November 2011
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October 2011
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So, that’s an especially daring piece of blogspam →
“Great Page…
“Howdy, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just wondering if you get a lot of spam feedback? If so how do you stop it, any plugin or anything you can…
June 2011
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May 2011
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(via Tangga House by Guz Architects | HomeDSGN, a... →
(via Tangga House by Guz Architects | HomeDSGN, a daily source for inspiration and fresh ideas on interior design and home decoration.)
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Verizon Stays Quiet on Recent Outage as It... →
Verizon Wireless on Thursday offered reporters a hard-hat tour of its still-under-construction San Francisco app development center, which the company hopes will bring it closer to cutting-edge…
April 2011
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Obey! →
This gem comes courtesy of redditor ultimobranchialbody. Adherence is mandatory.
Link via Geekosystem
ZURB Releases Android Gingerbread Stencils for... →
ZURB, a popular interaction design and strategy firm, recently released a new download for Android designers and developers to take note of: Gingerbread stencils and sketchsheets. The set…
August 2010
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Small camper; equipped for needs of one person. →
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This fits perfectly with the ulta-minimalist zeitgeist. (Love the computer space on the dash too!) Maybe this is a solution for my long commute?
‘Small camper
which is…
Is this a parody, set up to bait MR? →
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This used to be my method of getting out of bed in the morning… I’d imagine a spike shooting through my mattress at a randomized time after my alarm went off.
Park officials in China have found a way to stop people from hogging their benches for too long - by fitting steel spikes on a coin-operated timer.
July 2010
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Concept Designer →
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At some point, my (and every other 8 year old boy’s) dream job…
The LEGO Group Billund, Denmark
May 2010
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china boy →
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I think I used to have that (Nokia?… or is it a Newkia?) phone, when in India. I was sweet on that phone. Oh, the memories. Enjoying the pictures (as always) Tiffany.
Eating…
BBC to Project the UK General Election Results on... →
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Very cool! Any bets on the likelihood of ‘potential data “skewing” from outside’ happening at some point?
The BBC recently announced [bbc.co.uk] that the results of the
461 – There Goes the Neighbourhood: Europe,... →
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Ha! Love that the Economist’s redrawn map of Europe makes a place for Borduria, which is featured in several of Tintin’s adventures.
If you want reliable, world-class…
April 2010
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New Jobs In The Economic Recovery? Try... →
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Giddyup!
Mike Mandel is the best economist I know and he’s predicting that the fastest growing job segment in the recovery that is starting will be in communications. Mike’s…
Mapping an Envelope's Route →
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So cool! Actually makes me want to send a letter.
In the line of one of Google’s previous April’s Fool Day proposals, this design concept might actually become feasible. “Google Maps Envelopes” maps the course of snail mail on the envelop itself. The project further proposes people would be able to send these envelopes through the GMail interface....
February 2010
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Advice on how to best use caffeine -- from a... →
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This is the kind of stuff I obsess about way to much. Just what I needed…
1) Consume in small, frequent amounts.
Between 20-200mg per hour may be an optimal dose for…
“But except for books, I now actively avoid stuff. If I want to spend money on...”
– Paul Graham (via mikewebkist)
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As answered on Aardvark:
You: Did human beings nostrils evolve specifically to be finger sized, or is it just coincidence?
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Adam S. M / Royal Oak, MI: Other way around. Fingers evolved to be nostril-sized. They were pretty much useless before that.
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You: Haha best-answer-ever. Thanks!
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Ed W. 20 / M / Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: evolution? pah. it's clearly proof of god's existence ;)
Robots should graciously accept laughter at their...
me: why
aardvark-g205: I sent you Miller's question because...
- Miller is in your extended social network
- You have *Electronics* in your profile
- Other mysterious factors!
(Type 'more', or change settings at http: //vark.com/a/JyuYJ5N)
me: haha
aardvark-g205: Hi Graham, I'm not sure what to do with that -- it doesn't look like a question. Please try again... just write your question in plain English, like you would to a friend.
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Making Digital Content on the Mobile Phone... →
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I really like the mass based UI enhancements. Digiphysicalization; ya heard!
