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“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a...

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:54:36 -0400

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

—Groucho Marx

"CORRECTION: The article about Yahoo and Flickr was written by Gizmodo’s Mat Honan. An earlier..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 01:04:18 -0400

“CORRECTION: The article about Yahoo and Flickr was written by Gizmodo’s Mat Honan. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said Honan was with Engadget and misspelled the author’s first name as Matt and last name as Honen. Also, an earlier version of this correction incorrectly spelled the author’s last name and didn’t specify both names were misspelled in the article.”

- Correction of the Day, via WSJ (via skidder)

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Sun, 13 May 2012 21:12:07 -0400

amazonbooks: The 10 most-read books in the world. Soon: Fifty...

Wed, 09 May 2012 16:47:37 -0400

amazonbooks:

The 10 most-read books in the world. Soon: Fifty Shades of Grey!

"Harvard is making public the information on more than 12 million books, videos, audio recordings,..."

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:12:23 -0400

“Harvard is making public the information on more than 12 million books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more things inside its 73 libraries. Harvard can’t put the actual content of much of this material online, owing to intellectual property laws, but this so-called metadata of things like titles, publication or recording dates, book sizes or descriptions of what is in videos is also considered highly valuable. Frequently descriptors of things like audio recordings are more valuable for search engines than the material itself. Search engines frequently rely on metadata over content, particularly when it cannot easily be scanned and understood. Harvard is hoping other libraries allow access to the metadata on their volumes, which could be the start of a large and unique repository of intellectual information. “This is Big Data for books,” said David Weinberger, co-director of Harvard’s Library Lab. “There might be 100 different attributes for a single object.” At a one-day test run with 15 hackers working with information on 600,000 items, he said, people created things like visual timelines of when ideas became broadly published, maps showing locations of different items, and a “virtual stack” of related volumes garnered from various locations.”

- Harvard Releases Big Data for Books - NYTimes.com (via dwattersw)

libraryjournal: In an ideal situation, picking up both books...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:19:45 -0400

libraryjournal:

In an ideal situation, picking up both books and beers.

"The Web is chasing Hollywood. And we have no Scoreseses. I’m sorry to curse, but I most: get a..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:18:23 -0400

“The Web is chasing Hollywood. And we have no Scoreseses. I’m sorry to curse, but I most: get a fuckin soul, make history in your work. Care, care about every pixel, care about the theme of your work, care about your legacy. Hillman taught us to care.”

- Hillman Taught Us to Care

"Craigslist, like softpanorama or drudgereport, is refreshing in that it doesn’t attempt to..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:15:00 -0400

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Craigslist, like softpanorama or drudgereport, is refreshing in that it doesn’t attempt to look like a 19th century circus flyer.

If only the web were rendered more like a generic latex article. No rivers, proper kerning, ligatures, optimal paragraph width, and - in general - respect for the traditional art of typesetting. Instead, the web looks like a menagerie of cereal box art.

”

- Craigslist Redesign?

fuckyeahmolecularbiology: Wide-field multi-photon fluorescence...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:42:22 -0400

fuckyeahmolecularbiology:

Wide-field multi-photon fluorescence image of a rat hippocampus stained to reveal the distribution of glia (cyan), neurofilaments (green) and cell nuclei (yellow).

Image Source: the Whole Brain Catalogue.

"The best kind of business is thus one where you can tell a compelling story about the future. The..."

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:22:50 -0400

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The best kind of business is thus one where you can tell a compelling story about the future. The stories will all be different, but they take the same form: find a small target market, become the best in the world at serving it, take over immediately adjacent markets, widen the aperture of what you’re doing, and capture more and more.

Once the operation is quite large, some combination of network effects, technology, scale advantages, or even brand should make it very hard for others to follow. That is the recipe for building valuable businesses.

”

- Love reading the note from Peter Thiel’s classes at Stanford. (via nickcrocker)

"Every company has a social media strategy whether they know it or not. You can have your dedicated..."

