May 15, 2012
(via Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel | Video on TED.com) - via @gruber. This really is a great presentation.
May 14, 2012
Interesting - the movie Toy Story 2 was almost lost due to a mis-typed command and bad backups.
Pixar studio stories - The movie vanishes (full) (by pixarsuperfan10)
May 13, 2012
This 11-year-old climber is just great. So impressive.
GoPro HD: Kirby Chambliss Epic Flight (by GoProCamera)
May 12, 2012
Don’t plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke ‘em down to nothing.
Tom Waits (via cardboardantlers)(Source: victoriouscorvid)
May 11, 2012
But there is something in his character that I am starting to get frightened about, an unwillingness, or an inability, to feel remorse, to simply own up to a moral failing, to apologize not just if “somebody was hurt” but because you know, deep down, that you hurt someone.
THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like The Fallen World - The Rumpus.netMay 4, 2012
The ideal memorial is written from distance, a generous calculation of merit that proceeds honorably without abandoning accuracy. I have to apologize right now for being unable to give you that—Adam Yauch was a part of my childhood, an ambassador to America from our New York, which is now gone, as is he.
Postscript: Adam Yauch - Sasha Frere-Jones on Adam Yauch.May 1, 2012
What a clever idea for an iPhone app: LalaLunchbox gets kids to plan their own lunches.
Henry Rollins - Young Person (by AJ salas)
The Kashi brand is owned by Kellogg Company, one of the largest breakfast cereal makers in the world. The ownership base of Kashi is still not widely recognized or common knowledge, especially since the Kashi website continues to paint a picture of being a small company. Investigations into Kashi cereals show deceiving claims after their breakfast products were found to be riddled with genetically modified (GM) and pesticide loaded ingredients.
As Dave Pell put it, Even Kashi is a lie. Kashi Cereal Scandal | Om MalikQuite thorough overview of the bigger players in file syncing & storage. Personally I use a mix between Dropbox and Insync. Works great.
The ethos of Mozilla and how we started was all community based,” says Zeier. “There’s very little that we do that’s behind closed-doors. So I don’t think doing a data center and talking about it was a weird thing.
Mozilla Opens Doors On New $3 Million Datacenter | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
