Disgruntled editor edits internal memo announcing outsourcing of editing jobs. Via @thatwhichmatter
By Aiden Kenny. A companion tumble blog to ThoughtPort
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Family Tech Support Nerd Merit Badge I think Val definitely earns herself one of these: “Requirements: Provide hardware, software, and telephone support for extended family computers and electronics. Voluntarily or involuntarily”. Via The Irish Times.
I know this has been published for ages. Still, you have to smile at some of the “Statistically Improbable Phrases” auto-summarised for the Amazon page for Hodgman’s second book: “Inner Sun, Minor Television Personality, Nutrient Slime, Tone Detector, Brain Sharks, Chicken Butt, Unusual Rain…”
Neat: “The Indie Rock Coloring Book” for hipster four-year olds everywhere!
R.E.M. Olympia: 39 songs. I never made it to any of those shows.
The “Trends & News” sidebar in Brizzly is really useful as it has drop-down explanations, a feature missing from the Twitter home page. Also, a lot of what makes the top trends is inane yet unintentionally hilarious.
Check out this shape-changing Organo-bot: current prototype can roll around but will eventually be able to squeeze through small spaces…
I stopped reading Dilbert about the time it became a TV show (anyone remember that?) But I did enjoy this Twitter-centric strip that was doing the rounds on the Interwebs over the weekend.
So NASA are flying a missile into the moon today and nobody told me? http://tinyurl.com/moongoboom
Shepard Fairey’s Obama Hope poster if it had been targeted at the UK. via @WilHarris
Lego Death Star via Playgrounder. A steal at, er, US$400.
Today’s red dust over Sydney: photos on Flickr.
“Is there a simpler version?” Humorous take on why so many focus groups fail.
There comes a point at which improving upon the thing that was important in the past is a bad move.”
— Clay Shirky cited in the seriously interesting ‘The Good Enough Revolution’ article in Wired.
RT @handelaar: Well done, Dublin Bikes guys, for acting the cock after only a week. #FAIL http://fusio.net/dublinbikesapp/
