April 2009
47 posts
Official Google Blog: Adding search power to... →
“We just launched a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data.” If Google truly creates an easy to access way to find and display all of the publicly (hard to find) available data this will be one powerful tool. There is so much intriguing data out there that is available, but just so difficult to find, collect, and properly display that it is never used. ...
I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet...
– The World’s Most Influential Person Is… - TIME
Triptrop NYC →
“Give us an address and we’ll show you how long it takes to get everywhere else in the city.” Visually stunning graph of the time it takes to get from point A to anywehere else in New York.
I love Seth Godin’s ability to confront these “broken” things in our world. I am constantly frustrated by problems that are the result of people not doing something because “it is not their job”. Seth’s talk at #BRITE Conference was a major highlight of the conference.
Seth Godin at Gel 2006
Stanford CS 193P - Public Stanford course teaching... →
There is a link in the top right that sends you to the lectures and slides on iTunes. Amazing this is offered for free to the world. I am watching the first lecture right now.
Teenage Virgins II - Freakonomics Blog -... →
“In a finding that should petrify the National Park’s management, compared with a no-sign control condition in which 2.92 percent of the pieces were stolen, the social-proof message resulted in more theft (7.92 percent). In essence, it almost tripled theft. Thus, theirs was not a crime prevention strategy; it was a crime promotion strategy.”
I love the powerful realizations discussed...
Lifehacker - One Dozen Super-Useful (and Free!)... →
I isntalled half of these, great finds for making the G1 even more useful.
New Soap, Old Bottle: Repackaging Name Brand... →
Each bottle is cleaned, sanitized and processed for reuse as packaging for your favorite brand of liquid soap. Big companies aren’t going to do this on their own. So we’ll do it for them. We buy name brand liquid soap by the barrel and package it in old bottles here in America.
It’s unbelievable,” Larry Wright, an adjunct professor of statistics at...
– For Free Throws, 50 Years of Practice Is No Help - NYTimes.com
Does Google Really Control The News? →
Researchers develop laser-guided microhoverbot,... →
It’s good to be young
Telegram Stop | Send a Traditional Classic... →
I think this is insanely classy and unique. Quite the cool bit of retro-chic.
Eater: Kogi Truck NYC!!!!!!!! (exclamation points... →
I have been jealously hearing story after story of the amazing Kogi taco truck roming the streets of LA. This is awesome news! I will definitely be there wherever or whenever the NY Kogi truck appears.
Alarming Twitter Trend: Real-World Friends Are... →
This headline is exactly how I felt over the last two weeks, great write up about this very serious new development.
Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss Discuss Angel Investing... →
I really like the interaction and content delivered in this video between these two great young faces on their way to internet success and stardom.
Qualcomm Innovation has some amazing new ideas on... →
The most amazing new technologies being developed by Qualcomm converging genetic and wireless technologies.