What is worth its weight in gold? (6)
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Here is a list of stuff worth more than its weight in gold, expressed in terms of price per pound: Platinum $20,679 Fifty Dollar Bills $22,680 Cocaine $22,680 Hundred Dollar Bills $45,359 Rhodium $77,292 Good-quality, one-carat diamonds $11.4 M LSD $55 M Antimatter $26 Quadrillion Here is the link, with much more information. Here is a short article on the market for rhodium. Here is an earlier post on the economics of antimatter. Thanks to ...
THAT HAT IS ACTUAL SIZE. (1)
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Larry! Call the boys! LOOK!!! See that? You know what this means? GIANT ROBOT BEAR IS APPROACHING COMPLETION!!! Oh, just wait until he burns Opelika! The screams! Oh, the festive screams! Take a picture, Levi. WOOOO ROOOOOOOOLL TAAAAAAAAHDE!!! Robot Bear and Saban gonna take us back to the promised land! Thank god he runs on human blood and Chesterfields, what with gas being so expensive. LOVE YOU GIANT ROBOT BEAR!!! (It’s actually the roof for ...
Price and Penetration of Consumer Electronics (1)
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As interesting at middle management for Kottke. (36)
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Joel Spolsky, popular tech writer and founder of Fog Creek Software, has an article in the September 2008 issue of Inc. called How Hard Could It Be: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers. In it, Spolsky details how he came to the idea of building a small company where middle management was unnecessary. He took particular inspiration from an article he read about a GE plant. It was about a General Electric plant in ...
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Tim said:
Interesting post. Kottke missed the fact that Grey Dog passes management of the restaurant onto the customers as well. "Waiters" bring the food out and bus it, but patrons do practically every other task including procuring silverware/napkins, filling water glasses, getting condiments, etc... I suppose it does work and the food is good, but it's certainly not a traditional restaurant experience from the perspective of a patron.
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Ryan said:
Different ways to manage a company. Avoid Middle management/use if sparingly
100 things author dies (19)
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The author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die is dead at the age of 47. I hope he made it through them all. (link)
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Nicholas said:
Maybe he should have focused more on the four last things...
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
oh the irony. I wonder if his kid will write a book about what he finished
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Gavin said:
The most fucked up thing about the story is this guy died like falling down at his house or something like that.
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Tim said:
I feel conflicted about my reaction to this...
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Yan said:
ahhh...irony
Stephon Marbury just spent $45 million on ... (1)
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Stephon Marbury just spent $45 million on his own jet? Another offseason of great decisions. [New York Post]
Scenes from Rio de Janeiro - The Big Picture - Boston.com (31)
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A recent large-scale project by the photographer named JR has focused attention on women - relatives of victims of violence - by displaying their large portraits in one of Rio de Janeiro's hardest hit neighborhoods. Though Rio is blessed with natural beauty and climate, it still struggles with large disparities between rich and poor, and many of the six million residents reside in hillside slums called favelas. Here are some views of Rio de Janeiro ...
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Crystal English said:
Powerful art project that features large-scale b/w photographs of women's faces on the facades of houses in neighborhoods with unusual amounts of violence against women. These images are from the favelas of Rio, however the project has already taken place in cities in Africa and will be making it's way to SE Asia.
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Tim said:
Already shared this a few days ago, but this photoset is pretty great.
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tabo said:
<3 big picture
Huge iPhone Security Flaw Puts All Private Information at Risk [Iphone] (79)
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There's a huge security problem in the latest iPhone 2.0.2: if you have your JesusPhone password protected, using a very simple trick gives anyone full access to your cellphone private information in Mail, SMS, Contacts, and even Safari. The two-step trick is even simpler to the one used in the past to gain access to the phone to install unlocking cards or jailbreak. Fortunately, there's a way to avoid this obvious security breach until Apple ...
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Nathan said:
Security? Who needs that?
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jpwain said:
LOLLLLLLLLLLLL
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Chad said:
Thought this was an Onion article at first. OMG SOMEONE WITH PHYSICAL ACCESS TO YOUR PHONE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ACCESS YOUR PHONE.
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MikeD said:
Awww, look how cute. Gizmondo thinks it has a security exploit.If you're trusting your sensitive data to a little keypad lock on a cell phone, you've been fucked for a long, long time.
Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth (42)
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An experiment into connecting the Web with language. Ubiquity is an experiment two parts. It’s both an interface and a development platform. Ubiquity 0.1 focuses on the platform aspects, while beginning to explore language-driven methods of controlling the browser. Read about the release here, or download it. In this post, we’ll talk first about the interface, and then the platform. For those who are really impatient, and just want to see how the prototype version ...
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joekwon said:
i like where this is going
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Kerk said:
Well after spending an hour-ish writing my Delicious command, I have to say I am even more impressed with this little Browser toy. Can not wait for some more polish.
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Tom said:
suck a dick, me!
