Clippings

How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big-Budget Flick | Underwire | Wired.com Now, in response to The_Quiet_Earth’s question about time-traveling marines, Erwin started typing. He posted his answer in a series of comments in the thread. Within an hour, he was an online celebrity. Within three hours, a film producer had reached out to him. Within two weeks, he was offered a deal to write a movie based on his Reddit comments....

Time Zones Never warp your brain with time zone math again. Great visualisation of timezone differences.

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browserling – interactive cross-browser testing We run the browsers on our servers. Fully interactive sessions, not static screenshots. No flash, no applets, nothing to install. Powered entirely by and javascript.

Vitamin T : The talent agency for digital creatives In a nutshell, Vitamin T provides carefully screened freelance designers, developers and copywriters on a freelance and Talent Bridge basis.

(via A VC: The Management Team – Guest Post From Joel Spolsky )

How to call bullshit on a guru « Scott Berkun Do… Ask “have you done this yourself?” Ask “How do you know what you know?” Ask “When is the theory you are advocating wrong?” Look for admissions of mistakes and failures. Ask “Why do so many people fail at this?” Don’t… One factual error doesn’t dismiss a theory or a person. Use an expert as your negative stepping stone. Demand instant satisfaction....

Titanic.js … the story of the infamous Titanic, written in JS code #titanic { float: none; }

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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it....