Get Me Out of Here Schedules Phone Calls, Excuses [Cell Phones] (52)
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Schedule phone calls to any phone with web site getmooh (get me out of here). The idea behind this webapp, as the name suggests, is that you can schedule a call to give yourself an excuse to get out of an awkward situation or mind-numbing meeting. You can choose from one of dozens of pre-recorded messages to play when you answer, from an angry Alec Baldwin to an absurd but probably effective instructional message that ...
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Michael said:
I love this! Great idea.
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Cornerhouse said:
ok, this is cool. you schedule a call to yourself, to get you out of whatever lame thing you're stuck in.
Australian Company Launches The World's Smallest Pocket Projector (15)
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While the rest of the world sits back and waits for pico projectors to make their way into mobile phones, Australian company Mint Wireless has decided to just release the world's smallest pocket projector instead. The end result is this: The Mint V10 Projector. Made by Taiwanese company Aiptek and measuring in at 125 x 55 x 23mm, it can project an image size of 50 inches from just 1.8 metres away. It can be ...
Point of View! (8)
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It's all about where you're lookin at it from. Remember that awesome picture of Obama speaking in Berlin on July 24? Did you see all those digital cameras? Did you wonder what their pictures look like? Check it out. Watching them watch Obama watching Obama watching them.
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This is incredible! (1)
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Wine Package (2)
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http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/ (23)
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Gary Hustwit, director of the outstanding documentary Helvetica, has unveiled his follow-up: Objectified, a film about industrial design. The cast of interviewed designers includes Jonathan Ive from Apple and Dieter Rams from Braun, among dozens of others. ★
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Tiffehr said:
BTW, for the non-designers in my life, I highly recommend "Helvetica" the documentary, even if you just walk around saying, "hey, that's helvetica" or get Khoi Vihn's "Hel-fucking-vetica" shirt for some irony.
Monolab Design Trunk spares no expense to accomodate expensive gear (6)
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets While most of us can get by with a laptop bag on our travels, if you really need to have your primo gear with you at all times, you may want to take some cues from this one-of-a-kind trunk from the folks at Monolab Design. Apparently, this project began years ago when its creator was living from hotel to hotel, and it has now wound up as a fixture in the ...
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Jason said:
nice, this would fit my gear perfectly :P
I have seen the future and it’s in Jersey (7)
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The Star-Ledger in New Jersey just broadcast its first live, daily noon news show on the web and I’m delighted to report that it bears no resemblance to television. That was the point. Ledger Live - 07-28-08 When my friends and former colleagues at the paper told me they wanted to create a show, the one thing I begged them to do was not emulate local TV news. Please, God, anything but that. They had ...
Average environments beget average work (48)
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Grady Booch delivered the following axiom at BrainstormTECH last week: “The average work of the average worker is average”. At first, it sounded perfectly rational. But on second take, I got really bothered by this. It’s based on an assumption of bad, average, and good as being static attributes of a person that I find whole fully offensive and narrow minded. In my experience, we’re all capable of bad, average, and good work. I’ve certainly ...
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War-N said:
wise words as always from 37Signals
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Martin Gordon said:
"No one can be a rock star without a great sceneSo if you want your team to excel, quit thinking about how you can land a room full of rock stars and ninjas (note to recruiters: even if these terms weren’t just misguided, they’d be tired by now anyway). Start thinking about the room instead!Here are three questions to think about as you begin to self-diagnose your environment: * Do you value effort over effect? Someone who stays up all night working is a hero, but getting the work done and leaving early marks someone who isn’t a “team player”. * Do you trust people to do the right thing? We don’t count vacation days and we give everyone a company credit card but require no real expense reports. * Do you encourage questioning? Ending discussions with “because I want it like that” or explaining policies with “because that’s the way it is”."
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Dan Stowell said:
"[T]here’s a ton of untapped potential trapped under crappy policies, poor direction, and stifling bureaucracies."I feel the same way, but I actually don't have empirical evidence that DHH is right.
TSA pulls pants off of elderly man during search (3)
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Filed under: Activism, Airports, NewsIt always never fails to amaze us what sort of crazy screening the TSA is doing on everyday passengers. You've probably seen the pictures of the security officer frisking the nun at Detroit's airport and were thinking what we were thinking -- what is a nun going to sneak into an airport? But the TSA can't discriminate against anyone based on their race, color, creed or age, so they have search ...
