April 2009
“If there is any piece of writing that defines our culture, I submit it’s the...”
– In the Friendly Skies, Satisfying Kitschy Needs Amid a Recession - NYTimes.com
“Consider that a change to Facebook affects all users. The 84% of people that...”
– Big Spaceship | Think Blog - Don’t Blame Facebook
“If you must add new features, I think a much better approach is the one Gmail...”
– Keep It Simple, Stupid
“The flip side of this is that I occassionally get candidates who researched me....”
– Watch Your Social Media - Creative Cohort
“…if public libraries did not exist, would it be possible to establish a library...”
– Terminally Incoherent (via azspot)
Watchcartographer: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
“Last year, researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking...”
– Well - What Are Friends for? A Longer Life - NYTimes.com (via viafrank)
“But instead of using his hands to type, the University of Wisconsin biomedical...”
– Twitter Telepathy: Researchers Turn Thoughts Into Tweets | Wired Science from Wired.com
“First, he acknowledged he had a tough sell. In a sense, his product was too...”
– Making Money by Helping Companies Save It - NYTimes.com
“As the ’80s wore on, cities started enforcing noise ordinances. The...”
– A Eulogy For The Boombox : NPR Music
“A No. 1 N.F.L. draft pick may be one of the most overvalued assets in our...”
– Is the Top N.F.L. Draft Pick a Penalty? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
“Instead of waiting for houses to become abandoned and then pulling them down,...”
– An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It - NYTimes.com
“During certain screenings of movies like “Monsters vs. Aliens” and the upcoming...”
– AMC Introduces “Sensory Friendly Films” for Families With Autistic Children - Carpetbagger Blog - NYTimes.com
“Red-light running and speeding, the two main uses of traffic cameras, are...”
– Jenkins: The War on Short Yellows - WSJ.com
“for others satisfaction will come from being the first in their peer group to...”
– 1,000,000,000 Downloads? - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect
“We’re not there yet - but the interesting trend to watch will be the...”
– 1,000,000,000 Downloads? - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect
“If one of these other “participants” described themselves as really...”
– BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: We like to exploit the luck of others
“I’m not interested in BioShock 2’s multiplayer, I’ll be playing it for the...”
– Things We Hate About Gaming: Innovation and Change - Negative Gamer
“The most popular explanation for this phenomenon is the increasingly high cost...”
– Why Not Boo? - WSJ.com
“Our screens are wider than they are tall; vertical height is the scarce...”
– Aza’s Thoughts » Firefox.next: Tabs on the side?
“at the very least, if a family is homeless and a foreclosed unit is empty, the...”
– Squatting in Foreclosed Homes: Criminal or Commendable? | GOOD
“In Seattle, Dr. Charles Wilson of the Vasectomy Clinic says that in the last...”
– Patient Money - In Another Recession Sign, an Uptick in Vasectomies - NYTimes.com
“Make the right thing easy to do and the wrong thing awkward to do.”
– Coding Horror: Training Your Users
