An Overdose Of Nicholas Molnar

"One programmer highlighted the error of relying on computer code that, if it generates an error..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:46:14 -0800

“One programmer highlighted the error of relying on computer code that, if it generates an error message, continues as if nothing untoward ever occurred. Another debugged the code by pointing out why the output of a calculation that should always generate a positive number was incorrectly generating a negative one. A third concluded: “I feel for this guy. He’s obviously spent years trying to get data from undocumented and completely messy sources.””

- The Real Problem With the Climate Science Emails - The Atlantic Business Channel

This is the code that we are relying on to tell us the severity of climate change in the next hundred years. Just about everything you have ever heard about Global Warming relies on this. How scary is that?

Eels - The Look You Give That Guy Amazing

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:02:59 -0800

Eels - The Look You Give That Guy

Amazing

The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:51:08 -0800

The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again

Inspiration & Disappointment: My TEDx Story

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:24:00 -0800

Inspiration & Disappointment: My TEDx Story:

How I almost got to speak at TEDx Vancouver

Context & The Music Business

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:22:14 -0800

Context & The Music Business:

Me on Terry McBride on the future of the music business

"Social media experts said they’re not surprised so many people have subscribed to the exciting..."

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:21:39 -0800

“Social media experts said they’re not surprised so many people have subscribed to the exciting new site, as it’s the only online service in which users can post a major multivolume epic in the morning, and have it read, critiqued, and reNovelled by thousands of other people around the world before lunch.”

- New ‘Noveller’ Allows People To Post Novels They Write During Course Of Their Day | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

I am surprised more Facebook promoters don’t pull this...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:37:45 -0800

I am surprised more Facebook promoters don’t pull this stunt. This ‘Karaoke’ event lasts until February. Group left.

Internet Vices - Patrick Moberg

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:29:56 -0800

Internet Vices - Patrick Moberg

"It’s interesting too that, overall, industry revenues have grown in the period - though admittedly..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:01:55 -0800

“

It’s interesting too that, overall, industry revenues have grown in the period - though admittedly not by much - which arguably adds strength to the notion that, when the BPI releases its annual report claiming how much ‘the music industry’ has suffered from the growth in illegal file-sharing, what it perhaps should be saying is how much the record labels have suffered.

For other people in the industry, not least artists, the future arguably holds more promise.

”

- Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? — Times Labs Blog (via quotingthecrisis)

2012: The End Of The World? | Information Is Beautiful Far too...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:29:43 -0800

2012: The End Of The World? | Information Is Beautiful

Far too much wit, time, style, and energy went into explaining something this ridiculous.

Predicting the end of the world (at a conveniently distant time) is an incredibly easy way to gain attention without actually having to do anything.

So far, however, the batting average at this game is 0.0.

How are people still falling for this?

Truly beautiful information delivery, though.

"A new decade’s breaking, and in it, people, companies, and countries will have to strategize..."

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:36:48 -0800

“A new decade’s breaking, and in it, people, companies, and countries will have to strategize differently. The story the macroeconomic tea leaves foretell isn’t one of power shifting from America to China or anywhere else. It is a story of global economic might everywhere wavering and falling, unable to meet the new challenges of the 21st Century, The Age of Decline isn’t just American: it’s global, a descent into a new kind of economic dark age - unless different choices are made.”

- What’s Your Strategy for the Next Decade? - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org

Lots of people make a living saying that the sky is falling. Umair is the only one I take seriously.

(via financegeek)

bijan: Come In Please - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:16:23 -0800

bijan:

Come In Please - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

I can’t wait to see this show tomorrow night at the Bowery Ballroom

Jealous

"DiDio said Apple learned from its mistake of pricing the original iPhone at $599, pricing out many..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:17:17 -0800

“DiDio said Apple learned from its mistake of pricing the original iPhone at $599, pricing out many potential customers.”

- Apple tablet: The everything killer - Nov. 16, 2009

Apple did not make a mistake pricing the iPhone at $599. It may have been the greatest pricing move of all time. That price framed the value of the device for millions of users (it’s not just a cellphone, look at how much it costs!). For a year, it was an unaffordable luxury for most (if you couldn’t afford it at $599, you probably couldn’t at $499 either).

Now, you can buy a 3G for $100, but everyone still looks at it as a premium product.

Mistake? I don’t think so.

"It could be that everyone will figure out how to play nicely with each other, and we’ll see a..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:41:27 -0800

“It could be that everyone will figure out how to play nicely with each other, and we’ll see a continuation of the interoperable web model we’ve enjoyed for the past two decades. But I’m betting that things are going to get ugly. We’re heading into a war for control of the web. And in the end, it’s more than that, it’s a war against the web as an interoperable platform. Instead, we’re facing the prospect of Facebook as the platform, Apple as the platform, Google as the platform, Amazon as the platform, where big companies slug it out until one is king of the hill.”

- The War For the Web - O’Reilly Radar

"Probably the funniest bit of commercial ingenuity I’ve seen these past few months is the..."

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:11:01 -0800

“

Probably the funniest bit of commercial ingenuity I’ve seen these past few months is the growth of corpse-spam in World of Warcraft.You see, it’s quite hard, in-game, to spam people with commercial messages. If you send messages to people you get blocked and reported and your account shut down. If you just yell stuff in the city square people ignore you. But there’s a huge market in selling gold to players (cos it’s easier to buy 1000 gold from a Chinese sweat-shop than bother to earn it by playing the game) and so the gold-spammers have hit on an ingenious solution.

Go to any major city (Stormwind, Orgrimmar) and you’ll see the name of some gold-selling website or other spelled out in dead bodies on the ground.

”

- Virtual Economics: The growing value of URLs you can easily spell out in dead bodies

Targeted Copyright Enforcement: Deterring Many Users with a Few Lawsuits | Freedom to Tinker

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:45:30 -0800

Targeted Copyright Enforcement: Deterring Many Users with a Few Lawsuits | Freedom to Tinker:

Very clever game theory solution to online copyright infringement.

igather: BERNABE MENDEZ from the State of Guerrero works as a...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:39:47 -0800

igather:

BERNABE MENDEZ from the State of Guerrero works as a professional window cleaner in New York. He sends 500 dollars a month.

Dulce Pinzon from the SuperHeroes series

If I worked as a window cleaner, this would be my outfit.

implodr: The UWS Gets Its Very Own Apple Store -...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:39:47 -0800

implodr:

The UWS Gets Its Very Own Apple Store - Gothamist

That glass roof is mindblowing. Philip Johnson was thinking way too small.

Flaming Lips: 'Watching The Planets' - New Video Exclusive - NMETV

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:39:13 -0800

Flaming Lips: 'Watching The Planets' - New Video Exclusive - NMETV:

dalasverdugo:

Here’s that nudie Flaming Lips video they filmed a few blocks away from me. Site won’t let me embed it. NSFW.

Strangely delightful. I’m one away from a NSFW music video trend.

"It’s hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet,..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:14:57 -0800

“It’s hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce site, to the tune of $300,000,000 a year. What was even worse: the designers of the site had no clue there was even a problem.”

- The $300 Million Button

He better have gotten a house as a Christmas bonus for uncovering this problem.