What a great idea: Threadless x Griffin iPhone case collaboration.
noah brier on stuff
“Gordon Shumway and his family are forced to flee his home world of Melmac after nuclear war threatens all life on the planet. As he is exiting Melmac’s atmosphere, an atomic detonation destroys the planet, and his ship, and he is forced to eject in a life vessel. After floating through space for years, he finally picks up a faint radio signal. His life vessel locks onto the signal, which sends Shumway crashing into the suburban home of the Tanner family. He passes the Bar Exam and proceeds to become a powerful anti-nuclear lobbyist, diplomatic peace-maker, and black-belt karate champion, going from country to country to urge their leaders to abandon nuclear technology and weaponry, sometimes by force.” (via 6 Campy Sci-Fi Shows That Need Dramatic Remakes: Pics, Videos, Links, News)
Someone make this happen. Please.
That’s design debt.”
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Rick Webb.
I beat him to posting his new idea.
New York City startups are as likely to be focused on the arts and crafts as on the bits and bytes, to be influenced by our unparalleled culture as by the latest browser features, and informed by the dynamic interaction of different social groups and classes that’s unavoidable in our city, but uncommon in Silicon Valley. Best of all, the support for these efforts can come from investors and supporters that are outside of the groupthink that many West Coast VC firms suffer from. When I lived in San Francisco, it was easy to spend days at a time only interacting with other web geeks; In New York, fortunately, that’s impossible.”
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
FDA Declares War on Fruity Cigarettes - MarketingVOX »
GOD. Clove cigarettes. Flavored cigarettes. Caffeinated Alcoholic beverages. JUST STOP. HEY FDA WHY DON’T YOU CRACK DOWN ON THE ONE THING PEOPLE WANT YOU TO CRACK DOWN ON - PHARMA ADS.
Because people who run pharma ads have more money than people who smoke cloves.
Congressman: Terrorists Will Assrape Your Children During Recess | The Awl
- The Awl headline cracked me up.
- This is insane, the list of people who might get kidnapped actually starts to get funny at the end.
Last Night's Check-ins »
Doug Pfeffer, my supremely talented colleague at The Barbarian Group, has finally launched his newest creation, which I’ve been playing with for the last few months. It’s called Last Night’s Check-ins and it’s an elegantly simple idea/execution. Basically, it takes all your Foursquare check-ins from the evening before and emails them to you the next morning for annotation. You simply reply to the email with details below each stop and it stores them in diary form for you.
I think this is super smart for a few reasons: First off, it takes this data that is actually an incredible diary of your life and allows you to add additional metadata to it. Second, and maybe more importantly, it does so with an interface that allows you to sustain interaction. Everyone checks their email every day (or almost every day) and replying to an email couldn’t be easier. For years I’ve wondered why more people don’t use email for collecting structured data and I’m super excited that Doug made the jump.
Anyway, go sign up and start remembering what you were up to.
Sarah Palin offers us all the trashy elements we value as soap opera when it comes from the family of one of our elected officials (see Carter, Billy, or any member of the Clinton clan) with the additional benefit of not actually having to worry that she’ll ever be elected to any position of importance. Just a thought!”
