Andrew Killinger

"Charles, I came to a very distinct and revolutionary thought while pondering my very existence. I..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:23:00 -0700

“Charles, I came to a very distinct and revolutionary thought while pondering my very existence. I found that this site, TheFacebook, is infact very dumb. I don’t like it. It’s not your fault, and it’s not my fault. Society in its entirety has crumbled, and it is failing. It’s time to leave facebook before our entire souls are removed. Take the Red Pill, Neo…”

- An early foreshadowing Facebook message to @chazgcy on December 10, 2004

Hanging with Arturo Sandoval (& @briannemerit @beege) (at...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:59:49 -0700

Hanging with Arturo Sandoval (& @briannemerit @beege) (at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley)

Really need to teach @DrMushu how to do this.

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:44:31 -0700

Really need to teach @DrMushu how to do this.

Finally. Pinterest adds analytics.

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:28:50 -0700

Finally. Pinterest adds analytics.

“Iowa Fashion Week Begins” Hilarious. If there was...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:43:00 -0700

“Iowa Fashion Week Begins” Hilarious. If there was ever a reason to buy a last-minute flight back home to Iowa, this would be it.

Living With Less. A Lot Less. - From NYTimes

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:56:57 -0700

Great opinion piece about living with less in today’s Sunday NYTimes by Treehugger founder Graham Hill. How much of your life is spent worrying about what you want to buy or managing what you’ve already purchased? Answer for me is “too much.” Here’s an excerpt:

In a study published last year titled “Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century,” researchers at U.C.L.A. observed 32 middle-class Los Angeles families and found that all of the mothers’ stress hormones spiked during the time they spent dealing with their belongings. Seventy-five percent of the families involved in the study couldn’t park their cars in their garages because they were too jammed with things.

Our fondness for stuff affects almost every aspect of our lives. Housing size, for example, has ballooned in the last 60 years. The average size of a new American home in 1950 was 983 square feet; by 2011, the average new home was 2,480 square feet. And those figures don’t provide a full picture. In 1950, an average of 3.37 people lived in each American home; in 2011, that number had shrunk to 2.6 people. This means that we take up more than three times the amount of space per capita than we did 60 years ago.

These photos on National Geographic’s new Tumblog are...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:39:55 -0800

These photos on National Geographic’s new Tumblog are incredible.

natgeofound:

A Highland cow is bid on at an auction, May 1970.
Photograph by Kenneth Macleish, National Geographic

Awesome Content Marketing Deck by Jess3

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:07:50 -0800

Awesome Content Marketing Deck by Jess3

Interesting analysis of favorite NFL teams based on Facebook...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:38:27 -0800

Interesting analysis of favorite NFL teams based on Facebook page likes. Evidently we actually are more than just red and blue states. More here: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-data-science/nfl-fans-on-facebook/10151298370823859

Who else is ready for the weekend?

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:26:56 -0800

Who else is ready for the weekend?

Passport ownership vs. Obesity in the US. Evidently traveling is...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:11:36 -0800

Passport ownership vs. Obesity in the US. Evidently traveling is healthy.

Scientists Store Information on Fake DNA

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:34:15 -0800

Scientists Store Information on Fake DNA:

My mind just exploded a bit with this one. Scientists have been able to literally store readable information (e.g., every single sonnet by Shakespeare) in synthetic DNA … yeah, just like your computer … but it’s a lot smaller and - evidently - it will last a lot longer. Here’s more:

A team of researchers headed by Nick Goldman and Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL-EBI) has dramatically demonstrated the potential of the technique to store and transport human-made data.

Their data included some well-chosen iconic elements: Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, an audio excerpt from Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, Watson and Crick’s classic paper on the structure of DNA, and a colour photograph of the European Bioinformatics Institute.

These files, in common digital formats found on almost every desktop computer, were encoded byte-by-byte as DNA molecules, shipped from the USA to Germany without specialised packaging, and finally decoded back into their original electronic formats.

C.G.P. Grey is my hero. Because of him, I can coherently...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:38:28 -0800

C.G.P. Grey is my hero. Because of him, I can coherently explain:

Why pennies are a waste of resources.
Why the idea that Texas can secede from the US is ridiculous.
How the electoral college actually works.
That the Vikings never actually had horns on their helmets.
And most recently … why the debt limit is nothing but politics at its most masochistic and universally-deprecating best.

I can’t wait to get access to Graph...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:58:03 -0800

I can’t wait to get access to Graph Search…

actualfacebookgraphsearches:

“Mothers of Jews who like Bacon”.

[Yes, that’s ambiguous. Getting Facebook to understand which way round I wanted it to parse the sentence was difficult.]

Lettuce Cake (at Delancey)

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:12:53 -0800

Lettuce Cake (at Delancey)

theclearlydope: Nope. You’re doing it wrong.

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:48:42 -0800

theclearlydope:

Nope.

You’re doing it wrong.

#2012 was amazing, but I guarantee #2013 will be even better....

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:18:53 -0800

#2012 was amazing, but I guarantee #2013 will be even better. Happy New Year, friends.

I knew I should be adding lemons to my tea.

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:49:00 -0800

I knew I should be adding lemons to my tea.

Wil Wheaton + Neil deGrasse Tyson = Nexus of Awesome

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:57:17 -0800

Wil Wheaton + Neil deGrasse Tyson = Nexus of Awesome

On the open seas

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:48:26 -0800

On the open seas