Jeremy Lin With The Assist To Linsensitivity
If it weren’t for the fact that the national sports media is like a small child, enamored with shiny objects, somebody might actually take a second to point out that the New York Knicks and “Linsanity” have reversed course with a 3-game losing streak to drop to 3 games below .500. Fortunately for them, the New Orleans Saints’ bounty system and Peyton Manning’s free agency are much sexier stories, so nobody really cares that the Knicks have about as much chemistry as an art school. *pushes up glasses, snorts*
But that’s not entirely fair, because while Carmelo Anthony, Amar’e Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler struggle to develop the three-headed monster that James Dolan craves, their teammates are still having fun. Particularly, Landry Fields, Steve Novak and Lin, who took the above picture (Tweeted by Fields) when the trio visited Novak’s alma mater, Marquette University, earlier this week.
And it got me thinking – what if Lin doesn’t mind the fortune cookies and the stereotype puns? What if he’s just like my good friend who is also Chinese-American and makes more jokes about his heritage than anyone else? Does that make it all better? Should that ESPN guy who writes the lamest apologies get his job back? Maybe we’ve been ignoring what matters most this whole time – Lin’s opinion.
But then I remembered it’s Friday, so here’s a very important Kate Upton GIF…
Seiko Astron
Seiko didn’t just create the world’s first GPS watch, in doing so they may have just created the ultimate travel watch. Using a low power GPS receiver, the Astron ($1,900-$2,600) can display your local timezone automatically with just a press of the button. Right when you arrive at your destination, press the button and boom, the watch sets the local time, in fact, it can use GPS to set the time in any of the world’s 39 official timezones.
It can also adjust daylight savings with one button press and because it has a perpetual calendar that is calibrated until the year 2100, so you’ll have the exact date as well. As for battery life, the watch is solar powered so you’ll never have to charge it. The watches will come in titanium or steel, both with ceramic bezels. Link
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Introducing The Curator’s Code: A Standard for Honoring Attribution of Discovery Across the Web
Keeping the whimsical rabbit hole of the Internet open by honoring discovery.
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.” ~ Ray Bradbury
You are a mashup of what you let into your life.” ~ Austin Kleon
Chance favors the connected mind.” ~ Steven Johnson
As both a consumer and curator of information, I spend a great deal of time thinking about the architecture of knowledge. Over the past year, I’ve grown increasingly concerned about a fundamental disconnect in the “information economy”: In an age of information overload, information discovery — the service of brining to the public’s attention that which is interesting, meaningful, important, and otherwise worthy of our time and thought — is a form of creative and intellectual labor, and one of increasing importance and urgency. A form of authorship, if you will. Yet we don’t have a standardized system for honoring discovery the way we honor other forms of authorship and other modalities of creative and intellectual investment, from literary citations to Creative Commons image rights.
Until today.
I’m thrilled to introduce The Curator’s Code — a movement to honor and standardize attribution of discovery across the web.
One of the most magical things about the Internet is that it’s a whimsical rabbit hole of discovery — we start somewhere familiar and click our way to a wonderland of curiosity and fascination we never knew existed. What makes this contagion of semi-serendipity possible is an intricate ecosystem of “link love” — a via-chain of attribution that allows us to discover new wonderlands through those we already know and trust.
The Curator’s Code is an effort to keep this whimsical rabbit hole open by honoring discovery through an actionable code of ethics — first, understanding why attribution matters, and then, implementing it across the web in a codified common standard, doing for attribution of discovery what Creative Commons has done for image attribution.
Together with my design and thought partner on the project, the infinitely brilliant and hard-working Kelli Anderson, and with invaluable input from my wonderful studiomate Tina of Swiss Miss fame, we’ve devised a simple system that any publisher and curator of information can use across the social web and on any publishing platform.
The system is based on two basic types of attribution, each connoted by a special unicode character, much like ™ for “trademark” and for © “copyright”:
ᔥ stands for “via” and signifies a direct link of discovery, to be used when you simply repost a piece of content you found elsewhere, with little or no modification or addition. This type of attribution looks something like this:
↬ stands for the common “HT” or “hat tip,” signifying an indirect link of discovery, to be used for content you significantly modify or expand upon compared to your source, for story leads, or for indirect inspiration encountered elsewhere that led you to create your own original content. For example:
In both cases, you use the respective unicode character where you would’ve previously used the word “via” or “HT,” followed by the actual hotlink to your source. For example:
The unicode character itself is hotlinked to the Curator’s Code site, which allows the ethos of attribution to spread as curious readers click the symbol to find out what it is.
This is where it gets interesting. With generous help from my studiomates Cameron and Jonnie, we’re offering a bookmarklet that lets you easily copy-paste the unicode characters for use in any text field, from a tweet to your blog CMS. Just drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar and click it every time you want to attribute discovery, then click your preferred type of attribution and watch the unicode magically appear wherever your cursor is in a text field. Add the actual hotlink to your source after it like you normally would.
See it in action:
If you’re a publisher, you can also grab the Curator’s Code badge pack to display your support, and sign the public pledge to join the ranks of supporting sites.
