Amanda Palmer dropped by the Kickstarter office earlier this week and delivered this performance of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”….as sung from the perspective of a truck stop hooker. Gotta get down on Friday, y’all.
Watch the rest of her performance over on our blog. Friday! Friday!
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Vladimir Putin has a wide range of exotic hobbies.
The biggest design decision I’ve made is more of a continuous philosophy: do as few extremely time-consuming features as possible. As a result, Instapaper is a collection of a bunch of very easy things and only a handful of semi-hard things.
This philosophy sounds simple, but it isn’t: geeks like us are always tempted to implement very complex, never-ending features because they’re academically or algorithmically interesting, or because they can add massive value if done well, such as speech or handwriting recognition, recommendation engines, or natural-language processing.
These features — often very easy for people but very hard for computers — often produce mediocre-at-best results, are never truly finished, and usually require massive time investments to achieve incremental progress with diminishing returns.
” Rands In Repose: Interview: Marco ArmentPlay Super Mario in the real world as a physical side-scroller! Make one yourself with a Teagueduino.
The best iPhone text message ever.
Amazing table Cloth trick, with a surprise ending.
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If you want to learn to code and build stuff and you’re starting by asking someone else what you should do, you’re already thinking about it the wrong way. Immediately, right now, with no preparation, in the blink of an eye, you can take a huge step toward your goal by realizing that you don’t…
Growing up I was a huge apple fan-boy (fine, still am.) The first NY apple store in Soho opening was probably the coolest thing that happened to me between the ages 6 and 12. For a while I would spend almost every weekend there. Every year for halloween I was a mac, and I made a habit of shaving…
“This object has been temporarily removed while we revise its facial expression, which was deemed zoologically improbable and/or terrifying to small children.”
Na-na-na-na-na-na Batman!
