February 2009
“Left alone in a cage with a mountain of cocaine, a lab rat will gorge itself to...”
– The TV Watch - Media’s Big Names Can’t Resist Twitter (NY Times) (via fred-wilson) (via moth)
WatchBre Pettis’ Sudo Make Me A Sandwich Robot
S3 Radio →
You make a bucket on Amazon S3, filled with MP3s. When someone visits your S3 Radio station, it builds a playlist from the contents of the bucket and starts streaming it to the listener, in a random order.
DIYcity →
The site explores the idea that open, participatory web technologies, applied to city living patterns, infrastructure and services, can radically transform cities as we know them, making them more efficient, more livable and more sustainable.
“We’ve been over this before, but with Wall-E’s recent win at the Oscars, it’s...”
– Pixar: no chicks allowed
Captain Obvious says: They weren’t written by women. Get over it.
(via wreckandsalvage)
Colonel Context says: While the deconstruction of gender in cartoons is covered territory (in my bok), I hate the “it wasn’t written by a male” argument. It’s...
The ten commandments of Dieter Rams
halvfet:
Photograph by Abisag Tüllmann L2 and L01 speakers, 1958, by Dieter Rams for Braun Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him —”€œan impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.”€ Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? As good...
“There’s an Oscar for pretty much every aspect of filmmaking, except one: the...”
– Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler of design agency Number Seventeen NYC pick their nominees for Best Achievement in Film Title Design. (via Khoi Vinh) (via matthewb) (via whatson)
The fact that this isn’t a formal category has baffled me for years.
Ideapad: Tropicana and branding →
Tropicana wisely backtracked this weekend and is reverting to its old packaging. The company cited consumer feedback as the driver, which is nice to see. But its spin completely missed the point.
“We underestimated the deep emotional bond,” said Tropicana’s president, Neil Campbell. “What we didn’t get was the passion this very loyal small group of consumers...
Watchfimoculous:
I confess, we probably didn’t deserve to win. Especially after Irene, Caro, and Michelle did this.
Wow. Wow. Wow.
Some Place Like Home: The Fight Against... →
Narrated by Kevin Powell, Some Place Like Home tells the stories of community residents and small businesses that are displaced to make way for high-end retail and luxury condominiums to the area. Small business owners that have helped to make the area the 3rd largest retail district in New York City talk about the deferment of their dreams as entrepreneurs. Wednesday, February 25. 7 p.m....
Color Pass effect (aka Sin City effect) in Apple... →
How to create the Sin City color pass effect.
Lamb - Trans Fatty Acid (Kruder & Dorfmeister...
When media pirates are dicks - Boing Boing Gadgets →
Wherein Joel doesn’t like Evan’s project.
The No-Stats All-Star - NYTimes.com →
Surprisingly enjoyable article about Houston Rockets player Shane Battier, a sort of counterfactual probability-driven basketball nerd: “The virus that infected professional baseball in the 1990s, the use of statistics to find new and better ways to value players and strategies, has found its way into every major sport. … There is a tension, peculiar to basketball, between the...
WatchTo do in NYC: Shepard Fairey + Lawrence Lessig + Steven Johnson on copyright, fair use, and AP shitstorm around Obama poster
Definitely a must attend. Hope to see you there.
Drew’s “Twitter Tattoo” Is Inked! (via Geeky... →
(via drew)
Alex Pareene wins the Internet today. →
amandaelend:
(via alexbalk)
Yes, it’s obvious but it’s also pretty funny.
“Whenever I get a Myspace invite these days, I’ve noticed I tend to feel sorry...”
– andrewbaron (via ronenreblogs)
Watch$99 Music Videos: La Strada - The Sun Song
I haven’t been this excited about a new show in a while and it isn’t even mine. This is going to be so much fun to watch!
Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 →
“Hi, this is Mike from Yelp,” the voice would say. “You’ve had three hundred visitors to your site this month. You’ve had a really good response. But you have a few bad ones at the top. I could do something about those.”
This wasn’t your average sales pitch. At least, not the kind that John, an East Bay restaurateur, was used to. He was familiar with...
