May 2011
38 posts
Whitney Houston Back In Rehab, Fans Ask For Support →
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Whitney Houston Back In Rehab, Fans Ask For Support:
This article is worth reading to the end. Promise.
(via Gene)
“When a consumer opens an account with the service, it begins by researching their usage history with the water utility and then determines an average consumption level. Over the ensuing months, consumers can then earn points by not using more than their average consumption level. If they can use less than that average, however, they can earn even more points. Consumers are also awarded stars representing the number of points they’ve earned, thereby increasing their eco-creds on the site. The points accumulated by users of Banco Cyan can in turn be redeemed for discounts at numerous participating partners including Submarino, Americanas.com and Blockbuster.”
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In addition to the ‘reward’ component, I’m also a fan of the ‘inform’ component as well. How many utilities/services do we currently use and pay for w/o having any idea what / how much we’re using? I can’t tell you how many gallons of water I used last month … but I know my bill was around $45.00.
In Brazil, service rewards consumers for using less water - Springwise
“The term “Skunk Works” came from Al Capp’s satirical, hillbilly comic strip Li’l Abner, which was immensely popular in the 1940s and ’50s. The “Skonk Works” was a dilapidated factory located on the remote outskirts of Dogpatch, in the backwoods of Kentucky. According to the strip, scores of locals were done in yearly by the toxic fumes of the concentrated “skonk oil”, which was brewed and barreled daily by “Big Barnsmell” (known as the lonely “inside man” at the Skonk Works), by grinding dead skunks and worn shoes into a smoldering still, for some mysterious, never specified purpose.”
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And now I know.
Burton.com | Burton Snowboards →
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Worldwide leader and manufacturer of snowboards, boots, bindings,…Shared by Ryan
Burton Snowboard’s homepage serves up current weather and product recommendations based off your location. <— Neat
zRjqc.jpg →
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Awesome.
“Jack’s biggest insights have nothing to do with technology,” says Greg Kidd. “His insights are always social first.”
—Twitter Was Act One | Business | Vanity Fair
Speed matters when it comes to Facebook | Nation's Restaurant News →
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Chipotle: ‘Nearly everything warrants a response’
Toyota Prius Projects: No. 013 →
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The first 1000 who enter below get their badge custom-molded, while the next 10,000 get theirs in sticker form. And everyone gets their badges digitally, even after the 11,000 mark.
Norman N. (oldmansearch) on Twitter →
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My dad is 81 years old. I’m teaching him how to use the internet. I told him twitter was how to search things on Google. These tweets are what he’s searching.
“How many heats did your shift make today?” “Six.” Without another word, Schwab chalked a big figure six on the floor, and walked away. When the night shift came in, they saw the “6” and asked what it meant. “The big boss was in here today,” the day people said. “He asked us how many heats we made, and we told him six. He chalked it down on the floor.” The next morning Schwab walked through the mill again. The night shift had rubbed out “6” and replaced it with a big “7.” When the day shift reported for work the next morning, they saw a big “7” chalked on the floor. So the night shift thought they were better than the day shift did they? Well, they would show the night shift a thing or two. The crew pitched in with enthusiasm, and when they quit that night, they left behind them an enormous, swaggering “10.” Things were stepping up.”
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Great story on whip-cracking without the use of a whip. Click-through for the entire selection.
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“Games (and video games in particular) exploit that essential insecurity. They’re engineered to unfold as a series of short feedback cycles, every action a small experiment that concludes in minutes, if not seconds, with concrete consequences: you either win or lose points. That vivid loop keeps you constantly engaged. It sucks you into the micro-mechanics of the game, because even the smallest maneuvers give you the feeling of “getting somewhere.” You can’t help but tweak, tweak, tweak your way up the game’s learning curve, an eye always on your rising score.”
—On the Floor Laughing: Traders Are Having a New Kind of Fun - James Somers - Technology - The Atlantic
“Steve Jobs summoned the entire MobileMe team for a meeting at the company’s on-campus Town Hall, accusing everyone of “tarnishing Apple’s reputation.” He told the members of the team they “should hate each other for having let each other down”, and went on to name new executives on the spot to run the MobileMe team.”
—“Inside Apple” Reveals Steve Jobs Anecdotes, Apple’s Little Known Facts
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The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot - albeit a perfect one - to get an “A”.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
” —Coding Horror: Quantity Always Trumps Quality
Always. Be. Creating.
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Cats of War →
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Per Aaron’s Dogs of War share …
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ImageGlitcher →
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Glitch it, yo!
Ben & Jerry's Fair Tweets →
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Put your unused Twitter characters to good use.
and help spread the word about Fair Trade.
Every day, millions of Twitter characters go unused. That’s not very fair. But now you can tweet as…
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Web font services - An Overview - by sprungmarker.de →
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Overview of Web font services - by sprungmarker.de - fonts…Shared by Ryan
This may be relevant [and hopefully helpful] to someone who reads my Shared Items … scroll down a bit for the chart.
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