January 2011
52 posts
JESUS CHRIST: Woman Recreates Last Supper Painting... →
mcgillicuddy:
trope - definition of trope by the Free Online... →
trope - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense figure of speech, image, figure cakewalk - an easy accomplishment; “winning the tournament was a cakewalk for him”; “invading Iraq won’t be a cakewalk” blind alley - (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement; “all the clues led the police into blind...
Trope: language used in a figurative or... →
“Trope led to numerous other mindbending words” is an example of trope and spare time. (is an example of zeugma!). etc.
trope - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
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cakewalk - an easy accomplishment; “winning the tournament was a cakewalk for him”; “invading Iraq won’t be a cakewalk” blind alley - (figurative) a course of...
“Email is like Tetris: you lose eventually”
– Email is like Tetris: you lose eventually « crackunit.com
Seth's Blog: A culture of testing →
from seth:
Netflix tests everything. They’re very proud that they A/B test interactions, offerings, pricing, everything. It’s almost enough to get you to believe that rigorous testing is the key to success.
Except they didn’t test the model of renting DVDs by mail for a monthly fee.
And they didn’t test the model of having an innovative corporate culture.
And they...
WatchMarco Brambilla’s Civilization is an amazing video mural that merges over 300 channels of looped video to form a surreal landscape that constantly scrolls upwards to portray the concepts of Heaven and Hell. The video was commissioned by the Standard Hotel in New York City. (via PSFK » Civilization: A Video Mural By Marco Brambilla)
More of these types of things should happen imo.
Counterfeit goods are more expensive (in the UK) -... →
Buying phoney goods in the UK is not cheap. Londoners were offered some of the meanest discounts for fake CDs (11%), high end trainers (56%) and branded jeans (55%) compared with other cities.
(this will go in my how-to manual entitled, “The Johnny Dangerously’s Guide to Why Crime Never Pays Experience.”)
The Numbers : Havocscope Black Market →
Well, there ya go:
The numbers utilized by Havocscope are taken from various public documents, such as newspapers and government studies. Each figure is attributed to a source which allows our readers to follow up on. Our documentation methods is fully listed on the Research Methods page.
There are several key issues regarding the numbers that we collect, and we would like to take this time to...
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Havocscope Black Market Rankings
Havocscope Black Market Products Ranking$1.329 Trillion
Havocscope Black Market Country Ranking$1.58 Trillion
The Havocscope Rankings Totals are calculated by simply adding up the various black market activities that are currently being monitored by our firm. The source for all numbers in the Rankings are available for view by clicking the corresponding link. All figures are taken from...
“Another thing we learned was that…
Another thing we learned was…
We also...”
– Insight: Another thing we learned was that…… - (37signals)
It’s funny that you can’t just say “we learned” and have it mean the same thing. So what do you call a person who’s job is that? (Trying to figure out how to talk about myself…)
“The directors attached lenses to their phones and nothing was particularly...”
– Top Director Shot Entire Movie with iPhone | KurzweilAI
Park Chan-Wook used only the iPhone 4 to shoot his new project, a 30 minute short film called Paranmanjang, with a budget of $133,000.
Advantages: a wide variety of angles and edits were possible because numerous low-cost cameras could be...
Efficient Market Highpotofshit.
High-frequency trading networks, which complete stock market transactions in microseconds, are vulnerable to “side-channel” manipulation by hackers who can inject tiny amounts of latency into them. By doing so, they can subtly change the course of trading and pocket profits of millions of dollars in just a few seconds, says Rony Kay, a former IBM research fellow and founder of cPacket Networks. He...
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Commission Tracking Software to Manage Sales... →
Sales Comp in the Cloud Pay your salespeople faster, easier, and error-free with Xactly’s web-based compensation software.
Neat for growing businesses… oh the salesness!
“To revitalize the economy of historic Troy NY by engaging students.”
– To revitalize the economy of historic Troy NY by engaging students. | Pepsi Refresh Everything