The Casually Interested Person’s Guide To Investing In Bitcoin
How to make money with Bitcoin, how to get into mining and some other interesting and informative stuff about Bitcoin.
Reporter is a new application for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurabl
I’ve been using it for a few weeks and the result is amazing (the visualization part, especially). It’s not connected to the Internet so no worries about privacy.
Reporter is a new application for understanding the things you care about. With a few randomly timed surveys each day, Reporter can illuminate aspects of your life that might be otherwise unmeasurabl
Take perfect photos every time. According to CJ Chilvers, technique and gear doesn’t matter. All good photographs tell a story, with a compelling subject, for you.
Take perfect photos every time. According to CJ Chilvers, technique and gear doesn’t matter. All good photographs tell a story, with a compelling subject, for you.
Canopy: cool products available on Amazon
Canopy: cool products available on Amazon
Today I discovered Canopy thanks to Product Hunt. I wrote about product hunt here.
Canopy: cool products available on Amazon
Today I discovered Canopy thanks to Product Hunt. I wrote about product hunt here.
How are Chicken McNuggets made? Someone asked whether there was pink goop in nuggets. The answer is nope.
How are Chicken McNuggets made? Someone asked whether there was pink goop in nuggets. The answer is nope.
True facts that sound false
The United States in World War 2 created a bomb that used bats. The bats would be carrying small incendiary charges and would be released from the bomb in mid air, causing them to fly and scatter to different buildings in the area. The charges would then detonate and set all the buildings on fire. It was tested and proven to be very effective.
Funny list on Reddit, here taken from Kottke.
True facts that sound false
The United States in World War 2 created a bomb that used bats. The bats would be carrying small incendiary charges and would be released from the bomb in mid air, causing them to fly and scatter to different buildings in the area. The charges would then detonate and set all the buildings on fire. It was tested and proven to be very effective.
Funny list on Reddit, here taken from Kottke.
How The Guardian Uses "Attention Analytics" To Track Rising Stories
How The Guardian Uses “Attention Analytics” To Track Rising Stories
That real-time feedback came from the Guardian’s in-house “attention data” tool Ophan. It tracks all of the Guardian’s traffic and makes it available to 400 journalists, editors, and developers with a time-lag of less than five seconds. Users can see what’s being read most on the Guardian’s various home pages. The data can be filtered by country, time period, section, mobile app and devices, browsers, referral sources, and more.
Clever.
How The Guardian Uses “Attention Analytics” To Track Rising Stories
That real-time feedback came from the Guardian’s in-house “attention data” tool Ophan. It tracks all of the Guardian’s traffic and makes it available to 400 journalists, editors, and developers with a time-lag of less than five seconds. Users can see what’s being read most on the Guardian’s various home pages. The data can be filtered by country, time period, section, mobile app and devices, browsers, referral sources, and more.
Clever.
A. A. Gill on America, Europe’s Greatest Invention—and How the New World Exceeds the Old
A. A. Gill on America, Europe’s Greatest Invention—and How the New World Exceeds the Old
Among the educated, enlightened, expensive middle classes of Europe, this is a received wisdom. A given. Stronger in some countries like France, less so somewhere like Germany, but overall the Old World patronizes America for being a big, dumb, fat, belligerent child. The intellectuals, the movers and the makers and the creators, the dinner-party establishments of people who count, are united in the belief—no, the knowledge—that Americans are stupid, crass, ignorant, soul-less, naïve oafs without attention, irony, or intellect.
The caveat is here:
These same people will use every comforting, clever, and ingenious American invention, will demand America’s medicine, wear its clothes, eat its food, drink its drink, go to its cinema, love its music, thank God for its expertise in a hundred disciplines, and will all adore New York.
Especially the last paragraph. America is not the clear-cut country we Europeans (and French) take it to be, and this insightful piece is a very nice read.
A. A. Gill on America, Europe’s Greatest Invention—and How the New World Exceeds the Old
Among the educated, enlightened, expensive middle classes of Europe, this is a received wisdom. A given. Stronger in some countries like France, less so somewhere like Germany, but overall the Old World patronizes America for being a big, dumb, fat, belligerent child. The intellectuals, the movers and the makers and the creators, the dinner-party establishments of people who count, are united in the belief—no, the knowledge—that Americans are stupid, crass, ignorant, soul-less, naïve oafs without attention, irony, or intellect.
The caveat is here:
These same people will use every comforting, clever, and ingenious American invention, will demand America’s medicine, wear its clothes, eat its food, drink its drink, go to its cinema, love its music, thank God for its expertise in a hundred disciplines, and will all adore New York.
Especially the last paragraph. America is not the clear-cut country we Europeans (and French) take it to be, and this insightful piece is a very nice read.
Twitter is fantastic in broadcast mode, but terrible in consumption mode.
Spot on analysis by Frédéric Filloux for the Monday Note. Twitter is great because broadcasters (heavy users) say so. But it’s still unfathomable for non-heavy users and those with very little following, like myself.
Twitter announced good numbers last week but it is failing in user growth. With a new interface, which could spawn a new approach to the product, Twitter can get its growth mojo back.
So Twitter product designers, solve this problem.
Twitter is fantastic in broadcast mode, but terrible in consumption mode.
Spot on analysis by Frédéric Filloux for the Monday Note. Twitter is great because broadcasters (heavy users) say so. But it’s still unfathomable for non-heavy users and those with very little following, like myself.
Twitter announced good numbers last week but it is failing in user growth. With a new interface, which could spawn a new approach to the product, Twitter can get its growth mojo back.
So Twitter product designers, solve this problem.
Can animals predict earthquakes?
Can animals predict earthquakes?
Birds and bats might serve the purpose because of their ability to detect magnetic fields. This capability probably helps the creatures navigate –but it could also allow them to sense earthquakes before they strike.