Mark Allen

A Total Rethink of How Work Should Work

Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:39:05 -0800

A Total Rethink of How Work Should Work:

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The Business of Too Much TV

Tue, 24 May 2016 15:09:29 -0700

The Business of Too Much TV:

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What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs

Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:07:49 -0800

What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs:

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Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:58:03 -0800

The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup | Business | WIRED

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:21:51 -0700

The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup | Business | WIRED:

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Can the Next Starbucks Actually Sell Good Coffee?

Sat, 02 Aug 2014 23:34:22 -0700

Can the Next Starbucks Actually Sell Good Coffee?:

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The elegant art of not giving a shit

Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:39:18 -0700

The elegant art of not giving a shit:

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Realtime Map of Lightning Strikes I had no idea lightning...

Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:39:47 -0700

Realtime Map of Lightning Strikes

I had no idea lightning strikes could be detected so far away with just a $300 microcontroller-based kit. Would love to play with a full data dump of all lightening strikes over a long period of time.

"If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right..."

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:06:15 -0700

“If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right now and describe what we were going to get in this device in our pocket—we’d have this free encyclopedia, and we’d have street maps to most of the cities of the world, and we’d have box scores in real time and stock quotes and weather reports, PDFs for every manual in the world—we’d make this very, very, very long list of things that we would say we would have and we get on this device in our pocket, and then we would tell them that most of this content was free. You would simply be declared insane. They would say there is no economic model to make this. What is the economics of this? It doesn’t make any sense, and it seems far-fetched and nearly impossible. But the next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale. We’re just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There’s a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we’ll look back and say, “Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.””

- Kevin Kelly

2014’s Hot New Emoji

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:45:38 -0700

Apparently the Emojinati cabal that controls the world emoji supply found that to-do list they wrote in 1992 and are adding the following high-tech emoji this year:

Film Projector
Portable Stereo
White Touchtone Telephone
Black Touchtone Telephone
Telephone On Top Of Modem
Clamshell Mobile Phone
Pocket Calculator
Black Hard Shell Floppy Disk
White Hard Shell Floppy Disk
Soft Shell Floppy Disk
Tape Cartridge
Trackball
Old Personal Computer (not to be confused with the also-new Desktop Computer emoji)
Fax Icon
Optical Disc Icon

Full list at Emojipedia (via Brian)

Body Shapes : A Handy Guide

Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:39:39 -0800

Body Shapes : A Handy Guide

Sutro from the previously undiscovered (by me) Grand View Park...

Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:06:05 -0800

Sutro from the previously undiscovered (by me) Grand View Park (at Grand View Park)

It’s ok, I’m a professional.

Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:33:16 -0800

It’s ok, I’m a professional.

Designing a Creative Practice | O Danny Boy

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 21:11:12 -0800

Designing a Creative Practice | O Danny Boy:

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Surge Pricing Is In Effect

Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:44:30 -0800

Surge Pricing Is In Effect:

sexpigeon:

Demand is off the charts! Rates have increased.

4x the normal cost between 12:00 pm and 1:30 pm at Chipotle. Expect a burrito to be between $28 and $40.

3x the normal cost between 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm at Regal Cinemas. Tickets will be $39 for adults, $30 for children.

8x the normal cost between…

nerdology: Posters for the movies from Seinfeld. I love these...

Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:58:40 -0800

nerdology:

Posters for the movies from Seinfeld.

I love these so much more than I should. I can’t believe it took until August of 2013 for to make this happen. Based on posters alone I would see Check Mate, Prognosis Negative, Death Blow, and Rochelle Rochelle (obviously).

Cry, Cry Again is obviously Oscar bait, and Chunnel looks like garbage. I bet the converted it to 3D in post.

[via NextMovie]

7knotwind: Martin Heuwoldlego bridge (Germany)

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 00:10:47 -0800

7knotwind:

Martin Heuwold
lego bridge (Germany)

mfnkl: Three Seinfeld moments where yelp would have been handy

Sun, 10 Nov 2013 17:57:30 -0800

mfnkl:

Three Seinfeld moments where yelp would have been handy

I’ve been testing a Jawbone Up this week. While I think...

Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:41:51 -0800

I’ve been testing a Jawbone Up this week. While I think it’s waaaaay behind the current generation of FItbits, I’ll admit that I thoroughly enjoyed sliding this guy up and down for about 5 straight minutes.

Product homepages

Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:38:34 -0700

Product homepages:

allisonacs:

An excellent collection of product launch pages, from @destroytoday.