September 2008
16 posts
Ten Thousand Cents →
A really cool piece of art using Mechanical Turk and 10,000 volunteers paid a penny each.
Apple Extends NDA to App Store Rejection Letters →
Fucking ridiculous Shared by Google Reader
iPhone App Store: Let the Market Decide →
Good ideas here. The recent rejections for apps that “compete” against Apple’s is troubling. I really dig the android model where you can just replace any of the system apps with your own apps. …
The Two Classes of Airport Contraband →
This makes a lot of sense. If you aren’t punishing people for bringing liquids on the plane all you are doing to them is causing a mild inconvenience. Maybe at best you’d disrupt any coordinated…
Krispy Kreme hopes to heat up sales with ice cream... →
OMG, A hot Krispy Kreme donut topped with some vanilla ice cream and some hot fudge sounds so good.
Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed... →
Using Mechanical Turk to do some statistical analysis of the latest Girl Talk album. Shared by Google Reader
Griffin Technology: Clarifi →
This is really cool. An iPhone case with a built-in sliding lens that can be used to do simple macro photography with the iPhone. Website claims that you could get a good scan of a business card…
walking with jesus →
Not a bad sound Shared by Google Reader
kanye west :: "love lockdown" (new version) →
I looked up autotune and it is the trade name for that “80s Robot” sound that T-Pain uses way too much of. I think it makes Kayne sound washed out in this song. Maybe I’ll need a few more listens. He…
Big menu at Uptown Grille is full of delightful... →
Erin and I ate here Friday night. We had to wait an hour, but it was worth it. Really good burger and good beer. Food was moderately priced. We would eat there again.
“Because a person can see the moon does not make them qualified to be an...”
– John Dickerson, http://www.slate.com/id/2199927/
App Store: I’m out. →
Good article on Apple denying the App Store application for the Podcaster application. Apple went too far here. Shared by Google Reader
Second Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Spot for... →
I thought this video was pretty funny. Much better than the last one. I loved that Bill Gates was reading a OOP programming book to the kid. “I really don’t want to get into financial things, it…
YouTube - Damon Condemns Palin →
Probably the first time I ever agreed with Matt Damon.
The design session →
Shared by Chris Hitchcock
Nice discussion of design workflow
tap tap tap exists in somewhat of a virtual state… we have no central office and everyone involved is in a different part of…
USB Hub Slows Down iPhone Syncing? →
Why the hell would a hub cause the sync to take ten times as long? Maybe if they were USB 1.1 hubs. I don’t get it. Shared by Google Reader