Leftover Takeout

Jul 21

caterpillarcowboy:


viiv:

suzannexie:

awesome work adam! 
adamgotterer:

I recently launched a startup job aggregator called Startups Hiring. It collects jobs from funded startups career pages. All links go directly to the job description on their site. There’s no recruiters to contact or pointless accounts on jobs boards to create.
If you have a startup that you want added feel free to send me a message or fill out our company request form.
Check it out, tell your friends!


this is totally fantastic.




gbattle sez:You just read my mind, improved it 10X, and executed. Great job!

caterpillarcowboy:

viiv:

suzannexie:

awesome work adam! 

adamgotterer:

I recently launched a startup job aggregator called Startups Hiring. It collects jobs from funded startups career pages. All links go directly to the job description on their site. There’s no recruiters to contact or pointless accounts on jobs boards to create.

If you have a startup that you want added feel free to send me a message or fill out our company request form.

Check it out, tell your friends!

this is totally fantastic.

gbattle sez:
You just read my mind, improved it 10X, and executed. Great job!

Jul 20

Air on a G String on the A train.

Air on a G String on the A train.

One of the best scenes in a summer movie.
“I had my best piece of woman on a humid day.”

 And the Tyson quote.
“If Mike Tyson dreamed about whoopin’ my ass, he better wake up and apologize!”
R.I.P. Robin Harris.
[via anyclip: aublog:]

One of the best scenes in a summer movie.

“I had my best piece of woman on a humid day.”

 And the Tyson quote.

“If Mike Tyson dreamed about whoopin’ my ass, he better wake up and apologize!”

R.I.P. Robin Harris.

[via anyclipaublog:]

Jul 19

The desk of @aweissman, Andrew Weissman.

The desk of @aweissman, Andrew Weissman.

“Faceoff” - in the Betaworks offices.

“Faceoff” - in the Betaworks offices.

Google Suggest Has a Branded Commerce Bias

I love Google Suggest and often find myself playing around with my query to find interesting entries to see if I can find the personalization or geo-targeted results.  I’d call myself a novice at best in the targeting space, but today, I did a little thought experiment.  Below is a look at what Google Suggest returns as the top entry for every single character on my keyboard for me in Manhattan.  Though I expected the geo-targeting, what was surprising was the undeniable branded commerce bias toward e-tailers, marketplaces and sites that want your credit card vs. the scant number of free news, portal, social networking and entertainment sites let alone the gazillion subjects starting with the given character.  As a quick gut-check, I tried it again for Google Canada in English, same branded commerce bias with geo-targeting (for fun, compare the English and French versions of Google Canada Suggest). 

Questions after the break:

Google Suggest results for Greg Battle in Manhattan:

Here are the different Google Suggest results for http://www.google.ca (Canada, English):

Questions:

Jul 18

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Loudness War -

bestofwikipedia:

The loudness war or loudness race is a pejorative name for the apparent competition to digitally master and release recordings with relatively higher real and perceived levels of loudness.  Extreme uses of dynamic range compression can introduce clipping and other audible distortion to the waveform of the recording.  Modern albums that use dynamic range compression therefore sacrifice quality of musical reproduction to loudness.

gbattle sez:

Without question, this is the worst trend to happen to music over the past 30 years.  The increasingly compressed dynamic range of recorded music has rendered the format an artless disposable commodity.

Jul 17

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