Yesterday, our friends at Summify announced that they have been acquired by Twitter, that they “will be disabling new account registrations immediately and…removing some features” and that they plan to offer “a more streamlined service as we transition our efforts to working at Twitter.”
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News.me is only a few months old as a standalone company. When we spun out of bitly in September and started building out the team, we had some hard decisions to make around hiring philosophy. We looked around at products that we admire - from startups like Instagram and Foursquare all the…
Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio: Shelf-pod House, Osaka
I spent time this week w/ an old Japanese friend and he was telling me awful stories. Radiation is still leaking into the water, they have no idea where to put the radiated water — it isnt over and yet here the media would have you think its all over and we have moved on.
“Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.
[and later:]
“The data I’m seeing shows that we are finding hot spots further away than we had from Chernobyl, and the amount of radiation in many of them was the amount that caused areas to be declared no-man’s-land for Chernobyl. We are seeing square kilometres being found 60 to 70 kilometres away from the reactor. You can’t clean all this up. We still have radioactive wild boar in Germany, 30 years after Chernobyl.”
This is not what I was hoping the situation was turning out to be.
It’s my birthday, perhaps you’ve heard on Twitter or Facebook. So I decided to do a birthday post. What do I want for my birthday? It’s simple: I want my interwebz back.
It used to be that the Internet was something of a wild wild west - sheer anarchy was everywhere. But if you’ve ever watched a…
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
This is a test post from the new Tweetdeck to tumblr ..
So, I interviewed Tumblr founder David Karp last week for a short biographical item that will appear in an upcoming issue of Paper. We talked for like an hour, about him for some of the time but also a lot about Tumblr and how it works. Since most of that stuff is not going to be used in the Paper…
The unread post count point is very important. Big mistake in the implementation of Buzz. Turns the stream experience into a burden rather than serendipity and joy
Test post from tweetie
Monumental minimalist, sculptor Richard Serra is 70 today…
“Emerging in the 1960s, he was part of a generation of artists who worked to redefine what sculpture could be. After experimenting with a variety of materials, he settled on thick sheets of steel as his preferred material, and went on to create some of the most frightening spaces imaginable.” (Source - the fine Daily Icon site)
First Television Transmission: Felix The Cat, 1928
“During the early days of television development it was necessary to monitor and adjust the quality of the transmitted picture in order to get the best definition. To do this, engineers required an ‘actor’ to constantly be under the burning studio lights as they tweaked and sharpened the image, and Felix fit the bill perfectly. He was the right colour (black and white), impervious to the heat from the lights and worked cheaply (in fact a one-off payment was all that was required). RCA’s first experimental television transmissions began in 1928 by station W2XBS (New York-Channel #1) in Van Cortlandt Park and then moved to the New Amsterdam Theater Building, transmitting 60 line pictures. The 13” Felix the Cat figure made of paper mache was placed on a record player turntable and was broadcast using a mechanical scanning disk to an electronic kinescope receiver.”
Hardy Boys Book Cover—The House on the Cliff (via finsbry)
gosh this is beautiful
