Monday, November 21, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Just one reason why Apple is so profitable
Images from MinimallyMinimal
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Booking Bands (combine your favorite book and band into a title)
Coudal Partners, one of my "go to" sources for bloggables has come up with a great idea. The idea is to mash up the name of a book with the name of a band. Here are a few examples and more at the above link.
The Things They Might Be Giants Carried*
The Who Moved My Cheese*
The Old Man and The Sea and Cake*
Charlie Daniels and the Chocolate Factory*
Catch 182*
Horton Hears a Hoobastank*
Of Mice and Men at Work*
Bare Naked Lunch Ladies*
The Agony and the XTC*
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Rethink Books Closes $2M Series A To Fund eBook Discovery Apps
Rethink Books has just shared announced that it has closed a $2 million Series A round led by Ambassador Technologies. The Dallas-based Rethink Books will use the funding for product development of apps including FirstChapters, its eBook discovery and purchase platform, and to cultivate relationships with publishing partners.
TechCrunch first covered Rethink Books last year when it showed them an unreleased tablet eReader app that let users add notes, view notes of friends, and share excerpts. Similar features have since been integrated into the popular eReader apps and devices, prompting Rethink Books to move in the direction of discovery.
Its recently released FirstChapters, which lets users scan a physical book or browse popular book lists from the New York Times, Oprah, and more. Users can then read the first few chapters of a selected book, and if they like it, purchase a digital copy through Apple, Amazon, and other online retailers.
With the eReader devices such as the Kindle Fire proliferating, the potential user base for Rethink Books’ products is rapidly expanding. The opportunity to earn a share of the purchases that will fill these devices seems to have attracted Ambassador Technologies.
Rethink Books’ CEO Jason Illian says “along with the applications that make digital reading more accessible and social, we’ll be focusing on the Christian and evangelical book market.” This sector isn’t typically a focus for Silicon Valley companies, and the company’s Dallas location could give it an advantage in signing partnerships with Christian and evangelical publishers.
(Via TechCrunch.)
The Moses Bridge (photos)
Designed by RO & AD Architects, the bridge was built using Accoya wood, a type of modified wood that offers the enhanced durability necessary to sustain a sunken bridge.
More info and photo gallery at inhabitat
93 feet above a beautiful Wisconsin forest (video)
Field Notes Fire Tower from Coudal Partners on Vimeo.
Shot at the Mountain Fire Lookout Tower in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Oconto Coounty, Wisconsin. The tower was built in 1935.From (and shot by) Coudal Partners
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
The first portable phone - 1922 (video)
This short film produced in 1922 rescued from the archives of Pathé seems to show that portable phones have been around quite a while. Two women connect a phone to a fire hydrant, open an umbrella that serves as the antenna and speak to an operator that puts them on a gramophone disc to be heard through the headset. No, I have no idea that it actually worked.
JFK's waffle recipe and 15 more from other politicians of the era
From Political Pot Luck: A Collection of Recipes from Men Only, published in 1959 by the Peninsular Publishing Company in Tallahassee. It was edited by Meg Madigan, whose father was a Florida state comptroller and lobbyist. And she went all out for the cookbook, from governors to senators to media barons. Some of them can cook.
15 more at The Awl
Stunning new Stuttgart City Library
The city of Stuttgart, Germany has officially opened a marvelous new media center, the Stuttgart City Library. This cavernous white wonder is unobtrusive in design, where the books and visitors provide the color to an otherwise neutral environment.
Full story and more pics at thecoolist.
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