September 2010
“That is a kind of cultural shift. It’s not ‘I love to read the Style section,’...”
– Jonah Peretti, in Taking Web Humor Seriously, Sort Of - NYTimes.com (via rickwebb) (via lolzllc)
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Google has created a new image format called WebP →
jimray:
Compression is based on the same VP8 video codec that Google bought and open sourced back in May. They claim a 39% reduction in file sizes without a noticeable drop in quality. They’re working on a patch to bring native support to WebKit and will add alpha channel transparency later.
Certainly sounds promising.
WatchSUPERNATURAL CREATOR 2 (by Mareike)
listening to "Slum Village - Fall In Love" →
Stoked for @runkeeper to get @foursquare badges... →
foursquare:
We love when people tweet about dragging themselves to the gym to earn the Gym Rat badge, or about trying a new restaurant hoping to unlock the Pizzaiolo badge. Encouraging real-world actions is a big part of the mission behind foursquare. We’re also aware that some of those behaviors…
listening to "Punches - Feeling Right" →
Diggin’ this track
Listening to The Donettes - Shut Your Mouth
WatchBefore or After Yourself (by Robert Gill)
listening to "Aloe Blacc - You Make Me Smile" →
foursquare: Introducing foursquare 2.0: Tips +... →
foursquare:
UPDATE: Whoa guys! Servers are melting from all the excitement. We’ll be rolling out the new 2.0 features over the coming days.
When we started foursquare, we dreamed it would be much more than check-ins. We really wanted to build tools that would help people collect and share their real-world…
foursquare: Explore your campus with foursquare! →
foursquare:
A few months ago, we put a call out for college students who wanted to represent foursquare on campus and the response was astounding. So today, with everyone settled in on campus, we’re happy to announce official partnerships with over 20 universities, student ambassadors in several…
debbiestier: I May Be Repeating Myself Now, But I... →
debbiestier:
After reading Nick Bilton’s new interactive book, I Live In the Future And Here’s How it Works, I utter those words with just a little less irony.
TYPICAL HOMEWORK SCENE. MY HOUSE. ANY GIVEN NIGHT……
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Really? Because I was a student once too you know……and I happen to KNOW that it takes…
Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian →
Top Ten Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian
/via stumbleupon
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.
9 - You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were...
“There should be an O’Reilly book for business. It would be really short. “Make...”
– The VC-free startup - O’Reilly Radar
(via james gross)
simple but true.
(via heyamberrae)
Who wants to build a startup?
heyamberrae:
urtak:
Startup Weekend is a testament to the viral nature of good ideas.
At Startup Weekend a community’s designers, developers, marketers, and entrepreneurs work together to prong projects from the concept stage to launch in just 54 hours. Startup Weekend began three years ago, and since then has spread to more than 100 cities all over the world.
We were able to share our...
“As a 400,000 year old species, In the past 50 years, the exercise we’ve gotten...”
– A point I’m making in my talk tomorrow at the Design Academie Eindhoven. (via jayparkinsonmd)
