January 2012
5 posts
Amazon's Cloud Search →
parislemon:
This has the potential to be massive. And make no mistake, it’s a shot right at Google, just from the other direction. What if the future of search isn’t web search, but data search (which includes web and native apps).
The Amazon/Google rivalry is quickly shaping up to be more intense than the Apple/Google rivalry.
Good scoop by Sarah Lacy. Undoubtedly the first of many.
This...
“There is no ‘healthiest’ meal. You can spend all day preparing the...”
– Jesse Stromier, The Hungry Programmer
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Plans from 1908 for a Pyramid in downtown Detroit →
An interesting article about Detroit surfaced during D3’s hours laboring through old academic texts. On 1908, an engineer mused about the requirements to build a complete, full-scale replica of the Giza’s Great Pyramid in Detroit.
Could we get a Kickstarter project going for this?
“I say “it made me” but I made it, too. You get the power by using it. Nobody...”
– Zeldman, The maker makes: on design, community and personal empowerment
December 2011
2 posts
“So why invent police? What are they for? In “The Institutional Revolution,” the...”
– Caleb Crain, iPhones vs. the Police
“.. the new home screen finally allows users to customize the contents of the...”
– From Ars Technica’s review of Ice Cream Sandwich
Why was this not available in an earlier version of Android?
November 2011
4 posts
“The fake rib bones, those porky railroad ties that give the McRib its name, are...”
– Willy Staley, A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage
October 2011
6 posts
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“We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many...”
– Mona Simpson, A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs
Replace Shia LaBeouf with Jason Statham →
avclub:
… but producers are already considering replacing him with a new lead, Jason Statham, who would presumably be introduced as an all-new character. However, let it be known that we would be at least 50 percent more excited for the film if he just stepped into LaBeouf’s role with no explanation.
I would pay the IMAX 3D ticket price to go see the next Transformer’s movie if...
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“Ten years ago today, we still had not yet met the iPod. The last of Steve’s five...”
– Matt Drance, SJ
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“The reality is that there are no global service brands. Not in...”
– Horace Dediu, The case against Kindle as a low end tablet disruption.
Another reason why service jobs are safe jobs in the global economy.
September 2011
5 posts
4 tags
Finding Data Store Read and Data Store Write...
I was recently dealing with a system of Simulink models that makes use of DataStoreRead and DataStoreWrite blocks to communicate data (basically global variables) between the separate systems in the software. I was having trouble finding the corresponding Data Store Read blocks for a particular Data Store Write block. I couldn’t figure out how to do quickly lookup this information using...
“Initially, I’d figured the Appstore wouldn’t be much more than a way for Amazon...”
– Chris Ziegler, Editorial: How Amazon picked Android’s lock
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Sick vacation, bro →
footagenotfound:
Chris Jeon, 21, doesn’t really fit in among the rebels. Reporters found the American kid in the middle of the Libyan desert, wearing a basketball jersey and converse sneakers. One of the rebels handed him an AK-47 and after toying with the safety, Jeon fired a couple of rounds in the air. Jeon, a math major at the University of California, Los Angeles, doesn’t speak Arabic and...
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Private rail car owners enjoy yachts on tracks →
I didn’t know that private rail cars like this even existed. The one mentioned in this article looks pretty posh.
From the article:
If they are an expensive hobby for train buffs, private rail cars are good business for Amtrak, which pulls an average of 35 private cars monthly.
Amtrak charges $2.10 a mile to pull a private car — each additional car on the same train is another...
August 2011
2 posts
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“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning....”
– Pablo Picasso
I feel like this describes my life at the moment. There is very little talk of turpentine.
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April 2011
1 post
“Someone in my office lobby suggested that I reset my modem with a paperclip....”
– Tweetage Wasteland, Confession #101: Calling the Internet Police
March 2011
10 posts
1 tag
“The K-cup was designed to save incompetent adults the trouble of wiping up...”
