April 2009
WatchKevin Kelly on predicting the next 5000 days of the web.
I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even try to remember things, I just google it. It’s easier to do that. And we kind of object at first, saying “ohh that’s awful”, but if we think about it, this dependence we have on this other technology. It’s called the alphabet and writing. We’re...
March 2009
Watchrocketboom:
“…it contains some realtime ambient occlusion and depth of field. It’s done in C, using shaders (GLSL). Once again, it all fits in a 4 kilobytes executable (music, animation, rendering engine and effects).”
WatchTim and Kevin on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Tim’s note about testing book titles with a Google Adwords experiment is awesome.
WTF
What the fuck does the federal government know about running a car company? I’ll tell you what: nothing.
Back to my “watch earthquake tweets” drinking game.
hartsell:
Freestyle - Don’t Stop The Rock
“A young woman in Chapel Hill, N.C., wakes up sweating. Her air conditioner has...”
– Peter Hershberg (via betaworks)
“The NBA slapped Mavericks owner Mark Cuban with a $25,000 fine Sunday for...”
– FOX Sports on MSN - NBA - Mavericks owner Cuban fined $25,000
“Cash on hand is just one important variable in a startup’s life, but it’s not...”
– Lessons Learned: Cash is not king
How to power payments for Twitter Applications...
Tipjoy has opened up an API which can power payments for Twitter applications. There are are lots of exciting ways to use it; here are some ideas to get you started:
E-commerce over twitter - sell your content: mp3s, videos, text, whatever
p $1 http://music-site.com/good-song.mp3 because I love this band
Premium content and premium services
p $2 @tweetie to get your awesome iPhone...
Twice For The First Time
ibeching:
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when a US plane dropped the first atomic bomb.
He suffered serious burns and spent a night there before returning to his home city of Nagasaki just before it was bombed on 9 August.
He said he hoped his experience held a lesson of peace for future generations.
Japan has certified that the man, now aged 93, is the...
“The Idea
lawnelephant.com takes feature requests, and we only make features...”
– Introducing lawnelephant.com
“I found this pill you can take that makes you no longer hungry. It’s called a...”
– Amir (via david)
added disqus to this tumblog
too bad disqus comments don’t show up in the “notes” on the tumblr dashboard.
Francis and the Lights form LLC, get 1 million...
whitneymcn:
Agreed, very interesting to see.
jenrobinson: Now this is interesting.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3. — Francis Farewell Starlite, frontman of independent band Francis and the Lights, today announced the incorporation of Francis and the Lights, LLC. The move includes a $100,000 investment from The Normative Music Company, giving the new entity a valuation of precisely one million dollars. Via:...
WatchLuka’s 2nd Birthday
Our little Croat
Ivan via iphone http://tipjoy.com 617-777-4317 Posted via email from ivankirigin’s posterous | Comment »
Watchvia io9
“CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER:
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That’s $165 million in bonus money handed...”
– via Instapundit
That this was all so predictable is the sad part. I should just stop paying attention to politics and policy, and focus on building enough wealth to create some competition to my government.
