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Funny haha!
Brilliant. Apparently this was given out to dealers recently to be used over the next several months.
So here’s our question to US MF readers. Are you going to take advantage of the Cash for Clunker Program? If so lets...
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale
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A nice big essay on Apple's secrecy addiction.
Apple is justifiably revered in the worlds of technology and culture for creating one of the most powerful brands in the world based on the combination of some key elements: Great user exp...
Measure Volume and By Weight: Taylor Combination Measuring Cup and Scale
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Want.
Take a look at this new measuring cup, about to be released by Taylor. It's such a great idea; now that we've seen it we're shocked that we haven't seen this done before. It's a measuring cup that has a built-in scale!
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Fed Up, A Popular Mac Developer Quits The iPhone
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Let me get this straight... Apple, a company who thrives on secrecy, is playing by their own secret rules about who gets to play in their closed ecosystem and taking away features people like?Who is honestly surprised by this?Apple aga...
The 'United Plates': Food-Themed Prints of All 50 States
We love it when people play with their food. Shorthanded Studio has a set of fifty food-themed prints (dubbed the "United Plates")—designed and silk-screened by Kansas artist John Wayne H., each depicts one of the fifty states in culinary form. Som...
Preview Program Update
Waves 1 and 2 of the Xbox LIVE Update Preview Program have been pushed out and we have seen quite a few Xbox LIVE members already download and start checking out all the new features in this update. We are collecting the necessary information for another Wave, so please hang tight if you have been accepted but have not received your update yet. A fair number of you have not provided accurate information (like an invalid console ID or serial number) so if you previously signed up, and have not received the update, you may want to visit connect and confirm your information.
If you haven’t signed up yet, you are still in luck – we are is still taking additional signups. You can do read more about the program on my blog, or on Xbox.com. If you want to get some of your friends to try the new Netflix party mode, get then to sign up and you can try it out together!
Maker’s vs Manager’s Schedules
Good read on the Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule and some thoughts on making the two work together. The short version is that the Manager’s schedule is the traditional appointment book or Outlook/Google Calendar view of 1 hour intervals. You can schedule longer than an hour … Read More →
Mad Men Yourself
AMC has a fun toy on their site named MadMenYourself.com. I look pretty awesome in cartoon form!
Steampunked!
I loved it as soon as I saw the tag line: “yo dawg I herd you like sprockets so I put sprockets in your sprockets so you can sprocket while you sprocket” Wondermark » Archive » #538; In which Pipes continue to leak.
Traffic and the price of anarchy
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I love the un-intuitiveness of this research.
The collective optimization of individual driving routes by drivers using realtime traffic maps slows everyone down. That is, everyone picking the "fastest" route on the map results in over...