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July ’12
Vittles: Films about food, people and their stories.
Club Trip to N.Y., 2002: Holy shit! @sethmnookin wrote this @newyorker article, 1 I clearly remember 10 years later.
Great comment here: 'Filing taxes late incurrs a penalty. The power to level this fine is through Congresses powers of taxation. It is not that hard a concept to grasp folks.'
June ’12
Pepsi: I'm still partial to RC cola, but this Pepsi site is interesting, like pinterest fo pop lovers.
World Outline for Poets: With big work project behind me, & weekend temps above 100, I'm going to catch up on my web skills.
A Dinner with Drug Reps: Dan Ariely: [A]fter giving a short lecture about the benefits of a drug, the [physician] would begin to believe his own words & soon prescribe accordingly.
Snapseed: Snap it. Tweak it. Love it. Share it.
Food Camera: ”FoodCamera is the fastest and easiest way to take and share pictures of food.”
Twitter doesn't innovate: ”Twitter doesn’t need to be beaten, it just needs to be threatened so it gets out of its comfort zone.”
Kicksend: ”Send large batches of photos, videos & files to your family & friends.”
Exhausted With The Same: ”The only reason to blog is because you have something to share — not “'say.'” Not sure I agree, but thought provoking.
10 Timeframes: ”I can never remember if we are supposed to live each day as it were our last, or if it’s the first day of the rest of our lives. It’s hard to tell sometimes.”
Outlaw Garden: ”Breaking the rules by growing vegetables (even when the HOA says no)” @outlawgarden
AstroPix Beta: ”Access to the collected image libraries of a variety of the leading astronomical observatories.”
May ’12
Nineteen Eighty-Four: On second thought, maybe I did read Orwell. Going to my corner radio to be told yes or no.
Sugar Inc.: Now here's a real Mr. Sugar who's done quite well! @briansugar
Fire in the Triangle: ”Our sponsors & Office of State Fire Marshal remind you that #1 cause of home fires & burn injuries is cooking.”
Open Garden: Wondering how this would solve conference wifi woes.
Quarterly Co: Subscribe to get stuff. Reminds me of a swag service I once paid into. I got an Ask.com t-shirt.
Honest Code: ”We don’t use Six-Sigma, and we’re not ISO-9001 certified. The process we use, really, is common sense.”
The Secrets of Creativity?: ”Popular science writing, if it hopes to be popular, almost never paints as nuanced a picture of the topic as experts want to see.” #scio13
abl_droploader: New #Textpattern image uploader plugin from Andreas Blaser.
Twiddy & Co: 930 Outer Banks Rentals & Vacations in North Carolina
Art Sumo: This is great way to find art: “Discover the world one painting a day” @artsumo
Momofuku: ”We do not currently operate a sushi bar or karaoke parlor, but appreciate the inquiries.”
PeerJ: Sustainable science publishing is coming.
theBlu: This looks interesting. Reminds me of my childhood snorkeling off St. Croix.
Announcing the 75th class of Nieman Fellows: I esp like this: Blair Kamin, architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, will study architecture, landscape architecture and urban design, seeking to re-examine and revitalize the field of architectural criticism in print and on the Web.
Maker Faire: NC: This year's event is June 16 at NC State Fairgrounds. Make it a family day.
swimmindustries: Here's a cool personal site, lacking an About page, but with a great mix of photos, music, links. (via @jess_i_am @mikeswimm
Flamingo (sculpture): A Chicago fav: Calder's sculpture in Federal Plaza. I'm going to @NasherMuseum tonight to see Calder exhibit.
Baby Tracker: ”The best app to understand your baby's schedule.”
April ’12
Sphero: I need one of these for home, & more for #scio13.
Raleigh Denim: ”We make limited edition jeans, using local materials and traditional construction methods, in our downtown Raleigh, NC workshop.”
Minigroup: Another group project manager. Looks simple.
maglaunch: Clemson University hired Neil Caudle to create a new research magazine. Neil blogs the process here.
Digitals: Cute video about digital overload. (via @SmashingMag)
One Economy Corporation: ”A global non-profit organization that leverages the power of technology and connects underserved people around the world to vital information that will improve their lives.”
Dr. Ronan Kavanagh's Blog: ”I also run a musicians clinic which specifically caters to the medical needs of sore or injured musicians.”
copper: A tip jar to to pay people for their work.
You've Never Heard?... : NPR: ”This is a recurring series in which we ask our unimaginably young interns to review classic albums they've never heard before.”
March ’12
Benton Family Cure: Splendid short video about smoked ham, will make you want to eat bacon now. (via @jkottke)
Embargo Watch: Don't embargo something that's already online. (via @ivanoransky at #gia12)
Muck Rack: ”What are journalists talking about.” (via @ivanoransky at #gia12)
Honey Badger Cafe: ”Please do not park in the valet lot. We really do not appreciate them, and would like to see them fuck off.” - Use the Toggle Profanity button to clean up the site. But that would be boring.
H2O Project - Rotisserie: ”Users are allowed to post responses at any time, but their responses are not published to other users until the deadline for the current round passes.” (via Scripting News)
PatternTap: Aims to be the best resource for examples of specific design and user experience patterns on the web
I'm not a "curator" - Marco.org: ”One of the reasons I don’t add more “via” links is because it’s often difficult to trace the original “discoverer” of a link.” (via DF)
Flexslider | WooThemes: So many slider plugins. Flexslider, Orbit, Slides, Carousel. Quite the rage in web design. But nothing will beat my dad's Peace Corps slides projected on the kitchen wall.
A VC: The Next Generation: Really interesting how Fred Wilson is using the VoiceBunny api to automatically podcast his blog posts. I'd prefer to hear his own voice, but still a good strategy.
Have web comments failed?: Intriguing: “main role of an editor in a year or two may just be to start conversation topics. Blog posts, in a sense, are irrelevant compared to conversation.”
Bootstrap, from Twitter: My only complaint so far with Bootstrap docs is lack of clear instructions on how to call javascript plugins, though guess I can learn elsewhere.
SwitchPoint: ”A gathering of global thinkers and doers merging ideas, sharing breakthroughs, and finding solutions to save lives in the developing world.” 4/20/2012 @HRBallroom
Coconut Scraper: Saveur Magazine suggests this coconut $35 grater. In Vanuatu, we scratched coconuts couple of times a day with a much cheaper version.
Font Awesome: ”[T]he iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap.”
ScienceSeeker: 922 science blogs from around the globe are feeding the uber-useful ScienceSeeker.org aggregator.
Studio Neat Made an App: Stop-motion movie to promote a new app for making time laps & stop-motion movies. I bought this today.
Fasting to Beat Jet Lag: Mentions Charles Ehret, Argonne National Lab chronobiologist. (via DaringFireball) cc: @boraz
TXP: The online magazine for Textpattern returns.
Placehold.it: Quick and simple image placeholders Brilliant.
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