I love how furious she is
Giant Robot Lasers
who dares, wins
Excellence eliminates reliance.
Be very, very good at what you do.
Be free.
Reblogging because Cash looks like his pregnant belly is sticking out of his black shirt.
Mother And Daughter Injured In Boston Bombing Face New Future : NPR
This story about a mother and daughter injured in the Boston bombing is excellent, but it was tough to listen to on the drive in this morning.
Sometimes I get the urge to start a non-profit whose only focus is making data easily available and easy to visualize. Here we see two images. One is showing increases in spending over time per student in California, comparing it to changes over time in SAT results. It appears California spends more and more with poor results. The other graph is comparing California to the rest of the US, showing continuously spending less and less.
While both can be accurate, one or both of them is essentially being dishonest for a specific agenda. I wish I knew which one, but I need to get back to work.
I need better typing form
deal with it
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The Nest Energy Services, as they’re calling the new features, will be available to customers of a handful of NRG Energy subsidiaries, including National Grid, Green Mountain Energy, Reliant and more. The most ambitious component is a pair of opt-in energy-saving programs that kick in when demand for energy is at its highest. When these periods roll around, Nest owners can rack up extra savings by letting the thermostat intelligently decrease their household’s energy needs. And it’s not just the homeowner who benefits: Nest’s new features are also intended to serve another class of customers entirely: the utility companies.
Next For Nest: Building Out The Smart Grid, One Home At A Time | Co.Design: business + innovation + design (via iamdanw)
The economics of utilities in a few sentences: you would think they like people using more power because that is what they sell. In fact, their cost structure is essentially all about whether they need to add a $250M generation plant or not. So getting people to use less power at peak times is very much in their best interest.
(via khuyi)
Architectural Density in Hong Kong
Oh My Agoraphobia
(Source: ridingwithstrangers)
Who Cares If It's Been Tried Before?
Elad Gil:
Some good ideas have a lot of bad implementations before someone comes in and does it well enough to win big.
Obvious, and yet, often overlooked.
Let alone distribution models. It is surprisingly often we still hear, “If you build it, they will come.” It just isn’t true, and identical implementations can have wildly different outcomes.
