so intertwined (stupid Puritans!)
“Dogs are social animals and, if you agree with the work of Ray Coppinger (among...”
– How Much Affection Is Normal? | Psychology Today Blogs
Ezra Klein - How Dare He Eat Food With... →
disoriented:
Ezra Klein:
He goes on to quote a report that says the guests “ate a dinner of roasted tenderloin, grilled organic chicken and sun choke rosemary mashed potatoes.” That, he says, is “why I’m not a Democrat.”
You see this sort of thing all the time. But it’s misguided. Another way of writing that sentence is that they had a dinner of pork, chicken, and tuber. One of the tricks of...
Note to self:
If you are going to make your own dumplings and then freeze them, cover them with flour so you don’t end up with a giant frozen stuck together cluster of dumplings.
JIMMY FALLON GETS CANCELLED!!! →
thephenthouse:
Who didn’t see this coming?
That’s just mean.
Sigh.
What Just Happened? Thursday Was Supposed To Be... →
micek:
I am beyond excited for wave.
and I’m not even a web dev.
Is the image annotated with Comic Sans? Can we shoot Arrington yet?
Still, good post. It’s nice to see a little corporate boxing.
john:
“Uncertainty is a feature, not a bug.”
— Betaworks’ Andrew Weissman to me via GTalk in response to the backlash to Google Wave because they haven’t even suggested a monetization path for the product. If you embrace innovation, foster utility and value, and allow externalized innovation through open APIs and transparency, the uncertain road toward monetization will appear eventually...
Naming Your Baby Something Unique →
heyitsnoah:
MarketingCharts (which I must admit has become one of my favorite sites) points to a study about the increasing uniqueness of baby names:
Researchers found that in 1955, nearly one-third (32%) of boys received one of the ten most popular names, but by 2007, less than 10% got a common name. For girls, the percentage receiving common names is even lower. In 1955, about one in four...
What A Day in Tech/Net News!
continuations:
The frontpage of Techmeme is simply stunning at the moment. So many important things happening:
Google announcing an attempt to completely remake communication and joint document prodcution with Wave. See “Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave” on the Google blog.
Microsoft is trying to get back into the search game with Bing. It definitely looks like an attempt at a...
Someone should start a waffl for bakeries
courtneyj:
caterpillarcowboy:
Here’s how it works:
Each bakery gets their own page, like crumbs.bakery.com
They fill their page with delectable photos, contact info, and a tumblog.
They tie their tumblog to their twitter account, so when the cupcakes are fresh out of the oven, they can broadcast it out.
We aggregate all of the bakeries together into a searchable directory.
We plot all of...
“… we are so busy keeping tabs on everything that we never focus on anything....”
– Nice description of continuous partial attention in this old New York Times article. I thought of it today in the airport when I eavesdropped on business people complaining (bragging really) about how their email piles up when they are out of the office. It says much more about their neediness than...
Sauteed onions smell so good. HUNGRY.
Not what you expected
Cablevision calls me on the phone
Cablevision rep: Hello, I see that you have internet service. Would you also like to sign up for our cable TV service?
me: No, but I'm so glad you called! I need to cancel my internet service.
Cablevision rep: Why?
me: I'm moving to Philadelphia.
“Two economists working at Dartmouth, Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra,...”
– A really excellent New Yorker story about the state of healthcare costs in America.
Annals of Medicine: The Cost Conundrum: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
(via heyitsnoah)
For Teenagers, Hello means 'How About a Hug?' →
katieschenk:
chrispazen:
yourpalmal:
capeterson:
“A measure of how rapidly the ritual is spreading is that some students complain of peer pressure to hug to fit in…Experts say that over the last generation, boys have become more comfortable expressing emotion, as embodied by the MTV show “Bromance,” which is now a widely used term for affection between straight male friends.”
I love that...
Someone should start a waffl for bakeries
Here’s how it works:
Each bakery gets their own page, like crumbs.bakery.com
They fill their page with delectable photos, contact info, and a tumblog.
They tie their tumblog to their twitter account, so when the cupcakes are fresh out of the oven, they can broadcast it out.
We aggregate all of the bakeries together into a searchable directory.
We plot all of the bakeries onto a Google...
Birds are chirping. I love spring.
KFC No Longer Permitted To Use Word 'Eat' In...
lickystickypickyme:
“KFC’s claim that its fried offerings have ‘that taste you’ll just love to eat’ is in direct violation of federal regulations,” acting FCC chairman Michael Copps said. “The word ‘eat’ is legally permissible only in reference to substances appropriate for human consumption. Any implication that a consumer could or should ‘enjoy’ a KFC Crispy Strip fails to meet these...
Hi.
Tumblr saviour (greasemonkey) →
kapi:
Tired of posts about the iPhone filling up your dashboard? Hate hearing about Julia Allison’s latest blunders? If you just want to hide posts about certain topics, Tumblr Savior is here to save you. Just add your most despised terms to the array and Tumblr Savior will valiantly protect your delicate sensibilities. And if you wonder what got hidden, there’s a handy link to show you.
If...
