December 2010
82 posts
Links for 2010-12-29 [del.icio.us] →
The Cognitive Cost Of Expertise | Wired Science | Wired.com
Now for the bad news: Expertise might also come with a dark side, as all those learned patterns make it harder for us to integrate…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water In Gingerbread... →
Fellow blogger Melodie blew me away with her version of Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous Fallingwater home reproduced in gingerbread. Given that she graduated…
roomthily: Migration of Receipts – This project... →
roomthily:
Migration of Receipts – This project displays receipt trash found over a 48 hour blitz in Baltimore City, Maryland. The collection area was focused on the neighborhoods of…
band-aiding a broken system →
Today my gym decided to ditch the membership card, and instead set-up kiosks that scan your index finger and require a 10-digit secret number to enter.
Everybody coming in had to get scanned, four…
what i learned in 2010 →
best photo of 2010, my dad photobombing me
Over the years, I’ve kept journals of my personal thoughts. It’s done quite a lot day-to-day for me, but it’s been most useful to flip back to…
Links for 2010-12-13 [del.icio.us] →
Block Those Economic Metaphors - NYTimes.com
And bad metaphors make for bad policy. The idea that the economic engine is going to catch or the patient rise from his sickbed any day now…
The TED Commandments →
The founder of TED, Richard Saul Wurman spoke at an event hosted by Smart Design last night. In his presentation he mentioned the 10 TED commandments. Attending a lot of…
Apple Patenting Phone-to-Phone App Sharing →
Apple’s latest patent application, revealed today, could add a whole new (and huge) dimension to the exploding smartphone app market: Phone-to-Phone app sharing, with incentives. It’s…
@cybersanta →
My friend Aaron wrote a Twitter bot that searches for tweets of the form “I want a ______”, rephrases them as a message from Santa, and sends them back to their author.
It’s amazing…
Demand To See Santa →
… the number of Santas available and a parent’s desire to have their children see St. Nick in a timely manner, loosely determines the potential sketchiness of Santas in your area. As…
New York Times Chrome Web app hands-on:... →
Truth be told, I’ve never been sold on the whole Web apps paradigm. They’re just websites! Very pretty websites, but ultimately… just websites. But it seems I was missing the point:…
Links for 2010-12-08 [del.icio.us] →
Yoxi.tv
competition of ideas - interesting, but we don’t need one idea, we need lots
ge.tt | gett sharing
the new drop.io, thank god
WikiLeaks Loyalists Hack MasterCard: The Future of... →
4Chan’s Anonymous “hacktivists” have launched attacks on various websites in revenge for what they see as illegal treatment of WikiLeaks and its head Julian Assange. This is the…
Tjeerd Veenhoven’s air-powered iPhone and more →
Designer Tjeerd Veenhoven took a cue from his native Holland to create the iFan, an iPhone case with a built-in fan for charging. Pop the phone into the case for your bicycle commute to…
Argument map →
…complex situations and infoglut.
You need a good oversight to think about your future, or to really understand your clients. Based on your reasoning, you want to make wise and just…
Hackers! For makers, players and explorers →
Launching today, the Hackers! newspaper is an exciting new idea aimed at doing things you’re not supposed to do. A quarterly paper edited by Leila Johnston, fresh from a highly…
Links for 2010-12-07 [del.icio.us] →
What’s Mine is Yours: Book Description
I like the layout and design of this book site … nicely done.
The Official DreamHost Blog! » Call for Apps!
My hosting service opens a call for…
The red-state, blue-state war is happening in the... →
As we said in Red State, Blue State, it’s not the Prius vs. the pickup truck, it’s the Prius vs. the Hummer. Here’s the graph:
Or, as Ross Douthat put it in an op-ed yesterday:
This…
Links for 2010-12-06 [del.icio.us] →
The Utah Compact - NYTimes.com
A clearer expression of good sense and sanity than Utah’s would be hard to find. It says immigration is an issue between the federal government and other countries…
understanding the system before designing the... →
Interesting article over the weekend on an update to the Weight Watcher’s point system:
The new plan, company officials say, is based on scientific findings about how the body processes…
New Work: Clock for an Architect →
Privately commissioned to create a gift for an architect, Daniel Weil created a one-of-a-kind clock that is both simple and complex. Reducing objects to their component parts has long…
Incidental Comics. →
Incidental Comics.
Links for 2010-12-04 [del.icio.us] →
swissmiss amazon store - Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 12.1MP Micro Four-Thirds Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera with LUMIX G 20mm f/1.7 Aspherical Lens
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Links for 2010-12-03 [del.icio.us] →
WikiLeaks Helps America: How Julian Assange Proved U.S. Working Hard on Policy Problems - The Daily Beast
A United States seriously and professionally trying to solve the most dangerous problems…
The Ultimate Web Cash Flowchart →
Fast Company’s complete guide to getting ridiculously rich (quick!) with a Web-based business. Or at least a neato infographic from the author of “Everything Explained Through Flowcharts.”
Art Pays For Free →
The Do Lectures is an inspirational weeked of talks set up by the people behind Howies. For those who can’t get to the event, Do have been screening the talks for free online, the costs of…
The Joy of Stats: Combining Hans Rosling with... →
It was only a matter of time before the mind-changing talk of Hans Rosling would find its way to the television medium. A reincarnation of this talk will be part of “The Joy of…