July 2007
Ori: Heading to a Persian wedding, don’t stay up waiting for me… (via Twitter / Ori)
June 2007
“HOLY SHIT IT’S FUCKING AMAZING.”
– John Gruber upon activating his iPhone 3 hours ago on the east coast: Twitter / John Gruber
Smashing The Clock →
The endeavor, called ROWE, for “results-only work environment,” seeks to demolish decades-old business dogma that equates physical presence with productivity. The goal at Best Buy is to judge performance on output instead of hours.
A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter: Reporting &... →
Has a remote Amazonian tribe upended our understanding of language?
Ori N. @ The Whisper Lounge 189 The Grove Drive Los Angeles, CA 90036 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
Ori: heading to the Whisper Lounge for drinks with “industry types” (via Twitter / Ori)
Ori: Emmy-nominated cinematographer Steven Poster (“Donnie Darko”) is in our conference room right now & is talking about his art + new tech. (via Twitter / Ori)
Apple - Trailers - Day Night Day Night - Trailer →
awesome trailer
Ori: @jakej well you do have to learn from your competitors, no? (via Twitter / Ori)
Best Sites for Cheap Flights: Tips for Finding the... →
U-Turn: Turning nasty people nice →
view the 3 minute trailer
Television Showing It’s Gray Hair →
Apparently, to no one’s surprise, old people still watch TV:
An annual study by ad buyer Magna Global USA shows the four major networks each had a median age of 40 or more for the first time, meaning half of viewers are older and half younger than that figure.
Fox has crept upward from a median age of 35 in the 2002-03 season to 39 in 2005-06 and increased sharply to age 42 for the season...
TIGER TEAM – New series in development →
When major businesses and governments need to test their security vulnerabilities, they bring in a group of security professionals with expertise in everything from hacking to kidnapping. This new series follows one such Tiger Team as they carry out their own impossible missions.
News from Court TV →
TIGER TEAM â New series in development When major businesses and governments need to test their security vulnerabilities, they bring in a group of security professionals with expertise in everything from hacking to kidnapping. This new series follows on
“You shouldn’t anthropomorphize robots, they hate that.”
– Twitter / »TÇ: overheard re: new NASA K10 …
ASIFA-Hollywood: The International Animated Film... →
ASIFA-Hollywood is the Los Angeles chapter of The International Animated Film Society. We are a 501(c)(3) California non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of the art of animation. We sponsor screenings and seminars; host the Annie Awards- animation’s highest honor; preserve films in danger of being lost to time, support animation education and journalism; and maintain an...
Ori: Just got my ASIFA-Hollywood membership certified! w00t! http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/ (via Twitter / Ori)
Sector Brief - Idea Generation | New Progressive... →
Want to know which think tank, policy institute, or other idea generating organizations are doing the most innovative and effective work? Download our new report and discover the organizations working to develop and disseminate fresh ideas into politics.
Ori: @skampy definitely worth seeing, had its moments but sometimes felt just a tad too aware of itself, the sundance institute influence… (via Twitter / Ori)
Ori: heading to the new landmark theaters to see ‘Eagle vs. Shark’ (via Twitter / Ori)
dznr.org » Home →
It lets you upload your images and files and share them through handy short URLs. Additionally there is a compact Dashboard widget for Mac OS X which makes using dznr a breeze. Eventually it might also brew cafe, but we need to get the bean engine working
8hands →
* access all your social networks (MySpace, Blogs, Flickr, YouTube etc.) from a single entry point
* know exactly what is happening on all of your social networks in real time
* chat via IM with your social network friends any time
Fans Help Filmmakers Win YouTube Deal →
Indie filmmakers seeking success on YouTube are no longer content to bask in the validation of a few thousand viewers. Instead, these auteur-entrepreneurs are using software, crowd sourcing and “virtual studio” sites to broaden exposure for their work
MilkenInstitute.Org > About Us > Research... →
Kurtzman developed the Opacity Index with the Milken Institute. He is the former editor of the Harvard Business Review. He was also business editor & columnist at The New York Times.
