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I had no idea why Google would buy a company, reCaptcha, that does captchas. For those of you who don’t know, captchas are the little squiggly text that people enter to prove they are human. The word “captcha” actually stands for: C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part
With these things are all over the internet, why would Google buy this specific company? I found out a few reasons. First, they are the... Read Full Story
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Was reading The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine the other day and it had some great quotes from Theodor Geisel, a prominent alum and extremely successful author under the name Dr. Seuss.
While at Dartmouth, Theodor was editor of Dartmouth’s comedy magazine called The Jacko. That is until he got caught drinking on Easter eve and got kicked out. By his fraternity (Caste and Gauntlet) he was voted least likely to succeed and he graduated with a 2.4 in 1925. Given all that he managed to go out and... Read Full Story
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There’s an interesting article in the NY Times called Taking Back The Knife: Girls Gone Gory in which it talks about the recent increasing in horror movies being made and the strange findings of recent box office receipts showing that women have an even bigger appetite for horror films than men.
This surprised me although i have seen it first hand; last weekend both Diane and Althea put Halloween 2 tops on their “want to see” list. Some of the reasons that the NY Times said were:
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The fires in LA are both incredible and sad. The sight of them is unlike anything i’ve seen. Take a look at this video that Toby put up (click on it to watch video):
It makes me reflect on my time here in LA. As some of you know, i’m moving to Denver in the next few weeks. I’m out of here. While i’m excited about moving closer to the mountains and friends, i’m sad to leave LA. The past 17 months have been an interesting time. Some thoughts on LA:
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There’s a good article about digital advertising and Nike and how they are approaching the shifting landscape. Some key points to the article:
TV and traditional ad spending for Nike is down 80% over the past 4 years where as digital spend is up 200%. They want to go where the consumers are and more and more that is online
Nike Marketing Director Simon Pestridge says: “We don’t do advertising any more. We just do cool stuff. It sounds a bit wanky, but that’s just the way it is... Read Full Story
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Apple keep talking about a tablet to be released
sometime soon. What i really want is an AppleTV – and i don’t mean the box that attaches to the TV. I want an actual TV created by Apple that’s an LCD or Plasma that runs OSX.
The levels of convergence would be ridiculous. You could use it as a Time Machine device to back up all your machines in your house. It could have a built in cable modem and airport so it could broadcast wireless everywhere. You’re basically converging Time... Read Full Story
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Detroit Blows
Originally uploaded by pescatello
This is what happens when the Vikes start getting ready to dominate the NFC North!
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iLIke was purchased by MySpace this week for $20 million. Hearing this annoucement, i couldn’t help think that something was off. Something just doesn’t make sense.
Some facts: iLike has 50 million registered users. That’s a huge number. They are definitely one of the most popular applications on Facebook and one of the best applications anywhere for concerts. They have built some things that are quite hard to build such as:
A mp3 download store ( link )
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The guy is taking a love of The Big Lebowski a bit too far. Although i love the film – it’s in my top 10 of all time favorite movies – i think this is a bit much. Now if only i could meet someone who’s channeling Walter Read Full Story
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Last month i saw the film 500 Days of Summer . I have a few thoughts about it:
In the film, the main character is a guy who writes greeting cards. While this is his job, he’s actually an architect. When i heard this, the movie immediately became less original and unique
to me. Being an architect is such a cliche now. Ever since Something About Mary it’s been used in every romantic-comedy around. I understand why. If you’re a woman, an architect embodies all the qualities you’d want in... Read Full Story
