Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath: OAKLAND, Calif. – by ELISABETH ROSENTHAL – http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/the-soaring-cost-of-a-simple-breath.html How Twitter’s Leadership Drama Explains its Success: One founder pushed aside in the early days of the company, his name scrubbed from its founding story. Another ousted from the CEO role by a … Read moreRecommended Reads: Sunday October 13, 2013
“Bradford Shellhammer’s affection for people mirrors his feelings for his vast accumulation of inanimate objects, which include sunglasses, sneakers, and glass birds. “I collect things. People are just another thing I collect,” he says, describing his Warholian approach to life.”
“There’s no hardware as cool as space hardware. And there’s nothing cooler than watching astronauts and scientists testing out equipment to take us off-world — even equipment that was never used. Here are our favorite images of NASA testing its equipment on Earth.”
There’s some magic peace that comes over me when I’m not constantly looking at my iPhone. I really noticed it after two weeks of not doing it. After a few days of withdrawal, the calm appears. My brain is no longer jangly, the dopamine effect of “hey – another email, another tweet” goes away, and … Read moreIs Mobile Hurting Attention?
I’m a multi-phone user. I carry two active phones (business / personal) and it’s difficult to manage the flow of messages via SMS across the two particularly if I leave my personal device on silent at the office or only take one for a particular time (like on my bike). A bigger issue is iMessage … Read moreIs Google about to offer sync’d SMS?
via REALfarmacy.com.
Disney Research has pioneered a method to create new interactive experiences with paper, some simple electronics and some conductive ink. The result is really, really cool. With three kids we’ve worked our way through many books together many of which have had some interactive components through flaps and folds and even sound or simple lights. … Read moreDisney Research re-imagines the pop-up book #maker style and it’s awesome
buzzfeed: I see what you did there. via Tumblr http://atmasphere.tumblr.com/post/63111047559
copsinbikelanes: Multiple submissions from Joanna Oltman Smith. The first one is at 2nd Ave and 16th in Manhattan. The second is at 1st Ave and 44th. The last two are at every cop’s favorite bike lane: Hoyt and Schermerhorn. Both of these cars are repeat offenders. The bottom car, number 2242, is a multiple-time offender. … Read morecopsinbikelanes: Multiple submissions from Joanna Oltman Smith….