April 2012
2 posts
Jeff: I just remember reading Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and thinking, "Damn, imagine if the pranksters had iPhones and Kinects and other modern technology.."
Garin: But we wouldn't have modern technology if no one had done acid already.. without LSD there'd be no Steve Jobs as we know it.
Dancing at Crafts House
I lived here once.
tuftsjumbo:
March 2012
2 posts
“And, see, those metaphors - ‘up front’ and ‘out in the...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad
February 2012
3 posts
January 2012
1 post
BenjaminSte.in: “You have your fans. I have mine.... →
benjaminstein:
But then I started thinking about who is on the other side of the SOPA/PIPA battle and I realized that the people we beat up aren’t the jocks like I had hoped, but rather the only people lower than nerds on the totem pole: theater kids.
Whatchutalkinbout? NFL, NBA, MLB, ESPN, UFC, and US Tennis Association all supported this shit a month ago too.
December 2011
3 posts
“If you take no action, and the settlement is approved by the Court, you will...”
– Notice of Proposed Settlement of Class Action, CURT SCHLESINGER and PETER LO RE, on behalf themselves and the Class v. TICKETMASTER, a Delaware Corporation.
So glad we’ll be able to get $1.50 off concert tickets once we’re all locked up in military detention.
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
User Experience: Thinking Beyond the Browser
Software may be eating the world, and I don’t think this is an entirely bad thing. With relatively low overhead, software, especially web software, is a great field to take lots of risks in. But I think it is potentially problematic that a whole school of user experience thought has grown out of designing web pages. I learned most of what I understand about user experience from the web...
September 2011
1 post
How does your product make its users unique?
In any business, conventional wisdom says the first customer is always the hardest to get. The prevalence of social and location based applications and proliferation of like, tweet, and digg buttons highlight this challenge even more in the eyes of today’s entrepreneurs. Indeed, many of the conversations I had at YCNYC last night echoed this sentiment.
But perhaps the “first customer...
August 2011
4 posts
MicroRNA Expression Data Reveals a Signature of... →
First. Academic. Paper. Published.
And though I wouldn’t mind leaving behind the world of front end web development.. I wish they’d make it easier to view those my graphs full screen :-/
Rumor: Apple Almost Bought Kinect in 2008 →
And here I am struggling to make motion capture software for Mac. Blargh.
June 2011
1 post
Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex →
benjaminstein:
The original article is pretty funny, but the Yelp reviews are amazing.
Only visited after purchasing a buy one, get one free groupon. Went with a couple of friends and had a great time. Would have given 5 stars but we picked the worst weekend to go— post-prom crowd was really loud and annoying. Plan accordingly!
March 2011
3 posts
Full Circle Innovation
So I’m reading through the draft of my first academic publication, which is dense enough that one screen’s worth of text corresponds very nicely with the time it takes to eat a sandwich. This is great because I tend to make big messy sandwiches which make reading print material impossible, and scrolling a pain in the ass. So I thought to myself, why not use a footswitch for scrolling...
Tufts
Stranger at Hostel: This is about FACT, not semantics.
Jeff: What is fact but highly advanced semantics?
Stranger at Hostel: Dude.. where'd you go to school?
January 2011
5 posts
Best Advice My Parents Ever Gave Me
Dad: Are you thinking about going to grad school for philosophy?
Jeff: I suppose then I could just find some way of imagining that I have lots of cool gadgets and convincing myself that they're real, instead of learning how to actually build them.
Dad: You don't need to do that, all you need is to find the right drugs.
Jeff: Gee thanks, I never would've thought of that.
Cell phone radiation detection app comes to... →
But if Faraday was still alive he’d just wear bondage gear to keep the radiation out.
WatchGimme Shelter From My 99 Problems
My first mashup.
December 2010
17 posts
WatchBeing out of the country, you miss things sometimes. Happy New Year.
Watchwhatisabooty:
barney motherfuckin frank
yup. appearing a bit senile definitely helps when you’re arguing something that’s dead obvious.
Please excuse any random brokenness - no, tell me so I can fix it - I’m making this theme from scratch and I kinda jumped the gun on the whole minimum viable product thing. But that’s good incentive to get this ready for the theme garden I suppose.
Cloud Computing for the Cold War
Her clothes are ragged Her thoughts a scrapbook Trying to be unique Just like big sis
Monkeys fight vicious as ever Who will retain control at the end? Everyone knows what’s really happening Everyone but God Though they seem to know better than to do something An invisible despot lasts the longest Such is the hegemony of a whim
WatchTesting. But you should listen to Max Richter anyway.
In Case You Were Looking for the "Creepy" Part of...
So I honestly wasn’t all that impressed with the most recent facebook layout change. The only thing they did that added any non-trivial value to my [personal] user experience was the photos - AJAX loading as you scroll down with Google Reader-like speed, and tooltip captions. This worsened some of the already present AJAX bugs with notifications, but the point is that there wasn’t...
Over time it’s become more and more convenient to get a drink of water, yet less and less convenient to take a piss. What gives?
While I’m waiting for my coffee, I’d like to take this opportunity say, environmentalist sentiments aside, how much I hate paper. I have more worksheets than I’ve thought imaginable in recent years strewn all over my desk and can’t organize them with hashtags. Perhaps I could get some physical folders, but what if something belongs in more than one folder? Do I have to make...
“American families have a right to expect better from recipients of taxpayer...”
– Kevin Smith, Spokesman for John Boehner, on removing this piece from the Smithsonian. I find it almost as disturbing that a censor has same name as the man who brought us Clerks.
November 2010
1 post
“We spend a lot of time in the military talking about integrity and honor and...”
– Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
October 2010
15 posts
WatchObama on the Daily Show, Part 3
WatchObama on the Daily Show, Part 2
WatchObama on the Daily Show, Part 1