Archive for January 2012

What hold music sounds like to Google Voice

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Google Voice made a valiant effort to transcribe a voicemail I received that consisted entirely of hold music:

Hey. Hmm, hey. Thank you. Look forward to talking with you. Fine, hey right back with you. Hey, ciao they Yeah, hey Yeah, hey. Hello. Thank you. We're hoping we sincerely appreciate your patience. Please stay on the line and we'll be back in December.

Hey, yeah. Hello, hey bye. Hey, they. Bye. Hey, We appreciate your time and patience you stay on the line will be back hey hey. Bye, bye bye bye I did. Thanks for holding We appreciate your time and pasted. Please stay on the line and we'll be back in just a moment, bye hello. Bye bye But thank you for a likes.

Don't know why back. I was put Hello, Thank you for alone We look forward to talking with you soon. Please hold the line. I will be right back with you.

Monday, January 9, 2012

Why Permalink

A short film by Corey Rich asking an extreme kayaker, a free soloist, and a long distance mountain biker "why?".

The entire film is shot on the brand-new Nikon D4.

Inspiring.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

The Restart Page Permalink

This is so well done — the right cursors and everything.

Via Daring Fireball.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Why 3D movies need to die Permalink

The Oatmeal:

You remember those Magic Eye books from the 1990s? The ones where you'd look at them, relax your eyes, and a 3D picture would pop out? Saying that 3D movies are the future of cinema is like saying that Magic Eye books were the future of literature.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

How the candidates roll Permalink

If you'd like to judge the 2012 Republican presidential candidates by the size of their entourage, or lack thereof, this is the graphic for you.

Rick Santorum:

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Learn to code Permalink

Struggling to come up with a New Year's resolution? Learn to code. Code Year, a site put together by Codecademy, is offering a weekly interactive lesson delivered to email.

The interactive lessons on Codecademy consist of a Javascript console that inserts the instructions in the console itself as you complete each task. Here's the first:

How long is your name? Find out by typing your name in quotes and ending it with .length

For me, that'd be "Ryan".length

Very cool.

Love this quote on Code Year by Fred Wilson:

A young man asked me for advice for 'those who aren't technical.' I said he should try to get technical.

10 things we learned about Apple in 2011 Permalink

Dan Frommer (at splatf.com):

2. Apple is happy to go a whole year without a major hardware design revision.

The iPad 2 wasnâ€™t that much different than the first iPad. The iPhone 4S was, famously, â€œjust a 4Sâ€. (Still no LTE, NFC, etc. â€” for good reasons.) The iPod, Mac, and Apple TV lineups didnâ€™t change much this year, either. And Apple still grew at a crazy rate, setting new sales records in every line.