December 2011
13 posts
The Single Best Thing You Can Do for Your Health -... →
This went around Twitter a few days ago, and deserves a link. I’ll sum it up simply, though the video is short, cute, and worth watching: “Can you limit your sitting and sleeping to just 23 1/2 hours a day? 30 minutes of walking makes a huge difference in your quality of life.”
I got a Fitbit a few months ago, and simply love it. Having a step count at the end of my day...
Prometheus - Movie Trailers - iTunes →
Firefly? Is that you?
who killed videogames? (a ghost story) | insert... →
This is a four chapter short story about videogames, compulsion, and a bunch of other things. Find the time to read this, ok?
iTunes's iCloud Cache
I had a few hours to kill on the plane on Sunday, so I thought I’d take a look at how iTunes does caching for iCloud songs. This is a new caching mechanism in iTunes 10.5, and only applies to songs you start playing from iCloud in iTunes without hitting the download button. (Downloaded songs are treated like regular store purchases.)
Temporary files from iCloud are stored in...
“I like to urge designers to always ask themselves: “Does this logo look like a...”
– StumbleUpon Stumbles on Hidden Shape - Brand New
Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret... →
As a music consumer, I love services like Spotify and Rdio: they let me listen to vast amounts of music and seemingly depthless back catalogues. But as someone who enjoys new bands, I love concerts: they seem to be one of the more reliable ways to send non-trivial sums of money to acts you like.
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction →
You’re reading Bret Victor, right? (You should be.)
Economics focus: House of horrors, part 2 - The... →
… home prices are overvalued by about 25% or more in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, New Zealand, Britain, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. Indeed, in the first four of those countries housing looks more overvalued than it was in America at the peak of its bubble.
“It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the...”
– Don’t Be A Free User - Pinboard