April 2010
Retro Tech Trivia
Last night’s Tron screening kicked off with Retro Tech Trivia hosted by Molly & Yatta. All the participants had a good and geeky showing, but contestant Mack was the clear winner with 8 correct answers (and a darn fine modem impression).  Try it out at your next party: last night’s questions are below (click through for answers). 1. This device, first released in 1962, took its...
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My motto →
(via bitsandpieces)
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The cultural impact of 5 years of YouTube on The... →
kenyatta: Went on the Brian Lehrer show this morning to talk about the cultural significance of YouTube.  Had a good chat with Virginia Heffernan, Brian Lehrer, and his listeners. Audio embed below:
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WatchWatch
Visual Tricks in Progress Bars Make Downloading Seem Faster Visual tricks such as these can make a progress bar seem to go faster than what it really is! via rocketboomtech
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A Q&A with Mememolly on YouTube's Creator's Corner... →
“I actually wanted to be an accountant.”
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New Gmail Logo →
New Gmail logo. via urlesque
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Rates of Yawning Change Throughout Life. →
The journal Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience has an paper that looks at how rates of yawning change throughout our life. Yawning is a behavior that begins in the first stages of life. It has not only been observed in infants and in newborns, but also in fetuses of 12-14 weeks’ gestational age. Yawning frequency changes over the life span. In preterm infants, the number of yawns...
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Twitter Predicts Future Box Office Revenues →
The Social Computing Lab at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA found that using only the rate at which movies are mentioned on Twitter could successfully predict future revenues. But when the sentiment of the tweet was factored in (how favorable it was toward the new movie), the prediction was even more exact. To quantify the sentiments in 3 million tweets the team used the anonymous human workers found by...
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