http://www.youtube.com/watch... My brother did the audio for it. Nice to have an audio engineer in the family :)
My newest batch of profile pic photos: http://www.friendlyrank.com/index... I had way too much fun with that photo shoot :)
Full moon! She's a beauty. Just something special about full moons...
I just relaunched http://www.friendlyrank.com with a whole bunch of new UI, features, data, etc. Check it out, upload photos, spread the word, etc. :) The site is great if you want to find your best photo for an online dating site, or if you want to know if you look better with short hair or long, or whatever other reason.
Oh, and if you are on reddit and have a reddit account, feel free to upvote my reddit submission :) (search for friendly rank, and you should find it) - Shannon Bauman
Made some improvements to http://friendlyrank.com Let me know what you think.Click-away. Or add photos, that would be rad.
Just a really cool Trilobite image I came across. - http://blogs.sundaymercury.net/weirdsc...
Hack me. It would be cool if there was a service in which people who built a site could credit let's say... $100 to a central service, and if someone was able to hack your site (get info out of the site, or obtain control of the site), then the central service verifies - and if the hacker then tells you what the exploit was, and cedes control back
... then they get the $100. - Shannon Bauman
Essentially distributed security testing of your site. - Shannon Bauman
Funny quote on the front cover of Wired Magazine (with absolutely no context around it what-so-ever): "Who cares if your Warcraft wife is really a dude - if it's GOOD, don't check under the HOOD."
I'm becoming disheartened that Web Design is becoming like the automotive repair industry - lots of people need the service, but know nothing about it, so they get taken advantage of. I hear anecdotes from people of the nightmares they go through (and sky high prices they pay) to get their site designed and/or hosted.
having gone through this recently, feel free to add the wedding industry to the list. - Tudor Bosman
Same can be said for SEO / SEM and PPC management. It bugs my like crazy when I hear some stories - Charlie Anzman
I decided I need to find a job where I can sit all day and photoshop things. For example, photoshop one person's head onto another person, etc. I wonder if North Korea is hiring.
Here is an out there theory that I came up with 30 seconds ago. Would love to hear peoples thoughts: Using and throwing away plastic may not be so bad - assuming it gets buried, and not tossed into the ocean. Once buried, it's essentially inert - so no real bad consequences. Probably in a few hundred years people will re-mine it anyhow. Cont...
But the pro, is that using more plastic uses up oil, so less oil gets used as... well, oil, and gas, and such. That is the stuff that seems to be causing us problems as it is being converted to CO2. So yeah, more plastic usage = less Oil/Gas usage = less air pollution. Obviously not very well thought out, but would love to hear people's thoughts. - Shannon Bauman
I really dislike nameadministration.com. They grab so many good domain names, do nothing worthwhile with them, and then post in their FAQs the following blurb that sounds really arrogant and annoying:
""NAmedia is not in the business of selling domain names. It is not our intention to "hold out for your best offer". Replying to your email and the many we receive like it each day, costs us time that could be better spent growing our media business." - Shannon Bauman
Milk.com is a famous example. http://milk.com/value/ - Robert Kenney
Coffee shops pose a problem for me. I like doing work from them, but they don't offer anything I want to consume. I wish I could just pay them $1 to hang out and use their seats and wifi. I usually end up just buying a drink that I really don't want.
Can someone remind me... when an Indian person says "Can I have your good name?" - what does that mean? Does "good" mean they are specifically looking for your first name or last name? Or is good just superfluous. I feel like I used to know the answer to this, but was caught off guard just now.
Yeah, I spent a total of like 72 hours in India (then the next 7 days being sick... sad but true). - Shannon Bauman
Food. Tibet got me on altitude, India on food. They don't put those in the tourist brochures. - Shannon Bauman
Can you remember the zip code of every place you have lived? I can remember current (Chapel Hill, NC), as well as two most recent San Francisco and Mountain view, but have forgotten the ones before that (Atlanta GA, Troy NY)... and then my childhood home zip I still remember of course.
I can! But that's only seven zip codes. - Daniel Dulitz
No. We lived in too many places. I only remember the ones after we moved to CA and only about half of those. - Anika
Ender's Game is the gateway drug to science fiction reading.
Folks who started their own companies, or own projects. Do you think it is worthwhile to file for patents? (this is independent from the contentious question of if software patents should even be allowed). But in general, do you find it worthwhile to spend the money to patent aspects of your site, or do you not even attempt it?
Little late to answer this question, but noticed it after your zip code post. I've had a software company for 10 years. Never filed for patents. My thought process was a) it can get really expensive and be a drain on your time; b) software companies relying on patents to stay competitive always seems desperate (e.g., SCO with Unix and Blackboard with role based administration). One of our lawyers advised us to copy write code to protect against people, who may have access to the source, stealing our work and opening up a competing service. That's about as far as I would go. - Chip Ramsey
Ribbon colors and their meanings: http://www.craftsnscraps.com/jewelry... Quiz: What color ribbon for Cri Du Chat Syndrome? What about for Group B Strep? Oh, and my favorite... the "clear" colored ribbon for Lung Disease.
I just noticed that my most recent issue of Wired has a drastically higher ratio of content to ads than I remember older issues having. Is it just me? Am I making this up?
No one's buying ads apparently. - Daniel Dulitz
very long explanation: http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - John Fu
Indeed, long and not too clear. Methinks WiReD is especially vulnerable to oblivion, because of the very technology it covers: print will always lag in comparison with online coverage (for which there aren't, as yet, many viable business models), and more so in times of crisis when ads are scarce. So magazines like it need to reposition themselves as something else. Unfortunately in practice that means either going the luxury-mag route (say $50/issue targeting the top 1% of the tech-savvy rich population); or pulpy type of periodicals akin to "Readers' Digest" and "Popular Electronics." None of the latter being very suitable for WiReD's tech-edgy coverage... - ianf ⌘
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
Wolfram Alpha demo - I'm impressed. http://www.wolframalpha.com/screenc...
I'm impressed too. Unfortunately it doesn't have an answer for "When will Wolfram Alpha be available?" The site says May, 2009. I'm guessing it's when the current press cycle starts to die down. - Kevin Fox
I'm pretty sure it's ajaxy html. - Kevin Fox
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, Book 1) - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
Tweeting the good tweet.
The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion, Book 4) - http://www.goodreads.com/review...
My last two (retired) passwords were built out of sentences about Ezra Pound (E#...) and Ringo Star (R*...). I think I ran out of people who have names that can be substituted with symbols though :) Oh well, it was a good run.
Prince - Amanda Nance
Last day at the Goog. Bittersweet.
Thanks for everything, shannon. Good luck on your next adventure!! - Jenna Bilotta
Shannon, if you're interested, and not already booked solid, we've got a bottomless pit of frontend work that needs to be done, some of it internal facing, some of it consumer facing. E-mail me at [email protected] if you would like to chat. - Kevin Scott
Insanity in Chapel Hill.
There used to be two street signs on the lamp post to the right - those guys ripped it off. The cops are just watching and not doing anything. I guess they figure they will just deal with it all in the morning. - Shannon Bauman
Also funny - there is no cell phone connections at all. Text messages just die. Totally oversaturated. - Shannon Bauman
oh wow that's crazy Shannon. Hope you're safe and sound! - Todd Jackson
Hockey goal that was more like a soccer goal [video]. - http://www.wimp.com/crazygoal/
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - http://www.goodreads.com/review...