Adam Pontificating About Things

laughingsquid: LEGO Daft Punk

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:28:12 -0700

laughingsquid:

LEGO Daft Punk

Photo

Mon, 06 May 2013 21:21:36 -0700

alexainslie: Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our...

Sat, 04 May 2013 22:34:04 -0700

alexainslie:

Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work? (by TEDtalksDirector via Roma)

yogawarriornyc: Flatiron. #nyc (at Flatiron...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:19:25 -0700

yogawarriornyc:

Flatiron. #nyc (at Flatiron Building)

Flatiron!

"I can’t stress this enough: Do what you love…in between work commitments, and family commitments,..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:16:38 -0700

“I can’t stress this enough: Do what you love…in between work commitments, and family commitments, and commitments that tend to pop up and take immediate precedence over doing the thing you love. Because the bottom line is that life is short, and you owe it to yourself to spend the majority of it giving yourself wholly and completely to something you absolutely hate, and 20 minutes here and there doing what you feel you were put on this earth to do.”

- Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life (via zachklein)

thisistheverge: Relive the glory of conquest with remastered...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:39:23 -0700

thisistheverge:

Relive the glory of conquest with remastered ‘Age of Empires II’, available on Steam April 9th

Age of Empires II is a monument to the glory days of sprites, battlefield evangelism, and real-time strategy, and you’ll be able to get another shot at spreading your influence around the world when an HD version of the game arrives next month. Age of Empires II: HD Edition is based on Age of Empires II: Age of Kings, released in 1999, and has been visually remastered with new textures, effects, and support for 1080p displays and multiple monitors.

zachklein: The General Consensus Regarding Fashion in SF via...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:58:08 -0800

zachklein:

The General Consensus Regarding Fashion in SF

via The Bold Italic.

newyorker: Cartoon by Christopher Weyant. For...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:40:13 -0800

newyorker:

Cartoon by Christopher Weyant. For more: http://nyr.kr/WTo7ST

newyorker: Cartoon by Ward Sutton. For more from this week’s...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:33:53 -0800

newyorker:

Cartoon by Ward Sutton. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/WqSOMI

thisistheverge: @ftrain

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:25:58 -0800

thisistheverge:

@ftrain

oatmeal: This is the web right now.

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:12:58 -0800

oatmeal:

This is the web right now.

buzzfeed: The 10 Things You Liked From The BuzzFeed Tumblr This...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:55:33 -0800

buzzfeed:

The 10 Things You Liked From The BuzzFeed Tumblr This year!

According to Best Of Tumblr, these were our top links:

Surprised red panda

CAT SITTING LIKE A HUMAN!!!!!

Shirtless Horseman from Hurricane Sandy

Grumpy Cat

This photoset of kids growing up with their pets

The Japanese island full of cats

The anti-cat Christmas tree

This picture of soap

The dentist who brings his service dog into work to calm children

Snoop Lion Animorph

Thanks for the great year everyone. You guys are the best!

-Ryan

thefrogman: We’ve come so far.

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:51:47 -0800

thefrogman:

We’ve come so far.

Video

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:36:46 -0800

Google launches Ingress - MMO Augmented Reality Game

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:03:53 -0800

Google launches Ingress - MMO Augmented Reality Game

Facebook, the feed, content <> advertising

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:14:11 -0800

We can expect to see Facebook deemphasizing traditional advertising units in favor of promoted news stories in your stream. The reason is that the very best advertising is content. Blurring the lines between advertising and content is one of the most ambitious goals a marketer could have.

From Understanding Like-gate

Blur the line between content and advertising and force marketers to pay for placement. Use engagement levels and relevancy as a proxy for quality score. There you have facebook’s AdWords competitor.

"Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as..."

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:26:35 -0800

“Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration — it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.”

- The ‘Busy’ Trap

Native Monetization

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:19:00 -0800

“If you just slap up some generic ad format, people tune it out and it doesn’t perform,” he argues. “People don’t hate advertising. They hate bad advertising, interruptive ads or poorly targeted ads.”

Wilson thinks sites should follow Twitter’s lead and ensure ad content is the form of an atomic unit that mimics the native content – a tweet on Twitter, a video on YouTube and so on. For the advertiser, the formula is to develop great organic ad content and then pay the platform to promote it.

Is Tumblr the New GeoCities? VC Fred Wilson says no, point to ads

Another win for big data!

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:19:43 -0800

Inside the Secret World of the Data Crunchers Who Helped Obama Win

This is amazing… but also very scary. I’ve never seen big data applied to something this… well, big. Part of my reaction is because this is politics and it helped determine the leadership of our country. Part of it is that it really shows that we cannot be objective, or even good decision-makers on our own.

oatmeal: Reasons I install Microsoft Silverlight

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:38:03 -0800

oatmeal:

Reasons I install Microsoft Silverlight