As a San Franciscan, I just love this commercial Audi made for the Winter Games in 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cgHRu8vi84
You can see the influence from the bouncy balls commercial.
(BTW, the way I embedded this video is with the new oEmbed support built into WordPress 2.9 development. You can just include the bare URL (or use a special shortcode).)
Flackette called Amazon and got my Kindle fixed. Back up and running after months…
Here are some interesting vocabulary words I ran across…
Continue reading about SAT words in context after the jump
1. What Is the Supreme Law of the Land?
The Ten Commandments.
2. What Do We Call the First Ten Amendments of the Constitution?
The New Deal.
3. What Are the Two Parts of the U.S. Congress?
Communists and Capitalists.
4. How Many Justices Are on the Supreme Court?
None. This is a trick question. Everyone knows the only people in court are the judge, jury and executioner.
5. Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Jesus.
6. What Ocean Is on The East Coast of the United States?
The Mexican Ocean.
7. What Are the Two Major Political Parties in the United States?
Republican and Socialist.
8. We Elect a U.S. Senator for How Many Years?
Until they die or get caught in a wide stance.
9. Who Was the First President of the United States?
10. Who Is in Charge of the Executive Branch?
“He’s not a public intellectual—he’s a fucking wind sock. And he knows it.”
Beware the Man has a nice summary of a Joe Klein takedown.
Continue reading about Missing setup if you don’t know the players after the jump.
Besides the obvious fact that contextual menus are now in inverted type and resemble overlays (making them easier to read), the Dock preferences has a hidden gem.
To find the minimized windows, click and hold to activate exposé (note the lightbox background)—the minimized windows now appear as a smaller preview in the lower part of the screen.
Nice. But the UI seems to resemble Ajax’d websites more and more.
As someone who worked at Tagged, I can say that profit-sharing with game developers like Zynga have been instrumental to make our revenue numbers. If they make this much off us, I shudder to think how much they’re pulling in from open API networks like Facebook and MySpace.
(Not to mention way to many hours wasted on Mafia Wars and Poker. ;-))
In any case, another PHP job posting…
What it does is add a system-wide hotkey to open Terminal as an overlay. The problem is it doesn’t work in Snow Leopard.
A little investigating implied that the problem was that SIMBL is not updated for 64-bit. So the trick is to simply “Get Info…” on Terminal and have it launch in 32-bit mode…
Now if only Logitech Control Center worked in Snow Leopard. I know the application is suck, but I’m getting tired of weird finger yoga to get at the control key on my Logitech DiNovo Mac Edition Keyboard. 🙁
“He reassured me by telling me that when he looked back on his career, all the work he was most proud of was done under circumstances just like that, where it seemed impossible, where there wasn’t enough time, there wasn’t enough money, and everyone had set the bar really high for themselves.”
From a Variety article on Pixar (via Flackette).
This deserves to be quoted in whole:
“50 years ago you shouted nigger, 30 years ago you talked about States Rights, now you ask to see the president’s birth certificate.”
I’d say it dates back even further—to secession and the Civil War. Back then the reason was Slave Power, for the last half century it was the Southern Strategy, now they’ve been reduced to Glenn Beck throwing a hissy fit and senior citizens screaming to keep government out of their Medicare.
You’d think that after being on the wrong side of history for the last two centuries, these people would get a clue.
Continue reading about Addendum: The Lion of Liberalism after the jump.
Chris just left OmniTI and so did Jon, Jeremiah departs Forrester, Andrei’s last day at digg is today, Lucas’s last day at Facebook is today…
I got to get me some of that action…
It’s been an interesting ride. When I joined Tagged, we were doing around 20 million pages/day—almost all of them coming from the viral registration flow. Today, we have virality turned off, and yet we still do over 240 million page views per day—close to a billion dynamic requests per day—as well as having been profitable for over 16 months now.
In a weird coincidence, Mark Jen is today the Director of Engineering at Tagged. Congratulations!
As for my future? Stay tuned. 🙂