February 2012
10 posts
The 20 most beautiful bookstores in the world →
The Ultimate Steve Jobs Collection - Chill.com →
“The number of ™ and © marks that appear in a product’s description tends to be...”
– Dustin Curtis (via chartier)
Quantifying comedy on YouTube: why the number of... →
Next we needed an algorithm to rank these funny videos by comedic potential, e.g. is “Charlie bit my finger” funnier than “David after dentist”? Raw viewcount on its own is insufficient as a ranking metric since it is biased by video age and exposure. We noticed that viewers emphasize their reaction to funny videos in several ways: e.g. capitalization (LOL), elongation (loooooool), repetition...
January 2012
21 posts
You’ll Download Physical Objects Sooner Than You... →
It's not your grandpa's Florida →
Today, just 17% of Florida’s population comprises senior citizens — just above the national average, according to the Almanac of American Politics. Moreover, 22% of Floridians are under-18 — a number boosted by high levels of immigration from Latin America. And two Florida cities, Gainesville and Tallahassee, are among the top 10 youngest cities in America, with median ages of...
If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You... →
An international agreement already signed by President Obama that bypassed congress completely.
Wonderful.
“Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Internet Overuse Could Cause Structural Brain... →
Wonderful.
W. Virginia town shrugs at being fattest city -... →
Huntington characterized as obese, toothless and poor in recent report
Can’t make this stuff up.
Nearly half the adults in Huntington’s five-county metropolitan area are obese — an astounding percentage, far bigger than the national average in a country with a well-known weight problem.
Huntington leads in a half-dozen other illness measures, too, including heart disease and...
WatchThe first non-Apple tablet to actually intrigue me.
h/t Barb.
Google Accused Of Fraudulently Undermining A... →
We decided to find out. We made some changes to the site:
- For visitors from the 41.203.221.138 address, we changed the code to serve slightly different content 10% of the time.
- Instead of the real business phone number, we served a number that fed through to our call centre team, where the incoming calls would also be recorded. Our team were briefed to act like the business owners for the...
December 2011
24 posts
Tampa’s TechStars Network Member Gazelle Lab Opens... →
Great to see!
Forgetting is Key to a Healthy Mind →
Dear Kathryn…
(h/t Reddish)
What it Looks Like Inside Amazon.com →
Your jQuery: Now With 67% Less Suck →
h/t Mike
“The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God.”
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation →
Crudeness aside, this is a great post — A sincere apology from Generation X to the OWS crowd.
CarWoo Raises $6 Million To Spare You The Car... →
In conjunction with the news, the company is announcing that it’s landed a new COO: Rudi Thun, who was previously the GM of AOL Autos, the fourth biggest online car site (Disclosure: TechCrunch is owned by AOL). This is a significant hire for the team, as the core team of founders didn’t actually have any experience with cars when they first started the company. They say that’s served them well...
WSJ - Tim Tebow, God's Quarterback →
Great read.
h/t Amanda Bennett
BoingBoing: The diagnosis →
The Hard Truth About How Success Really Works →
Nothing worth achieving comes without a price. To begrudge those who pay the price is unfair. To be unwilling to pay the price will always result in failure.
The next time you consider a goal you want to achieve, decide if you really want to pursue that goal. If the answer is yes, the rest isn’t easy but it is simple.
Look around: No matter what your pursuit, plenty of people have already...