December 2009
My Second iMac Is Busted, Too - Gizmodo →
It just works right?
President Obama, It's Time To Fire the TSA -... →
“It’s been nearly a decade since terrorists used airplanes to attack our country, and last week’s attempt makes it clear that the lack of terrorist attacks have nothing to do with the increasing gauntlet of whirring machines, friskings, and arbitrary bureaucratic provisions, but simply that for the most part, there just aren’t that many terrorists trying to blow up planes....
Steve Nash Uses Reverse Psychology to Garner Fan... →
Steve Nash wins again.
Hilarious New Steve Nash Vitaminwater Infomercial... →
Steve Nash wins.
When to Buy Apple Products - Gizmodo →
Out of 11 products, you should only buy 2 because of frenetic updates to their lines. Gotcha.
“There were a total of 674 passengers, not counting crew or the terrorists...”
– FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: The Odds of Airborne Terror (via mikehudack)
Once again, Nate Silver is the voice of rationality. Except, of course, that terrorism is an act of man, and lightning an act of God; in theory, we can do something about the former.
(via newsweek)
Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend... →
Editor’s note: The following guest post was written by Rohit Khare, the co-founder of Angstro. Building his latest project, social address book Knx.to, gives him a deep familiarity with…
“I’m assuming that we’d have some intrepid members of the United...”
– The Physics of Space Battles - Space battle - Gizmodo
WatchThe Karate Kid remake is, uhm… it…. it, uh, actually looks decent. What in the hell?
thedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day: First official trailer for Harald Zwart’s Jaden Smith / Jackie Chan-starring Karate Kid remake.
Synopsis:
Smith plays Dre, a skateboarding video game buff who moves to China after his single mother is forced to go there for work. Unable to speak Chinese,...
“All else being equal, demand for a product increases when the prices of its...”
– Strategy Letter V - Joel on Software
Google should open source what actually matters:... →
110% Super True:
“The alleged argument against doing so is that search spammers would be able to learn from the algorithm to improve their spamming methods. This form of argument is an old argument in the security community known as “security through obscurity.” Security through obscurity is a technique generally associated with companies like Microsoft and is generally opposed as...
Information Retrieval Gupf » Google and the... →
“So let me get this straight: Google is pro-openness in all the areas where they don’t make any money, where openness doesn’t actually affect the bottom line. But when it comes to the moneymaker, that has to be closed and proprietary to protect it from spammers? But I thought that open systems are just the opposite. Doesn’t competition and dynamicism create an environment in which everyone...
Official Google Blog: The meaning of open →
Google makes a lot of noise about the benefits of being “open”.
WatchGlengarry Glen-Christmas is awesome. I love Alec’s biff of the line too…
fillup:
Love this. Elf you!
Why It's Better To Pretend You Don't Know Anything... →
“Do you think if we got him to vomit it up, it’d still work with my XBOX?”
SUV bought for USC tailback Joe McKnight's... →
“Schenter said a company he founded in May 2008, USC Marketing, stood for “United States China Marketing,” and that despite being an employee for the Los Angeles County Assessor’s office, he would “rather be known for my expertise in marketing and finance ventures.”
Really Scott. really. Really. REALLY!?
Most Popular Featured Workspaces of 2009 -... →
These workspaces are awesome! I love the one built into the side of a cliff and facing the tree line.
The Marketing Tricks Built Into Balthazar's Menu -... →
“Puzzles, anchors, stars, and plowhorses; those are a few of the terms consultants now use when assembling a menu (which is as much an advertisement as anything else). “A star is a popular, high-profit item—in other words, an item for which customers are willing to pay a good deal more than it costs to make,” Poundstone explains. “A puzzle is high-profit but unpopular; a plowhorse is the...
Enhance your hyperspace →
Enhance it! Enhance it! ENHANCE!
Mag+ digital magazine concept makes e-readers... →
These interactions are intriguing…
Please Scroll →
Welcome to the world wide web, an interactive medium…
WatchWhoa. This movie looks incredible.
hotpotofcoffee:
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE. omg.
Public Fried Chicken by Scott Banister | Dustin... →
“Sometimes when people lose their jobs in UnitedLand, they go without chicken for a while. They keep their cable TV and cell phones and cars, because they pay for those directly and they aren’t tied to their jobs. But signing up for a new FCP when you have no job and you’re living off savings or unemployment… that just feels wrong to a lot of people.”
Web Forms for People - MIX Online →
“Filling in the sign-up form on tookmark feels like making progress towards your actual goal— not like data entry that gives an organization what they need. That’s an important distinction. When people feel like they are getting what they want, they continue forward. When they don’t, they drop off.”
Apple - Movie Trailers - Iron Man 2 →
AWESOME!
10 worst dining trends of the last decade →
dinosaurz:
Agree with most of these.
I’d add the following, as trends that were taken wayyyy too far this decade.
1. Tuna tartar appearing on just about every menu. Get some original ideas, people. Tuna isn’t the only fish/meat you can serve raw, formed in a ring, with olive oil basted crostinis.
2. Purees of everything: I’m getting over the puree smears across the plate. Parsnips,...
Functioning Form - Apple Store's Checkout Redesign →
Nice article from @lukewdesign breaking down the Apple’s site checkout process. Also: buy his book. I have it and it’s indispensable. If you make web products, buy it. You will use/need/love it.
The Opposite of Vaporware « fox @ fury →
“It’s corporate-speak for “It ain’t no thang” and it’s the kind of tone that exudes confidence rather than the typical cockiness of Microsoft or the supreme confidence of Apple.”
“No, Lieberman doesn’t have any particular sense of what the Medicare...”
– Understanding Joe Lieberman | The New Republic
NYT suggests AT&T is taking the heat for iPhone’s... →
oh snap! (via volvowagon)
Gross, With the Good News About Jobs
newsweek:
Maybe getting better! From Gross:
Skeptics are focused on the next big economic problem we face: unemployment. True, the numbers have been dismal. We’ve lost 7.2 million jobs, and unemployment in November was 10 percent. For African-Americans, the rate was 15.6 percent, and more than one in four teens are out of work. Economists believe the unemployment rate will persist at 10 percent...
Best Man Pranks Newlyweds by Connecting Their Bed... →
DUDE. Dude. duuuuude. not cool.
The Google Phone, Unlocked (Confirmed And More... →
zomg want.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief... →
And now here we are. Right here in your own backyard, an American company creates a brilliant phone, and that company hands it to you, and gives you an exclusive deal to carry it — and all you guys can do is complain about how much people want to use it. You, Randall Stephenson, and your lazy stupid company — you are the problem. You are what’s wrong with this country.
I stopped, then. There was...
A piece with a lot of screenshots about the close... →
Super in depth, super interesting.
Good example of inline form validation -... →
Parkinson's Law →
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
“You will attend a holiday party this weekend. You will start talking about Tiger...”
– Bill Simmons
Bill Simmons on the Tiger Woods saga - ESPN
(via dinosaurz)
the CALL TO ACTION generator →
I am going to use this whenever I need a call to action. I will use whichever one it randomly gives me.
“VIEW ALL your own Starring You! Movie!”
“ROLLOVER your own Starring You! Movie!”
“COPY CODE your own Starring You! Movie!”