February 2009
52 posts
Girls Like Mysterious Guys
tmblg:
ryanpurtill:
Now I don’t know a ton about girls, I’ll be the first to admit it. I don’t know if they like being hit on, if size matters, or where they pee out of. It’s a mystery like the bermuda triangle, but one thing I do know is that girls love a mysterious adventure.
This is why when I’m out on a date and things are getting a little stale, I will pay the waiter $40 to come up to...
Hikoo - Dedicated to the Art of the Haiku →
A fun new site from my friend Dave!
p.s. Dave, I think every haiku should be available as a one-off T-shirt like CNN headlines. (I think spreadshirt or zazzle has an API)
January 2009
62 posts
FrostyPlace — This app will give you those emoji... →
Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses | Wired... →
dlifson:
superamit:
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Interesting.
When I was at Amazon, there was one December day when they asked the blue badges (those of us who worked full-time in the corporate offices) to volunteer to work a half-day shift in the FC (fulfillment center).
When we got there, we were given small wearable computers that we velcro’d onto our forearm, and slipped a small barcode scanner over our...
Autonomous Robots Invade Retail Warehouses | Wired... →
The system adjusts to the nature of the products and workers, too. In a typical setup, the humans are placed around the edges of the room. As the robots pick up loads of products and put them back, they adjust the warehouse for greater efficiency. More popular products end up around the edges of the warehouse while more obscure products, like those acid-washed bell bottoms, end up buried deep in...
““Steve Jobs often came by Texaco Towers after dinner, to see what was new,...”
– Folklore.org: Macintosh Stories: Mister Macintosh
“messages from the president will be designed so they cannot be forwarded.”
– How do you ‘design’ email so it can’t be forwarded?!
Obama Keeps His Blackberry in a Hard-Fought E-Victory - NYTimes.com
Walk from the Mission to Williamsburg →
bhaggs:
Who knew it only takes 40 days to do it.
In 40 days it will be March 4th. Hrmm, probably still too cold for a walking trip.
I’ll go with you! I have one of them USB internet things. It’ll be great.
The best Mac ever - Macworld (via Kottke) →
My pick: PowerBook G4 (Lombard). It was my very first laptop, and I got that sucker loaded. 400MHz, dual battery bays, and translucent bronze keyboard. (!!!) It was the first laptop Apple released after Jobs’ return.
I also loved my PowerComputing PowerCenter 180 (that thing screamed) and lusted after the PowerBook 2400c (tiny! gull-wing trackpad button! big in japan!) and the PowerBook...
Obama Staff Arrives to White House Stuck in Dark... →
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs (via outofthedark…courtneyj) (via marco)
imkevin:
marco:
<bush><war><instability><fear><greed><divisiveness></bush><obama>
Look at all of the crap Bush left open.
WatchWatch it in your dashboard!
Seth's Blog: Beauty as a signaling strategy →
“There was the woman in the fur coat who asked a stranger to go back inside the...”
– Passengers tell the inside story of plane that crashed into New York’s Hudson river | The Observer (via jayparkinsonmd)
There’s some really good stories here.
“We represent the site http://www.hornymatches.ws. We took a look at...”
– A 3 way, you say? (via ryandeussing)
“The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is 1,742,...”
– Girl Sends 14,528 Text Messages In A Month - Geekologie
Holy crap! (via abangupjob)
A well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations
bijan:
Tim O’Reilly has a great post today and clarifying his point about working on stuff that matters.
This was my favorite part:.
“I want to remind you that financial success is not the only goal or the only measure of success. It’s easy to get caught up in the heady buzz of making money. You should regard money as fuel for what you really want to do, not as a goal in and of itself. Money...
“After I started on the Web full-time in 2000, colleagues would call me and...”
– Some thoughts on the Web and print (via Clint)
“Ask anyone over 25 what digit they use to ring a doorbell and most people will...”
– Texting a signal of wider trends - BBC NEWS
My Friend's Self-Help Book
kareem:
He didn’t write one, but here’s his advice on living. What do you think?
If I were to write a self-awareness/self-help book along these lines all I would write is “Don’t read this book. Stop planning and making excuses. Drop everything, travel somewhere remote, and for a full month do four things: 1. Live without real social interaction. 2. Live in nature and don’t do any work that a...
“When profits and wealth and creativity are denigrated in society, they start to...”
– ‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years - WSJ.com
The thing about goals
Having goals is a pain in the neck.
If you don’t have a goal (a corporate goal, a market share goal, a personal career goal, an athletic goal…) then you can just do your best. You can take what comes. You can reprioritize on a regular basis. If you don’t have a goal, you never have to worry about missing it. If you don’t have a goal you don’t need nearly as many...
ecommr: a collection of e-commerce interface and... →
philleif:
ecommr is a website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail.
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AutoPager →
AutoPager is working again. It is the best FireFox plugin ever. (Or tied with Gmail Manager)
Upcoming Speaking Engagements: Macworld, PMA, SXSW
Jan 7th: I’ll be on stage at Macworld with my pal Rick Smolan talking about Photojojo and cool new things in digital photography.
March 1st: At PMA this year, I’ll be doing a solo session on day 1 of DIMA (the series looking at emerginc tech trends in photography). I’ll be talking about some of the “wacky” things we’re doing with Photojojo and how...
