Cooper Griggs

owlturdcomix:

One more month.

Tony Haile discusses how we read and share online, based on actual data. It's not as click- and pageview-based as you might think.

A widespread assumption is that the more content is liked or shared, the more engaging it must be, the more willing people are to devote their attention to it. However, the data doesn’t back that up. We looked at 10,000 socially-shared articles and found that there is no relationship whatsoever between the amount a piece of content is shared and the amount of attention an average reader will give that content.

When we combined attention and traffic to find the story that had the largest volume of total engaged time, we found that it had fewer than 100 likes and fewer than 50 tweets. Conversely, the story with the largest number of tweets got about 20% of the total engaged time that the most engaging story received.

Wiiiish me luck.

Nick Offerman’s Rules for Being a Man [video/via]

theweekmagazine:

The country that literally invented the internet is now behind Estonia in terms of download speeds. Here’s how to make it better.

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Does the Sun change as it rotates?

2-spook:

Just in case.

captain-kate:

 

TL;DR : Watch this incredible story in video

Studio built by Mason St. Peter in Topanga, California.

gasoline-station:

Project Morpheus Free Flight 8

Source: NASA - GIF: The Gasoline Station

Artist Theo Jansen has created several 3D printed models of his famous walking sculptures called Strandbeests. There are currently four different models and two alternate propeller attachments for added Strandbeest goodness. Available over at Shapeways.

belonely:

"There are three things you must ask yourself before you say anything…"

All of those wishes, lost forever

via http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Art-of-Negative-Space-Part-II/12505049

via http://butdoesitfloat.com/

via http://blog.eiknarf.com/post/24581460703

There have been a number of stories about what's going on with Netflix and Comcast (press release), but I don't think anyone outside of Netflix and Comcast really knows all of the  details.

Dan Rayburn at the Streaming Media blog has been covering this topic for years and is one of the few that really understands these types of relationships. Dan's story, Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong, explains why this is probably a good deal for Netflix:

"Naturally, many of these same people are also implying that because Netflix has to pay Comcast, consumers will foot the bill for this as Netflix will have to charge more for their service. This could not be further from the truth. Those stating this have no clue how Netflix delivers their content today or what costs they already incur. If they did, they would know this is not a new cost to Netflix, it’s simply paying a different provider, and it should be at a lower cost. It should actually be cheaper for Netflix to buy direct from Comcast, and they also get an SLA, which also improves quality and that’s a good thing. Given that Netflix has many options to buy transit from many different transit providers, why would they pay more? They wouldn’t."

Have you notice better or worse service from your Internet provider lately?

Netflix is quietly experimenting with delivering DVDs using drones (like that book company up north), and here's a video from the Netflix research and development team demonstrating how drone delivery would work.

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Photo by Philipp Schmidli

Photo by Philipp Schmidli

Photo by Philipp Schmidli

Photo by Philipp Schmidli

Following a successful campaign on Indiegogo which raised nearly $26,000, artist Sipho Mabona followed through on his promise to fold a life-sized elephant from a single giant sheet of paper. The piece stands over 10 feet tall (3 meters) and took a team of nearly a dozen people over four weeks to fold. The final sculpture is on view at KKLB in Beromünster, Switzerland. Photos by Philipp Schmidli. (via My Modern Met)

via http://plusmood.com/2009/11/ng-house-arquitectos-anonimos/

You know, P!nk retweeted me recently.

Carrie Brownstein declares “social bankruptcy” in this amusing clip from Portlandia. The declaration has a few unfortunate side effects when she later meets up with Fred Armisen.

Carrie relieves herself of all social media liabilities.

Pun Dog #6 (previously) [x]

[theoatmeal]

Aiming to offer a long-term storage option in disc form, Sony and Panasonic have announced the new Archival Disc format that will store between 300GB and 1TB per disc. The companies are bigging up the non-HDD form factor for its hardiness to...

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wolvensnothere:

mylittleredgirl:

I love that Picard would just drop these existential truth bombs when he really means “Data, shut up and focus.”

#data is like I AM NOT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT THEREFORE I QUIT AT LIFE#and picard is like no dude srsly get to your post#and data is like NO I’M HORRIBLE THAT’S AN EMPIRICAL FACT#and picard is like jfc this is why i never had children and now i have a robot child with the strength of ten men#look at your life jean-luc look at your choices#and then pat yourself on the back because you are the captain of the motherfucking flagship good job

All of this is correct.

President Obama made a Funny Or Die clip to plug Obamacare. Mediaite has the recap:

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama joined comedian Zach Galifianakis on his Funny or Die web-based interview program, Between Two Ferns. The interview immediately became contentious when Galifianakis launched into a series of critiques of Obama’s presidency to which the president was unable to respond… because they were asinine. “When I heard that people actually watch this show, I was actually pretty surprised,” the president began. “In 2013, you pardoned a turkey,” Galifianakis noted. “What do you have planned for 2014?” “We’ll probably pardon another turkey,” Obama replied. The interview became tense when Galifianakis probed Obama over what he appeared to believe was his decision to send a series of celebrity ambassadors to countries like “North Ikea.”