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Spectacular sunset tonight. #nofilter (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:49:51 -0800

Spectacular sunset tonight. #nofilter (Taken with instagram)

laughingsquid: Stoop Sale by MC Frontalot

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:25:43 -0800

laughingsquid:

Stoop Sale by MC Frontalot

defranco: I get a lot of requests for pictures of what the...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:31:43 -0800

defranco:

I get a lot of requests for pictures of what the SourceFed “set” looks like soooooo…here it is.

Very simple 2 camera setup. Sound proofing. Painted wall. Lights. And a box for Lee since Elliott is 9 feet tall.

Love the soundproofing.

Am I the only one who loathes all the re-made movie posters?

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:30:00 -0800

I don’t really get it. Most of them are really not very good at all, yet people seem to LOVE them.

Amazing Kodachrome photo set via Kent Nichols (posted here)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:32:53 -0800

Amazing Kodachrome photo set via Kent Nichols (posted here)

Awesome illustrations by Liam Brazier. (via The Real Stan Lee)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:51:09 -0800

Awesome illustrations by Liam Brazier. (via The Real Stan Lee)

ericmortensen: So Many Sequences!

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:29:21 -0800

ericmortensen:

So Many Sequences!

teamtigerawesome: ronbabcock: theoriginalchingy: “Waterfall...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:27:36 -0800

teamtigerawesome:

ronbabcock:

theoriginalchingy:

“Waterfall Restaurant in the Village of Escudero, Philippines. Patrons eat right next to the breathtaking waterfall and have water flowing around their feet!”

via NotCot.

Wow.

Uh, helloooo? America? The Phillipines are beating you

Obama checks out an 8th grader’s marshmallow cannon....

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:48:26 -0800

Obama checks out an 8th grader’s marshmallow cannon. Awesome.

evangotlib: thisistheverge: Lazer Tag is getting an overhaul...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:39:05 -0800

evangotlib:

thisistheverge:

Lazer Tag is getting an overhaul for iOS generation — Hasbro just announced that its 2012 Nerf Lazer Tag blasters can be combined with an iPhone or iPod touch to provide a heads-up display, an increased firing distance of 250 feet, and augmented reality for a “single player” experience. (via Hasbro’s new Lazer Tag guns use iOS devices for HUD and augmented reality | The Verge)

Bye bye productivity!

Whoa!

saucy: coursekit: Spot is a real-time Twitter visualization...

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:31:07 -0800

saucy:

coursekit:

Spot is a real-time Twitter visualization that collects tweets and visualizes them as particles floating in space real-time. So that’s words spoken, real time. Nice.

via Infosthetics

Seeing this everywhere these days - embedded into blogs, mainstream media sites. Data Vis is such a nice addition to any new article.

I'm in LA this week, working off a Blip LA laptop...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:45:12 -0800

annieisms:

Annie: this macbook pro’s screen is so big!

Annie: it’s soooo nice for watching stuff in full screen, hee hee

Steve: this is like you and your big screen: tumblr_lyy2tlE4iT1qfjjglo1_500.gif

parislemon: The FriendFeed 70x Exit When Facebook acquired FriendFeed in the summer of 2009, it was...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:32:28 -0800

parislemon:

The FriendFeed 70x Exit

When Facebook acquired FriendFeed in the summer of 2009, it was widely-reported to be a fairly straightforward “acqui-hire” deal. The price was more complicated.

$50 million sounded good on paper, but it was believed that only a small amount was in cash, the rest was in Facebook stock. It was Facebook stock which was just valued at $6.5 billion thanks to the DST investment. Some felt that it was overpriced, and as such, not a great deal for FriendFeed.

Boy were they wrong.

Looking at Facebook’s just-released S-1, Alyson Shontell of Business Insider noticed that in August 2009 (the month of the FriendFeed deal), Facebook issued just over 11 million shares of Class B common stock to ten individuals and one entity — this is most definitely the FriendFeed team, their individuals investors, and probably their lead VC firm, Benchmark Capital.

Today, leading up to their IPO, Facebook is worth just shy of $100 billion. Those FriendFeed shares are now worth around $330 million as a result. In other words, their August 2009 acquisition has shot up just about 7x in value since that time.

Certainly, some of the players have since sold off those shares in subsequent Facebook raises or on the secondary markets and have done well as a result. But those that didn’t have been rewarded very handsomely.

A 10x exit on paper magically turned into a 70x exit. And counting, by the way…

Now I’ll use this opportunity to once again link to the first post I ever wrote for TechCrunch in April 2009, four months before the deal: You Will Be Using FriendFeed In The Future — But It May Be Called Facebook

mattybing1025: mcqueeterrencestevenmcqueen: The iconic car...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:40 -0800

mattybing1025:

mcqueeterrencestevenmcqueen:

The iconic car chase in Bullitt (1968)

iheartchaos: When the Incredible Hulk has to go, never let him...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:12:32 -0800

iheartchaos:

When the Incredible Hulk has to go, never let him use your bathroom

Sculpture made by South Korean Redditor TheMistah. Don’t ever let him use your facilities unless you want to pay for a entire bathroom overhaul.

Via

kenyatta: My Here’s Some Awesome post for this...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:43:48 -0800

kenyatta:

My Here’s Some Awesome post for this week…

heressomeawesome:

K.Flay – ‘We Hate Everyone’ video by Justin Johnson and Erik Beck

Justin Johnson and Erik Beck have been around the videoblogging world for a very long time. They created IndyMogul, joined the team at the now legendary Next New Networks and now they;ve branched off on their own as The Indie Machines. One of their projects is the above music video for artist K.Flay.

It combines clever camera work, interesting post effects, and puppets. Lots of puppets.

lumber: (via Artistic Gangsta Picture)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:03:49 -0800

lumber:

(via Artistic Gangsta Picture)

attentiondoozers: God damn. atencio: gregrutter: I’ve...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:54:19 -0800

attentiondoozers:

God damn.

atencio:

gregrutter:

I’ve probably watch MIA’s new video for “Bad Girls” about a hundred times in the last 24 hours.

When I first saw this I said “oh fuck” at least 12 times.

Oh. My. Lord. #cupcakepocalypse (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:07:27 -0800

Oh. My. Lord. #cupcakepocalypse (Taken with instagram)

Walt’s desk #Disney (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:04:41 -0800

Walt’s desk #Disney (Taken with instagram)