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...
Jan 17th
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“There is no ‘healthiest’ meal. You can spend all day preparing the...”
– Jesse Stromier, The Hungry Programmer
Jan 12th
Jan 6th
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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?
Jan 6th
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“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
Jan 3rd
December 2011
2 posts
“So why invent police? What are they for? In “The Institutional Revolution,” the...”
– Caleb Crain, iPhones vs. the Police
Dec 21st
“.. 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?
Dec 20th
November 2011
4 posts
Nov 27th
Nov 24th
Nov 15th
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“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
Nov 9th
October 2011
6 posts
2 tags
“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
Oct 31st
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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...
Oct 18th
2 tags
“Ten years ago today, we still had not yet met the iPod. The last of Steve’s five...”
– Matt Drance, SJ
Oct 6th
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Oct 4th
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Oct 4th
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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.
Oct 1st
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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...
Sep 29th
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“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
Sep 29th
Sep 16th
1 tag
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...
Sep 2nd
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1 tag
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...
Sep 2nd
August 2011
2 posts
1 tag
“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.
Aug 26th
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Aug 22nd
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
Apr 25th
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
Mar 30th
“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. 
Mar 28th
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“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
Mar 24th
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.
Mar 21st
“Post-PC” is not about the liberation of the device from the PC. It’s the...”
– Marco Tabini, Understanding the post-PC world
Mar 9th
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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.
Mar 9th
“It was my experience that people approached an online purchase of six dollars...”
– Maciej Ceglowsk of Pinboard.in, Anatomy of a crushing
Mar 9th
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Mar 7th
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...
Mar 4th
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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. 
Mar 4th
February 2011
3 posts
Kickstarter - Detroit Needs A Statue of Robocop! →
This project is already funded.  Pretty quick turnaround.
Feb 17th
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?
Feb 16th
“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.
Feb 7th
January 2011
2 posts
“There is something magical about the early morning. It’s a time when the world...”
–  Shawn Blanc, Rising Early
Jan 31st
“So how do you break out of a comfort rut? Ferriss says, “It’s very...”
– Tim Ferris
Jan 28th
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
Nov 23rd
October 2010
2 posts
3 tags
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.
Oct 27th
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“Buried in all the denunciations of “control freak Steve Jobs” and his nefarious...”
– shoes[1].drop;
Oct 25th
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...
Sep 30th
August 2010
8 posts
Aug 25th
“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.
Aug 22nd
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...
Aug 20th
Aug 20th
“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.
Aug 18th
“Why do we do it? Why do millions of us sit in front of these screens hitting the...”
– Tweetage Wasteland
Aug 13th