September 23, 2015
The Ad Blocking Controversy, Explained
“Everyone is eager to know how ad blockers will support themselves. Perhaps by selling services…
August 21, 2015
Real Life First Person Shooter (Chatroulette version)
“Can you go up to the top?” "I can try to jump." "No? ok." http://bit.ly/1PCOwLt
August 7, 2015
Must follow to win
“This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests…
August 7, 2015
Spot The Drowning Child
“Drowning does not look like what most people expect. There is very little splashing, no…
August 5, 2015
Special Delivery
“MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A drone dropped a package of drugs into a prison yard…
June 8, 2015
Autonomous cars
“Morgan Stanley estimates that a 90% reduction in crashes would save nearly 30,000 lives and…
May 26, 2015
The Fermi Paradox
“Stephen Hawking warns, “If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus…
May 26, 2015
Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man
“If we are very rare, we better get to the multi-planet situation fast, because if…
May 9, 2015
Undercover Uber Driver
"So it called one time, two times, three times — I said, 'Maybe this person…
April 20, 2015
Continuous Improvements
“For the next five weekends, anyone along the L line (to or from Williamsburg) can…
April 3, 2015
Origin story of favicon
"He said, what the hell is favicon.ico? " http://bit.ly/1NNh6ZX
March 14, 2015
Wallabag
I spent this morning playing around with installing Wallabag on my own server. Basically Wallabag…
March 13, 2015
Disney’s Magical Wristband
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” http://wrd.cm/1L8ivMS
February 20, 2015
And its an $8 hack
"Now I can see wifi signals" and they look weird http://bit.ly/17jqSTa
February 12, 2015
Refuse to Create a UX Portfolio
"the end solution does not communicate how effectively we solve problems" –@timj on UX portfolios.…
February 1, 2015
Peeling back the layers
“Imagine if you could look up any address in New York and be able to…
January 17, 2015
Embracing failure and learning publicly
Musk on the next rocket landing: "At least it shd explode for a diff reason."…
November 26, 2014
Code Freeze
Frozen's Elsa and Anna teach girls to code ♫ Let it go, let it go,…
November 25, 2014
Super WiFi
Scientists say govts should use the old television bandwidths for free super-frequency WiFi if they…
November 24, 2014
Living in virtual worlds as an avatar
“On the other hand, relationships will become more interesting. We will become smarter and funnier.”…
October 5, 2014
The world’s loudest sound
The sound of the Krakatoa volcanic eruption ruptured eardrums of people 40 miles away +…
September 4, 2014
Still in beta
Hue Grant http://bit.ly/1lK175f
August 20, 2014
Yelp for Cops
"Its like Yelp for Cops" - the Five-O app, made by siblings ages 14, 15…
July 30, 2014
Love Is Blind
"It was like we’d turned on the bright lights at the bar at midnight." http://bit.ly/1rQJty0