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July 13
D.Billy: Street Interventions (via NotCot)

D.Billy: Street Interventions

(via NotCot)

July 12
“ There is also this phenomenal thing called Whirleyball that I think is only in about 3 cities in the world. It is a game where you are in bumper cars and have lacross type sticks and try and throw a ball at a basketball-style backboard for points.

amandalynferri on things to do in Chicago

This sounds like the most fun thing everrr!
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(via tmblg)
(via tmblg)
July 11

photojojo:

Behind the scenes of Denis Darzacq’s amazing photos of people falling in mid-air.

via Kottke:

Everything had been prepared in advance. Everything was ready. The models launched themselves into space. There is nothing false in these scenes. These moments really occurred. There is no fiction, no retouching or special effects.

Denis’s photos are so amazing..

July 10

A map showing the Growth of Walmart across the United States. Year-by-year, starting in 1962.

It’s like watching a virus grow.

(From FlowingData, via Kottke)

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caitlinoppermann:

merlin:

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone.

Still always makes me laugh.

  • MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com
  • MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com
  • Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com
  • AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com
  • One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com
July 9
Something that looked like this would make a HOT retro bluetooth headset. p.s. The Moto DynaTAC 8000 was the first cellphone. Took 11 years and 100 million dollars to make it happen, and the thing cost $4,000 and gave you 30 minutes of talk time when introduced in 1983. (Source)

Something that looked like this would make a HOT retro bluetooth headset.

p.s. The Moto DynaTAC 8000 was the first cellphone. Took 11 years and 100 million dollars to make it happen, and the thing cost $4,000 and gave you 30 minutes of talk time when introduced in 1983. (Source)

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3G iPhone imprinting. Like a baby duckling. iPhone 3G Activation Process: Give them a chance to enjoy the feel of the phone

3G iPhone imprinting. Like a baby duckling.

iPhone 3G Activation Process: Give them a chance to enjoy the feel of the phone

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mikehudack: marco: Enjoying some afternoon tea with, as David put it, “a French thing.” Now that Dunkin’ Donuts put up the calorie counts for each doughnut type, I bet the French things will rise in popularity. Where did you get that mug? Seriously, that mug rocks.

mikehudack:

marco:

Enjoying some afternoon tea with, as David put it, “a French thing.”

Now that Dunkin’ Donuts put up the calorie counts for each doughnut type, I bet the French things will rise in popularity.

Where did you get that mug?

Seriously, that mug rocks.

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exstrax: (bigger version) I took a look at Amit’s data from the tumblr survey. Average # of people YOU FOLLOW: 66 (70% have less) Average # of people that FOLLOW YOU: 82 (22% have more) For 69%, this statement is true: # of people YOU FOLLOW > # of people that FOLLOW YOU. 18% follow more than 100 people. 57% follow less than 50 people. 23% have 100 or more followers. 67% have less than 50 followers. Thanks for doing this, Eric! Interesting that somewhere around 135 followers there’s an inflextion point and people start following fewer people than follow them back.

exstrax:

(bigger version)

I took a look at Amit’s data from the tumblr survey.

Average # of people YOU FOLLOW: 66 (70% have less)

Average # of people that FOLLOW YOU: 82 (22% have more)

For 69%, this statement is true: # of people YOU FOLLOW > # of people that FOLLOW YOU.

18% follow more than 100 people.

57% follow less than 50 people.

23% have 100 or more followers.

67% have less than 50 followers.

Thanks for doing this, Eric!

Interesting that somewhere around 135 followers there’s an inflextion point and people start following fewer people than follow them back.

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chicago is so two years ago.

amandalynferri:

I am going to Chicago next week for a few days.  …

If anyone wants to hang hard (or softly) or has a suggestion of cool things going on please email me - amandalynferri@gmail.com

Ditto! I’m in Chicago from Friday the 18th to Sunday the 20th. If anyone wants to hang out or do something awesome, email me, too: [current year] @ amit gupta dot com

July 8

The Cat Googler

jakehurwitz:

A few weeks ago at work I came back to my computer to find someone had google searched “hot air balloons.” I found this odd, but I ignored it and went about my day. A few hours later I returned to my computer to find the same search. That’s when I asked, “Who searched hot air balloons on my computer?” No one confessed, so slightly confused, I again went about my day. Since then it’s happened almost every day consistently. I’ll come back to my computer after lunch, or a bathroom break or a meeting, to find someone has googled “hot air balloons.” Not even image searched, just a regular search.

I think the growing flustered and frantic reactions to this mystery has only fueled the fire. Now I believe there to be somewhat of a conspiracy going on. Where once it was just one odd (yet clever) individual, now it seems to be a whole slew of people who are out to get me.

I think one of the main reasons this is so upsetting to me is because I really wish I had thought of it. It’s so subtle, so infuriating, so genius. I hate being the victim of a prank I want to be playing. This video posted to Vimeo today shows how this prank is escalating. Twice today hot air balloons have become the background of my computer.

So Mystery Hot Air Balloon Googler, whoever you are, good work. I hate you. But good work.

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The State of the Web - Summer 2008 This is beautiful, very visual, and super quick to scroll through. (via liz)
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Getty Images to sell Flickr Photos
July 7

A Useful iPod Touch App

dshusta:

Instapaper has been submitted for review.

Holy crap, Marco is bringing Instapaper offline! It would be perfect!

Agreed. Especially if the thing saved the version with the graphics for offline viewing. Would totally pay for that app.