February 2012
Dan K's Blog: Everyone's a Critic: Unpacking... →
dfkoz:
Everyone has had this experience: you’re trying to decide what movie to watch, so you see what Rotten Tomatoes has to say. What you find fairly often, however, is confusing: This Means War receives a 25% rating from critics and a 72% rating from audiences, while 8 Mile nets a 76% rating from…
Data, data, data and movies.
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Anonymous asked: What is your Tumblr picture?
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Startup Weekend Detroit 4 was hosted the weekend of February 17, 2012, at the M@dison Building, home of Detroit Venture Partners.
More than 100 wannabe and current entrepreneurs from around North America attended and created real products and startups over the course of a single weekend.
This is what I spent my weekend doing. If you want to see what a Startup Weekend is like or what my...
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Art of the Title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo →
maniacalrage:
One of my favorite title sequences of the past few years. I love reading Art of the Title—they’re thoughtful and thorough and it’s so much fun to read how these things get made.
Having absolutely loved the title sequence for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it was a pleasure to be able to re-watch it and read through this interview.
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WatchThis weekend I took part in a Startup Weekend event in Detroit. The idea and team I worked on liked the idea of bookmarks, but thought that it was too easy to save a page and then forget exactly what about it was important to you.
We thought, what if you could just save the part of the page you wanted the most and organize based on that?
The above video displays what we were able to put...
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if you learn one thing from following me
synecdoche:
It should be that you should definitely not keep a poland spring bottle of water next to a poland spring bottle filled with gin next to each other on your night stand because when you wake up at 6AM dying of dehydration and grab one to chug without looking, there is a 50/50 chance it will not end well.
This is a game of Russian Roulette you can play on your own.
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Messages beta for Mac →
guillee:
New app that will replace iChat when OS X Mountain Lion comes out this summer, but you can install the beta right now. Now you can send iMessages from the Mac!
That’s right, both an announcement for the next OS X iteration and an iMessages for Mac beta to play with.
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“In our research group, we came to an interesting conclusion about Firefox. That...”
– Via my friend Marc.
Thanks to Timehop for bringing this back to my memory.
Anonymous asked: Where in MI do you live?
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hi, im mcdavis: What I've Learned About Smart... →
notnathanieljames:
Upon reading this, I realize that my hesitance to ask questions usually stems from one of two places: arrogance or fear of looking dumb. Gotta let go of that.
This is something I’m going to be working on as well.
What I've Learned About Smart People.
tmac721:
Going to Harvard means I have the very unique opportunity to be around a lot of smart people. Now, when I say “smart people,” I don’t mean that guy who always wins trivia night. I mean, blazingly intelligent individuals who are regarded as the pre-eminent scholars in their field. It’s pretty amazing to pass by Turing Award winners and leading political science scholars grabbing a...
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“[Redacted] concluded the interview by stating that even though he does not...”
– My favorite quote from the FBI files on Steve Jobs
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“I had my drawings all on the walls, so anybody could come up. There was a red...”
– Apple’s first designer (via iamdanw)
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What should I know about you?
With so many new people showing up around here over the past few days (hi!), what’s something I should know about you?
“I asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts...”
– Ben Affleck, on the Armageddon commentary track.
(this and a number of other intriguing insights are found on Film School Rejects’ “61 Things We Learned From the Armageddon Commentary”)
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Not Everyone Copies Apple
aaplorchard:
“[Apple is] going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do.”
- Tim Cook in his first email to Apple employees as Apple’s new CEO sent August 25, 2011
“The path [Sony] must take is clear: to drive the growth of our core electronics businesses - primarily digital imaging, smart mobile and...
