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Happier meals: four Toronto chefs reimagine the Big Mac combo
“Four local chefs turn the most famous dish (the Big Mac combo) at McDonald’s into a five-star meal” – Makes for some pretty interesting looking results
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A very interesting & visionary memo from Bill Gates to the Microsoft employees written in the mid 1990s. Quite a lot of his vision has come true. Too bad that Microsoft could not capitalize on them.
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“Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends”
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Using the FOR command to copy files listed in a text file | sides of march
A simple one liner – for /f “delims=” %%i in (filelist.txt) do echo D|xcopy “\\server\share\folder\%%i” “c:\temp\%%i” /i /z /y
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Rands In Repose: A Hard Thing is Done by Figuring Out How to Start
“We’re addicted quick fixes, top ten lists, and four-hour work weeks, but the truth is – if it wasn’t hard, everyone would be doing it and a hard thing is never done by reading a list or a book or an article about doing it. A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.”
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Rands In Repose: Lost in Translation
“…and the beginning of understanding something fundamental to make future Falls less catastrophic: that people are the best puzzles you’ll never solve”
Month: May 2011
Interesting links for the week (weekly)
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Namib-Naukluft Park Picture – Travel Wallpaper – National Geographic Photo of the Day
When a photo looks like a painting
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AppRedeem Real Rewards – iPhone Apps and iPod Apps
An interesting concept that rewards you for trying out iOS apps
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Quite a website making use of a lot of modern HTML\JS functionality. Belongs to the UI designer of the original iPad. Visualization at its best with tablet friendliness thrown in for good measure.
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And now we have a javascript\HTML5 based gameboy emulator
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The Twitter Trap – NYTimes.com
From the executive editor of NYT – “Basically, we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud. The upside is that this frees a lot of gray matter for important pursuits like FarmVille and “Real Housewives.” But my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity. “
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Ninite – Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once
Quite a handy utility that lets you build a custom installer for a bunch of software & then have them silently install\update
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Not much of functionality, but pretty interesting that we can now run simulators in the browser itself.
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Recreation of the internet as it was in the 1980s right in the browser.
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List of numbers – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Who knew that there were these many numbers and so many systems
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Entering The Minority Report Era: A Video Series – TNW Social Media
Welcome to the future?
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The People vs. Goldman Sachs | Rolling Stone Politics
A big brand name combined with brains can be a deadly combination
Interesting links for the week (weekly)
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A dream come true for Mumbai citizens – “Gary Chang, an architect, designed his 344 square foot apartment in Hong Kong to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls.”
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Over the past 30 years, designer, writer, and researcher Bill Buxton has been collecting. Explore his collection of input and interactive devices that he found interesting, useful, or important in the history of pen computing, pointing devices, and touch technologies.
Interesting links for the week (weekly)
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The Reason We Reason | Wired Science | Wired.com
The idea here is that the confirmation bias is not a flaw of reasoning, it’s actually a feature. It is something that is built into reasoning; not because reasoning is flawed or because people are stupid, but because actually people are very good at reasoning — but they’re very good at reasoning for arguing. Not only does the argumentative theory explain the bias, it can also give us ideas about how to escape the bad consequences of the confirmation bias.
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[Tool] Android Injector – xda-developers
A tool for Android to install non-market apps when restricted by your service provider. Thankfully this is not yet a problem in India.
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General Motors: Weight Loss Diet Program
Includes the steps in the program along with explanations for why the diet is suggested.
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References in Samit Basu’s ‘The Simoquin Prophecies’ // needlessly|messianic
Some seem to be off the mark as pointed out by the author himself in a twitter post.
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Notable Quotables : The New Yorker
Quite a lot of information on how quotes get mangled over time & get popular thus immortalizing the person who made the quote. Then again, sometimes quotes are misattributed. It also mentions a couple of books that help verify the authenticity of quotes & traces their origins.
“Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It’s quotable because it’s been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. Quotations are prostheses. “As Emerson/Churchill/Donald Trump once observed” borrows another person’s brain waves and puts them to your own use. (If you fail to credit Emerson et al., it’s called plagiarism. But isn’t plagiarism just the purest form of quotation?) Then, there is a subset of quotations that are personal. We pick them up off the public street, but we put them to private uses. We hoard quotations like amulets. They are charms against chaos, secret mantras for dark times, strings that vibrate forever in defiance of the laws of time and space. That they may be opaque or banal to everyone else is what makes them precious: they aren’t supposed to work for everybody. They’re there to work for us. Some are little generational badges of identity. Some just seem to pop up on a million occasions. Some are razors.”
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Anatomy of a Fake Quotation – Megan McArdle – National – The Atlantic
An analysis of how the fake quote “I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. – Martin Luther King, Jr” originated & went viral through the social networks in a couple of days
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