Might reach back and relapse to wrapping up this raw.
If you ain’t waiting for My Name Is My Name yet, catch up. This is the hardest shit you’ll hear all year.
Cover Story: Daft Punk
After 20 years, the world has finally caught up with Daft Punk, so the helmet-clad retro-futurists are embarking on a new mission: to make music breathe again.
This is the best formatted magazine-type article I’ve ever seen on the net. Someone build this idea into a full CMS. The article is aight too.
UFC Fighters who Smile Before a Fight Lose More
The silent bared teeth display among primates usually appears in fearful situations as a sign of submission after a fight between two individuals. The losing individual smiles to the winner and accepts his superiority to end the conflict.
MMA. Helping scientists figure out social cues for dominance and deference since ‘93.
Silicon Valley And The Reinvention Of Food
Fake meats have been around for years, but a new crop of Bay Area startups backed by tech investors think they can make meat substitutes good enough to compete with the real deal. The most ambitious project is Rob Rhinehart’s cheekily named “Soylent,” an attempt to replace food entirely…
Thanks technology.
Outsiders Code - The End
This is so sick. More Gothenburg in hardcore.
Game of Thrones TL;DR
Full of stuff the show doesn’t pick up that I had no idea about.
The market for paid iOS apps isn’t dead
In most categories, if you either solve a new problem that a lot of people have, or solve an old problem in a new and better way, you can sell a paid app today just as well as you could in 2008. In fact, the market is much bigger now. But, as with any maturing market, you’ll need to do more to get noticed since so many problems have already been solved so well.
The bar is higher, but the market is fine.
This times a million. Either build something that solves an unsolved need or make me want to switch.
Right click and save as needs to go away
From a UX perspective though, adding instructions on how to click a link is not optimal, and feels like a hack. Not to mention that lots of people are literally afraid of the right mouse button. My mother is anyway.
Yes. I need this everywhere.
BitTorrent Sync
This is why Bitcoin is so important as a movement. Not as a functional currency, but as a proof of concept for decentralised internet services.
I was about to upgrade my Dropbox too…
