April, 2008


7
Apr 08

coffee cuff

part braclet, part coffee cup sleeve, all genius:

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7
Apr 08

Engraved books – Mac and Mole

Perhaps you’ve seen pictures of beautiful engravings on Macbooks. They are stunning:

You can even get high-tech with your low tech books:



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6
Apr 08

the twitter economy

Here is an interesting take on the economics of twitter.

I like how the author points out that you are rewarded just by participating regardless of your follow/follower ratio. That being the case, the rich/poor analogy doesn’t fit so well, though point #7 (“Once the rich get rich, they always get richer; those with popular feeds continue to snowball followers through little work of their own.”) is very true!

My questions:

Does the twitter economy grow endlessly? Is there an inevitable crash?


5
Apr 08

where did my permalinks go?

wordpress just craped out and all my permalinks are 404. maybe this is their way of encouraging me to upgrade to 2.5

update: Just upgraded to 2.5, and I’m back in action.


1
Apr 08

not that kind of tunnel

This is what made muni backed up this morning:

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — A man is facing charges of driving under the influence, after San Francisco police say he drove his car about two miles into a Muni subway tunnel.

A little bit before 2:00 am this morning, a car entered the West Portal Muni tunnel. It is a tunnel that is used just for trains. Luckily the rail line doesn’t run in the middle of the night. Police say the man tried to run away, but they caught him. The suspect’s Nissan Maxima was towed out of the tunnel.

Two long time Muni employees said the driver made it further into the tunnel then anyone they can remember. The driver made it two miles before the tunnel narrowed to such a degree that the car got wedged in there.