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July 7
“ Edison was good at making things the world didn’t yet have but terrible at seeing how it would choose to make use of them. He completely failed, for instance, to see the potential of the phonograph as a medium for entertainment, but thought of it only as a device for taking dictation and archiving voices—he actually called it “the speaking machine.” For years he refused to accept that the future of motion pictures lay in projecting images on screens because he hated the thought that they could become visible to someone who had slipped into the viewing chamber without buying a ticket. For a long time he held out for the idea of keeping moving images securely inside hand-cranked peepshow boxes. In 1908 he confidently declared that airplanes had no future.

—Bill Bryson on Thomas Edison (via tmblg)
June 17
Markings on photos in Forum parking garage, Helsinki

Markings on photos in Forum parking garage, Helsinki

June 13
This is why I can’t find nice clothes

This is why I can’t find nice clothes

May 11
Crazy Creek Kickboard
May 8
Historical Foods - Recipes, Cooking & History
May 4
Steedicons
April 1
Roman wax tablets (notebook) (Taken with instagram)

Roman wax tablets (notebook) (Taken with instagram)

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What is anti-climb paint? (Taken with instagram)

What is anti-climb paint? (Taken with instagram)

March 15
“ The drive-by technorati are well-informed, curious and always probing. They’re also hiding… hiding from the real work of creating work that matters, connections with impact and art that lasts. I love to hear about the next big thing, but I’m far more interested in what you’re doing with the old big thing.

—Seth Godin (via marco)

(via marco)
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Finally, a Startup Visa that works

guillee:

The new legislation provides visas to the following groups under certain conditions:

Entrepreneurs living outside the U.S.—if a U.S. investor agrees to financially sponsor their entrepreneurial venture with a minimum investment of $100,000. Two years later, the startup must have created five new American jobs and either have raised over $500,000 in financing or be generating more than $500,000 in yearly revenue.

Workers on an H-1B visa, or graduates from U.S. universities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or computer science—if they have an annual income of at least $30,000 or assets of at least $60,000 and have had a U.S. investor commit investment of at least $20,000 in their venture. Two years later, the startup must have created three new American jobs and either have raised over $100,000 in financing or be generating more than $100,000 in yearly revenue.

Foreign entrepreneurs whose business has generated at least $100,000 in sales from the U.S. Two years later, the startup must have created three new American jobs and either have raised over $100,000 in financing or be generating more than $100,000 in yearly revenue.

I’d be great if this Startup Visa Act passed. Can you guys write to your congressperson, senator or whatever and make sure it does?

(Source: guillee)
January 24
I want to see something else as well—1458 people wanted to keep this space free from ads for a week. (Taken with instagram)

I want to see something else as well—1458 people wanted to keep this space free from ads for a week. (Taken with instagram)

January 23
guillee: An Irukandji jellyfish, a “tiny and extremely venomous jellyfish that inhabit marine waters of Australia, and which cause symptoms collectively known as Irukandji syndrome”: Because the Jellyfish is very small, and the venom is only injected through the tips of the nematocysts (the cnidocysts) rather than the entire lengths, the sting may barely be noticed at first. It has been described as feeling like little more than a mosquito bite. The symptoms, however, gradually become apparent and then more and more intense in the following 5 to 120 minutes (30 minutes on average). Irukandji syndrome includes an array of systemic symptoms including severe headache, backache, muscle pains, chest and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, sweating, anxiety, hypertension, tachycardia and pulmonary edema. One unusual symptom associated with Irukandji syndrome is a feeling of “impending doom”. Patients have been reported as being so certain that they are going to die that they beg their doctors to kill them to get it over with. Symptoms generally abate in 4 to 30 hours, but may take up to two weeks to resolve completely. Nature is a cruel motherfucker.

guillee:

An Irukandji jellyfish, a “tiny and extremely venomous jellyfish that inhabit marine waters of Australia, and which cause symptoms collectively known as Irukandji syndrome”:

Because the Jellyfish is very small, and the venom is only injected through the tips of the nematocysts (the cnidocysts) rather than the entire lengths, the sting may barely be noticed at first. It has been described as feeling like little more than a mosquito bite. The symptoms, however, gradually become apparent and then more and more intense in the following 5 to 120 minutes (30 minutes on average). Irukandji syndrome includes an array of systemic symptoms including severe headache, backache, muscle pains, chest and abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, sweating, anxiety, hypertension, tachycardia and pulmonary edema. One unusual symptom associated with Irukandji syndrome is a feeling of “impending doom”. Patients have been reported as being so certain that they are going to die that they beg their doctors to kill them to get it over with. Symptoms generally abate in 4 to 30 hours, but may take up to two weeks to resolve completely.

Nature is a cruel motherfucker.

(via guillee)

January 5
Ten One Design Products
January 1
Project Euler
December 3
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