25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine (7)
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Beautiful animated short movies are excellent for tedious coffee breaks and uninspiring monday mornings. To put some beautiful story in a short 2-5 minutes sequence isn’t easy, but even in this case designers and artists are quite creative and manage to come up with very surprising and unusual results. The selection below is supposed to make you cry, laugh, feel bizarre or even shocked — in every case being absolutely smashed. Let’s take a look ...
Now you can stop using that real croissant for a wrist rest (4)
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Finally I can stop using my breakfast as a wrist rest. After years of working at the computer, I have found the only proper wrist rest that can be used comes in croissant form. The crescent shape forms a comfortable half circle, which allows for perfect wrist-resting convenience. I’ve learned to live with the soggy remains as my croissant decays throughout the day. When the thing falls apart, I know I’ve put in a quality ...
Watch out for everyone or no one (41)
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I was in a three-hour meeting yesterday. I’m meeting averse, you know that. But one of the things I liked about this meeting was when the guy in charge stopped someone mid-sentence and said “Don’t say everyone or no one. It doesn’t mean anything.” We all do this. We try to justify our position by saying “No one knows…” or “Everyone knows…” or some derivative thereof. When you throw around these extremes you weaken your ...
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Good tip!
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Gordon said:
Duh. Everyone knows that...
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pberry said:
Specificity is good.
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Chris said:
Everyone knows this is, like, totally obvious.
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Mason said:
A valid point we could all heed.
Startup 101: Tools for the Job (3)
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After working on Skribit for the last 4 months, I have gotten a grip on my workflow and the tools I as well as the other co-founders use. The scope of this post is to give potential starter-uppers an idea of how to get work done collaboratively with others for a web app startup. I am by no means saying this is how everyone does it. In fact, I would love to know how your ...
12-year-old "Magneto Man" breaks every computer he touches (2)
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Filed under: Desktops Confirming our belief that some people are just "bad with computers," a boy named Joe Falciatano III from Pulaski, New York, seems to have simply the worst luck ever -- and some think it could be do to an overly magnetized touch. While using PCs at this elementary school, Joe -- who dubbed himself "Magneto Man" -- found that every system he laid his hands on went totally haywire. Only after a ...
Wales-Marsden Breakup Chronicle Continues: Ex-GF Auctions Clothes On eBay (1)
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Call it “Break-Up 2.0.” It seems using the Web as a bullhorn for romantic break-ups is all the rage with the kids these days. As we reported earlier today, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, said on his profile on the site that he was not romantically involved with Rachel Marsden. This supposed relationship has been the source of much gossip for the past several days on sites such as Valleywag, and he felt it ...
Pssst, Bill? It's your wife running, not you (1)
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Bill Clinton: So Hillary says, in 2005, the United States Congress adopted the Bush-Cheney energy bill, which gave $27 billion in subsidies to nuclear, oil, and gas and coal. The only thing that was justified was clean coal, because countries are going to be using that. We have to figure out how to take the carbon dioxide out of it. The rest of it is waste. If you elect me, I'll repeal those subsidies. And ...
Castanaut: Ruby-powered OS X Screencasting DSL (2)
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Castanaut is a Ruby-backed screencasting domain-specific language that allows you to script screencasts in code. When these scripts are run, Castanaut takes control of your Mac and produces the desired effect. It’s simply automated, scripted screencasting. The Origin Two weeks ago I was reading a post on 37signals’ blog about producing screencasts. Joseph Pearson’s comment got me all excited: At Inventive Labs, we’re experimenting with scripted screencasts. That is, you run a script, and at ...
Facial Hair Types, 1900 by mathowie (1)
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Slick iPhone mod (2)
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Filed under: Mods, iPhoneWe all know that the iPhone is beautiful (OK, not all of us). The only thing I dislike about its appearance is the chrome band that separates the top and bottom halves. The iPod touch is much more attractive without it.General [M]ayhem forum user KnightKrew felt the same way, and did something about it. Check out this beautiful iPhone mod. With its entire body encased in black TiAlN, it is the Sith ...
Video of Matz Speaking at Google about Ruby 1.9 - February 20, 2008 (1)
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Google has a series of “tech talks” on YouTube where, presumably, Google gets technological luminaries to come in and give a talk about their work. The latest is by Ruby’s creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, and was given just a few days ago on February 20, 2008. In the video, Matz quips at Google’s reticence to use Ruby but spends most of the time talking about Ruby 1.9, YARV, JRuby, and other new developments, and fielding ...
Hawks Agree: WowWee's Dragonfly Tastes Delicious [Birds Of Prey] (1)
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It appears that hawks the world over are not Giz readers, because they would have known that WowWee's Dragonfly is for high flying fun—not eating. Apparently, one such technologically impaired hawk in Long Island learned this the hard way after it snatched a boy's Dragonfly out of mid air. After investigating the story printed in the local Manhasset Press newspaper, WowWee's Customer Service Department determined that it has received 45 different calls over the past ...
Google May Buy Balloon Company (3)
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Google is considering working with, or buying Space Data Corp, a company that provides wireless services via Balloon, according to the Wall Street Journal. Space Data Corp targets areas without existing internet access, such as rural areas and highways, providing wireless and internet services to truckers and rural folk. The company currently launches 20 balloons a day, and a single balloon can service an area equivalent to 40 cell phone towers. The balloons cost $50, ...
Greenspun on Internet Software Patents (1)
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Philip Greenspun: I was asked “Why didn’t you patent this yourself, if you developed it first?” My reply was “It only took me an hour to build; if I went down to the patent office after every hour of programming, I wouldn’t get very much done.” ★
Day 1743: Supporting the troops (1)
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This story is getting way too old. A North Dakota manufacturer has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a suit saying it had repeatedly shortchanged the armor in up to 2.2 million helmets for the military, including those for the first troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. Twelve days before the settlement with the Justice Department was announced, the company, Sioux Manufacturing of Fort Totten, was given a new contract of up to $74 ...
Senator: Suicides show troops at breaking point (1)
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Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves. Before the Iraq war began, that figure was less than one attempt a day. The dramatic increase is revealed in new U.S. Army figures.
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