Portland is known for its rain but it is absolutely dumping snow right now. Would make for an awesome weekend in the mountains.
Month: February 2011
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Gamers Mimic the Season’s Ups and Downs. The popular teams among players of Madden NFL 2011 were those that were winning and successful in real life. Pretty cool data from the New York Times. (via Flowing Data)
Attention Economy. “If everyone has everyone’s attention the value of attention is nullified.” This is why we should save, invest, and be conscientious of the attention we give things.
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I cannot wait for the new Radiohead album to drop. Saturday will be a wonderful day in my headphones.
3D printing: The printed world. 3D printers are already used as components and prototypes for some products. A future town may only need a printer instead of a factory.
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Working on a WordPress theme while listening to Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann. An awesome way to end the weekend.
Piracy: No stopping them. Piracy off the coast of Somalia is getting worse despite the international efforts of the EU, UN, and even countries like Iran. As naval forces make the shipping routes through the Gulf of Aden safer the pirates move farther afield. In one case they attacked a ship 1,300 miles off the coast.
From iPhone to Palm Pre: a comprehensive review. Ian Beck reviews his Palm Pre with an eye toward the devices HP recently announced for this summer. Ian’s observations about hardware and the webOS software match my experience pretty closely.
Smiley goes public: Now everyone can see how our customers feel about our customer support. 37signals now lets everyone see the 100 most recent ratings of support interactions. Really like the way it’s labeled the “Happiness Report.”
Spot.us 3.0: Redesign is out in the wild. Lauren writes about the new Spot.us design that is live. The new pitch pages are my favorite bit of the redesign.