Ori N. @ Los Angeles International Airport 1 World Way Los Angeles, CA 90045 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
Ori N. @ San Jose International Airport 2077 Airport Blvd. San Jose, CA 95110 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
Ori N. @ Finnegan’s Wake 937 cole St San Francisco, CA 94117 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
Ori: In SF’s Inner Sunset, who wants to grab dinner? (via Twitter / Ori)
Ori N. @ Dalva 3121 16th St San Francisco, CA 94103 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
Ori N. @ The Alembic 1725 Haight st San Francisco, CA 94117 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
Ori N. @ King of Thai Noodle House 639 Clement St San Francisco, CA 94118 (via Ori N.’s checkin history)
Families' eldest boys do best on tests - Yahoo!... →
Boys at the top of the pecking order â either by birth or because their older siblings died â score higher on IQ tests than their younger brothers. The question of whether firstborn and only children are really smarter than those who come along later
Pajamas Media: An Israeli in Ramallah →
âThe five-star Fatah refugees from Gaza wearing Ralph Lauren polo shirts and speaking fluent Hebrew told hair-raising stories of teenage boys presumed loyal to Fatah being flung from the fourteenth floor of office buildings, their hands shackled and the
Men Pay the Ultimate Price to Attract Women |... →
In common chimpanzees, Kruger and his colleague Randolph Nesse report, mortality spikes among males around age 13, just as they’re old enough to breed and start competing for social status.
Google Search Box Earns Millions for Mozilla →
Mozilla gets paid by search providers every time a Firefox user types a query into the one-inch search box embedded in its flagship browser and, according to Foundation chairwoman Mitchell Baker, itâs quite a lucrative arrangement.
Daring Fireball: WWDC 2007 Keynote →
Itâs not widely publicized, but those integrated search bars in web browser toolbars are revenue generators. A Google search from Safariâs toolbar, Google pays a portion of the ad revenue from the resulting page. (Ever notice the âclient=safariâ s
Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution →
Independents and Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe in the theory of evolution. But even among non-Republicans there appears to be a significant minority who doubt that evolution adequately explains where humans came from.
Internet Video Brings You Cutting Edge Re-Runs! →
People are so excited by the impending death of television because finally there will be something interesting to watch unlike the “vast wasteland” that is TV:
Honda will be the sole sponsor of what Sony Pictures Television is calling the Minisode Network, which is scheduled to begin next week. Visitors to the MySpace Web site (my space.com) will be able to watch episodes of 15 vintage Sony...
Ori: Playing mini golf at malibu grand prix. I am 8 years old again (via Twitter / Ori)
Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers →
In a few years, troops of these machines could perform the tedious and labor-intensive task of fruit picking that currently employs thousands of migrant workers each season.
One on One: Faith in hierarchy →
It doesn’t specify God, or dictate God, define or put God in a box, but it does show that the universe is hierarchical. And hierarchy points to a summit. The summit remains enclosed in fog, but this doesn’t exclude the possibility that behind the fog is a
What's in a Laptop? Court Ponders Legality of... →
Is your laptop a fancy piece of luggage or an extension of your mind? That’s the central question facing a federal appeals court in a case that could sharply limit the govt’s ability to snoop into laptop computers carried across the border by American cit
Maxim features models from Israeli army - Yahoo!... →
Gal Gadot, a former Miss Israel and army fitness instructor, appears in a bikini and high heels sprawled provocatively on the ledge of a Tel Aviv high-rise. The photo also landed her on the cover of the New York Post below an equally provocative headline
Ori: Stuck late-night at work (sorry SF peeps). Tomorrow night is just around the corner. (via Twitter / Ori)
Jun 23, 2007: SuperHappyDevHouse 18: Hackers &...
Folks,
It’s that time again, our eighteenth (!!) DevHouse at the old skool Hillsborough mansion. It’s now been two whole years of DevHouse’ing. Can you believe it?? Time for some more hackery and tomfoolery! Bring your coworkers and friends, male and female, hackers and painters. Forward it to them now! Save the date!
BASICS
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The...
Jun 19, 2007: NewTeeVee Pier Screening - PARODY
Official RSVP Page is http://newteevee.eventbrite.com/
Online video is great, but it’s such a solitary experience. This summer the NewTeeVee team is going to try a little experiment — getting us off our butts and around from behind our screens. Maybe even outdoors.
On a pier overlooking the San Francisco Bay on a summer night, we’re going to project some online video onto a big 16-foot outdoor...