January 2011
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(w) harangue - A tirade or rant
Jan 31st
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(w) bravura - brilliant and showy technical skill; “in a final bravura the ballerina appeared to be floating in water”; “the music ends with a display of bravura”
Jan 31st
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Demand Studios - Freelance Film Work →
http://www.demandstudios.com/freelance-work/filmmakers.html
Jan 30th
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The Essential 100 Films to Watch →
http://tiff.net/essential/about/essential100
Jan 30th
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New Years Resolutions for Filmmakers →
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2011/01/new-years-resolutions-for-filmmakers/
Jan 29th
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Fred Brooks on Managing a Design Team
Brooks ran product-development teams at IBM. The compan would set budgets for projects based on “man-months.” If 25 people required 10 months to write some code, that worked out to 250 man-months. If the project ran late, you just added people. The man-month was a convenient device that was nonsense since expanding a late-running design team slowed the process. Nine women can’t...
Jan 29th
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Top 10 Cities for Startups
Boulder, Colorado - outdoorsy tech Boca Raton, Florida - tech Santa Monica, California - tech, digital media, film Bend, Oregon - tech, aviation, biotech Irvine, California - near UC schools Cambridge, Massachusetts - MIT, internet, biotech, venture capital Bellevue, Washington - tech, near microsoft Franklin, Tennessee - wealthy, biotech San Francisco, California - venture capital, tech ...
Jan 28th
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iAd Advertising  →
http://advertising.apple.com/
Jan 28th
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The Filter Recommendation Engine →
http://www.thefilter.com/
Jan 27th
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(w) modicum - a small or moderate or token amount
Jan 27th
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investing
GFMS predicts that gold prices will reach $1600 by the end of the year. Orvana Minerals - tunneling into a mountainside to mine a deposit of gold that should produce 100,000 ounces annually in 2012. (6/26/2011) Centamin Egypt - operating mines at Asturias costs $450 an ounce and Sukari costs $525 versus the $557 an ounce worldwide average. (6/26/2011). Stocks coming out of the downturn with...
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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(w) potentate - dictator, powerful leader
Jan 23rd
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"The Filter" - Find stuff you didn't know you...
The Filter by Peter Gabriel, is a recommendation technology for clients such as Sony, Nokia, NBC, and DailyMotion that rather than merely helping people find what they’re looking for, offer them stuff they didn’t know they wanted, and then get them to buy. When you are making music or video recommendations, you need to steer people away from the most popular stuff that everyone...
Jan 22nd
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(w) tacit - done or made in silence, silent, implied by or inferred from actions or statements
Jan 22nd
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NY Restaurant: ABC Kitchen
The food here is fundamental. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication,” by Leonardo Da Vinci. Chef Dan Kluger and Vongerichten shop locally, creating dishes like raw scallops with grated horseradish and pretzel-dusted calamari with tomato and mustard aioli. ABC Kitchen (abckitchennyc.com) 35 East 18th Street -Esquire
Jan 18th
“(Many of ) the greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking...”
– Banksy (via oceanofmind)
Jan 18th
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Save Videos on Youtube, Vimeo, etc →
http://www.savevideo.me/
Jan 16th
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Lingerie Football League
While most women’s professional sports leagues other than tennis are floundering, the Lingerie Football League is 260% more profitable so far this year than last year. Player contracts stipulate that players must cope with the possibility of “accidental” nudity since the women wear skimpy uniforms and pads that expose their cleavage. Says a player, “I thought I was one in...
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
“The iPhone is like omakase, the style of sushi where the chef chooses what...”
– The Verizon iPhone Is Too Late - Newsweek (via rafer)
Jan 15th
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Jan 13th
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Rent your Couch or your Driveway
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, now running AirBnb plans to allow users to rent out more than just rooms and apartments, also driveways, backyards, and offices. Travelers get better experiences and price points.  You can either sit there and make friends on facebook all day, or you can make some money through AirBnb.
Jan 13th
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Cell Phone charged over WIFI
RCA will introduce technology in 2011 that will allow your phone to charge itself over Wi-Fi. Similar to the way a solar calculator draws power from light sources, the RCA AirPower will convert the energy radiated in a wireless signal into a usable charge.  RCA plans to build the technology directly into cell-phone batteries…giving you one more reason to steal your neighbor’s...
Jan 12th
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Follow like Sheep
Aaron Koblin via crowd-sourcing, created a piece of art by asking people to draw a sheep facing to the left, and paid them 2 cents for their work. He thought it was interesting for a number of reasons, but mainly that there’s a reference to sheep that is commonly understood in our culture: sheep follow without resistance. And of the nearly 80,000 people who submitted their drawings of...
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Kindergarten Teachers worth a bundle
Raj Chetty, who believes that the field of economics should be as rigorous as most hard sciences, recently collected data for a longitudinal study to calculate with precision, the value of a good kindergarten teacher. Based on the predictive value of future educational accomplishment, earnings, and general happiness, a good kindergarten teacher’s contribution to society should be valued at...
Jan 11th
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People shouldn't know an actor's personal life
“I don’t want people to know about (my family background or personal life). I don’t want people to know me because that buggers up my job. Because if you know something about somebody, it gets in the way of just watching the guy as the character.” -Christian Bale (for esquire)
Jan 10th
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(w) sanguine - confidently optimistic and cheerful
Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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Faster, Better Search than Google
Applied Minds’ creation - Metaweb - uses entities (people, places, or things carefully documented around the world) that are connected to one another as the basis of their search engine instead of simply words to provide faster search performances capable of answering more complex questions. Google bought Metaweb in July.
Jan 9th
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“This guy’s walking down a street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so...”
– -Aaron Sorkin (Episode #32, The West Wing) (via realrealsoft) Leo. (via zainyk)
Jan 9th
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(w) catalyzed - verb for catalyst - quickening a (chemical) reaction
Jan 9th
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(w) elegiac - resembling the characteristics of an elegy - A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.
Jan 9th
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Sexually, women are more visual than men
Kinsey Institute (Erick Janssen) study shows that women are more stimulated by visual cues than men. Women get turned on by basically anything sexual.
Jan 8th
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(w) verisimilitude -n- the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true
Jan 3rd
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(w) odious - detestable, offensive
Jan 3rd