– Dear Coffee, I Love You
“We prejudge endlessly. Because we have not experienced the emotions that new...”
– http://booktwo.org/notebook/stop-lying/ (via ajcronk)
My favorite part from this article. I saved this exact same section to my list of highlights/annotations.
“Social media has made us even more aware of the things we are missing out on....”
– Caterina Fake, FOMO and Social Media via kottke.org
Regular expression to search for Gadaffi →
I guess I’m not the only one flummoxed by the fact that his name is spelled differently depending on what news source you are looking at.
“Post-PC” is not about the liberation of the device from the PC. It’s the...”
– Marco Tabini, Understanding the post-PC world
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I wonder if Mel Gibson is paying Charlie Sheen to act all crazy so that no on remembers how crazy Mel Gibson is by the time The Beaver hits theaters.
“It was my experience that people approached an online purchase of six dollars...”
– Maciej Ceglowsk of Pinboard.in, Anatomy of a crushing
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Steven Frank and T-Mobile →
stevenf:
I sometimes wonder whether I will outlive T-Mobile or vice-versa, and what happens, if anything, at either of those eventualities. Should I pass first, it would bring me comfort in my final hours to know that T-Mobile statements will just keep coming to my house until the world ends. What a wonderful and fitting tribute to my memory that would be. Human memories may fade, but...
SiriusXM Creates 'Tiger Blood Radio' →
“Tiger Blood Radio” was created in response to the national conversation sparked by the recent events surrounding actor Charlie Sheen.
February 2011
3 posts
Kickstarter - Detroit Needs A Statue of Robocop! →
This project is already funded. Pretty quick turnaround.
Oh My Kids
The Hood Internet - Oh My Kids (Usher x Sleigh Bells) by hoodinternet
This track from the Hood Internet Mixtape Volume 5 has been stuck in my head the past few days.
Since those kids on Glee love mashups so much, I wonder if they’ll ever do a very special Hood Internet edition?
“And thinking about writing is not the same as writing.
Reading about writing...”
– Shawn Blanc, Writing vs Writing
You could replace writing in the above quote with coding, getting shit done, or anything else.
Good article to run across when I’m looking at my RSS feeds for the third time today.
January 2011
2 posts
“There is something magical about the early morning. It’s a time when the world...”
– Shawn Blanc, Rising Early
“So how do you break out of a comfort rut? Ferriss says, “It’s very...”
– Tim Ferris
November 2010
1 post
““It’s not him,” said a Western diplomat in Kabul intimately involved in the...”
– New York Times: Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor
October 2010
2 posts
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Pit Crew
On my way to work today my front passenger tire blew out along I-696 near Orchard Lake rd. I was able to get the swap out my busted tire for the spare in about ten minutes.
It is going to be quite the feat to top that accomplishment today.
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“Buried in all the denunciations of “control freak Steve Jobs” and his nefarious...”
– shoes[1].drop;
September 2010
1 post
“Perhaps, the future role of a ‘computing teacher’ is to act as a...”
– Fraser Speirs, The Invisible Computer Teacher
I like the notion here of the computer teacher working alongside other teachers instead of teaching a “computers” class by itself.
Last year I spent the afternoon in Erin’s classroom in Detroit. I got to see the kid’s time in...
August 2010
8 posts
“I’m gonna write a letter to my true love
I’m gonna sign my name...”
– — Arcade Fire, We Used To Wait.
If you haven’t picked up The Suburbs yet, you should.
The start-up from hell →
Working as a co-op in a tool & die factory through college exposed me to the world of machining. If I didn’t take that position (I almost didn’t since it didn’t sound exciting to 18 year-old me), I can’t imagine how I ever would have been exposed to that world. I’m glad I did. CNC machining involves a whole set of processes and constraints that I find...
“What I’d like you to do is to reflect upon the sudden controversy over the...”
– Conor Friedersdorf, in a piece directed at Republican Voters.
“Why do we do it? Why do millions of us sit in front of these screens hitting the...”
– Tweetage Wasteland