April 2011
California may use vibrational energy of driving... →
The system, if implemented, would place sensors under a stretch of California roads. These sensors would be able to collect the vibrations caused by traffic and covert them into power. This system, know as piezoelectric generation, has the potential to add significantly to the power supply, if the system were implemented on a larger scale. A potential test patch, a one mile stretch of a two...
We need to name our conference rooms...
We’ve got five of them now. We need a theme and good names. Got suggestions?
ben asked: Hey Mike. Is there an email address where I can reach you? I think that would work better than me randomly IMing you (it's hard to be formal and coherent in that context anyway).
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Can you spell out for me my user name again? I can’t log in.”
Me: “a-d-m-i-n”
Client: “abmim?”
Clients from hell are our fault. Either because we select them or because we fail to adequately educate them. Or both. A simple “It’s admin, short for administrator, because that’s what you are” would have easily solved this problem and helped...
“At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for...”
– Andy Warhol, philosopher (via aatombomb)
“All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But...”
– Ira Glass on Storytelling (via suckafuck)
A Radical Plan for Cutting the Defense Budget and... →
pantslessprogressive:
Total savings: $279.5 billion.
“These results mean that Apple has at last bested Microsoft not merely in terms...”
– Microsoft beats estimates, but not Apple in third quarter earnings (via infoneer-pulse)
Daaaaamn. (via caterpillarcowboy)
“Design has given us the credibility we need to overcome the downsides of being...”
– Jason Putorti • How Mint.com Won (via rahmin)
Lunch (at blip.tv)
kellysutton:
We also watch Apple keynotes together. Photo by Annie Tsai.
Joel’s post on lunch culture at FogCreek is blowing up on Hacker News today. Many of the commenters on the story vehemently disagree with the idea that coworkers should be forced to eat lunch together.
One of the traditions at blip.tv has been lunchtime. Each day, we gather around a few computers and put in orders...
Tumblr Bookmarklet
rafer:
gross:
I really liked the feature around how you could grab text on a page and hit the tumblr bookmarklet and it automatically formatted it into a quote. Now it is a “link” and if you grab the text and publish it looks like it’s your own words.Bug or is this a real change?
Now like this:
Was like this:
Rafer sez: Y, this sucks.
Agreed. If this semantic shift is intended to...
“After concluding that well-written, well-punctuated, grammatical reviews...”
– Zappos hires Mechanical Turk to proofread product reviews - Boing Boing (via jryu)
“The early days of any company – successful or not – are complex, messy, often...”
– Melodramatic Bullshit (via pegobry)
“We call it a tax on fewer than two percent of American estates valued at over a...”
– CJ Cregg on The West Wing (via eactually)
A progressive for our times →
Let’s say this guy was running for president on a third-party ticket:
proven track record for getting country out of wars
strong foreign policy diplomat who forged stronger relationships with powerful developing (and enemy) nations
implemented the first significant federal affirmative action program
dramatically increased spending on federal employee salaries
organized a daily...
“To put pressure on lawyers defending clients or laws because lobby groups don’t...”
– Andrew Sullivan (who is gay). I agree with this entirely. Prop 8 fell in a California District Court precisely because the legal and logical arguments it rests on were entirely without merit. No amount of intimidation or disapprobation will win the legal argument against DOMA. Intimidation and...
“These days, when people come up to Williams in public, more often than not it’s...”
– How Brian Williams’s Second Act As a Comedian Has Aided His ‘Nightly News’ Anchor Job — New York Magazine (via apsies)
Digital Internship at NYC Mayor's Office →
rachelsterne:
Serve the public through technology - send your resume and cover letter to internships@media.nyc.gov to apply.
Watchkellysutton:
lizmgriffin:
bliptv:
blip on blip #55: This week Annie chats with Sebastian Mei, our Vice President of East Coast Sales, about what it takes to be a killer sales rep, his life before blip, and Evan’s grandmotherly tendencies.
The featured series this week is Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, where host Kevin Pollak interviews a very wide gamut of celebrities.
Thanks for watching!...
“Berlin is home to an ever increasing number of innovative new technology...”
– Europe’s Silicon Allee: Berlin on the Road to Becoming a Start-Up Mecca - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International (via david-noel)
“I just thought it would be nice to give the second-most-famous architect in the...”
– Philanthropist Offers $300M Prize for Not Hiring Frank Gehry - Curbed (via nickdouglas)
“The dead are in the mosques and the houses. We can’t get them out.”
– Toll rises as army storms Syrian towns - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
“Advertising-backed web services must get large numbers of users and collect as...”
– Marco
important distinction between users vs. customers of consumer facing web services. (via brycedotvc)
Here Comes the Pun: More disingenuous foaming at... →
ohhleary:
From The Local:
“One night we come out, and they were marking lanes and paving,” said Ms. Levi. “It was a total surprise. There was no input from the community and it upset me a lot.”
Fact check: the bike and bus lanes on First and Second Avenue appeared on the Community Board 3 agenda six…
John Quincy Adams's Warning Against the Search for... →
And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind? Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice...
“People would be similarly freaked out, if not more so, if they saw how much...”
– Smart response from @marcoarment on the Apple+ iPhone location db fracas. (via arainert)
Good, quick read (not the sentence… the whole post). (via dpstyles)
“The minarets of the mosques are appealing for help. The security forces are...”
– Toll rises as army storms Syrian towns - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
My heart goes out to the people of Syria. Now is a moment when we must decide whether our heart, our benedictions and our prayers are with the people of Syria or whether our armed forces might be there too. It is not an...
“If there was a clear takeaway from the 2010 elections, it was this: No...”
– The quote of the day goes to Tim Murphy at Mother Jones in “Would You Like A Keepsake Photo With That Abortion?”, unpacking new legislation in Michigan that requires doctors not only to perform an ultrasound and offer the woman a chance to listen to the heartbeat before abortion, but to offer the...