December 2008
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Dec 31st
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My Year in Cities 2008
San Francisco, CA* New York, NY* Brooklyn, NY* Chicago, IL Düsseldorf, Germany Cologne, Germany New Delhi, India* Nainital, India South Lake Tahoe, CA Brookline, MA Edison, NJ Woodbridge, CT* North Bennington, VT A quick look on Dopplr revealed that I spent a whopping 31 days in New York this year, burnt 12,281 kg of CO2, and had no travel in March or June. One or more nights...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
Critic’s Notebook - The Polaroid - Imperfect, Yet... →
jenbee: Mystery clung to each impending image as it took shape, the camera conjuring up pictures of what was right before one’s eyes, right before one’s eyes. The miracle of photography, which Polaroids… Photojojo is included as a “related link” in this article! Yes!
Dec 29th
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“We are in much deeper trouble. In fact, we as a country have become General...”
– Time to Reboot America - NYTimes.com
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
susanbuck: elspethjane: expectoomuch: 1 // You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested” actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person...
Dec 26th
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Listenjessicabigarel: little joy - don’t watch me...
Dec 24th
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“Apparently, you should pretend to like anyone who pretends to like you. This is...”
– Twitter / hotdogsladies: Apparently, you should pre … Another very thoughtful article.  I really do admire people with the balls to be authentic with how they feel about being ‘socially obligated’ and call some of this BS in ‘networking’ for what it is. The High Cost of Pretending (via transistor)
Dec 22nd
Why everyone on Orkut is Brazilian
In the earliest days of Orkut (Google’s also-ran entry into social networking), the property managers featured a fun little widget at the top of the site: a country-counter, showing members’ geographical origins. Cute, right? Harmless, certainly. Google had no way of knowing, however, that the entire population of Brazil would make it a point of national pride to push their country to...
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
ListenMicrophone by Coconut Records (via abangupjob)
Dec 21st
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“Vending Machine for Crows In June, Josh Klein revealed his master’s-thesis...”
– My favorite of the NY Times Year In Ideas 2008. Now if only we could get squirrels to clean up all the gum on the sidewalks in exchange for acorns. (via saha)
Dec 21st
Wake Up Your Mac Faster →
This will make you MacBook/Pro feel faster. p.s. SmartSleep is a great PrefPane to enable/disable this feature and do it based on how much battery you have.
Dec 18th
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WatchWatch
I love the Virgin America Safety video. (The nun with the WRT54G is the best part.)
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Usability Research on Federated Login ‎(Google... →
Dec 17th
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WatchWatch
jpcyr: iPod Touch Online Ad on Yahoo Games TBWA/Media Arts Lab created a spiffy new online ad for the iPod touch: it plays around with objects on the Yahoo! Games page as the ad plays. I must say that for a user who NEVER, but NEVER click on any online ads, I found that one very compelling and very hard not to notice. If you have chance today, please go see it on Yahoo Games for a real...
Dec 17th
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UX > The Photojojo Store →
jpcyr: Looking for some gifts for christmas, I end up at Photojojo, a community of photographers who like photo tips and tricks and nice gadgets. I really like their store. Simple to understand and use. I’ve the feeling that even my mother who still has some difficulties sending some email, will understand how to use this site. Thanks, Jean-Philippe!
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Dec 10th
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kittywigs.com →
abangupjob: no explanation needed. heh. That’s my friend Julie Jackson’s site. Her cross-stich is crazy, too.
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
New New York - The Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki →
Dec 9th
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
How to get an Airport Express to wirelessly extend... →
I spent a while getting this to work today, so I figured it was worth 20 minutes writing it up in case it’d help someone else.
Dec 6th
Renamed WiFi Networks Guilt Freeloaders Into... →
Brilliant! (via jaschu)
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
“Rather than survey a bunch of users on every decision, the Mac team decided each...”
– Why Apple is great at interfaces when others are not | TechRadar UK (via davemorin)
Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
Grace looks great on camera. plus look! there's... →
saha: OMG, that video is adorable. Photojojo is amazing. (via abangupjob) Thanks guys. It was a blast to make! Everyone, watch the video!
Dec 4th
Dec 3rd
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my apartment is famous! (oh, and buy these) →
kkr: i saw these this morning and didn’t even realize this was chrysanthe’s place! so cool, definitely on my holiday list (to give and to get!) (via abangupjob)
Dec 2nd
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