The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs: Over time, all marketing strategies result in shitty clickthrough rates.
The Law of Shitty Clickthroughs | Andrew Chen (@andrewchen)
The first banner ad ever, on HotWired in 1994, debuted with a clickthrough rate of 78% (thanks @ottotimmons) First it works, and then it doesn’t After
http://andrewchenblog.com/2012/04/05/the-law-of-shitty-clickthroughs/
Last Call at the Oasis
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Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Last Call at the Oasis Official Trailer #1 – Water Documentary Movie (2012) Firmly establishing the urgency of th…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLE3i92LkQk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
“The city of Charlotte has authorized a broad array of unconventional police powers … permitting the arrest of anyone carrying a backpack, purse or briefcase with the intent to conceal anything on a long list of prohibited items, ranging from weapons to markers to bicycle helmets.” It’s going to be an interesting election this year.
Mitt Romney: Bank Of America Protesters Too Young ‘To Really Understand’ Economy – The Huffington Po
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“When tested out in mice, researchers found this “error” caused the rodents’ brain cells to move into place faster and enabled more connections between brain cells.” What could possibly go wrong? (and pass some of that my way!)
Did a Copying Mistake Make Humans So Smart? : Discovery News
Mistakes made during cell division long ago may have lead to the sophistication of the modern human brain.
http://news.discovery.com/human/ancient-human-brain-neanderthal-120506.html
Just because I hate the Koch brothers:
Koch Brothers launch $6.1 million attack ad against Obama, Obama campaign responds
We’re not taking this crap lying down The Koch Brothers group Americans for Prosperity has launched a $6.1 million ad attacking President Obama. You can tell they are prosperous when they spend over $6 million on one ad. In fact, this is now the secon …
Shame on you Google.
An Intentional Mistake: The Anatomy of Google’s Wi-Fi Sniffing Debacle | Threat Level | Wired.com
Google’s public version of events of how it came to secretly intercept Americans’ data sent on unencrypted Wi-Fi routers over a two-year per…
http://m.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-wifi-fcc-investigation/
Amazing views tonight – the photo doesn’t do it justice.
New South Wales Australia
Wow – what a cool find.
Buried treasure in Burma: Squadron of lost WWII Spitfires to be exhumed
The planes were shipped in standard fashion in 1945 from their manufacturer in England to the Far East country: waxed, wrapped in greased paper and tarred to protect against the elements. They were then buried in the crates they were shipped in…
If I only had this workshop (and the skill)
Homemade 16TB NAS dwarfs the competition with insane build quality (video)
From the man that brought you the OS Xbox Pro and the Cinematograph HD comes… a cockpit canopy filled with hard drives? Not quite. Meet
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/07/homemade-16tb-nas-dwarfs-the-competition-with-insane-build-quali/