March 2010
“The average web user spends more time with their browser than with their family”
– Aza’s Thoughts » Leaving Labs, Joining Firefox
“$25,280, a price that makes the Leaf competitive with the Honda Civic and the...”
– Nissan Leaf Electric Vehicle Is Surprisingly Affordable | Autopia | Wired.com
Punk’d on the Internet →
Punk’d on the Internet
“once the basic necessities have been achieved, future income is lightly...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Sandra Bullock Trade - NYTimes.com
“Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don’t win”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Sandra Bullock Trade - NYTimes.com
“Lou Reed’s New iPhone App”
– Lou Reed’s New iPhone App For Aging Eyeballs - hypebot
“Scientists working on the European machine have smashed beams of protons...”
– BBC News - Cern LHC sees high-energy success
“information itself is the ghostly bedrock on which our universe is built”
– Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Gravity Emerges from Quantum Information, Say Physicists
“people crave honesty and authenticity, especially because they know that it’s...”
– Amanda Palmer On Why Social Networking Works - hypebot
“20 percent of human genes have been patented”
– Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent - NYTimes.com via @jaycee001
“MapGenie provides immediate online access to the most complete and highest...”
– SiliconRepublic.com: Ordnance Survey launches B2B online mapping service - Business
Spying on how we read « Music Machinery →
How eBooks can provide tons of data on actual reading habits. Could be useful for improving books and how we sell them.
“Financial Times’ iPad App Will Be Free For Two Months — And Then...”
– Financial Times’ iPad App Will Be Free For Two Months — And Then $190 A Year
“Instead of making us run slow crawlers on your APIs to access historical data,...”
– We have an API · Nat Friedman
“About 4B pages, 40+ libraries, 400 languages (“Three in Klingon”)”
– Joho the Blog » [2b2k] Jon Orwant of Google Books
“Mbote Paul Watson!
Now you know how to greet people in Lingala!”
– Welcome to Flickr!
Apple on brand tags
For Apple these jumped out at me; awesome, clean, crap, creative, cult, design, evil, expensive, gay, hip, hipster, innovative, love, mac, overpriced, pretentious, quality, simple, sleek, steve, jobs, style, trendy, white, works.
“Yup, it’s just that simple. But the preparation’s hell.”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Solutions
“pwnat is a tool that allows any number of clients behind NATs to communicate...”
– steve dekorte - blog
“Tracking Our Toxic Asset cc: @sdempsey”
– Planet Money Tracks Its Very Own Toxic Asset : NPR
“New York Times Roulette”
– New York Times Roulette
“GuardianRoulette”
– Yes, it’s GuardianRoulette! | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Sistine Chapel →
“What would be in your Letter of Last Resort? Retaliation or reprieve?”
– Nuclear apocalypse and the Letter of Last Resort. - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine Me? Reprieve.
WatchThe Social Media Guru on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“I used to work for Murdoch at his American magazine TV Guide. I respected his...”
– Rupert’s pathetic pay wall « BuzzMachine
“Google PowerMeter now gives you the ability to share your data with other”
– Official google.org Blog: Share your Power(Meter)!
“The pain inflicted by blatant UI flaws such as black background color and yellow...”
– The Impossible Bloomberg Makeover | UX Magazine
Cape Town Pub Crawl '10 - Buitengracht to... →
“This firefox extension will allow you to use google chrome extensions inside...”
– Google chrome extensions manager :: Add-ons for Firefox
Moby - Mobile App Development | Multitimers →
Nice looking app and useful but I think it can be done better. In the demo you see the Spinach timer is nearly done by the time the other timers have been added. In a busy kitchen Multitimers could be too cumbersome when it comes to adding timers. How about getting rid of the Add screen. Instead, tap the main screen to start a new timer (defaulted to 5 minutes) and then allow a clockwise or...