NaNoWriMo 2008 - Complete! (2)
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This was a triumph! I’m making a note here: huge success! I have completed the challenge I set forth for myself, completing this year’s National Novel Writing Month. In 25 days I was able to crank out 50,000 words and tell and interesting story. I set a personal goal to stay ahead of the curve and write 2,000 words a day, and for the most part I stuck with that. I did take a few ...
Menu design tricks to get you to spend more (1)
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“When you open that menu, we know that you’re going to order an entree. My goal is getting the person to look for the more profitable items.” — Choice architect (or “menu engineer”) Gregg Rapp From Time magazine: Rapp recommends that menus be laid out in neat columns with unfussy fonts. The way prices are listed is very important. “This is the No. 1 thing that most restaurants get wrong,” he explains. “If all the ...
All Links Are Not Equal: Why Twitter Links Grow Conversation (15)
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by Jennifer Laycock This morning I found myself in the middle of an interesting chat with Mack Collier on Twitter. It started when I joined in a conversation Mack was having about the metrics he measures when estimating the value of blogs. We kicked around the common ones like traffic, subscribers, links and number of comments. Then Mack made mention of how high his comments jump when he Tweets one of his own posts. That ...
Nokia looking to blitz Japan with its own wireless cell network (2)
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By now, it’s should be clear that the MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) boom was a fad. The passing fad saw carrier-wannabes like Ampd and Voce fizzle out of existence, failing to gain enough traction to stay afloat. But, when your the leading global mobile phone manufacturer, with almost a majority cellphone market share, niggling issues such as questionable business models aren’t going to stand in your way. Nokia is looking to enter the Japanese ...
Plenty Butter! Plenty Syrup! Very Good! (2)
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YouTubing this clip of Smedley serving Chilly Willy a tall stack of pancakes [More butter? More butter! More syrup? More syrup! Nice? Very nice!] led me to Chilly's Video Den at Chilly Willy's Sub-Arctic World. [Warning: Comic Sans font and a whole cold-butt-load of .wmv's] Chilly Willy was the creation of Walter Lantz (1900-1994), who also gave us Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker. Hachoo!
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Jarvitron said:
My mom occasionally requires a chorus of the Chilly Willy themesong when we are in the car. I wish I were a crocodile along the river Nile. I bet they're always warm as toast, they always seem to smile.
Beauty At Second Glance (2)
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“Perhaps true beauty is something that draws our attention at the second glance, once the judgment of the first glance has realized its mistake.” His name is David Roche. He was born with a huge benign tumor on the bottom left side of his face; surgeons had tried to remove it when he was very young. In the process, they removed his lower lip, and then gave him such extensive radiation that the lower part ...
Caution: Decapitation (1)
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Warning - stay clear. Good advice. But just how many people got their heads chopped off before this landing strip in Australia decided they needed to post something like this? Leave a comment on this story.
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This page on kottke.org is the #1 result when you Google "obama wins". Servers may get a little melty around here in the next couple of days. That's ok...this is what Twitter's servers are going to look like tomorrow night: Imagine this video, but with the fail whale instead of a real whale and a nuclear device instead of dynamite. (link)
