Month: December 2015

  • archiemcphee: This video from dewulf provides a mesmerizing glimpse of how carrots are harvested by a Dewulf GKIIISE top-lifting carrot harvester. The impressive machine smoothly pulls up three rows of carrots at the same time and manages to collect them without damaging the tasty veggies. Bugs Bunny would swoon. [via Gizmodo]

  • NASA did not forgive the astronauts for their rebellion. None of the three ever went into space again. This Day in Labor History: December 28, 1973 – Lawyers, Guns & Money (via iamdanw)

  • creativemorningsdenver: We’re back on January 8th at the Denver Art Museum. Visit the event page for more details! will have to miss this one.

  • GroupM and Unilever only count display impressions where 100% of an ad is in view for any length of time and video where 100% of the player is in view; at least half the ad plays; the sound is on; and a person actually clicks to start it. Conde Nast became the first major publisher…

  • As far as Facebook is concerned, therefore, an ad is viewable the instant any part of it appears on a users’s screen. “As soon as an ad comes into view it starts creating value for the advertiser,” Mr. Smallwood said. Marketers Push Back on MRC Ad Viewability Standards – CMO Today – WSJ

  • Fav games of 2015

    Fav games of 2015 my collaborator @andreblyth‘s Patient Rituals was included in Mattie Brice’s favorites of 2015 list, which is all kinds of cool!!!!

  • Does space have a labor history? The answer is yes. On December 28, 1973, the crew of Skylab went on a one-day strike to protest their working conditions and the pressure NASA placed on them to catch up on their experiments after one of them had gotten sick. This Day in Labor History: December 28,…

  • Next, we set about dissecting the problem at hand like any good Agile team would — user stories. It took us about half a package of Post-It notes before we realized that our hours of carefully-honed user empathy workshops didn’t prepare us to deal with non-human customers, so Ananya had the brilliant idea to peek into the…

  • semillero / incubator

    I recently received news that an incubator I worked on while on sabbatical in Colombia has gotten institutional support from the Universidad Sur Colombiana. this is great news. This means that the “let’s make a game” game can startup in the town where I was born. the first cohort is made up of first-year students…