Notes"Were the singers human, researchers might also explain the duets in terms of affection. Since they’re birds, the researchers describe the songs in terms of maintaining pair bonds, predator avoidance and conferred reproductive advantages. Vignal plans further studies of the duets, but thinks there’s more than reproductive imperatives in the tiny birds’ hearts and brains."Unfurl
NotesDouchebags get kind of a bad rap. They provide a useful service.
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.Unfurl
NotesSan Diego artist Christopher Schaie created this irising peephole mechanism. It's to go in on a door with a dome on the other side. He milled the pieces with a…Unfurl
NotesCreepiest effing toy EVAR
Well, it’s hard to believe, but I actually have a bunch of new info about that mysterious windup, musical demon lumberjack I was so excited about (and desperate for) weeks ago. I’m not sure if you recall, but in that video, we saw a freaky, distorting, rubber face placed on an animatronic, musical lumberjack-type of […]Unfurl
Notes"One of the unending sources of frustrations of being an experienced engineer in a company full of fresh graduates is having to deal with new tech leads---many engineers fresh out of school are great designers and engineers, but couldn't lead a team out of a paper bag. It didn't help that Google's internal leadership training was derived from team-building exercises for experienced executives, rather than leadership 101 that would have been appropriate in this situation."
One of the unending sources of frustrations of being an experienced engineer in a company full of fresh graduates is having to deal with new...Unfurl
Notes"After all, like the Black Lodge's dancing dwarf said, that gum is coming back in style."
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Notes"So how is Apple going to enable support for multitasking? Likely similar to how Android allows it. The Android platform was designed from the ground up for use on phones and other embedded devices. Consequently, we built in a mechanism whereby applications can save their state, including their current view, with the system. In fact, through this state saving mechanism, which we call Bundles, Android applications can operate as if they are stateless."Unfurl
Notes"If someone took the time to draw out all the connections between craft brewers in the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti area, it might look like the incestuous family tree the back country people in Deliverance scrawled in their family bible. But even the most seasoned beer connoisseur probably wouldn't be able to taste those connections while sampling a pint from one of the many local brewpubs and microbreweries. "Unfurl
Notes"Sometimes walking away from the computer is the best way to use the computer."
What does your company do? Every company does something different, no matter how slight. Even Burger King and McDonalds have their differentiators. These differentiators, and ones you've planned to release later, are vital to your survival. They make your products...Unfurl
NotesThis is why, beyond Galcon, I'm just not excited about the iPhone / iPod Touch as a gaming machine
At GDC we played Street Fighter IV for the iPhone, and in terms of fighting …Unfurl
Notes"Schism Tracker is a free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in-part. The player is based on a highly modified version of the Modplug engine, with a number of bugfixes and changes to improve IT playback. "Unfurl
NotesEfficiency is a business school idea that suggests a company is running smoothly. It's absolutely terrific when you're talking about a coal mining operation or a Supercuts. But when it comes to a company like Yahoo it's not a positive. The Internet is still in its wild west days, and the "ready, fire, aim" game plan of Facebook and the other young guns is eating their lunch. Even the massive Google is still trying to shake things up with new and controversial products. Yahoo's strategy seems more like "ready, aim, aim, aim, aim..." Yesterday Jordan Rohan at Thomas Weisel Partners described Yahoo in his first analyst report on the company. He thinks this is the right management team to bring more efficiency to Yahoo. But he spends most of his time talking about the negatives, and there's no excitement around new products or ideas: For the record, we happen to believe the current management team is the right one at this stage in Yahoo!’s corporate evolution. The team is bringing efficiency to a massively inefficient company. Yahoo! is weighed down today by dozens of code bases, thousands of revenue-producing properties, at least three sales force factions (display, search, ad network), and a few thousand “extra” employees needed to run the media company today due to its complicated legacy assets and far-flung acquisitions.Unfurl
NotesItaly is endangering the web. It convicted three Google executives for privacy violations for a video that was posted on YouTube Google Video that Google...Unfurl
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