“I don’t think Yahoo needs to directly monetize Tumblr. Yahoo needs Tumblr because Yahoo doesn’t want to be the kind of company where people are like, “Oh, crap. Yahoo.”
Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!
This may have been the perfect way to announce this purchase.
Don’t want to hum some music into existence? Just draw something and snap it into TuneTrace instead.
A great little story from one of my favorite local blogs, Vanishing New York:
Jake says, “I just couldn’t imagine it becoming a condo, or having someone else running it. I could not handle that. So it was an easy decision. If I wasn’t here, this place would disappear.”
What a mensch.
Share opinions about applevsgoogle on Polar
This new(?) page layout for open voting on Polar is great.
I definitely enjoy the Polar app over Seesaw since the former is modeled more around sparking discussions and less about delegating decision-making.
Basically, Polar always seems like fun, and Seesaw always feels a bit like an intervention.
How to make a Brooklyn Parent Coffee
- 1 part coffee
- 1/3 part milk or cream
- 0.38472 to not that important parts maple syrup
- 3 seconds to add a splash of bourbon before the kid notices
- swirl to stir
- rub sore legs as necessary
This is good: Hummed Tunes Instantly Transposed Onto Sheet Music - PSFK.
I clearly recall a recorder-like MIDI controller on display at Manny’s in NYC sometime around 1990 that you could hum into, and it would play the notes as if you were using the keys on a synth.
So while this is awesome, I’m still kind of shocked that the technology for applications like this isn’t even more advanced by now.
But yes, this is awesome.
Gaming’s new frontier: Cancer, depression, suicide | Polygon —
Sympathetic to Green’s plight, Ramage was intrigued. A game about a child’s terminal cancer? A game about being the father of a dying child?
Green and Larson showed him their game, That Dragon, Cancer. Ramage sat down facing the bustling room, put on the headphones and played for a few minutes.
That’s all it took. He began weeping.
Massimo Vignelli on Grid-Based Design.