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:10:51 -0400

“Every company has a social media strategy whether they know it or not. You can have your dedicated social media person chasing down consumer complaints, but your real social media strategy is how are the people who work at your company and the people who buy from your company and people who supply to your company, how are they talking about you in social media? The way to make them talk about you [favorably] is by walking the walk of the thing that you do.”

- Rushkoff (via brycedotvc)

dbreunig: Ebooks made with curated Instapaper folders are the new mixtapes.

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:04:29 -0500

dbreunig:

Ebooks made with curated Instapaper folders are the new mixtapes.

Grim Fandango meets Kickstarter. Could it ever get better than...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:31:54 -0500

Grim Fandango meets Kickstarter. Could it ever get better than this?

"Emails, tweets, notifications, text and instant messages, Facebook status updates, Path moments —..."

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:30:07 -0500

“Emails, tweets, notifications, text and instant messages, Facebook status updates, Path moments — all these are new tools of communication when taken together are notification hell. These notifications prey on human desire for a dopamine fix. And just as we are over-caffenited, I think the 21st century is quickly making us over-notified.”

- Over Notified | Om Malik

(via tedr)

dbreunig: SolarFocus makes this solar powered case, which will...

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:35:51 -0500

dbreunig:

SolarFocus makes this solar powered case, which will keep your Kindle charged for three months.

If this didn’t have that wart on the top with a light attached, I’d buy this now.

This cover clarifies a few insights regarding solar power.

The greatest hindrance to solar power adoption is probably power consumption, not solar power output. SolarFocus isn’t making a breakthrough here; they’re just pairing solar panels with a device that barely sips from it’s battery. Perhaps solar will receive more usage not because of it’s own improvements, but because of improvements with digital power consumption.

I’d like to see e-ink and solar be paired more often. Together they inspire a design style that is wholly different from the current gadget aesthetic: a style that embraces light form, simple utility, and persistent function. This might allow designers to digitize tools which have never been within the economic reach of consumer technology. Think wall calendars, thermostats, traffic signs, menus outside of restaurants, etc.

Also, it’s a testament to the low price of the Kindle that at $80 this cover costs more than Amazon’s cheapest device.

new-aesthetic: “When you don the Ekso, you are essentially...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:08:18 -0500

new-aesthetic:

“When you don the Ekso, you are essentially strapping yourself to a sophisticated robot. It supports its own 20-kilogram weight via the skeletal legs and footrests and takes care of the calculations needed for each step. Your job is to balance your upper body, shifting your weight as you plant a walking stick on the right; your physical therapist will then use a remote control to signal the left leg to step forward. In a later model the walking sticks will have motion sensors that communicate with the legs, allowing the user to take complete control.”

Good-bye, Wheelchair, Hello Exoskeleton - IEEE Spectrum, via mildlydiverting

"This is data’s great challenge. Becoming something more than just an unread email. Becoming useful..."

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:21:42 -0500

“This is data’s great challenge. Becoming something more than just an unread email. Becoming useful at the point it’s most needed.”

- Your Health Data Might Be Just Another Unread Inbox (via davidhoffman)

Shabazz Palaces is like the Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:46:00 -0500

Shabazz Palaces is like the Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band of hip-hop.

I guess that makes Butterfly the Don Van Vliet?

Wearable Computing And The Next Hub

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:34:37 -0500

Wearable Computing And The Next Hub:

parislemon:

Nick Bilton reports on Google’s and Apple’s efforts to push the envelope on “wearable” computing (think: iPod bracelets or Android watches).

Currently, most people still have a desktop or a laptop as their main hub for their computing lives. Mine is still my two year old iMac.

In five years, the smartphone will be the main hub for most people. Desktops and laptops will still exist, of course. But most computing will be relayed through the phones we have on or near us at all times that are always connected to the web.

Bustr Bensn: The interface to our subconscious

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:49:06 -0500

Bustr Bensn: The interface to our subconscious:

bustr:

You know how sometimes you’re hungry and you start wondering to yourself, “What am I in the mood for?” This process of one part of the brain asking another part of the brain a question is something we all do a lot, and it struck me the other day that there was actually something really interesting…