April 2012
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March 2012
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November 2011
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“You are right, we need some solid information to go by, so let’s use the...”
– In response to the NBA Player Union declining the owners latest offer.
Well said, wk4f.
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A Brief Rant On The Future Of Interaction Design →
August 2011
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Peyton Mann-mazing
Peyton Manning has missed only 1 play in his entire 13 season career. It was due to a broken jaw, he returned to the game on the team’s very next possession.
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WatchSVG has mad handles
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“Despite how things turned out, nature intended the layout and the visual design...”
– rainypixels.com
February 2011
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January 2011
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UNC vs. Mich. State game being played on... →
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Nordstrom's Employee Handbook — short and sweet
For years, Nordstrom’s Employee Handbook was a single 5×8” gray card containing these 75 words:
Welcome to Nordstrom
We’re glad to have you with our Company. Our number one goal is to provide outstanding customer service. Set both your personal and professional goals high. We have great confidence in your ability to achieve them.
Nordstrom Rules: Rule #1: Use best judgment in all situations....
December 2010
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October 2010
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WatchExcited about this Kickstarter funded book, Punk Mathematics.
Dude’s podcast about math is surprisingly good.
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Do Marathons Hurt Your Knees? →
The verdict: Probably, but we can’t prove it with science.
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Why Sex With Robots is Always Wrong: The Impending... →
While I don’t necessarily disagree with the thesis, this is fucking nuts.
July 2010
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Renting Friends, Creepy or Awesome?
I just read this article at The Guardian about rentafriend.com where you can rent hand-picked friends by the hour. Sounds incredibly awkward, but also has it’s benefits.
This one cracked me up:
When we go to the park with a football, I get him to lob the ball at a height where I can head it into an invisible goal, over and over. It never occurs to me to give him a turn. A real friend...
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Chris Paul on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! →
With all of the rumors going around about Chris Paul being traded to the Magic this week, I found this Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! show from 2007 that featured him as the “Not My Job” celebrity. I didn’t know all that much about him off court, but after listening to this I’m a big fan. (Third one down on the page)
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Jeanne Calment →
Jeanne Louise Calment (21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) had the longest confirmed human life span in history, living 122 years and 164 days (44,724 days total).
She was reportedly neither athletic, nor fanatical about her health. Calment smoked from the age of 21 (1896), though according to an unspecified source, Calment smoked no more than two cigarettes per day. She ascribed her longevity and...
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A Cell Phone App That Offers Eye Prescriptions →
A quick photograph with your camera phone can now diagnose astigmatism and give you your contact prescription.
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June 2010
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List of Common Misconceptions →
This list of common or popular misconceptions contains some fallacious, misleading, or otherwise flawed ideas which are well-documented to be both widely believed and factually incorrect.
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“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (Told you so, everyone who has tried to convince me that our elevators’ door-close buttons did anything.) (via marco)
Radiohead’s new album will be completely finished... →
Guitarist Ed O’Brien says it’s “the best record we’ve ever made”.
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The Phrase "my bad" Was Coined in the 80's by... →
USA Today, Jan. 27, 1989: After making a bad pass, instead of saying “my fault,” Manute Bol says, “my bad.” Now all the other Warriors say it too.
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How to Tell if Your Beer Glass is Clean
Apparently bubbles sticking to the side and a quickly disappearing head can be can be indications that your beer glass isn’t clean. Here’s a few more.
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May 2010
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Free Music From The Orange County Library →
You can download free music from the OCLS site if you have a library card. The collection of “hundreds of thousands of songs” is hit or miss (mostly miss), but it’s still a pretty interesting step for the music industry.
See some more details about the program at LibraryJournal.com
“The concept of a “file” as a container to hold a piece of content is dying. The...”
– Dustin Curtis