Big Pickles

Buzzfeed has a new meme for you. Basically you let Wikipedia, The Quotations Page, and Flickr design an album cover for your band.

Here's mine:

Garble Arch, by Blame Ringo



There's also a live webcam.

Labels: music, video

If you want to learn something, just go to TED and start watching videos. You can't go wrong.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

Barry Schwartz on wisdom should be required viewing at school and in the workplace.

And I felt vindicated by Steven Leavitt on car seats. It's not that I'm anti-car seat or anything, but something about the way people are so fanatic about them has always made me skeptical.

Labels: video

Whenever you write, you should have your audience in mind. Even if you're just updating your status on Facebook. But if you've amassed a substantial number of friends, then that audience can be a pretty diverse group.

Bone up on your Facebook privacy settings and make sure that only your close friends see your goofy side while you maintain your public image for professional contacts (and parents).

Labels: internet

This web page is a mile long. Or tall, I guess I should say. Anyone can add reference points, like the height of the Empire State Building, for instance.

It's scaled 96 pixels per inch, so whether it really adds up to a mile depends on your monitor's size and resolution. I'm looking at a 19" CRT (18" viewable) set at 1024 x 768, so I figure I get about 71.1 pixels per inch, so the inches look larger than life to me. I'm guessing they used a 17" LCD set at 1280 x 1024 to come up with their 96 pixels per inch.

Start at the bottom.

Labels: measurements

It's Guitar Hero for the 8-bit Nintendo! Be sure to watch the videos, Sweet Child o' Mine actually works pretty well.

Labels: music games