Adam Kazwell is...somewhat concerned

links for 2006-08-27

• What makes humans happy
  "I suspect that human happiness comes down to satisfying three desires: being useful, telling stories and collecting stuff."
  (tags: quotes)
• 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a 'typical' Job
  lots i disagree with, but still thought provoking
  (tags: productivity motivation)
• Who is William Wesley?
  the main man behind the scenes for all things NBA
  (tags: basketball business sports)

links for 2006-08-26

• Stewart Butterfield on the Basics of “Participatory Media”
  the companies that will be successfuly are the ones who make the "association between the person who's creating the thing and the thing itself"
  (tags: flickr strategy business quotes)

links for 2006-08-25

• Cool skydiving video
  didn't think it was real till they broke away
  (tags: video yahoo)
• Google loses search share in July
  a sign of a new trend?
  (tags: search google yahoo trends)

links for 2006-08-21

• the Drip Sessions
  interesting, but I can't explain why
  (tags: art graffiti)
• Flirting with switching from Del.icio.us to Digg
  Digg seems to be developing in the right direction - whereas I don't think Del.icio.us knows where to head next.
  (tags: links)

links for 2006-08-20

• Bullet Time Reaction - a Free Flash Game
  note to self, if ever being shot at, stand at least 150 feet away from the gun to have a chance
  (tags: flash games)
• Kevin Smith on his worst sexual experience
  (tags: funny video)
• Airport security theater
  long-term prohibition against liquid carry-ons won't make us safer, either. It's not just that there are ways around the rules, it's that focusing on tactics is a losing proposition.
  (tags: culture travel politics)
• OK Go treadmill video
  (tags: video funny music)
• Does Business Development Matter?
  the idea is that you could, and maybe should, do business development without ever talking to an actual business development person.
  (tags: business strategy)
• The top five mistakes companies make when marketing their product/service
  They spend money as a substitute for doing something great. Spending on marketing an average product isn't working anymore. You're far better off spending money on making your product better. A lot better.
  (tags: business marketing quotes godin)

links for 2006-08-17

• del.icio.us front page gets a "diggy" makeover
  (tags: design links)

links for 2006-08-14

• On things that aren't fun, and fun that is bad...with specific examples from World of Warcraft
  "I can imagine coming to hate the game and yet still wanting to play it." also really interesting thought on if we've become too effective at designing games to be addictive
  (tags: games videogames culture)
• Lightweight data exploration in Excel - Juice Analytics
  check out the in-cell bar charts
  (tags: hacks excel howto design)
• Winds of change blow from Chicago - San Francisco is looking to Chiacgo for inspiration
  "When you walk the streets of Chicago, it enlivens the spirit," Newsom said. "The intangibles are evoked. There's a spirit of pride and community."
  (tags: chicago cities sanfrancisco)
• Do not park here
  with many reasons why
  (tags: funny photography flickr)
• coComment - manage your comment trail with this handy Firefox extension
  a big step in the right direction
  (tags: blogs hacks tools webapps)

links for 2006-08-13

• Beyond websites, how do you get cheap airline tickets?
  When traveling internationally, look for an agency in a neighborhood with a high percentage of citizens from the country you're traveling to. Those agencies buy out huge chunks of a flight and you can get cheaper fares
  (tags: travel hacks howto)
• The stat that no one is talking about - clicks from Social Networking sites are worthless
  myspace clicks are worthless and yahoo has banned users from using YPN ads on their msypace profiles because they don’t convert at all. If myspace inventory starts flooding adsense, publishers will switch to YPN by the hundreds of thousands.
  (tags: advertising business google yahoo socialnetworking)
• Interesting camera hack...taking a photo with one camera through the viewfinder of another one
  generates a nice retro look - there should be a photoshop filter for this effect
  (tags: photography hacks)

links for 2006-08-12

• Zefrank on terrorism
  terrorism leverages our inability to understand risk (ie: smoking is still more dangerous than flying on a plane). also, our leaders sure don't help by exaggerating threats.
  (tags: politics video)

links for 2006-08-11

• Never Check Your Email First Or Last
  By not checking my email until I had gotten at least one task done, I was forcing myself to become less dependent on my AM email fix, and to start controlling my inbox instead of having it control me.
  (tags: productivity hacks)

links for 2006-08-10

• Why Don't You Have a Yahoo! ID? - Download Squad
  Comment #17 sums it up best: The longest Y! will go without asking your p-word is a day (why??) Checking my gmail: 1 click. (firefox toolbar bookmark) Checking my Y!mail: A click, a password entry, and -then- a click on "inbox" at the "welcome screen".
  (tags: yahoo design usability business)

links for 2006-08-09

• Team USA TV schedule
  (tags: sports espn basketball)
• How to get cheap airline tickets
  Wednesday is the best day to look for ticket bargains... Furthermore my experience shows that the best Wednesday bargains are for flights three weeks in advance. This Wednesday for example is August 9th: the best prices will be for those flights from Augu
  (tags: travel hacks)

links for 2006-08-08

• Web based Booty Call - a new type of online dating.
  We don't ask for your life story because we don't care. We think online dating should be easy and fun and not a lot of work. We want members to party and have fun. Our motto is: 'Finding the pieces without the puzzle.'
  (tags: quotes personals funny)
• The coach of the Chinese national team is Lithuanian
  and his name is Jonas Kazlauskas
  (tags: basketball espn culture sports)
• YouTube - monkey
  I wish this video were a couple minutes longer, just to see what the monkey would do next.
  (tags: funny video)

links for 2006-08-07

• Presentation from Sam Ruby on the future of the web (and how teens use it)
  ie - more mobile, more transient, always on, more IM, less email, everyone will publish, but only a select few will publish globally
  (tags: trends culture web mobile)
• More info on Motorola's new SCPL phone
  Yet another unique trait is that the display does not need to be rectangular (since it does not need a sheet of glass like LCDs) and Motorola has used that ability to wrap the signal and battery meter parts of the display around the speaker.
  (tags: motorola cellphones design)

links for 2006-08-06

• Job Board for the Web 2.0 set
  (tags: business hiring jobs reference tools)
• Vanity Fair feature on the audio recordings of 9/11 (in particular the people trying to track down the hijacked planes)
  amazing how costly the lag in accurate information was
  (tags: article history politics news)
• More Stats on Del.icio.us, only this time they're positive
  in summation - Comscore is shit and can't be trusted for anything
  (tags: yahoo trends web webapps)
• Just watched my first episode of Diggnation...and well, I liked it...a lot.
  although I couldn't stop thinking that Kevin Rose's leg had to be burnt cause of the damn MacBook
  (tags: video web webapps digg)
• Motorola Listened, Made “Just a Phone”
  (tags: design motorola cellphones)
• How to build your very own MythTV
  (tags: hacks howto media tech video)

links for 2006-08-04

• Starry Night - done with Legos
  (tags: art)
• It's techno dog!
  just can't fight the beat
  (tags: video yahoo)

links for 2006-08-03

• TED Blog: Jeff Han on TEDTalks
  demos the new touch screen un-interface
  (tags: design tech UX usability)

links for 2006-08-01

• HEY DJ, FUCK YOU! - Anyone Can Rock the Party
  A 70-year-old blind Ethiopian leper with 10 broken fingers can "spin" just as well as any B-list celebrity at any instore party for some gay snowboarding jeans company. I promise.
  (tags: funny quotes music hiphop)
• What's easier now than later?
  Godin's answer? Dreams.
  (tags: quotes godin)
• Make cameraphone pics cool with Filtr
  not quite tech enough to do this...soon though.
  (tags: photography hacks flickr)