So, apparently someone has patented a combover technique and our government has felt that it should be granted. What’s great is the technical artist that tried to draw a face, stick to isometrics and hard lines buddy.
Male Pattern Baldness eat your heart out.
1977 Combover Patent File:Combover patent.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Best photo from the 90’s ever made. Nintendo, Maria Carey, Nike Air, Leopard print, Will Smith…it has it all!
If you love Diet Coke and you love Bacon, you could be in heaven with this combo.
Justin Timberlake has nothing on this Glen Hansard gem. Just Glen and his guitar beat out this hit unlike many people can.
Vertical Horizon - Fast Car
A great live cover of Tracy Chapman’s hit. I like this one, it’s a bit heavier and a little faster. The whole song transitions into Wash Away. It’s a quality cover, I wish they would record the whole song for real.
Amazing song, I think Peter Gabriel does the best job from all the people that have covered this The Magnetic Fields song. Mike Doughty has covered it as well as some other indie artists. It’s one of those songs I can play over and over and not get tired of it.
Love Radin, and this song just takes me back to childhood…a mellow childhood.
Sesame Street by Joshua Radin
originally by Joe Raposo
(posted by bunkercomplex)
I Finally Understand the Genius of Pownce
For you that don’t know, Pownce was a microblogging service that let you send short status updates, send links, send files (photos, audio files, etc.), and events. I’m a fairly avid Twitter user and enjoy Twitter quite a bit. But the biggest problem I have with Twitter’s current setup is that sharing information (picture, audio, events, etc.) not only have to be done with an external service, but also eat up that precious 140 character content.
Pownce now rings of genius to me. Pownce came out roughly a year after Twitter and added some great features like links and more that don’t take up the space provided by the text area. Pownce should have caught more steam, they just had a hard time in development and others to gain any influence which now makes me sad. But this model solves the one issue I have with Twitter’s current service. Here’s how they could solve it.
Links
Links on Twitter are a big problem. The biggest issue is that you have to use a service like bit.ly (or j.mp) to shorten the urls or else you can’t make a comment on the link at all. The full link needs to be seen. So what should Twitter do? When a link is added to an update, the link doesn’t register against your character count. Then Twitter automatically recognizes it (like it already does) and attaches the link to the post. This way the full link…not the short-url…is posted and shared links are more secure.
Photos/Audio/Files
In Twitter you have to use services like TwitPic, Posterous, or yFrog to post pictures. These photos are also plagued by the fact that a link has to be supplied eating up that 140 character limit. Also there tends to be a bit of loss of context in that each use a comment/reply system that are either disconnected from Twitter (so not may people use it) or is wonky at best. Twitter should supply it’s own photo hosting service (but this might not be a good idea with their 3000 tweet storage limit). But most of the argument would be nullified simply by dealing with the previous link issue. When the link doesn’t take up the 140 character space you can still use these 3rd party services but with greater flexibility. Then Twitter just has to operate like Brizzly does and decode those links so the pictures/audio/files/etc are posted directly into people’s streams.
Honestly, Twitter could keep much more people around and have a much better user experience if they would simply pull links out of the character count. People can still use their favorite photo service, music service, or other 3rd party service without worrying about dealing with an overly complicated interface. But I wish the guys at Twitter would realize that the Project ReTweet, while nice, is only going to complicate things and it’s not what users really want. What they want is 140 characters to make their case. Links should not be a part of that limitation.
Just my opinion. Hope you like.
