November 2008
26 posts
A Modest Proposal For The Auto Industry: Stop... →
Everybody these days has some advice for the beleaguered U.S. auto industry. Bail them out. Break up the unions. Do something about the dealerships. Do something about spiraling health care and…
Papervision Parlor Trick Puts 3D Flash Character... →
Papervision - Augmented Reality (extended) from Boffswana on Vimeo.
A digital design shop in Australia, Boffswana, shows off a neat parlor trick in the video above. It places a 3D…
Enormously succesful potato peeler street vendor... →
The Going Rate for Contract iPhone Developers →
Raven Zachary: The going rate for iPhone developers, at least the developers I know and trust, is $125/hour and up. I have some friends who are booked out at $200/hour for the next few months,…
Harvard MBAs Still Insist On Ruining The Market →
The post-graduate plans of business school graduates is one of our favorite contrary indicators. Each year in November, when Harvard Business School releases statisics about where its…
Google: Yes, We Broke iPhone App Store Rules... →
One of the more interesting recent questions in the iPhone geek circle: Is Google’s (GOOG) neat, newish voice-powered iPhone search feature quietly breaking Apple’s (AAPL) App Store rules?…
Dictionary Fail →
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Induced Current →
Microsoft May Rename 'Live Search."... →
Word on the street is that Microsoft will soon rebrand it’s Live Search. It could be renamed as “Kumo.com,” or possibly “Windows Live Search.” The service was named “Live Search two years ago,…
Million Dollar Arm →
Singh and Patel came to the United States six months ago after being the top finishers in an Indian reality TV show called the “Million Dollar Arm” that drew about 30,000 contestants. The show…
What Is It Like to Lose $100 Million a Day? →
If you are feeling bad about your 401(k) losses, consider the case of Sheldon Adelson. His investments have declined by more than $30 billion, yes with a “b,” in the past year.
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What should Obama's Chief Technology Officer's top... →
Microsoft Pulls Plug On Windows 3.1 (MSFT):... →
The end of an era: On November 1, Microsoft (MSFT) officially stopped issuing licenses for the Windows 3.x line, the first version of Microsoft’s graphical OS anyone actually used.
We had…
Microsoft Pulls Plug On Windows 3.1 (MSFT):... →
The end of an era: On November 1, Microsoft (MSFT) officially stopped issuing licenses for the Windows 3.x line, the first version of Microsoft’s graphical OS anyone actually used.
We had…
Phone call: Can I keep chickens in Chicago →
Fellow named Chad Kimball calls the Chicago police, the city clerk, and the legal department to find out if he can raise chickens in the city. No one really seems to know.
Does My…
Good to Gone: Disappearing "Great"... →
Had someone point this out to me, so I thought I’d make a quick post of it. If you take the eleven companies from Jim Collins’ bestselling Good to Great book a few years back, knock off Philip…
China market of the day →
From a loyal MR reader:
I just read that there is a company in China hiring young females who are paid to get pregnant and deliever a baby for couples suffering from infertility. The…
New Spy Pen Records Sound and Color Video →
The Marlin SpyPen is the WORLD’S SMALLEST DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER. It records AVI video in color. The Pen plugs into your PC for both charging and data transfer. The 2 GB version costs…
4-1 odds on the existence of God →
Online betting outfit Paddy Power is offering 4-1 odds that God exists. So far, folks have wagered $5000 on the question. Interest has increased resulting from an atheist ad campaign on London buses…
Wikipedia — Time for a Redesign? →
Wikipedia is a fantastic resource and I’m sure many of you use it all the time — and probably even contribute — but I think it’s lacking terribly in one area: design. I think Wikipedia is a…
Election →
CNN Hologram Technology May Change Web... →
This is awesome. The female reporter that you see in the CNN newsroom here is actually miles away but appears to be standing on stage inside the room courtesy the “hologram technology” that CNN is…
QUOTE: Figure out the absolute least you need to →
Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.
—John Gruber’s one central, overriding guideline for iPhone UI…
2012 Palin and McCain presidential debate →
Funny debate between Palin and McCain.
October 2008
32 posts
The Ten Web Clips That Shaped The Election →
The real winner of the 2008 presidential election? Web video. According to metrics from TubeMogul, ViralVideoChart, YouTube and the New York Times the following ten campaign-related…