Fabian Hemmert [fabianhemmert.com] tries to solve the question “How to Make Digital Content…
January 2010
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442 – Distilled Geography: Europe’s Alcohol Belts →
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The one part I found particularly interesting:
“For cultural reasons, however, the Vodka Belt has been losing ground to the Beer Belt [since the creation of the EU?]. Maybe this is due to the perception of beer correlating more with ‘core European’ behavior. That might explain the emergence in Poland, some years ago, of a Beer-Lovers’ Party (which actually won seats in the...
The Boom and Bust Rap →
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I can’t believe this is a product of Spike TV.
The Keynes-Hayek rap video is finally here and it’s brilliant. The lyrics cover Keynesian economics and Austrian business cycle…
The 2009 Feltron Annual Report – OCD Made Sexy →
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My favorite Feltron report yet! The concept of crowd-sourcing the observation more brilliant/narcissistic than ever. (PS sorry about my vulgar shares yesterday ;)
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Update: The NYT “An Annual Report on One Man’s Life”
Information wants to be free my ass →
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I couldn’t agree with this more. We have come to value the delivery over the content. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the wires and cellphone towers are very visible, yet seemingly distant and finite. But when we swim through the internet the content has come to feel very close and infinite, fading into the cracks and crannies of the infoscape. This tricks our...
Transit Authority Figures Posters →
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Nice fantasy or look at the future?
by Noah Armstrong
Massachusetts-based Rob & Damia Design’s Transit Authority Figures imagine fictional subway maps for real…
December 2009
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Mathematically Correct Breakfast Mobius Sliced... →
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For some reason I thought it would be a more gratify use of my spare time to sketch out a machine that would cut perfect bagels like this… it wasn’t. (The gearings clearly off and there are some other problems, but this is the first thing that came to me.) LINK TO SKETCH
November 2009
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Lying and Creativity →
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Some good neuro-anecdotes about two (one?) of my favorite topics.
In my view, this was exactly what the movie “The Invention of Lying” was all about.
Via Vaughan Bell, comes this wonderful essay by Tom Stafford on confabulation and creativity:
In those patients…
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Shaping the Inner Model →
IDEO PATTERNS: Reframing Behavior
I have been thinking about how a designer would tackle a problem as intangible as the American inner model, which leads to overspending and over expectations with regards to health care.
While there are clear political solutions for health care overspending, I don’t see as much concurrent focus on moving the average, individual behavior model to a more...
October 2009
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Visualizing the Readable Volume in the Field of a... →
“Immaterials: the Ghost in the Field” is about the exploration of the spatial qualities of RFID technology, which is meticulously visualized through an RFID probe, long exposure photography…
Motorcycle helmet externality of the day →
Our estimates imply that every death of a helmetless motorcyclist prevents or delays as many as 0.33 deaths among individuals on organ transplant waiting lists. Here is the paper and I thank …
September 2009
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Pricefalls Scores Seed Funding, Launches Online... →
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Lewiston, Maine mentioned on TechCrunch… I never thought I would live to see the day!
There are plenty of online auction sites that are based on a descending price model –…
Portfolio theory →
Chance a U.S. household that owns a Prius also owns an SUV: 1 in 3.
That is from Harper’s Index, October issue.
TEDTalks : Eric Giler demos wireless electricity -... →
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Forget jetpacks, my future has arrived.
Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s…
August 2009
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I saw this broken piece of on the beach… which... →
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Good to know I am not the only one who finds a durability problem with Burton products.
I saw this broken piece of on the beach… which kind-of looks like a broken snowboard…
July 2009
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Apple as "the world's most feminine... →
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I was trying to say this to somebody, the other day…
Fortune’s Bridget Brennan has a bold statement: “Why doesn’t Apple make remote controls? You ask: Why Apple? Because if any…
Continue Time Sketch →
Click on to see it in action.
Andrew Lippman on What Can Failures Teach Us →
I particularly agree with the first point/problem. When thinking of compensation, what CEO wouldn’t rather a company be three times as big but only make products/services half as good; the customer…
Primal Information →
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Finally, my RSS habits explained. Interesting linkage with the phrase “Thirst for Knowledge”… wonder what Pinker would make of this study.
Over at Not Exactly Rocket Science,…