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ilovecharts: Things Yahoo! Has Made Better
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Yahoo rumored to be in negotiations to buy Tumblr — Stowe Boyd via GigaOM Research
Yahoo rumored to be in negotiations to buy Tumblr — Stowe Boyd via GigaOM Research stoweboyd: The AllThingsD team was in attendance at JP Morgan’s Global Technology conference and heard the Yahoo CFO, Ken Goldman, admit that Yahoo needs to regain its “cool” image again. (Did it every have that?) And either Goldman or some…
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epistemes: “In 1927, Werner Heisenberg showed that uncertainty is inherent in quantum mechanics. It is impossible to simultaneously measure certain properties of a particle—position and momentum. In the quantum world, matter can take the form of either particles or waves. Fundamental elements are neither particles nor waves but can behave as either and are merely…
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wired: shortformblog: michaelhayes: heyveronica: soon YOLO! If Microsoft tries to acquire them it’d be Mumblr. If Facebook tries to acquire them it’d be Fumblr. Beginning of the end? Yahumblr
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maxistentialist: The Verge: CNBC is reporting that Yahoo will hold a “product-related” news event this Monday in New York City. None other than CEO Marissa Mayer will be speaking at the event. Exactly what Yahoo plans to announce hasn’t yet been disclosed, but news of the event comes in the midst of rumors pointing to…
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tumblr_backup.py is a script that backs up your Tumblr blog locally. The backup includes all images from photo and photoset posts. An index links to monthly pages, which contain all the posts from the respective month with links to single post pages. Command line options select which posts to backup and set the output format.…
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pah: golden ratio
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tocapturecastles: “Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth
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Jugaad is a Hindi word that loosely translates as ‘the gutsy art of overcoming harsh constraints by improvising an effective solution using limited resources.’ (via mossonrust) compare with “rasquache” and “MacGyver”. contrast with “wabe sabe”? oh, and “arte povera”…
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There’s this myth that designers aspire to be artists. No — designers aspire to be really great designers. Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, echoes Bruno Munari at a recent TED salon titled “Design Is Everywhere.” Antonelli’s most recent book, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, based on…