December 2009
21 posts
Boss: Why does this building have so many libraries??
Me: There was a time BC..
Boss: Eh?
Me: Before Computers.
“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor tends to approach the level...”
– John Gruber - Via Macworld Pulse - Youtube
Ads, Software, and Conversion
The story is that I wanted to try out the Crossover Games product to see how it preformed. So as expected I hoarded out my email address to try it legally. To my surprise it actually ran Steam remarkably well (notably TF2). Much better than running it in VMware Fusion. My only few sour points of the product were the minor sound issues (I run digital out of my mac) and some mouse tracking issues....
Money in Culture
It is not often that something is done just for love anymore. You can call it a product of this society, where being happy is just not enough. In fact, it’s expected to boast about status about how many toys you have. So that your inner self-image feels better than your fellow peer down the street.Yes, this way of living today does work, and works very well which arguably makes people happy if not...
Science!
mrgan:
Kottke writes:
The results of a survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences reveals that Americans don’t know a whole lot about science.
- Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun. - Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time. - Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent...
WatchPBS Frontline World - Rough Cut: 30,000 Feet: Frequent Flyer, Join the club.
I have to say it was a very fascinating piece on our world today. I find it very interesting on how obsessive these people are about a frequent flyer program of all things. Don’t get me wrong I am obsessive too, epically with a few select companies. But these people I feel have taken it to the next level that they...
My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement - Too... →
Another article that highlights on how the music industry is typically run. What even more facinating is how the internet is changing the entire game. More and more creatives are just doing it on their own, intead of siging the lives away.
This reminds me of a rant Gary Vaynerchuk did on Howard Stern’s thoughts on social media.
Interesting.
“For every 100 copies of a physical book we sell, where we have the Kindle...”
– Jeff Bezos (via marco)
UPDATE: Further down in the story is another intresting tidbit..
BEZOS: Basically you submit the book, you set the price for it, we charge the customer and then we give you 35 percent of the revenue.
NYTIMES: And Amazon keeps 65 percent? That sounds like a lot.
BEZOS: Does...
Book Review: Total Recall by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell (Read Via Physical Book) My interest in this book was triggered by a post from Steven Frank, one of the founders of one of my favorite software companies Panic. For the review, I am going to re-blog his post because is pretty much spot on.
stevenf:
I just finished reading Total Recall (also on Kindle) (affiliate links, y’all)
The...
Cellphones are portable a beacon →
We all know this, but yet its sad how ignorant everyone is to it.