Bookmarks for November 17th from 07:26 to 09:38
by danhon
This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 17th from 07:26 to 09:38:
- The Butter: FAQs – Why did you name this project The Butter?
Because butter is delicious and perfect on toast.
What other names did you consider?
The Jelly, The Jam, The Spread,… - ?Huxleyed Into the Full Orwell – Art by Koren Shadmi
The First Amendment Area was a good 800 yards from the courthouse, an imposing cage of chicken-wire and dangling zip-cuffs. The people… - Uber Is Generating A Staggering Amount Of Revenue – Flickr/techcrunch
Mobile ride hailing startup Uber is expected to hit an annual revenue run rate of $10 billion by the end of 2015, sources told Business… - One of the most innovative uses of multimedia storytelling this year is an ad for a big jeep – On Wednesday, Land Rover released a British suspense multi-sensory short story on Tumblr that rocked my world in all sorts of unexpected ways. And I don’t know…
- Young Brits in Silicon Valley: how to make it big – If you want to get a sense of the insane speed at which things happen in Silicon Valley these days, you could pick one of the really prominent examples: Uber,…
- Keeping Secrets — STANFORD magazine — Medium – BY HENRY CORRIGAN-GIBBS
ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRIAN STAUFFER WHAT IF your research could help solve a looming national problem, but government officials thought… - The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete – I confess to being bewildered, still, by what is often said to be the greatest game of StarCraft II ever played. Fall, 2013. New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom.…
- The new “Assassin’s Creed” game is reviving an ancient debate over the French Revolution – The latest “Assassin’s Creed: Unity” video game allows you, the player, to roam freely around an ancient city as part of its usual, incomprehensible plot about…
- Why Did Google Decide To Split Inbox From Gmail? – hussein kanji: Nice story of Google engineering vs Google design. This is why Apple makes nice products, and Google makes ugly ones. http://t.co/CyqEUAb5ye