February 2010
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Feb 26th
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TechCrunch: Flavors.me--A Dead Simple Way To Pull... →
I’m planning to put together a flavors.me landing page when I have a minute.  Seems like a convenient, easy, and attractive way to centralize your online presence.
Feb 25th
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Feb 25th
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Techcrunch: Foursquare’s First Television... →
Worlds colliding! Or, perhaps more aptly, highly visible proof of worlds collided.
Feb 25th
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Star Wars Disillusionment  →
lonegunman: For me, seeing this picture was just like finding out there’s no Santa Claus.
Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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McSweeney's: A Robbery of Three Liberal Arts... →
Touché McSweeney’s.  An excerpt: Mr. Miller then lamented the socioeconomic circumstances that led Perps One, Two and Three to this lot in life and offered to brew some fair trade bancha in hopes of dialoguing about community-based ways to ameliorate their livelihoods. Perp One struck Mr. Miller with the butt of his firearm.
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Signals vs. Noise: Haiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage This video speaks for itself.  Gorgeously shot, devastating footage.
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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NYTimes: WhoseTube? →
Here’s a great Op-Ed from the lead singer of OK Go.  You’ll recall that when I posted their latest, incredible video (embedded thanks to Vimeo) I quoted from a post on the band’s website that touches on many of the same issues in this Op-Ed…albeit in a funnier, snarkier way.  Nonetheless, this is a great summation of a clever and savvy band’s struggles within...
Feb 21st
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Something, Somewhere, Sometime by Daniel Martin Moore, Ben Sollee Great tunes for a Friday afternoon and/or weekend.
Feb 19th
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Core77: From recycled computer waste, Olympic medals Neat—I had no idea the Vancouver medals were made from e-waste.  Here’s a 5 minute video featuring the designers.
Feb 19th
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LOCAL NATIVES: Gorilla Manor Give “World News” a listen at least.  I’m really excited to hear this full album from a band that is receiving a lot of deserved hype right now.
Feb 19th
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Feb 18th
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Grist: Why Bill Gates is wrong →
A response to Gates’ TED 2010 talk (not yet available online, but discussed here) touting nuclear energy.  Here’s a tease for a post worth reading in full: [T]he way we live together now, the way we govern ourselves, the way we arrange our physical spaces and our commerce, the way we do economics and measure prosperity—all these have to be changed in creative ways if we want to...
Feb 18th
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GOOD: Zipcar: The Apple of Car Sharing →
A neat look at the many things Zipcar does well.  I’m particularly struck by how the complexity of fleet management behind the scenes is largely hidden (in a good way) from consumers.  Two examples from the piece: RFID cards and readers: These are low-power transmitters embedded into the membership cards of each customer, who, upon arriving at their car, waves the card over a receiver in...
Feb 18th
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Feb 18th
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GOOD: Take a Visual Tour of the Entire California... →
The site’s design leaves something to be desired, but this is still very cool: The California Coastal Records Project is an aerial photographic survey of the state’s entire coastline. It allows you to click your way through images of one of the most majestic stretches of land in the world.
Feb 18th
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Feb 16th
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LukeW: Web Form Innovations on Mobile Devices →
This may be fairly esoteric web-design and development material, but I found it fascinating from an iPhone user’s perspective. After a while with the iPhone (I did not have this experience with Blackberry), you start to expect your normal, desktop/laptop browser to function in a similarly useful way based on features developed specifically for mobile browsing.*  This is post highlights...
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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“[C]ars are incredibly over-engineered given their typical use. Every weekday,...”
– Ryan Avent, The Bellows: Stuck With Cars Avent links to a piece I will HIGHLY recommend reading in full: a book review by Dave Roberts (of Grist) discussing future trends in urban mobility and cars of the future.
Feb 13th
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Gizmodo: NBC Olympics App Hits Just In Time →
I’m counting down the hours until the first full day of Olympics coverage begins from Vancouver.  This free app is incredibly handy for tracking schedules and results.
Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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Social Pollination: Why I love Google Buzz (and... →
I think Buzz has a number of flaws, not least of which is the lack of duplicate-item recognition that plagues Google Reader as well. Nonetheless, I’m impressed thus far. In this post, Monica does a fantastic job making the comprehensive case for Buzz. [The correct title of Monica’s blog is Social Pollination]
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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McSweeney's: Good Cop, Other Cops. →
These are all pretty clever variations on the Good Cop, Bad Cop schtick, but I particularly like Good Cop, Glad Cop: GOOD COP: Just tell us what happened and everything is going to be fine. GLAD COP: Everything really is going to be fine! I look around and see the most commonplace things, and they inspire me! That chair you’re sitting in, those cuffs you’re wearing, the laceration you...
Feb 12th
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TreeHugger: US Consumer Watchdog Says Shoo to... →
I guess the many claims associated with bamboo fabrics are too good to be true: The [Federal Trade Commission] contend that the fabric[s] [billed as bamboo-based] are in fact ‘Rayon’, a textile made from reconstituted cellulose fibres. There is no official textile classification for Bamboo. In a statement entitled “Have You Been Bamboozled by Bamboo Fabrics?” the FTC,...
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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Lifehacker: Route4Me Maps the Optimal Route for... →
Seems incredibly simple, and yet I’ve often found myself looking for exactly this tool: Before heading out the door, jump on the internet and enter the addresses of all the places you need to stop or fire up the iPhone app (more on that below). Route4Me plots your whole route for maximum efficiency. It will also map out a round trip so you can get back to where you started, without trying to...
Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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“I can’t be the only writer who’s really fascinated by the 140...”
– Ezra Klein, On Twitter
Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Scobleizer: Why if you miss Siri you’ll miss the... →
I plan to check out Scoble’s video with the crew behind Siri later this evening, because it sounds groundbreaking. This, from TechCrunch’s write-up of the Siri iPhone app captures the potential better than Scoble’s post (though I imagine Scoble’s video will be the best intro): You simply speak into the phone with a request like, “Find something to do in San Francisco...
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Hulu: Lemonade I recently shared a preview of this documentary about “16 advertising professionals who lost their jobs and found their calling.”  Now you can watch the whole thing, for free, on Hulu.  Enjoy!
Feb 7th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Lifehacker: How to Clip, Sort, and Cite the Entire... →
Attention friends in grad school or college: this might be incredibly useful.  I don’t engage in much academic writing these days (hallelujah), but I would have loved this tool in college…and might one day need it in grad school.  Click through to Lifehacker for screenshots and a video demo; here’s the skinny: Zotero is, at its heart, a citation manager. It was designed to...
Feb 4th
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Feb 4th