As for the design, Kelli — as much a designer as a visual philosopher — came up with this beautifully meta concept, where we display famous quotes related to attribution in a parallax rabbit hole of sites on which they actually occur, layered in the order of source attribution. Hovering over the hole makes the parallax shift before your eyes, as if the Internet is burning a hole of discovery through your very screen. In Kelli’s words:
Maria spoke about attribution less as an obligation and more as an enabler of deep, surprising (and perhaps infinite) voyages through information. Through linking, the Internet connects disparate sources in a way that no other medium has before — effectively creating these meta-narratives of discovery. Maria called them ‘rabbit holes.’ With that one phrase, I knew that the site should demonstrate pathways of attribution by (literally) poking a hole in the Internet to glimpse the pathways of attribution beyond.”
Here’s to a new dawn of keeping the Internet’s whimsical rabbit hole of information open by honoring discovery like the creative and intellectual labor that it is.
Questions? Get in touch with “Curator’s Code” in the subject line and we’ll take it from there.
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Watch Hulk Hogan Flush His Remaining Dignity Before The Sex Tape Arrives
Right now you’re probably saying, “But With Leather, Hulk Hogan lost his dignity YEARS ago!” Yes, I’ve seen Mr. Nanny, but you can always give more.
What you’re watching is a clip from the #ChallengeHulk series, a YouTube channel of promotional videos from Hogan and weight loss product Body By Vi that are a lot like the show ‘Shaq Vs.’, except Hogan just stands in front of a green screen and challenges himself to be as pathetic as possible. In this installment, Hogan listens to Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” once, puts on some props a lame person would have in a photo booth at a wedding and tells us that we need to respect everyone on the planet because he has the largest arms in the world. Or something.
My theory (as the headline suggests) is that our Ten Jokes To Tell About The Upcoming Hulk Hogan Sex Tape and its sequel made Hogan go “oh no, brother” and feel fear deep in his melting, leathery core, so he’s pulling a Tila Tequila and being as sad as possible every day so seeing him naked and humping will be an afterthought.
Either that, or his message to gay teens is, “it doesn’t get any better”.
[h/t John Canton]
Solar Power Window Phone Charger
If you’re the type of person who cares for the environment and love saving money, this solar-powered phone charger will help you towards that. The side which has the solar panel sticks to your window to gather as much light as possible. The outside has a lovely aluminium shell to make it look minimal and clean. It has a 1400mAh battery inside, which will charge up when you’re not charging a phone. You can sleep better at night now knowing that you helped the environment…a little bit.
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Toilet Texting…Ergh | Infographic
This infographic gives us a disturbing look into toilet texting. It’s not shocking that people text on the toilet but it’s crazy what they do on their phones will on the toilet. Amazing to see how we multi-task so much that we even do stuff while taking a dump.
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In Case You Were Wondering, Peyton Manning’s Neck Is Fine
“You tell me, herp should I derp?”
Since officially becoming a free agent on Wednesday, Peyton Manning is the most popular dude at the desperation party, as basically any team in need of a quarterback is banging down his door. While Manning apparently claimed that he will have a decision made by the end of next week, the Kansas City Chiefs have set the bar with an unknown offer.
Meanwhile, the Denver Broncos are supposedly willing to do whatever it takes to land Manning, and even people in Philadelphia are calling for the Eagles to sign him. And, of course, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has his checkbook out as he laughs at everyone. So what the hell is really going on? You know, with the guy’s surgically repaired neck and that stuff that sort of matters.
“His risk really is very low,” said Dr. Robert S. Bray Jr., who has worked with NHL star Sidney Crosby and whose DISC Sports & Spine Center provides medical services for the U.S. Olympic team.
“If I was a team, I’d ask, ‘Did (the fusion) heal? Do you have a CAT scan that showed it healed? Is the rest of neck in pretty good shape?”‘ Bray asked. “If those two answers are yes, then it gets down to, ‘OK, get out on the field and show me you can perform,’ because it will only get better from here with time.” (Via the Indy Star)
I’m no NFL general manager, but I assume that all of the guys who are figuring out ways to kill each other to sign Manning probably already asked this question and that’s why they’re doing what they’re doing. But having been a Dolphins fan for this long, I still worry that maybe Jeff Ireland doesn’t put too much thought into something like this and Manning could be rolling around in one of those electric wheelchairs powered by a straw and he’d be like, “So let me tell you why you’d be great in Miami.”
Also, photoshops like this do more harm to my sports sensitivity than they do my hopes…
(Via Gridiron Gab)
Moscot Originals Metal Collection
Respected New York eyewear institution Moscot brings us a new line of metal frames for Spring. Part of the Originals Collection, the new specs are authentic replicas designed after styles from the company’s design archives from the 60s and 70s. Link
A Day In The Internet | Infographic
If you’re looking at this post right now, you probably have some kind of impression how big the internet is and how it’s been a major contributor in the way we live and communicate. There’s so much information on the internet that it’s impossible to consume it all. This great infographic shows some great statistics on any one day on the internet.
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Taylor Stich Japanese Indigo Shirts
For Spring, Taylor Stitch delivers a beautiful collection of Japanese Indigo shirts ($125) inspired by springtime in Japan. The traditional prints are also complemented by the brand’s signature horn buttons which contrast perfectly against the indigo fabric. Link
Bell & Ross Flight Instruments
Following up the Horizon model we showed you last week, Bell & Ross reveals the complete collection of its “Flight Instruments” novelties. First up is the Altimeter which is essentially an exact replica of an altimeter gauge in watch form. The second watch is inspired by a turn coordinator gauge that uses two ultra-lightweight concentric discs that rotate to display the hours and minutes. Link
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