January 2011
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TextMyFood - a really dumb service
Image via CrunchBase This story was on NPR.  It’s a service that lets you text your waiter at a restaurant.  That’s it.  No you can’t pay directly from your booth.  No you can’t really order seamlessly off the menu (you have to tediously text “salad with ranch dressing”). What a stupid and easily copyable idea.  Here’s why: Twilio.com offers an amazing...
Jan 19th
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Jan 12th
If You See Something, Say Something!: See what we... →
ifyouseesomething: From Pinzler: I took a picture of this poster on the B train. Sorry if the smaller text is hard to read but the poster is meant to convey how “forward thinking” the MTA is by allowing third parties to create transit apps using freely available MTA data. The text of the poster asks…
Jan 11th
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Paul Giamatti uses a great word on the Daily Show
vocabsushi: Image by Josh Jensen via Flickr On the first Daily Show of 2011, Paul Giamatti describes his character in his upcoming movie Barney’s Version as a “rapscallion.”  To thunderous applaud.  Clearly, everyone knows a good vocab word when they hear one. Rapscallion (noun): A rascal, a disreputable person. Mr. Giamatti gets the “Celebrity who used a word I needed to look up” award of...
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
Rounded corners in CSS - neat! →
Jan 4th
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Perl script to log into Vimeo and batch update...
I just posted this little script to Forrst.com.  Check out the code here: http://forrst.com/posts/Perl_script_to_log_into_Vimeo_and_upload_thumbna-0Hu
Jan 1st