February 2011
54 posts
“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first...”
– Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946.
Top 10 Dumbest Tech Predictions of All Time
January 2011
63 posts
Walgreens selling its own private-label beer →
“the product, Big Flats 1901, will carry a suggested retail price of $2.99 for a six-pack of cans and $11.49 for a 24-pack.”
I would insult it for it’s quality, but it’s being brewed by Genesee, which makes the wonderfully drinkable J.W. Dundee Honey Brown.
Flexible Glass Stronger Than Steel →
A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested by a collaboration of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy.
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“The result is that glass undergoes extensive plasticity in response to stress, allowing it to bend rather than crack.”
“Paranoid? Probably. But just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean...”
– Harry Dresden, “Storm Front”
“[100 times] is an insane number of times to have seen Cocoon II. Star Wars is...”
– Scott Swan, Motion/Captured podcast S02E01
“Can you put 35% whipping cream in your coffee if you run out of milk? Yes. But...”
– Twitter / Doc Twittenheimer
Z-Type →
now i have carpal tunnel. made it to wave 26.
WatchDan Buettner: How to live to be 100+ | Video on TED.com
After learning I was working off of incorrect data...
Scott: in case you were wondering what my "sad face" looks like, this is it.
Shelby: hopefully soon you'll be back to "blue steel".
Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize... →
Food processing companies in Germany have already carried out trials of the spray, and found sterile surfaces that usually needed to be cleaned with strong bleach to keep them sterile needed only a hot water rinse if they were coated with liquid glass.
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A year-long trial of the spray in a Lancashire hospital also produced “very promising” results for a range of applications including...
Honey buns sweeten life for Florida prisoners |... →
George Alec Robinson, an unemployed sanitation worker and father of three, paid his public defenders in honey buns after they saved him from Virginia’s electric chair.
“He said, ‘This is all in the world I can give you guys,’ ” attorney James C. Clark told theWashington Post. “They were good, too.”
“Whenever I’ve overheard conversations about smartphones in real life, by “normal...”
– Marco Arment, Who’s Afraid of the Verizon iPhone?
“One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract....”
– Trent Reznor
“if you give a guy 50 million dollars, you don’t want to have to spend time...”
– Jason Whitlock, on the needs of NFL coaches dealing with young players [video]