May 2012
10 posts
Mobile Commons Partners with National Cancer... →
Mobile Commons announced today it has partnered with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to use text messaging to help teens and young adults quit smoking. Developed by smoking cessation experts, SmokefreeTXT provides the targeted advice and encouragement that young people need to quit smoking – all via text message. The text messages run in both...
“Your video “Ben and Arin’s Wedding”, has content that is owned...”
– YouTube
Bitcoin is NOT a Currency - BK Tech Talks... →
Really excited for our next BK Tech Talk this coming Monday:
Nerds LOVE Bitcoin. It’s technologically and cryptographically fascinating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
But is it actually a currency? Kenneth Bromberg, lead programmer of Bloomberg’s foreign exchange platform, will explain what actually makes something a “currency”, why Bitcoin doesn’t fit that...
cute lady nurse doctor
April 2012
17 posts
WatchWhen Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking — they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she’s setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected.
Anonymous asked: Yo dawg, you're on the Board for In Our BackYard? Very cool.
WatchHologram of Tupac performing at Coachella 2012
Wow. I mean wow. This is clearly the culmination of 150 years of technological development and totally worth every second.
“Enterprise technology has minted many more millionaires. Instead of hoping to...”
– An Open Letter To Those Not Employed At Instagram | TechCrunch
“It’s amazing the number of things that are safe if you completely ignore...”
– Slashdot comment about the risk/reward of fracking.
I couldn’t agree more. To quote another wise man “In theory, communism works. In theory.”
“ah, only a Baltimore fan gets excited about baseball in April”
– Larry Brooks, in case you didn’t notice that the O’s are 2-0 and the Yankees are 0-2.
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, we would be the...”
– We Can Survive Killer Asteroids — But It Won’t Be Easy
<3 Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Study Says DNA’s Power to Predict Illness Is... →
Drs Vogelstein at it again. Awesome stuff guys!
March 2012
23 posts
Finally! High Speed Broadband from Time Warner in...
For years I’ve been one of those sad Brooklynites suffering through Time Warner’s molasses broadband speeds (10MB/1MB) while waiting for FIOS to come to our ‘hood.
Turns out that in January, Time Warner opened up their pipes a bit with 3 new high speed plans: 50MB/5MB, 30MB/5MB, and 20MB/5MB.
The two faster ones require a technician to bring new hardware, but the 20MB/5MB just...
The Obama Campaign Tries Out a New Cellular Weapon →
The Obama campaign fundraising machine has debuted a new text message tool with encouraging results for the President’s bean counters. On Wednesday, the Obama campaign sent out an SMS message to cell phones and smart phones of tens of thousands of previous donors asking them to give more money. “Support Pres Obama in less than a minute,” the message read, “using our new secure system: just reply...
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Singing Snoop Dogg to my kid is functionally equivalent to my parents singing me Tony Bennett songs
List of tautonyms - Wikipedia, the free... →
A tautonym is a zoological name of a species consisting of two identical words such as Lemmus lemmus.
Not sure the best part about this:
That a “tautonym” is an actual concept
That Wikipedia has such a comprehensive list
That tautonyms are not allowed in botany
Silly botonists.
(Thanks for the enlightenment, nsomn)
WatchThe Daily Show’s amazing coverage of the Park Slope Food Co-Op proposed boycott of Israeli goods.
Sometimes it’s tough to tell if Daily Show is serious or kidding.
This time it’s IMPOSSIBLE to tell.
Earlier today I posted a great quote from A Moment of Clarity in the Pursuit of Happiness:
Spending 2 years doing something you don’t enjoy is a full 3.4% of your life. What are you getting back for that investment? Money? What are you going to do with that money that will be worth the non-refundable 3.4% of your life? An extra room in your house?
I’ve been thinking about this quote...
“A final thought: On average, you have 78 years total to live. The first 18-20...”
– A Moment of Clarity in the Pursuit of Happiness
Watch From tonight’s episode of The Simpsons, an epic Game of Thrones-themed couch gag.
“Neuroscientists are novices at deception. Magicians have done controlled testing...”
– Great article by Teller in the March issue of Smithsonian magazine about secrets of magic tricks. I love the example trick where he shows all 7 rules in effect.
And when you’re done reading, probably best to watch this.