February 2011
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Best. Invention. Of. Ever.
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Jan 30th
YouTube - Today Show January 1994...What is the... →
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“So Rebecca, I see here that you’ve got an amusing story about ruining a new pair...”
– Alex Trebek (Submitted by rslr)
Jan 28th
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Kill Your Business Model →
What we wanted to fund, and what they were actually building, was something much more powerful. Something that harnessed the collective actions and related data of millions of users to improve their…
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kansas city’s own: el dorado, inc via jwatkins
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IfItWereMyHome.com →
Jan 25th
PANTONE CHIP COOKIES! →
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Jan 24th
San Francisco Gets Inter-Bus Stop Multiplayer... →
Yahoo recently installed huge poster-size touchscreens at 20 San Francisco bus stops, allowing commuters to play online games against people at other bus stops. Nothing brings out my allegiance to…
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Fake Jeopardy! Interview Intros →
Shared by Ryan I love everything about this. You know on Jeopardy! when Alex Trebek introduces each contestant? This is like that but fake.
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“Mark, I hear you hold a very special world record — exactly how many times have...”
– Alex Trebek (Submitted by meredithbklyn) Everything about this is genius.  
Jan 21st
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Oregon Trail: The Beginning
“I tried to be as clever as I could with the technology,” he says. In the scramble to finish coding in time, no one stopped to realize that they’d just invented one of the first simulation computer games. Oregon Trail was played for the first time in Rawitsch’s history class on December 3, 1971. He wheeled the school’s machine into the classroom and turned it on as...
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“Two and a half years ago, Alan Taylor started The Big Picture at the Boston Globe; he basically ran the site in his spare work time as a web developer for the company. Now he’s moving on to The Atlantic, where he will edit a new photo site called In Focus.” Details via Kottke
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“Positivity is something that has to be designed into a product from the...”
– W+K PORTLAND · Communities of Yes
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Amy Winehouse . . . on downers. →
Amy Winehouse - Valerie (Slow) by smithers_mr@yahoo.com on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free
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The McDonald's McBarge
This thing, known as McBarge by Vancouverites, is the hulking remains of a floating McDonalds. It was custom-built for our Expo ’86 World’s Fair and then carelessly left rusting in the harbour for 23 years as some sort of ghost ship.
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Canadian Beacon - Homes - Dwell
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Jan 7th
Do More. With Less.
Article Less 365 Starting July 1, and every day for a year, I will get rid of something. I will donate, discard, re-gift or recycle some bit of debris accumulating in my house. Anything non-perishable considered, exempting books and music. My climbing partner TJ and I hatched this last week on an (overly encumbered) hike to Alamere falls in Marin. It’s one aspect of a larger goal to apply the...
Jan 7th
Numbers Stations
Weird.   Numbers stations (or number stations) are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast artificially generated voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a spelling alphabet), tunes or Morse code. They are in a wide variety of languages and the voices are usually women, though sometimes men’s or children’s voices are used....
Jan 7th
Amazingly Lifelike Johnny Cash Tattoo
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Everything will be reinvented →
Jan 5th
“A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C...”
– Can I get 1000 Amens? Comes from a great interview with Steve Jobs on team building.
Jan 5th
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