July 2013
July 31, 2013
- Account Manager excuses. Love that it's been inspired by Developer Excuses. #
- Facebook: The Board Game. #
- HERE IS TODAY. #
July 24, 2013
- Daxtra Technologies. Makers of automated resume/CV parsing and extraction. Their "what is it" page offers a surprisingly comprehensive overview of the state of CV parsing. #
- Cancer Research UK to use a mobile game to help classify research data. Crowdsourcing meets gamification meets SETI@Home. #
- The Inside Story On Why Kevin Rose Never Had A Big Hit. #
July 23, 2013
- Soccer Power Index. Claimed to be more accurate than FIFA's rankings, SPI ranks Spain third-best in the world. Finland is 52nd, compared to FIFA's 65th. #
- Slate: Hollywood and Blake Snyder’s screenwriting book, Save the Cat! A theory on why current movies seem the same. Tl;dr: they follow a detailed screenplay formula. #
- Slate: 99-year-old St Petersburg custodian and why everyone hates economics. #
- Internet Explorer 11: “Don’t call me IE”. #
July 22, 2013
- Octopuses learning through observation. I’m sure I’ve seen this in better quality (as opposed to the “cammed” version linked), but I seem to have lost that link. #
July 11, 2013
July 2, 2013
- What3words. Find and share very precise locations via Google Maps with just 3 words. Very clever idea, rife with funny combinations: fool.slurs.slows, letter.risky.scare, firm.wigs.breed. #
