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Inland 5 (via Dan McPharlin)

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:15:54 +1100

Inland 5 (via Dan McPharlin)

via 16.media.tumblr.com

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:14:52 +1100

via 16.media.tumblr.com

Couldn’t have said it better myself. via hunch.se

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:56:20 +1100

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

via hunch.se

terrysdiary: Me and Eliot Spitzer Why not?

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:39:38 +1100

terrysdiary:

Me and Eliot Spitzer

Why not?

About this Blog

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:48:36 +1100

About this Blog:

What Peepcode are talking about here is really interesting and a great showcase for some new technologies/techniques.

"As a general strategy, for sure. As a dogma: no."

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:41:23 +1100

“As a general strategy, for sure. As a dogma: no.”

- monolake interview – producing an album with no compression

Would be a great response to many questions.

Hard to believe this is real but still… it’s...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:10:26 +1100

Hard to believe this is real but still… it’s crazy.

Neurosonics Live on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

via i.imgur.com

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:16:05 +1100

via i.imgur.com

"Fast food combination meals in Canada often have the option of getting french fries..."

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:52:38 +1100

“Fast food combination meals in Canada often have the option of getting french fries “poutinized” by adding cheese curds (or shredded cheese on the Prairies) and gravy.”

- Why haven’t I been to Canada yet?

Poutine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Most people would pay a substantial share of their wealth — much more, certainly, than the modest..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:56:05 +1100

“Most people would pay a substantial share of their wealth — much more, certainly, than the modest cost of a carbon tax — to avoid having someone pull the trigger on a gun pointed at their head with one bullet and nine empty chambers. Yet that’s the kind of risk that some people think we should take.”

- Economic View - Fighting Global Warming - A Small Price for a Large Benefit - NYTimes.com

venomous porridge: A conversation I have every month or so

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:49:47 +1100

venomous porridge: A conversation I have every month or so:

Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.
Me: I just want to know how late you’re open.
Website: Nope.
Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something?
Website: I’m ignoring…

I have this conversation regularly too. About 8 years ago most hotels and restaurants seemed to have decided to spend 10 years of their web marketing budgets on a Flash site they can’t update.

Violet Voice - holga: Blue and Green (by Rhiannon Adam)

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:36:51 +1100

Violet Voice - holga: Blue and Green (by Rhiannon Adam)

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:36:46 +1100

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:

bobulate:

The Dunning–Kruger effect:

A cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than in actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.

[Researchers] hypothesized that with a typical skill which humans may possess in greater or lesser degree,

1. Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill.
2. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others.
3. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy.
4. If they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.

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It seems here we have a very effective framework for understanding the success of Pauline Hanson, Sarah Palin and a few former co-workers of mine.

Everyone now and then it becomes clear I put far too little...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:18:50 +1100

Everyone now and then it becomes clear I put far too little effort into my wardrobe.

WAXIN’ AND MILKIN’

I want one, and am fairly sure I know someone else who would...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:18:53 +1100

I want one, and am fairly sure I know someone else who would too.

Ventricle Vessel at iainclaridge.net

Sebastien Tellier is awesome. Leonard Greco

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:22:14 +1100

Sebastien Tellier is awesome.

Leonard Greco

Testify. Everythings amazing nobodys happy (via teachertubeSS)

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:40:12 +1100

Testify.

Everythings amazing nobodys happy (via teachertubeSS)

A friend brought this to my attention. Makes me want a cassette...

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:59:17 +1100

A friend brought this to my attention. Makes me want a cassette deck.

Scratch Cassette - today and tomorrow

On pride and Pringles

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:57:05 +1100

On pride and Pringles:

bobulate:

The pride in products:

Fredric Baur invented the crush-resistant canister in 1966 and was so proud that he said he’d like to be buried in one. It remained a family joke for years, but when Baur died last year after a battle with Alzheimer’s, his children stopped at a Walgreen’s on their way to the funeral home, bought a can of Pringles, and buried a portion of their father’s ashes in the bright red can.

“My siblings and I briefly debated what flavor to use,” Larry Baur told Time magazine, “but I said, ‘Look, we need to use the original.’”

From newfangled beginnings to endurance.

via www.nekrom.com

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:08:28 +1100

via www.nekrom.com