November 2011
35 posts
The Math That Saved Apollo 13 →
gizmodo.com
“Houston. Okay. I want you to double check my arithmetic to make sure we got a good course align.”
Watch Sailor Jerry Presents episodes on blip.tv →
blip.tv
Check out this cool new partnership blip.tv just launched with Sailor Jerry rum. Proud of the team today!
Gorgeous!
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Lindsey Pollak, a writer on the Upper West Side of Manhattan who specializes in career advice, fancied the name Chloe when she was pregnant with her daughter. Her husband, Evan Gotlib, wanted Zoe.
To settle the feud, they downloaded a 99-cent iPhone app called Kick to Pick. After typing in the two names, they held the phone to Ms. Pollak’s stomach, as the phone alternated between the two. When the fetus kicked, the phone froze on one name, like a coin toss. It came up Chloe for each of the four tries.
The next thing Ms. Pollak did, of course, was to Google it. “One of the Web sites said Chloe means little green shoots, and we liked that,” Ms. Pollak said. Chloe it was. They even registered their unborn child’s first and last name as a domain name and signed her up on Tumblr, Twitter and G-mail.
” —Google Searches Help Parents Narrow Down Baby Names - NYTimes.com
We’re in the NYT this weekend!
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Sean Thomas McNulty - my first song
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‘It’s a Food Product, Essentially’: Fox News Starts Spinning Pepper Spray Cops →
gawker.com
The comment thread is hilarious.
At 154, a Digital Milestone →
mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com
The Atlantic owes its name and legacy to the 154-year-old monthly magazine founded by New England literary greats like Ralph Waldo Emerson. But in October, the company marked a very modern milestone: digital advertising revenue exceeded print advertising revenue for the first time.
For any magazine publisher to take in the bulk of its advertising revenue from online sources is incredibly rare. Publishing industry executives said they were not aware of any examples of a brand as prominent as the Atlantic doing so.
But for the last few years, The Atlantic has been undergoing a gradual evolution from a magazine publisher to a multimedia company with a collection of successful Web sites that also happens to put out a magazine once a month.
Read more at the New York Times
Congrats to The Atlantic and you too Jared. Your digital savvy and the immense effort spent pushing quality content on internet nerds helped make this possible.
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