I live in NYC. I work for Vimeo. I like to cook. My wife likes sprinkles. I have a new(ish) daughter. Her name is Chloe. We don't know if she likes sprinkles yet.
Microsoft just teased the next Xbox at CES
More signs point to a future of augmented reality Xbox gaming
So we know that the average worker spends 13 hours a week — 28 percent of office time — on email. Which multiplies out to (eek) 650 hours a year.
But what does that time investment look like as physical — well, “physical” — output? How does it amass as words typed and sent and otherwise generated? Here’s one estimate: 41,638 words.
To put those 41,638 discrete pieces of communication in perspective, that word count, in the aggregate, is roughly equivalent to a novel that is 166 pages in length…. slightly greater than The Old Man and the Sea (127 pages long), slightly less than The Great Gatsby (182 pages), and just about equal to The Turn of the Screw (165 pages).
So many wasted words.
I read every email before I hit send for the sole purpose of removing words. And 15% of the time I delete the email altogether.
Fitocracy, video game-inspired fitness app, arrives on Android
It’s been almost two years since fitness geeks Brian Wang and Dick Talens launched Fitocracy, a game that married their love of bodybuilding with their passion for role-playing games like EverQuest and Starcraft. The game has almost 750,000 registered users logging workouts via the iPhone app and website, but about half of them are Android users. As of today, an Android version of the app is finally available in the Google Play store.
Good stuff from a great team!
Awesome, simple, fun, beautiful new iOS game. (Great promotional site too.)
[via Daring Fireball]
Susan Crawford for Bloomberg:
The Internet has taken the place of the telephone as the world’s basic, general-purpose, two-way communication medium. All Americans need high-speed access, just as they need clean water, clean air and electricity. But they have allowed a naive belief in the power and beneficence of the free market to cloud their vision. As things stand, the U.S. has the worst of both worlds: no competition and no regulation.
Such an important and easy-to-understand post. Essentially, the U.S. has fallen behind (and continues to fall behind) in high speed internet access because of deregulation gone-bad. It allowed greedy dickbags (the cable companies) to do what they do best (perfect being greedy dickbags).
Just read about how many millions of dollars each of them spend in lobbying to ensure that communities continue to have to pay them (many more) millions for sub-par service. Total. Fucking. Dickbags.
I hope Google (or someone) succeeds in their (insanely expensive) end-around approach. Because it’s pretty clear the government isn’t going to do shit at this point. I wrote this post almost three years ago, what has changed in the meantime? Absolutely nothing. It’s gotten worse. And it will keep getting worse.
“Check this!”
I was definitely a proud Prodigy (for DOS) user at the time of this commercial.
Still better than Windows 8.
It began with ‘Spacewar!’ A history of science fiction in video games
A new exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image.
Google Creative Lab and BERG London carve interfaces out of light
Love the design of these.
Back in August, I wrote a post teasing Mailbox, the new app from the team behind Orchestra. Today, they’re ready to reveal a bit more. The video above offers a taste, but I’ll have more thoughts to share later on.
Put simply: this is the most excited I’ve been about an app in a long time. I’ve been testing it out for a few weeks now and it’s already the app I use most often. I say this, of course, as a happy investor, but I shit you not: if you hate email, you’re going to love this app when it comes out in a few weeks. It’s fucking amazing.
WANT
THIS
NOW
(PLEASE)
Meet Lamar Smith: SOPA author, climate skeptic, and Congress’ next science boss
A representative at the helm of America’s future
At what point is this man considered an enemy of the state - no, of humanity?
Steve Ballmer answering a question from a shareholder about Microsoft’s competitiveness against Google and Apple.
I have no idea what this means either.
(via parislemon)
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