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Tim said:
neat
Reverse Dictionary (1)
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Know the concept but just can’t find the word—or similar words—for it? A thesaurus is no use. A dictionary’s just torture. Help is here in the form of the reverse dictionary; I’ve got a feeling this is going to come in handy quite often. You may also be interested in:Common Errors in English Writing a Novel - The Snowflake Method Secrets of Book Publishing
Meeting Of The Minds (1)
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We set the scene in the Mets bullpen, during the first inning of Wednesday night's game against the Braves:Schoeneweis: Hey everybody! Everybody! Gather your butts 'round here, Billy's got something to say to all of you!Wagner: Thanks Scott. I want you all to know that just because I'm not going to be able to close for y'all in the foreseeable future cuz my elbow is the size of Fluff Castro's head, that you guys are ...
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Tim said:
I laughed, then cried...
Mayan Muons and Unmapped Rooms (5)
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[Image: "Guatemala Tikal D8006" by youngrobv].Easily one of the most interesting things I've read in quite a while is how a team of particle physicists from UT-Austin plan on using repurposed muon detectors to see inside Mayan archaeological ruins.In the new issue of Archaeology, Samir S. Patel describes how "an almost featureless aluminum cylinder 5 feet in diameter" that spends its time "silently counting cosmic flotsam called muons" – "ghost particles" that ceaselessly rain down ...
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Goldie Katsu said:
Fascinating article and the photos are stunning as well.
The Year in Pictures: Olympic Update (4)
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I've been scouting around for what I consider original and artful (as opposed to arty) Olympic photographs and here's my selection to date. Above - Dan Chung and an effective use of tilt shift photography to record Usain Bolt's victory celebration after breaking the 100 meter world record to win gold.John Giles caught this unusual landscape of two British boxers training on a beach outside of Beijing.Another photograph by Dan Chung as Michael Phelps makes ...
● Great Olympic moments on YouTube (50)
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One of the best ways to watch the Olympics is to chase down all the references made by NBC's commentators on YouTube and watch them in addition to (or instead of) the regular telecast. Here are some of the ones I've found. From the 1976 Olympics, the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history by Nadia Comaneci on the uneven parallel bars. This more impressive routine also earned a 10, as did this balance beam ...
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charliereece said:
Awesome videos!!!
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James said:
Some of this is unbelievable. So much more interesting than the Olympics now.
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Jacob said:
Great collection of Olympic history clips on YouTube. I especially found the uneven bars routines to be so different from what you see today. Perhaps not as athletically challenging, but definitely some creative stuff.
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
great list of olympic wins. add both races for bolt this year and it is even better
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Juan Fernando Zuluaga C. said:
Una perfecta recopilación de los momentos más importantes en los Olímpicos... por fin alguien se le midió a la tarea!
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Sue said:
Great time traveling videos!
Fake restaurant wins wine award (29)
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Beware gatekeepers on autopilot. As part of the research process for an academic paper on wine awards, Robin Goldstein submitted an application for Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence using a fake restaurant and a subpar wine list. I named the restaurant "Osteria L'Intrepido" (a play on the name of a restaurant guide series that I founded, Fearless Critic). I submitted the fee ($250), a cover letter, a copy of the restaurant's menu (a fun amalgamation ...
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neal said:
I love it when students do these kinds of research projects.
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James said:
LOL, now we know that the so-called "Award of Excellence" means absolutely nothing.
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marya said:
Whoa! Wine Spectator loses major points and clout. Ouch.
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tosch said:
Now you know why you see these awards in so many random restaurants.
Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web? (63)
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Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention (pdf) when he noted that "over time, Wall Street 'firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf their activities on behalf of outside customers.'" As I wrote in my blog post at the time, Trading for Their Own Account, "I thought, whither Google, Yahoo! and Amazon?" At the time, I ...
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Götz said:
When this trend spreads (and I say "when", not "if"), this will be a tax on the utility of the web that must be counterbalanced by the utility of the intervening pages. If they are really good, with lots of useful, curated data that you wouldn't easily find elsewhere, this may be an acceptable tax. In fact, they may even be beneficial, and a real way to increase the value of the site to its readers. If they are purely designed to capture additional clicks, they will be a degradation of the web's fundamental currency, much like the black hat search engine pages that construct link farms out of search engine results.-- interessabte Beobachtung
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JL! said:
"Readers learn, remember, and resent when links on a certain site tend to be a waste of their time."YES!!!!
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larry said:
I've seen the NYT example in action. I was actually quite frustrated and annoyed that they didn't have a link to the site they were talking about...
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Trojan Warrior said:
Así empezaron los buscadores, a practicar la endogamia informativa, y mira cómo han acabado...
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chrisfreitag said:
This is why I stopped clicking links on Engadget. When you link to Nokia 6682, I want to see the Nokia 6682, not Engadget search results.
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Federico Giacanelli said:
E' l'unica cosa che non ho mai sopportato di Punto Informatico.
JR In The Flavelas Of Rio (19)
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We've been unabashed fans of JR's for years, but this latest project, shot in the flavelas of Rio is our favorite. The manner in which the photographs blend in with the landscape is absolutely stunning. More here.
How to build a network (22)
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The first counterintuitive lesson: Companies that build large networks on the web don’t charge users what the market would bear; they charge as little as they could bear. That is how they maximize growth and value for everyone in the network on top of the platforms they provide.
