The Netflix rental patterns map is a neat piece of dataviz from the NY Times
The Netflix rental patterns map is a neat piece of dataviz from the NY Times
The lack of disparity between cities and even neighborhoods is pretty interesting to track.
curvedwhite i had friends on that death star
this awfully designed device from rca of all
This awfully designed device from RCA of all places sounds magical: it charges batteries by harvesting energy from WiFi signals. It doesn’t even need to be connected to the network to work! That’s crazy!
Even better, they’re planning on building the tech into mobile device batteries, which would, in theory, continually charge themselves. The future!
what amazons fulfillment warehouses look like
What Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses look like
The font was based on lettering from comic books Connare had in his office, specifically Watchmen (lettered by Dave Gibbons) and The Dark Knight Returns (lettered by John Costanza).
The font was based on lettering from comic books Connare had in his office, specifically Watchmen (lettered by Dave Gibbons) and The Dark Knight Returns (lettered by John Costanza).
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From the history of Comic Sans.
this was taken like a month ago just before the
This was taken, like, a month ago, just before the four gentlemen pictured went to see The Spinners (yes, those The Spinners) in a casino. It presaged such an awesome night (photo by Sweetness, via The Rev G)
theres so much stupidity wrapped up in ballmers
There’s so much stupidity wrapped up in Ballmer’s CES keynote but the most offensive has to be that someone actually chose ‘Twilight’ as the book to use in the demo.
Cross-Bucketing.
The act of publishing the same content within several “buckets” as a way to help promote the content throughout a website. It is the first new term of Web 3.0.
I like it, Greg. It also reminds me of a feature request I’d love to see Tumblr implement: let me hide auto-posts piped in from other services (call it “shooting holes in cross-buckets”). For instance: there’s a high likelihood that if I follow you on Tumblr, I probably do on Twitter as well (and if I don’t, there’s probably a reason for that) and I never never want to see your tweets in my Tumblr dashboard. Since the dashboard knows where auto-posts come from, it shouldn’t be that hard to have a quick setting that says “hide posts from Twitter”.
I’d use the hell outta that way more than the new “ask me anything” ridiculousness.
wow a media center remote that doesnt suck the
Wow, a media center remote that doesn’t suck! The Boxee remote looks excellent.
The new millennium’s first 10 years is really Microsoft’s lost decade. It is a decade of shattered dreams. Microsoft 2000-2009 is a casebook study why no company should allow its ranks of MBAs to swell too large. The company’s 5,000-plus layoffs should have sacked 95 percent of the MBAs rather than the many good, hard-working employees sent packing. I repeatedly hear Microsoft employees privately complain about there seemingly being one MBA – or lawyer – on campus for every other employee.
The new millennium’s first 10 years is really Microsoft’s lost decade. It is a decade of shattered dreams. Microsoft 2000-2009 is a casebook study why no company should allow its ranks of MBAs to swell too large. The company’s 5,000-plus layoffs should have sacked 95 percent of the MBAs rather than the many good, hard-working employees sent packing. I repeatedly hear Microsoft employees privately complain about there seemingly being one MBA – or lawyer – on campus for every other employee.
—Joe Wilcox on Microsoft’s decade of shattered dreams