December 2010
48 posts
The Allure of The Golden Gate Bridge - to Jumpers
Not the most uplifting read … but rather an interesting story about the attraction of the Golden Gate Bridge to jumpers and would-be jumpers.
“The guy was in his thirties, lived alone, pretty bare apartment. He’d written a note and left it on his bureau. It said, ‘I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.’ ”
Side note: We rode bicycles...
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“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not...”
– Steve Jobs to Playboy in 1985 (via davemorin)
WatchDisneyland Dream : Robbins Barstow : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
“Dotklok is the name of this cool open source digital clock that is capable of...”
– Dotklok – Digital Clock with Multiple Time Animations | GeekAlerts
Ivy League Graffiti →
WatchThe Norton Project (by Jamtron)
I first saw this months ago … but good to re-visit during this time of the year.
YouTube - What is Love? (a.k.a. Jammed Roller... →
Shared by Ryan
Jammed Coaster is Jamming.
Architecture Photography: Morris Arboretum Tree... →
Yahoo! making you queasy? Here's how to backup... →
“Most significant, however, is the way smartphones now let you instantly share...”
– Social Fitness | OutsideOnline.com
YouTube - Yogi Bear Parody: "Booboo Kills... →
WatchMy Pummelvision (by millerswiller)
Life Calendar: How was your day →
via Etsy
“Come to our New Year’s Eve party. Check in with Foursquare to apartm.net,...”
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Apartm.net’s 2011 New Year’s Eve invitation takes it to a whole new level | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Story with Nintendo's Master Game Maker Shigeru...
“Whatever the interface, a great game invites and rewards obsession, and Miyamoto’s games are widely considered to be among the greatest. He has been called the father of modern video games.”
Full Story
“This is all interesting because it’s a more focused user experience based...”
– The Next Stop for Location Services
YouTube - Oh I'm sure this is perfectly safe →
Shared by Ryan
OSHA-approved, surely.
Crowdmap →
Crowdmap - Free/open-source utility that let’s you map via SMS, smart phone, receive automated alerts, etc. FB integration as well … for mass organizing.
How to Visit Four Continents, Nine Countries, and... →
Travel Hacking
WatchWater Tower : brock davis
“Now that the social layer has been built, some people say the next layer will be...”
– The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues: GQ
House of Buttons →
A collection of great UI buttons spotted in the wild. Curated by Jason Long. Submissions welcome.
Why Butterfingers No Longer Uses The Simpsons In...
When the police must burn all of Springfield’s candy and other assorted sugar products, a stack of Butterfingers are thrown and is even referred to by name. The fire is unable to burn the candy bars and they bounce right back, with Chief Wiggum stating, “Even the fire doesn’t want them”. The Simpsons had appeared in Butterfinger commercials and print ads for more than a...
Chris Burden's latest project "a portrait of LA"
(via kottke)
“It includes 1,200 custom-designed cars and 18 lanes; 13 toy trains and tracks; and, dotting the landscape, buildings made of wood block, tiles, Legos and Lincoln Logs. The crew is still at work on the installation. In “Metropolis II,” by his calculation, “every hour 100,000 cars circulate through the city,” Mr. Burden said. “It has an audio...
“During World War II, some United States soldiers in the Pacific theater used the...”
– Shibboleth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via slavin)
Brilliant. Save a file to save a tree. -... →
“As Picciotto said, “You find the Elks Lodge, you find the guy who’s...”
– Quote from Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto on resourcefulness and doing whatever it takes to get it done.
Fugazi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I bought two. $8.00 total w/ shipping/tax.
“To give the game some tension, I wanted the monsters to surround Pac Man at some...”
– GameInternals - Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior
Check out these awesome Facebook and Twitter... →
Nov. 29, 2010 - Geeks love their geeky sneakers. Ever since Back to the Future II introduced the world to Marty McFly’s futuristic, self-lacing Nikes to the world, geeks
what i learned today: the egg theory →
dihard:
When instant baking mixes were introduced in the 1940s, some did well (piecrusts, biscuits) and others did not (cake mixes). Marketers wondered why this was the case.
One theory was that the cake mixes simplified the process so much that women did not feel as though they had actually made anything. A piecrust or a biscuit were just a component of a larger meal, but a cake was its own...
