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Clive Thompson · Clive
A study finds that snapping pictures of art in a gallery slightly improves your recall of it. (Previous work has found precisely the opposite.) An overturned truck spilled 7,500 pounds of “slime eels” onto a highway. Facebook’s “Mom problem”: If she’s the first one ‘like’ a post, the algorithms assume it’s…
We Make Money Not Art · Regine
The aim of the gamma-radiation project, is to develop an emergency-infrastructure that can be deployed within minutes, by activating your (covered) webcam from a webpage
Clive Thompson · Clive
Animated charts showing how the age of marriage has changed in the US over the last century. The myth of drug expiration dates. The obituary for the inventor of the first — and only — “self-cleaning house”. (Her patent is here.) Data considered as a gift. From 1908: “School is largely concerned with the…
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
The newspaper industry is seeking an antitrust provision to negotiate for a return to a world that is gone and never coming back; worse, it is an approach that could ruin publishing's true future.
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
Search · Nick ZakrasekProduct Manager
Whether you’re a student looking for a part-time job, an electrician seeking work closer to home, or a teacher moving to another state to be close to family, finding a job can be difficult. With job postings scattered across the web, newspapers and help wanted signs, it’s not always easy to find ones that are a good…
prosthetic knowledge
komorebiDesign project by Leslie Nooteboom is a lamp that can project artificial natural lighting onto walls, created with high-rise apartment spaces in mind: komorebi is sunlight filtering through leaves, creating a dance of light and shadows where filtered sunrays hit a surface. It is the reflections on pavements…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
MORNING, COMPUTER · Warren Ellis
…Montaigne, who writes in his essay ‘Of Practice’: What I write here is not my teaching, but my study; it is not a lesson for others, but for me. And yet it should not be held against me if I publish what I write. What is useful to me may also by accident be useful […]
Clive Thompson · Clive
Randy Gibson: The Four Pillars Appearing from The Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of The Eternal Process in The Midwinter Starfield 16 VIII 10 (Kansas City) by R. Andrew Lee Three hours of music played with a single note — “D”, in seven octaves — is weirdly mesmerizing; I’ve been listening to it while I […]
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
The key to understanding Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is to understand that Amazon didn't buy a retailer: the company bought a customer.
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Apple’s prior attempt at a home audio system famously didn’t sell particularly well, but the thought and consideration that went into it indicates that this was a product of real passion and care. Check out the ridiculously thick battery door and the near-seamless body. No matter how much I appreciate the premium…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election RUSSIAN MILITARY INTELLIGENCE [GRU] executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election,…
Schneier on Security · Bruce Schneier
The password-manager 1Password has just implemented a travel mode that tries to protect users while crossing borders. It doesn't make much sense. To enable it, you have to create a list of passwords you feel safe traveling with, and then you can turn on the mode that only gives you access to those passwords. But…
A List Apart: The Full Feed · by Chip Cullen
As product owners or developers, we probably have a good handle on which core assets we need to make a website work. But rarely is that the whole picture. How well do we know every last thing that loads on our sites? An occasional web performance audit, done by hand, does make us aware of every last thing. What’s so…
Blog – Official site of Stephen Fry · Stephen Fry
The comparison seems rather good, don’t you think? If Gutenberg’s revolution was Pandora 2.0 and the Industrial Revolution 3.0 then the information age is Pandora 4.0. The post The Way Ahead appeared first on Official site of Stephen Fry.
Both Sides of the Table - Medium · Mark Suster
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
The boom emoji gets a lot of play. It happened. It worked. We won. Boom. The tree emoji, on the other hand, celebrates the patient and generous acts of planting seeds, watering them, caring for them, and then, in a...
Lefsetz Letter · bob
David Itzkoff: “You tell a story in one of the episodes about seeing a prime performance from Sam Kinison, whose world did not exactly intersect with yours. Did you get something out of that experience?” Steve Martin: “Oh yeah. You know when someone’s killing it. But not always immediately. Sometimes it takes a…
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
generating summaries of movement over time
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked | Technology | The Guardian A map shown to the Observer showing the many places in the world where SCL and Cambridge Analytica have worked includes Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, Iran and Moldova. Multiple Cambridge Analytica sources have revealed…
Both Sides of the Table - Medium · Mark Suster
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
explainshell.com This is pretty excellent work — paste a UNIX command line and it’ll contextually inline manual page snippets to match, highlighting the matching part of the command line. (tags: cli unix documentation explainshell shell scripting syntax manual-pages) Sufjan Stevens – Carrie & Lowell Live on Vimeo…
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
Dinosaur Comics!
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Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The Flagpole Sitta lip dub came out 10 years ago today, subverting the meme to spawn a global phenomenon.
The Official Google Blog · Xuefeng SongAndroid Software Engineer, Google Photos
PhotoScan lets you save digital copies of your printed photos in just a few taps. Since we launched the app in November, you’ve all scanned a lot of photos—almost 50 million in fact! Today we're making a few updates to ensure these moments—once trapped in a photo album in your attic—are even easier to scan and share,…
Monday Note - Medium · Frederic Filloux
Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design · Jeffrey Zeldman
AS THE HEAD of a newish design studio, I spend a fair amount of time writing proposals. And here’s how I like to do it. I do it like a conversation, and that’s how we start: with phone calls and emails to one or two key decision makers, followed by a research period of about […] The post How We Write Proposals in My…
Pixel Envy · Nick Heer
Matt Giles has compiled links to many of this year’s Pulitzer-winning works. I’ve read many of them, and one of the things that struck me as I worked through this list is just how many of them I remember clearly. I think this illustrates an important quality of a Pulitzer-worthy work: its ability to get […]◉
Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design · Jeffrey Zeldman
CHICAGO. Spent my Sunday writing a contract for the ________ design. I find I really enjoy writing proposals. It gives me a chance to see the whole project clearly in my mind, and to demonstrate to clients not just competency but genuine concern for their products and a vision of how to help their business. […] The…
The Twitter Blog
Twitter Lite is a more accessible, faster and more affordable way for people to use Twitter when they are on slow mobile networks, have expensive data plans and with limited storage on their mobile device.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
In Portland, even drugs are an artisanal, farm-to-table experience.
Waxy.org · Andy Baio
The long, cold winter is over. Waxy is back, along with the relaunch of Upcoming.org.
Anil Dash · Anil
With the return of Prince’s classic 80s and 90s catalog to the most popular streaming services, now’s a great time to (re?)discover the breadth of...
Anil Dash · Anil
In one generation, the Internet went from opening up new free markets to creating a series of Fake Markets that exploit society, without most media...
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
Lefsetz Letter · bob
This is an individual project. I just finished reading “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century,” by Timothy Snyder. Be afraid, be very afraid. Because sooner if not later there’s going to be a terrorist event and you’re gonna lose all your personal rights. That’s how they do it, especially Putin. Under…
Lefsetz Letter · bob
“‘It was an emergency,’ he wrote,’ and when dealing with emergent behavior there is nothing to do but respond. I was in the moment. And it was not the fire I imagined or dreamed of. It was the fire I got.'” This should not have been good. I never read the “T” magazine, the “New […]
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Snap plans to win on innovation; we've known for 30 years, though, that that is not always enough.