May 2010
33 posts
April 2010
48 posts
Square Watermelons
fishkin:
New territory for design - reshaping fruit.
This $75 watermelon is not genetically modified, but grown in a glass mold by the Panama Fruit Producer. I’m excited to see square grapes and bananas.
I meant to look for these in Japan but totally forgot. Keekr, please send me a square melon in the folhouse Japanese care package!!
“Apple is planning to charge advertisers a penny each time a consumer sees a...”
– Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
Brass. balls.
How do you measure page load speed?
We’re looking for a good tool to test page load speed across multiple connections.
We don’t want to load test the website (ie. how many users can be on at once before it gets slow). We want to test how long a page takes to load and render as it would in a real browsers, done many times to average out network blips, etc.
Any suggestions?
TIMELINE OF THE BURRITO →
(via muppetpants)
“The electric vehicle business is like the automobile business in 1898. We’re on...”
– Turning on your Reality Distortion Field « Steve Blank
Good elevator pitch.
“@mike are we using multiple subdomains with voxel CDN to allow more concurrent...”
– I just typed this (into a company microblogging service, no less), then realized it reads like dialogue from a scifi future!
Except if you read it in a book you’d be all like “who would ever talk like that?? @ symbols before people’s names? That just looks dumb”. But...
i work
rpcarn:
i’ve been working at apple for a year now. i don’t know what’s ok to talk about and not ok to talk about outside of work. i don’t really know any secrets. maybe a couple. but just talking about the cafeteria or how i get through the front door feels like information i could get in trouble revealing.
the secrets i know aren’t tantalizing. i work at applecare so i know things like how...
Help me with my Wifi issue and I'll give you $20!
I’ve been having an intermittent Wifi problem with MacBook Pro that’s driving me crazy. If you’re the first to reply with a fix, I’ll give you $20!
The symptoms:
Unusably slow internet at work (router supplied by Sonic.net)
Fast internet at home (Linksys router)
The problem is intermittent, but when it occurs, nothing I do can shake it, and I end up using my Sprint USB...
Watchgreentheory:
Photojojo Unwraps: Impossible Project’s Instant Film on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Dear Photojojo,
Is it even possible for you to make something that isn’t oozing with cuteness?
Dear Sarah,
No, it is not possible.
Wanted: One Excellent Roommate →
There’s a room available in my San Francisco apartment (Mission district)…
The apartment is on 21st and Folsom, you know how close that is to everything so I don’t need to tell you. It is on the second (of two) floors, and has high ceilings, maybe 13 feet? It was refurbished before we moved in and has hardwood floors, tile bathrooms (two!), a skylight, a small back patio. The...
“In order to get 10 hours of battery life, the entire iPad (including display)...”
– iFixit. Wow. I hadn’t bothered to do the math in my head, so I didn’t realize how impressive that was until now. That’s insane.
If we didn’t have proof right here in front of us, I’d insist that 2.5W total power consumption for a computer with a brightly backlit 9” LCD while playing videos and...
chrrrharrr:
OH: “Why does the iPhone sometimes do the thing where it’s scared?” (Icon rearranging)
“Busting your cycle is where you take one aspect of your life that’s more or less...”
– http://www.zefrank.com/thewiki/the_show:_09-20-06 (via susanbuck)
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Happiness Button, Scott Adams Blog →
“[…]
The experience for every app is better on my iPhone than on my...”
– The desktop is broken
Wrote this almost 6 months ago. They did a beautiful job.
Some Queries Prompt Google To Offer Suicide... →
This is only the second time Google has added such guidance on troubling search terms, Dr. Roni Zeiger, chief health strategist for Google, said in an interview. A few months ago, the search engine began providing a phone number for the national poison control hotline after searches like “poison emergency.”
Try searching “poison emergency”
Is this a good thing. I’m not so...
Affogato's on the front page of our local paper! →
The Alameda Journal carried a front-page story today about Affogato, Court and Sumul’s company that created the iPhone apps Strategery and Top Shelf Drinks, among other cool things. The article’s titled, “Designer gears up for iPad launch,” and it begins with a description of what Sumul…
My pal Sumul makes the sweet iPhone (soon to be iPad) game Strategery. Congrats on the press, dude!
Note From Advertising on Google AdWords and... →
msg:
tedr + team dogster recently have been test marketing a product and paying for ads on both Google AdWords and Facebook to drive traffic. This is what they have learned.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...”
– Thomas Edison
ideawhen: Amazon.com is full of GENIUSES! →
So I was shopping at Amazon the other day (the real-world store, not the online one) and noticed they had these new shopping carts.
They looked just like normal grocery store shopping carts, except under the handle they had a bulk of plastic and a little screen. The screen showed a little map of the store, with a dot for where you were. I guess it used some kind of in-store GPS-like thing....