Posts filed under “Cool”
Big Ass Fans & Big Ass Batteries
I was at a great talk yesterday by Professor Donald Sadoway who spoke about his Liquid Metal Battery technology. I’m grossly oversimplifying but Prof. Sadoway is trying to use the technology use in Aluminium smelting to create a huge, cheap battery that can store energy to help smooth out renewable power contribution to the smart [...]
Great Solar Power Directory & Information at Cooler Planet
If you’re interested in learning more about solar power options for your home or are looking for a solar power provider, you should check out the¬†solar power¬†directory at¬†Cooler Planet.¬†They have pulled together a ton of great information on all aspects of solar power – from a glossary, to financing options, to a list of providers [...]
How to recruit in the age of social media…
There’s a great post on Redeye VC about targeting ads at employees of big Internet companies. While Josh Kopelman was focused on finding ex-employees interested in¬† starting a company, his approach (which is very clever and like most good ideas ‘duh-inducing’) strikes me as a great way for recently funded startups to find disgruntled developer [...]
Google's New Crossword Puzzle Clue Aggregator feature
There are posts on Read/Write Web and Techcrunch about Google Trends giving odd results. Alison (my girlfriend) may have cracked the case – it’s NY Times Crossword fans cheating on the crossword. I wish I had figured this out. Awesome. This is hilarious. There are a lot of speculative articles about the new Google Trends [...]
Google's Ad Targeting Quality is Damned Impressive
I noticed the ad below in Gmail today. This may seem unremarkable until I tell you that my office is on Eastlake Avenue in Seattle. Wow. From Google’s perspective, the best part of this is that because the ad in unobtrusive and relevant, it’s actually a positive experience for me. download the new rabbit hole [...]
DecentURL.com is genius
This is definitely one of those ‘duh’ ideas. DecentURL was inspired by a reddit comment. Basically, take any URL, drop it in and you can create a pretty url that redirects to it. monsters HD stream part 1 So you can replace the following: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=2722+Eastlake+Ave+E,+Seattle,+WA+98102&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=41.682395,75.146484&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1 With: http://decenturl.com/maps.google/google-maps-jb-office Awesome.
Tour a Boeing 777 flight deck
For fellow flight nuts out there, I came across a cool site (via doggdot.us) which provides an interactive view of a B777 flight deck. Enjoy. watch Harry Potter online
Interesting, Cool & Useful (via Naffziger's Net)
Dave has a series of great posts on his blog about things that are “Interesting, Cool and Useful” The posts themselves are informative and entertaining – always a killer combination. Highly recommended. tangled disney movie
Great Post on “Dumbness of Crowds” (via Creating Passionate Users)
Kathy Sierra’s blog ROCKS! This is no surprise to anyone, but everytime I cruise over there, I am driven to think and I love that. This is an older post of her’s, on the so-called ‘wisdom of crowds.’ Her graphic below pretty much says it all. full the gullivers travels film hd The post is [...]
Awesome Ad Tagline
It was Alison’s turn with the clicker and she picked well. I was sitting through “Raising Helen” on the Oxygen Network (I know, I’m appalled as well) and I heard the following tagline during a commercial break. “The most advanced piece of technology you’ll ever pee on” It was an ad for a pregnancy test. [...]