n. the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive and vulnerable—their pupils glittering, bottomless and opaque—as if you were peering through a hole in the door of a house, able to tell that there’s someone standing there, but unable to tell if you’re looking in or looking out.
psql:
Here’s a thing I’ve been working on. This is a visual editor for making fun, interactive animation, and other neat things. Have a play with it, and I’ll tell you more tomorrow morning: http://moonbase.com/projects/DV9yNJ/edit
This is rad.
“But they haven’t shown the web itself the respect and care it deserves, as a medium which has enabled them to succeed. And they’ve now narrowed the possibilites of the web for an entire generation of users who don’t realize how much more innovative and meaningful their experience…
Thank you, Sean. That is it exactly.
npr:
I went to Toys R Us recently to buy my son a Lego set for Hanukkah. Did you know a small box of Legos costs $60? Sixty bucks for 102 plastic blocks!
In fact, I learned, Lego sets can sell for thousands of dollars. And despite these prices, Lego has about 70 percent of the construction-toy market. Why? Why doesn’t some competitor sell plastic blocks for less? Lego’s patents expired a while ago. How hard could it be to make a cheap knockoff?
Luke, a 9-year-old Lego expert, set me straight.
via Why Legos Are So Expensive — And So Popular : Planet Money
Photo: Lam Thuy Vo/NPR
BILLIONS of years ago, a tiny cyanobacterium cracked open a water molecule - and let loose a poison that wrought death and destruction on an epic scale. The microbe had just perfected photosynthesis, a process that freed the oxygen trapped inside water and killed early Earth’s anaerobic inhabitants.
Now, for the first time, geologists have found evidence of the crucial evolutionary stage just before cyanobacteria split water. The find offers a unique snapshot of the moment that made the modern world. With the advent of photosynthesis came an atmosphere dominated by oxygen and, ultimately, the diversity of life forms that we know today.
“This was the biggest change that ever occurred in the biosphere,” says Kevin Redding at Arizona State University in Tempe. “The extinction caused by oxygen was probably the largest ever seen, but at the same time animal life wouldn’t be possible without oxygen.”
Image source.
(via Captured: the moment photosynthesis changed the world)
Amazing.
The average visitor spends about 8 hours on Facebook per month(via This Is How Much Time You Spend on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr)
Small fine print in the comScore results: “Does not include mobile usage.” How are they tracking this? How big was their sample? Is it statistically significant? Have any of the companies in question validated the report? What other inaccuracies and fine prints and disclaimers were left out of this report?
Why do people believe any numbers they see in an infographic? Beware your own confirmation bias, folks.
Comscore’s sample size is pretty well known. Well, it’s well known it’s in “The Millions.” How many millions, who knows, but it’s well known.
One study, I agree, is not worth much. But having followed many of these, of late, they all have numbers right around in this range.
And I’ll validate it when you do. :P
“But having followed many of these, of late, they all have numbers right around in this range.” That’s because they’re all reporting numbers based on the out-of-date tools (if they were ever accurate to begin with). The world of mobile invalidates their results. Just like how Gallup has managed to get the last 3 elections wrong because they only talk to people with land lines.
Google has already gone on the record saying that their internal metrics disagree with comScore’s. I’m pretty sure the rest of the companies simply don’t care what comScore makes up. It’s all just silly made-up numbers.
ALSO! The comScore report is almost a year old! Seriously? This is the shit that gets passed around on Mashable and Tumblr as news? :) Here’s something slightly newer but still from March.
The average visitor spends about 8 hours on Facebook per month(via This Is How Much Time You Spend on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr)
Small fine print in the comScore results: “Does not include mobile usage.” How are they tracking this? How big was their sample? Is it statistically significant? Have any of the companies in question validated the report? What other inaccuracies and fine prints and disclaimers were left out of this report?
Why do people believe any numbers they see in an infographic? Beware your own confirmation bias, folks.
Near the shores in the city of Van, a cat and a fox are often seen playing together. A local said he first saw them together when they shared some left over fish from a fisherman. The pair soon began to play together and it has now been over a year since they began this unlikely alliance.
We’ve been working hard the past month to bring a major update to the Health Month community. And now, the wait is over. If you have gone to www.healthmonth.com and you are seeing this post, it means we’re doing some upgrades that require the site to be offline (sorry!).
So what’s the big deal? The big deal is that by popular request, we’ve made major improvements to “team” features:
- users can now join multiple teams
- users don’t have to request to join a team each month (once you’re on a team, you’re there until an admin says different)
- team organizers are automatically added to a team (rather than having to join a team they create)
We have also made some changes to the backend in preparation for some additional features - more on that later though.As always, let us know if there are any issues we should be aware of. And please, keep the suggestions coming.
Thanks,
The HealthMonth Team
Just in time to start planning December’s game.
I’m thankful for this awesome shirt
Nice post about vintage infographics on Information is Beautiful
This is cool!
Weird that they left out people.
