My entry for art jam "The Most epic thing you can imagine"

Try to listen to some epic metal like Dominion when you look at this as it adds to it.

"Anyone may, without restriction under U.S. copyright laws...distribute copies or digitally transfer the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending." Am I reading this right? I can take a photo from the Obama flickr stream, print it out, and sell it for a profit?

Stay classy!

uses foursquare api to get rankings of popular places

gas used per mile is inversely proportional to miles per gallon, which means that you have a steeper slope at lower MPG ratings, and diminishing returns at higher MPG ratings.

Afghanistan

A great example of conversational interaction design can be seen in the registration process on tumblr.com. There is no sales proposition – the first page you see beckons you to start using the tool. If you really want to, you can go see the 21 reasons why you’ll love tumblr. But you don’t have to. You can just dive in.

A half-dozen programmers (”robots”) sit around a large communal table in Capitol Hill and crank out code for popular social websites like 43 Things, 43 Places, 43 People, and Lists of Bests. Petersen co-founded the company in 2004 with funding from Amazon. His team has since built the Robot Co-op into one of the most profitable Web startups in town. The websites get crazy traffic (up to 2 million registered users this year), and the company continues to chug along with seemingly sustainable profits. Through the recession, the team has “worked hard on simplifying our business, getting our operations tight and easy to manage (important with a team of 5) while maintaining solid revenue and profitability numbers,” Petersen says in an e-mail. “We are keeping it real, profitable, and fun, while hanging with some well-funded and heavily staffed peers in the Seattle tech scene.”

The protester who got mocked by Barney Frank was not a conservative Glenn Beck type. She was part of a smaller but in some ways weirder group called LaRouchePAC.