Leftover Takeout

Dr. Lonnie Smith ft. David “Fathead” Newman -...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:54:46 -0400

Dr. Lonnie Smith ft. David “Fathead” Newman - “Loser” - From Boogaloo to Beck. Great cover of Beck by the B3 Turbanator with Fathead blowing heat. If you ever go see Dr. Lonnie Smith, bring him some peanuts. Trust me on this.

"Self Worth > Net Worth."

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:33:09 -0400

“Self Worth > Net Worth.”

- As seen on a wall in Philadelphia today.

The wall of animations at The Comcast Center are incredible as...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:02:24 -0400

The wall of animations at The Comcast Center are incredible as they are creative. Exceedingly well done, perfect use of space.19175237691 Nothing like it.

Invisible Tree House in Sweden

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:03:49 -0400

Invisible Tree House in Sweden:

angelabattle:

Very cool. I want one!

Beastie Boys - “Live At PJ’s” - Check Your...

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:41:00 -0400

Beastie Boys - “Live At PJ’s” - Check Your Head. Beastie Boys get their soul clap going here on some B3-driven-King-Curtis-Memphis-Soul-Stew type joint.

Funkadelic Uncle Jam Wants You album cover with the caption...

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:37:59 -0400

Funkadelic Uncle Jam Wants You album cover with the caption “Rescue Dance Music From The Blahs.” Say word.

"The plural of anecdote is not data."

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:52:22 -0400

“The plural of anecdote is not data.”

- Bitly Chief Scientist, Hilary Mason, reminds us via the above famous quote not to conflate the specific with the generic, all while eating her tuna melt at Hector’s. Wise words.

"Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It’s partly a satire, and partly a..."

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:24:25 -0400

“Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It’s partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today’s social games, and partly an earnest example of that genre.
You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom “premium” cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called “mooney”), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends’ cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence.”

- Cow Clicker, the Facebook Game about Facebook Games.

The Story Of Bottled Water

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:11:43 -0400

The Story Of Bottled Water:

I couldn’t agree with this more.

In Philadelphia, It's Worth 50 Bucks.

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:57:08 -0400

Pawnbroker: Burnt my fingers, man.
Louis Winthorpe III: I beg your pardon?
Pawnbroker: Man, that watch is so hot, it's smokin'.
Louis Winthorpe III: Hot? Do you mean to imply stolen?
Pawnbroker: I'll give you 50 bucks for it.
Louis Winthorpe III: Fifty bucks? No, no, no. This is a Rouchefoucauld. The thinnest water-resistant watch in the world. Singularly unique, sculptured in design, hand-crafted in Switzerland, and water resistant to three atmospheres. This is *the* sports watch of the '80s. Six thousand, nine hundred and fifty five dollars retail!
Pawnbroker: You got a receipt?
Louis Winthorpe III: Look, it tells time simultaneously in Monte Carlo, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Rome, and Gstaad.
Pawnbroker: In Philadelphia, it's worth 50 bucks.
Louis Winthorpe III: Just give me the money.
Louis Winthorpe III: [looking in display case] How much for the gun?

caterpillarcowboy: viiv: suzannexie: awesome work...

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:35:50 -0400

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!

Air on a G String on the A train.

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:01:41 -0400

Air on a G String on the A train.

One of the best scenes in a summer movie. “I had my best...

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:48:45 -0400

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:]

The desk of @aweissman, Andrew Weissman.

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:01:57 -0400

The desk of @aweissman, Andrew Weissman.

“Faceoff” - in the Betaworks offices.

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:01:28 -0400

“Faceoff” - in the Betaworks offices.

Google Suggest Has a Branded Commerce Bias

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:07:00 -0400

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:

a: Aol
b: Best Buy
c: Craigslist
d: Dictionary
e: eBay
f: Facebook
g: GMail
h: Hotmail
i: Ikea
j: Jet Blue
k: KMart
l: LIRR
m: Mapquest
n: NetFlix
o: Orbitz
p: Pandora
q: QVC
r: Run
s: Sears
t: Target
u: UPS
v: Verizon
w: Weather
x: Xbox
y: YouTube
z: Z100
0: 007
1: 105.1
2: 24
3: 30 Rock
4: 4chan
5: 50 Cent
6: 60 Minutes
7: 7Zip
8: 8 Mile
9: 92.3
@: @font-face
&:
_: _

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

a: Air Canada
b: BMO
c: Canadian Tire
j: Job Bank
k: Kijiji
l: Lotto Max
n: NHL
o: OSAP
p: PayPal
q: Quotes
r: Rona
s: Skype
t: TSN
u: UFC
v: Via Rail
w: WestJet
x: Xe
z: Zellers
1: 103.5
3: 3DS
4: 411
6: 680News
8: 89.9
9: 90210

Questions:

Is there a website that logs all the Google Suggest entries across every Google country portal in every language in every city?
How correlated are these #1 entries to the AdWords spend for the resultant companies? Correlation to SEO?
For example, is Sears, with 12mm monthly uniques REALLY the #1 suggested result for ‘s’, bigger than stocks, sex, Sarbanes Oxley, social media, soccer and Scotland? Note that there isn’t even a Sears store in Manhattan, where I’m executing the query.
Is Google charging for their top Suggest entries and not revealing it to users as they do with normal AdWords entries? I.e. are Best Buy, KMart, QVC and Sears buying their top spots. If so, is that evil? (rhetorical)
Do the Google Suggest results simply represent people’s use of Google primarily as a start page for purchasing more than any other type of research? I.e. Nobody types sears.com in their browser - they type “sears” into Google and then click on sears.com, hence the top result.
Is this just my own naivete? Did I miss the memo and need a late pass? Help me out here.

D’Angelo - “Africa” - Acoustic...

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:53:47 -0400

D’Angelo - “Africa” - Acoustic Version. Sometimes, voice and piano is enough.

Adam Rafferty does it again with an acoustic cover of Michael...

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:49:40 -0400

Adam Rafferty does it again with an acoustic cover of Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough”. He should really release a DVD teaching people how to do to this. Oh wait, did I give something away Adam? ;-)

Loudness War

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:23:21 -0400

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.

Wayne Krantz and Mark Guiliana in NYC. Two people, making a...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:57:13 -0400

Wayne Krantz and Mark Guiliana in NYC. Two people, making a joyous improvisational noise. This is serious rhythm business. Dead serious.