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links for 2011-03-20

  • worth keeping in mind: "Parkinson shows how you can go in to the board of directors and
    get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar
    atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will
    be tangled up in endless discussions.

    Parkinson explains that this is because an atomic plant is so vast,
    so expensive and so complicated that people cannot grasp it, and
    rather than try, they fall back on the assumption that somebody
    else checked all the details before it got this far."

  • sites that change their content based on the ipod/ipad/browser window size. inspirational
  • chart showing various different radiation doses.

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links for 2011-03-19

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links for 2011-03-17

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links for 2011-03-16

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links for 2011-03-15

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links for 2011-03-14

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links for 2011-03-04

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links for 2011-03-03

  • Those 200 resumes you got from Craigslist? Those consist of the one guy who happened to be good, but he's only applying for a job because his wife wants to be nearer to her family, and the usual floating population of 199 people who apply for every single job and are qualified for none. And now you think you're being "super selective" but you're not, it's just a statistical fallacy.

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links for 2011-03-02

  • You know, I actually have to say that I think modern technology is really [stymieing] screenwriters nowadays. I mean, mobile phones, the internet, wifi, all those things, they don't work for a screenwriter. How many times did you ever see an episode of 24 where Jack Bauer has to lose his phone, or break his phone, or there's no signal? Because it's just such a godsend; it's like a teleporter, you know? It's too useful, a mobile phone.
  • Check out the menu bar effect when you increase/decrease the text size. Really cool
  • Long sales letters work - piss off designers who want fewer letters. Key is to write really good copy

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links for 2011-03-01

  • I've done stuff that normal people would consider ubercool - doing illegal raves, run one of the hottest bars in Ibiza, throwing parties for the jetset. When seen from the outside it looks amazing - you get to talk to models, you get free booze, get in for free at all the clubs and have sex with models. The thing that nobody tells you is that it's hard work. Most of the actors that go to the oscars aren't there to get drunk or laid, for them it's a chance to talk shop with their colleauges. When James Cameron is talking to Natalie Portman he isn't chatting her up, he's trying to get her to star in his new movie. A friend of mine just came back from a tour with a known rock-band. They worked hard from nine in the morning until after midnight six days a week. The last day of the week they just wanted to get home to their families. No screwing around with models, no getting drunk and no clubbing. Just hard work. The rockstar life is mostly something the media makes up.

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