Alexander Williams
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by squidlord
Always steal from the best. :)
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by squidlord
This is vaguely like saying, "I have this idea for a final scene, I just need someone to write the rest of my feature film script!"
“Once you've trained to fight a real war, you can forget about winning at paintball.”
by squidlord
"Damnit, I thought you said it'd be overcast and misty!"
Recently jaanix introduced an automated RSS feed submitted from ycombinator. Depending on you preferences this feed might be taking up a significant chunk of you radar. For me, about 75% of the top stories come from ycombinator/rss with the tag more...
by squidlord
It seems to me that the real probvlem with the feed, as stands, is that the specific posts by it only get tagged with the tags set on the host itself, and those are scanty. Essentially, we need two different things, as it were, to differentiate between values of data flowing to us. Proper tags, so Jaanix can weight effectively based on that and a "user" associated with that feed that might be higher or lower weighted as it goes. With the two, it's just one more data source for the system to learn how you feel about.
Exclusive: One-of-a-kind official Blade Runner "Spinner" car from LEGO - Boing Boing Gadgets by squidlord
“Today BBtv and I headed to the house of artist, designer, and futurist Syd Mead, who graciously let us sit around for a couple of hours and talk about, gosh, everything. It was without a doubt one of the most more...
by fooladder
“These tools extend and augment traditional pen-and-paper role playing style. They are not a role playing game by themselves, nor are they meant to replace everything at the RPG table.”
by ugk
half-scale Panzer, neighbors call the cops
Instead of pre-loading the images from the page in micro, you click on them on the underlying page and they highlight as well as pop into the posting box. (I'm never above borrowing good design.)
by ugk
aren't you relieved to know you're not a golem (4,000 results)
by squidlord
Placement as one big image reference is ... kind of irritating.
The scale and complexity of these new investments means that they don't just defy traditional economic rules, they may change the rules. So much of the world's capital is now tied up in this shadow economy that the traditional tools more...
by chupacabron
"they owned huge quantities of these unusual new securities, called collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs."
New? CDOs and CMOs have been around since god knows when
New? CDOs and CMOs have been around since god knows when
by joe
Invented in 1980, mainstream in 2001
by fooladder
Bah. Where are the units of time? Units of acceleration?
worth a read. Now back to my dead tree edition...
by jacobmarley
I like that analogy
...the “mullet strategy.” (“Business up front, party in the back” is how his trend-spotting site BuzzFeed glosses it.) “User-generated content is all the rage, but most of it totally sucks,” Peretti says. The mullet strategy invites users to “argue and vent on the secondary pages, but professional editors keep the front page looking sharp. The mullet strategy is here to stay, because the best way for Web companies to increase traffic is to let users have control, but the best way to sell advertising is a slick, pretty front page where corporate sponsors can admire their brands.”
...the “mullet strategy.” (“Business up front, party in the back” is how his trend-spotting site BuzzFeed glosses it.) “User-generated content is all the rage, but most of it totally sucks,” Peretti says. The mullet strategy invites users to “argue and vent on the secondary pages, but professional editors keep the front page looking sharp. The mullet strategy is here to stay, because the best way for Web companies to increase traffic is to let users have control, but the best way to sell advertising is a slick, pretty front page where corporate sponsors can admire their brands.”
by squidlord
I like how he says “it totally sucks” without self-awareness of the irony that all content is user-generated, unless we’re implying that reporters and editors don’t likewise use their papers … which is an self-insult of a whole different class. That some users make better content than others is no surprise in any environ. Allowing communities to ferret out which is which would increase ad revenues and any savvy ad company knows that even now.
I am going to start tagging stories with user names ;-)
by fooladder
Currently columns are not allowed in tags, but "for:user" is an interesting proposition to avoid tag/user collisions. Such tags should raise match % for the specific user.
by joe
how about @user?
by squidlord
Very Twitter, but I'm not sure it's inherently extensible like a colon-convention. I mean, theoretically, I could geotag with lat: or long:, or any number of weird things I can't even conceive of right now, while the @-convention is very, very singular.
by fooladder
lat: and long: also sound cool.
Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity by squidlord
He takes 180 to 210 vitamin and mineral supplements a day, so many that he doesn't have time to organize them all himself. So he's hired a pill wrangler, who takes them out of their bottles and sorts them into more...
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