the inky eagle

The best thing you'll read on Yahoo buying Tumblr...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45:16 -0700

The best thing you'll read on Yahoo buying Tumblr...:

comes from employee #2, practically the co-founder: Marco Arment

Five Doctors Go Hunting

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:30:05 -0700

Five doctors - a general practitioner, a paediatrician, an internist, a surgeon, and a pathologist - decided to take a weekend trip and go duck hunting.

Soon after they were in their duck blind, a bird flew over and the general practitioner said, “I think that is a duck,” and so he took aim and slowly squeezed the trigger…but then he lowered his rifle and said, “I better get a second opinion.” “Back of the line,” said the group.

Another bird flew overhead and the paediatrician said, “I think this one is a duck too,” and he took aim…only to lower his rifle and say “but that duck might be a mother have baby ducks somewhere.” “Back of the line,” said the group.

A third bird flew overhead and the internist shouted, “That looked like a duck, etiologically classified as Animalia, Chordata, Aves, Anseriformes, Anatidae, based on the size, I am judging it to be a male, with an estimated weight of…” Before he could finish his thorough assessment or raise his rifle, the bird was gone. “We do not need to hear all that gibberish. Leave it to me,” said the surgeon.

Then a fourth bird flew overhead and the surgeon immediately raised his rifle and with no hesitation shot the bird out of the sky. He then turned to the pathologist standing next to him and said, “now go find out if that was a duck.”

Instinctive drowning response (aka drowning is scary)

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:52:48 -0700

Instinctive drowning response (aka drowning is scary):

A person at, or close to, the point of drowning is unable to keep his/her mouth above water long enough to breathe properly and is unable to shout. Lacking air, his/her body cannot perform the voluntary efforts involved in waving or seeking attention.

New design pattern: Livatars

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:08:20 -0700

avimuchnick:

“Livatars,” a Portmanteau for “live avatars,” is a pretty simple concept: Take a traditional headshot and make it subtly animated so the person in it appears alive. It’s an homage to the living newspapers in Harry Potter and player popup profiles that appear on tv during sportscasts. We tried this on Aviary’s company page and have gotten great feedback on it from people who stumbled across it by accident.

I wouldn’t even call it a pattern yet, except I just noticed it has also popped up on wefollow’s company page as well. They did a more technically elegant implementation than us (if you don’t care about IE7-8 support): We used animated gifs and they used HTML5 background video with a CSS vector mask on top of it.

Benefits over a traditional headshot:

Not boring, without being too over the top or trying too hard. It will probably make the viewer smile when they notice what’s going on.

Makes the people in the photo that much more relatable.

Seeing one makes you want to see a photo yourself alive on that page as well. What better way to unconsciously recruit?

Simpler to implement than other about page easter eggs: Just record a few seconds of video of someone standing still and loop it back and forth.

The trick is to shoot for subtlety and have everyone try to stand completely still when you record them. You want the viewer to do a double take when they think a static snapshot blinks at them out of the corner of their eye as they quickly scan a page.

This is so cool

crumbler: kre: Sinead O’Connor has a cover of All Apologies...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:15 -0700

crumbler:

kre:

Sinead O’Connor has a cover of All Apologies and no one told me?!

Gorgeous.

sexmusic: back to black // beyonce & andre 3000 [amy...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:22:54 -0700

sexmusic:

back to black // beyonce & andre 3000 [amy winehouse cover]

download: amazon mp3 | itunes

Invisible Hieroglyphics - creating art from how people interact...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:26:04 -0700

Invisible Hieroglyphics - creating art from how people interact with various apps

squashed: existentialcrisisfactory: Space Oddity (by Chris...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:10:00 -0700

squashed:

existentialcrisisfactory:

Space Oddity (by Chris Hadfield)

This is the most wonderful thing I’ve ever seen.

Chris Hadfield is the one guy in the world who makes me wonder if, perhaps, I had played my cards differently, could I have been an astronaut?

An Interview With The Most Powerful Woman In Health Care

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:12:00 -0700

An Interview With The Most Powerful Woman In Health Care:

Forbes interview with Judy Faulkner!

My Medical Choice

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:24:38 -0700

My Medical Choice:

My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman….Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.

The exercises should be performed in rapid succession, allowing...

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:40:40 -0700

The exercises should be performed in rapid succession, allowing 30 seconds for each, while, throughout, the intensity hovers at about an 8 on a discomfort scale of 1 to 10, Mr. Jordan says. Those seven minutes should be, in a word, unpleasant. The upside is, after seven minutes, you’re done.

just spur of the moment.

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:06:32 -0700

Co-worker: I had a big weekend - I bought a house.
Me: Oh, have you been looking?
Co-worker: No

alexainslie: 2CELLOS on 1 cello! Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall...

Sun, 05 May 2013 19:08:23 -0700

alexainslie:

2CELLOS on 1 cello! Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall [Coldplay] (by 2CELLOSlive via Kathleen for Adam)

somethingfortheladies: Janelle Monae - “Q.U.E.E.N. (feat....

Sun, 05 May 2013 17:15:23 -0700

somethingfortheladies:

Janelle Monae - “Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu)”

The most important thing about this track is the line “Is it peculiar that she twerk in the mirror?”

alexainslie: Clock Tower Penthouse in Brooklyn

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:22:56 -0700

alexainslie:

Clock Tower Penthouse in Brooklyn

"Delays in air travel annoy the kind of people who can inundate Congress with angry letters and..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:16:41 -0700

“Delays in air travel annoy the kind of people who can inundate Congress with angry letters and e-mail messages. They also afflict lawmakers themselves. But cutting rental vouchers and jobless benefits affects only the voiceless. The more special-interest exceptions that are carved out of the sequester, the more the rest falls on the backs of those who can neither bear it nor stop it, promising many more years of hard-hearted cuts.”

- Congress Rushes to Aid the Powerful (via azspot)

binder clip bag

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:42:05 -0700

binder clip bag

Our Feel Good War on Breast Cancer

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:49:24 -0700

Our Feel Good War on Breast Cancer:

Recently, a survey of three decades of screening published in November in The New England Journal of Medicine found that mammography’s impact is decidedly mixed: it does reduce, by a small percentage, the number of women who are told they have late-stage cancer, but it is far more likely to result in overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment, including surgery, weeks of radiation and potentially toxic drugs. And yet, mammography remains an unquestioned pillar of the pink-ribbon awareness movement.

"The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:52:47 -0700

“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.”

- Ron Paul, presented without comment. (via squashed)

Audio

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:57:56 -0700