January 2008
71 posts
Giraffe dies after becoming tangled in rope at the... →
Jacob and I were going to sponsor Dusti for 2008. :’(
We are overwhelmed! Hence no updates. Come have coffee or sushi with me. I’d love a girls night at Avec if anyone is up for it.
Twitter- a marketing tool? →
“NBC, CBS, ABC Family and MTV are among several networks experimenting with the marketing possibilities of Twitter, a nascent social-networking service that sends messages in super-short bursts.
Twitter is one of several new-media plays that networks are adding to their marketing mix, hoping to make inroads with the younger demographic that is hard to reach through traditional...
Gates foundation to give $306 million to assist... →
Excellent.
Sun-Times lays off 17 newsroom staff members... →
— gregcbrown
“Findings support the long-held notion that something about cola — the phosphoric...”
– In a study published in the journal of Epidemiology
Heath Ledger Found Dead in NYC at Age 28- AP →
This is so incredibly sad and shocking. The worst is his daughter Matilda will grow up without a father.
Whole Foods to end plastic bags by Earth Day! →
Yay! This is great news!
Solar Backpack →
The Voltaic solar bags are mobile solar power generators designed to charge virtually all handheld electronics.
Why can’t efficiency and design finally meet and become friends? I’d buy this it it wasn’t so masculine or blah looking.
Pownce lauched to the public →
Pownce, a service that lets users send messages, files, links, and events to friends, first launched into private beta over six months ago. It was founded by Leah Culver, Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka (Rose and Burka of Digg fame).
Users can now bypass the tedious process of adding new friends to yet-another-social-network. The new version allows users to import friend lists from any/all of Digg,...
British Airways plane crash.. lands at London's... →
A British Airways plane crash-landed at London’s Heathrow airport on Thursday, slightly injuring 18 passengers and triggering an inquiry into why the Boeing 777 flying in from Beijing landed short of the runway.
Fire engines smothered the aircraft in foam after the landing at the world’s busiest international airport extensively damaged its wings and ripped off its...
Google.org →
Google.org aspires to use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age: climate change, poverty and emerging disease. In collaboration with experienced partners working in each of these fields, we will invest our resources and tap the strengths of Google’s employees and global operations to advance five major initiatives.
Develop Renewable Energy Cheaper...
The "Look at me Generation" →
“Anything we do that’s political always falls flat,” said Ricky Van Veen, 27, a founder and the editor in chief of CollegeHumor.com, a popular and successful Web site. “It doesn’t seem like young people now are into politics as much, especially compared to their parents’ generation. I think that could lend itself to the argument that there is more narcissism and they’re more concerned about...
Studio On Fire →
Graphic design. I’m a big fan. Check out their design section.. its pretty impressive.
My professor today reminded us that 1 in 25 people is a sociopath. Chances are you’ve met one. I definately have. It was very difficult for me to understand why someone would act so irrationally.. and after a wiki search, I understand. If you work with someone like this, they make your job super difficult to say the least.
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter...”
– Dr. Seuss
The Top 10 Heartbreaking Gadgets of 20074. One Laptop per Child Nicholas Negroponte’s do-good project to equip the world’s poor with tough, low-tech computers hasn’t quite worked out. The machine itself is a triumph: dual screen modes for working in the sun; a tough, cute body; next-gen mesh networking; and a simple, open source...
“Man will become better when you show him what he is like.”
– Anton Chekhov
Gawker Jumped the Snark? →
Rachel Sklar, the news media editor of the Huffington Post, the online news and blogging site, said if she has a spare minute, she is no longer likely to spend it on Gawker. (Rachel is a good friend of Julia Allison- who Gawker basically exploited after her breakup with Jakob Lodwick.)
“The more skeevy stuff they post, the less respectable the site becomes and the less people consider it a place...
What's in Season Now? Yum!
Leeks
Meyer lemons
Blood oranges
Kale
Grapefruit
Fennel
Escarole
— courtneyc
yum!
Polish teen derails tram after hacking train... →
A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz into his own personal train set, triggering chaos and derailing four vehicles in the process. Twelve people were injured in one of the incidents.
The 14-year-old modified a TV remote control so that it could be used to change track points, The Telegraph reports. Local police said the youngster trespassed in tram depots to...
Google announces faster, more customizable Google... →
Improved UI, Customization of default tabs, Speedier Gmail, Speedier Calendar and iGoogle.
I’ll be so much happier.
Monkey’s Thoughts Propel a Robot →
On Thursday, the 12-pound, 32-inch monkey made a 200-pound, 5-foot humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity. She was in North Carolina, and the robot was in Japan.
“ELE?! Extinction Level Event?”
– Jacob DeHart
what?!?!?!
Mark Atwood - An idea. Bloom Filter storage engine →
A couple of days ago, Jacob DeHart and Harper Reed pinged me with an interesting idea for a MySQL storage engine. A “write-only” engine into a Bloom Filter. What a neat idea! The bloom filter, and it’s varients and improvements, is almost magic. You can insert items. You can tell if you have inserted an item in the past, You can tell if you havn’t inserted an item in the past (probably). But you...
The office hunt continues today. :)
“How can someone who’s so socially awkward make a social networking site?”
– Amy on Zuck’s 60 Minutes segment
“Omarosa is like a cockroach. No matter what you do, you can’t kill her.”
– Gene Simmons, Celebrity Apprentice.
Beautifully put.
Green Zebra →
Jacob and I are meeting friends here for dinner tonight. I’m so excited!
Robot to Mix Chemotherapy Drugs at U.S. Hospital →
The University of Colorado Hospital is about to start using a robot to mix chemotherapy drugs for patients, which its developers say will eliminate human error and protect technicians from potentially dangerous drugs.
Its about time we started putting computers to work. Especially when you have a tight level of significance in accuracy.
epa.org →
Learn how to recycle your old cell phones.
