July 2008
18 posts
“Can someone who never touches a computer truly be in touch with what is...”
– WSJ - Note to Next President: Avoid Computers
“No one wants to die. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has...”
– Steve Jobs
“Last.fm, the CBS-owned free online music platform, is giving advertisers the...”
– ClickZ - New Ads on Last.FM Respond to Music
“conditional on number of children, parenting an additional female child...”
– Ebonya Washington finds quantitative evidence that having female kids causes male statesmen to vote more liberally for women’s rights — via Yale Alumni Magazine & Freakonomics
I found it underwhelming that most of the analysis surrounding this paper is concerned with the idea of an...
How to Be Weightless
A “Vomit Comet”” is an aircraft that travels a parabolic flight path to create successive short periods of weightlessness at the top of each curve.
For a few thousand dollars (many thousands of dollars fewer than a suborbital flight on Virgin Galactic or a bribe to get on a NASA mission), Zero G, a commercial company selling vomit comet tourism, will give you some...
gtmcknight:
Hey Pat Reilly and Erin Pettigrew! Upload new Tumblr user images so they show up pretty in my footer. kthxbi
Done, thank you for the reminder!
Pixar Shorts →
Sneak peeks of the lovingly crafted shorts that precede Pixar’s feature-length films. Includes Geri’s Game, which took home an Oscar in its category back in ‘97 and of course the rabbit-charmed Presto that tips off Wall-E.
“there is something sweetly touching and uplifting about the spectacle of all...”
– The NYT devotes 2 pages (rightly so) to the Where The Hell Is Matt? guy.
Some Flickr Photos to be Licensed by Getty →
Interesting. Licensing and attribution deals between Flickr photographers and publishers have — until now — been stuck in Flickr’s gimmicky messaging system. So it’s nice to see Flickr finally working toward professionalizing those transactions, even if only through a single licenser.
“The West generally leads the nation in whats termed “informal...”
– Comments on East Coast v. West Coast Stereotypes
Gmail finally introduces remote sign out →
A bit late (so many years after AIM has been offering this), but a trend in the right direction. As we straddle multiple workstations and devices for our online lives, critical services should be offering this kind of session awareness (or session expiration, which admittedly is already happening).
Packing TV, Web, Mobile into the Same Audience
“NBC will offer daily audience measurement data during its 17 days of Summer Olympics coverage from Beijing that will include not only daily TV ratings from Nielsen, but also its own daily data and measurement of its online, video-on-demand and mobile audiences.” - MediaWeek What’ll be interesting is seeing how NBC approaches tallying single users on multiple platforms, in other...
“In the past several decades, we’ve lived through middlebrow, branded-brow,...”
– “The High/Low Show” - Elle
“Although a carefree summer month, June brought healthy traffic for Gawker Media...”
– Gawker Media Kit