Christopher Franzese

via retales botijero

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:14:14 -0500

"In March 2004, he made his 348th pitch seeking backers."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:33:47 -0500

“In March 2004, he made his 348th pitch seeking backers.”

- How Pandora Avoided the Junkyard, and Found Success - NYTimes.com

"I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service. And..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:31:06 -0500

“I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service. And it is the complete opposite of everything else I do. Maybe I’ll learn something. The practical consequence is that I will probably go to Washington several days each month, in addition to whatever homework and phone meetings are necessary.”

- Edward Tufte, who has been appointed by President Obama to “help track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds” as part of the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel.

Tufe is being nonchalant, but this is great news. Not only for design-nerds but the general public too.

(via iA)

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This makes me very excited, and sort of terrified.

Love petervidani: maniacalrage: Dogs At 1000 FPS (via...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:57:36 -0500

Love

petervidani:

maniacalrage:

Dogs At 1000 FPS (via gruber)

One of the most accurate YouTube descriptions ever: “It’s dogs in slow-mo catching treats. What could be better?”

I wish all commercials were in slow motion.

I'm just sayin'

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:30:04 -0500

I'm just sayin'

"Good ideas are often murdered by better ones."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:32:30 -0500

“Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.”

- Ten rules for writing fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk

Passive Agressive Wifi - FIPS

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:18:36 -0500

Passive Agressive Wifi - FIPS

Goodness. I love all these children/large predator staredowns....

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:57:48 -0500

Goodness. I love all these children/large predator staredowns. Amazing.

bestrooftalkever:

(via ricforsale | ihatemyparents)

bestrooftalkever: mopostal: The positively brilliant personal...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:48:06 -0500

bestrooftalkever:

mopostal:

The positively brilliant personal website of Steve Badowski

Also, a year and a day of radio silence before those last two...

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:14:51 -0500

Also, a year and a day of radio silence before those last two messages. WTF. I had thought by now we’d be able to send him txts, asking what we could do on any given day to help.

Hey Barack, I’ve got 15 minutes. No? Nothing? Alright, maybe tomorrow.

soupsoup:

I’ve got this friend who only texts me when he needs something.

"Before the Internet, most professional occupations required a large body of knowledge, accumulated..."

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:19:58 -0500

“Before the Internet, most professional occupations required a large body of knowledge, accumulated over years or even decades of experience. But now, anyone with good critical thinking skills and the ability to focus on the important information can retrieve it on demand from the Internet, rather than her own memory. On the other hand, those with wandering minds, who might once have been able to focus by isolating themselves with their work, now often cannot work without the Internet, which simultaneously furnishes a panoply of unrelated information — whether about their friends’ doings, celebrity news, limericks, or millions of other sources of distraction. The bottom line is that how well an employee can focus might now be more important than how knowledgeable he is. Knowledge was once an internal property of a person, and focus on the task at hand could be imposed externally, but with the Internet, knowledge can be supplied externally, but focus must be forced internally.”

- Yes. And yes, I encountered this while browsing for something more interesting that what I should be doing. And please, let me know if someone is selling NEW! Improved Focus. I want it.

David Dalrymple
Researcher, MIT Mind Machine Project

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Deze strikes again KN | Kitsune Noir » The Pump Promotional...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:56:51 -0500

Deze strikes again

KN | Kitsune Noir » The Pump Promotional Video

Reminded me of the infinitely more awesome:...

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:58:28 -0500

Reminded me of the infinitely more awesome: http://bit.ly/7nQDwo

lookbothways:

from @emii with the messge: this reminded me of you

Awesome. I love the idea of creating a public foursquare...

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:19:47 -0500

Awesome.

I love the idea of creating a public foursquare multi-stop experience. Badges / updates could then get you access to a private event with people who’ve shared that experience.

bunch:

BlackBook gives Kerouac an iPhone.

Puuuuurrrrty via liz: J’adore! Been seeing a lot of cut paper...

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:49:07 -0500

Puuuuurrrrty

via liz:

J’adore! Been seeing a lot of cut paper stuff lately, this one’s pretty sweet.

Evening Tweed | Owen Gildersleeve | The Guardian

"You see how easy it is for me?"

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:13:18 -0500

““You see how easy it is for me?””

- Denmark Leads the Way in Digital Care - NYTimes.com

liz: swissmiss | Lost Generation Lost Generation is a...

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:58:47 -0500

liz:

swissmiss | Lost Generation

Lost Generation is a palindrome video that reads the same backwards as forward, but has a totally different meaning. The video was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled “u @ 50″ by AARP. This video won second place. When they showed it, everyone in the room was awe-struck and broke into spontaneous applause.

petervidani: Slow motion owl attack. Via loveliftedme...

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:37:25 -0500

petervidani:

Slow motion owl attack.

Via loveliftedme and subcreation.

Intense and gorgeous.

mikehudack: dpstyles: Go Zach Klein,...

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:43:25 -0500

mikehudack:

dpstyles:

Go Zach Klein, go!

fred-wilson:

bijan:

Boxee Blog

Boxee showed off their very cool remote at CES yesterday.

Awesome

I’d love to see this in context of investment in...

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:44:13 -0500

I’d love to see this in context of investment in bands/albums that didn’t recoup their investments. How that system came to prominence, other competing strategies and how those investment decisions were made probably maintains relevance. The “invest in a vast array of possibilities to make money off a few” is an interesting model that is being bandied about for the energy crisis, and in another field, seems to be working pretty well for terrorists.

What can be learned from how this model worked and didn’t is a whole lot more interesting than making fun of a moribund industry. But, yeah, it’s still sorta fun to laugh at them.

mikehudack:

rafer:

markarms:

ilovecharts:

powlsy:

cd’s were hilarious.

I’d love to better understand this data. Something tells me it isn’t quite right.