January 2011
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December 2010
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Drastic Changes to Bing Maps, Part 1
41latitude:
A Review of Bing’s Updated Map Style
Over the weekend, Bing’s maps were updated, and there have been some dramatic changes. This post will summarize the changes, while “Part 2” and “Part 3” will offer analysis.
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Drastic Changes to Bing Maps, Part 2
41latitude:
Are Bing’s Maps Now Better than Google’s?
With all the recent changes to Bing’s maps, people are undoubtedly going to ask if they’re now better than Google’s. After all, in order for people to switch to something new, the thing that they’re switching to typically needs to be better than what they’re already using.
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U.S. Scientists top research fraud list?...
UPDATE: That first version that I wrote two days ago was ALL messed up. Sorry about that!
I thought this was a good article, though the title was misleading. I read it in Politics Daily, owned by AOL News. I didn’t realize that AOL is so much more than an annoying and antiquated internet service provider. Remember AOL Online? (You have mail…).
A study reported in the November...
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U.S. Scientists top research fraud list.... →
UPDATE: That first version that I wrote two days ago was ALL messed up. Sorry about that!
I thought this was a good article, though the title was misleading. I read it in Politics Daily, owned by AOL News. I didn’t realize that AOL is so much more than an annoying and antiquated internet service provider. Remember AOL Online? (You have mail…).
A study reported in the November...
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Patent day for Apple: Logo antenna and location...
The Apple “logo antenna” may seem a bit peculiar. It certainly isn’t clear which products Apple intends to use it for, nor whether it is in use already (see the user comment thread for details). And the Patently Apple article mentions the logo antenna for use in everything from MacBook’s to iPhones, watches and jewelry!
However, the location-sharing update patent at the...
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From mine... To yours
lettergo2hell:
Get it together and enjoy a snowball :)
This is better than MacBooks, Mercedes Benz or anything else on earth. Is this photo the sweetest happiest one you’e ever seen or what? It’s from lettergo2hell’s tumblr.. Letter, I don’t think you’re in Hell anymore.Maybe it’s work release, maybe you’ve transitioned to some other place in...
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SHEEPR:
Arcangelo Corelli: Christmas Concerto...
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oh for crying out loud you will NOT be back...
imaginasi0n:
stop lying
Erotica: Magnus Johnstone at DOMY (semi-NSFW) -... →
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Watchlaughingsquid:
Life In Boxes
More squidly inspiration. Apparently he has a home on Tumblr too.
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How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual... →
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/12/15/15RARE1.html
via Charles Hooper:
Two winters ago I left a position as a system administrator that was paying pretty well and moved cross-country to a region with less jobs than where I moved from. Three months later, I was still unemployed, broke, and bored. I was talking to my good friend Japhy on IRC one day and he was explaining to me how the tf-idf...
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MicroISV on a Shoestring: Life in the Small-time →
So. I’ve been hearing that want to be an high-tech, dot net entrepreneur. Want to make your fortune on a cloud and a browser? Well, you could learn a thing or two from the story of a nice young man named Patrick McKenzie!
Patrick published his fifth consecutive year-end wrap-up this week. This installment is particularly interesting because he quit his day job and made the leap of faith to...
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Finding the Host →
Sometimes plagiarism can’t be resolved face-to-face. Either the plagiarist can’t be contacted or they otherwise refuse to take down their work. Regardless of the reason, when push has come to shove, it’s time to move on….
The distinction is probably not a legal one (who knows, maybe it is, I’m not qualified to say), but I think there is a very big difference between...
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Finding the Host →
Sometimes plagiarism can’t be resolved face-to-face. Either the plagiarist can’t be contacted or they otherwise refuse to take down their work. Regardless of the reason, when push has come to shove, it’s time to move on….
The distinction is probably not a legal one (who knows, maybe it is, I’m not qualified to say), but I think there is a very big difference between...
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Social Enterprise and Its Discontents →
Have social enterprises ever succeeded? Certainly, and more power to them. But anyone who claims they will supplant philanthropy, charity or social change movements is selling snake-oil. The most thoroughgoing enthusiasts of the market seem to forget that Adam Smith himself recognized areas in which it would, and did, fail. Those of us caring for people who can’t make profits for other people...
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Social Enterprise and Its Discontents →
Have social enterprises ever succeeded? Certainly, and more power to them. But anyone who claims they will supplant philanthropy, charity or social change movements is selling snake-oil. The most thoroughgoing enthusiasts of the market seem to forget that Adam Smith himself recognized areas in which it would, and did, fail. Those of us caring for people who can’t make profits for other people...
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Bang Bang!
clientsfromhell:
My current client just asked me to put pictures of .45 hollowpoint bullets next to every item on a list, and when the user clicks the link, it makes a gun shot sound. He’s not selling ammunition, he’s selling clothes and jewelry.
I cannot stop laughing! That is one of the tackiest, most inappropriate UX design choices I’ve ever heard.
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