Jason Cartwright
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The Long and Happy Lives of Lobsters
"As best scientists can tell, lobsters age so gracefully they show no measurable signs of aging: no loss of appetite, no change in metabolism, no loss of reproductive urge or ability, no decline in strength or health. Lobsters, when they die, seem to die from external causes."
- Mataerial Introduction
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Official Google Blog: A picture of Earth through time
"we sifted through 2,068,467 images—a total of 909 terabytes of data—to find the highest-quality pixels (e.g., those without clouds), for every year since 1984 and for every spot on Earth. We then compiled these into enormous planetary images, 1.78 terapixels each, one for each year. "
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- Petcube
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Netflix now bigger than HBO in the US
"The goal is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us"
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- Exchange rates: Inside the Bitcoin economy
- Astronomers anticipate 100 billion Earth-like planets
- You Lookin' At Me? Reflections on Google Glass
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- A US view of the UK class system
- Locals light up remote Peruvian airstrip for emergency night-flight
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How a cyberwar was spun by shoddy journalism
"This story wasn't just a failure to understand technology. It was a failure of basic journalism practice. To be willing to not write the story if it didn't stack up."
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@tmaslen: localStorage sub domain exploit allows you to fill a users HD with junk: http://t.co/nRs6GhD80q only Firefox limits all sub domains to 5mb
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@potatolondon: T-shirt ban. Potato enforces corporate dress policy for Lymphoma Association http://t.co/Qt1uo7IBg2
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"@dalmaer: "Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown UX" http://t.co/rzbtidsrGn" <-- this is brilliant
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@virginatlantic Your website is broken in Chrome again. Rather annoying to have to switch to another browser to give you money :(
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Wondering if I could mashup @HipChat and @discourse in some way
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@paul_irish: Data reduction proxy debuts for Chrome on Android. https://t.co/GCqd85Jday Automatic minification, SPDY, image compression, gzip. Boom.
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Finally got around to downloading my twitter archive. Here are the graphs. http://t.co/N6joyZCIUE
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Yahoo apparently had VPN data to show WFH was being abused. Nobody asking if Yahoo office workers are productive either…
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@mydogminton: @jasoncartwright Agreed. Wouldn't want either forced on me. Combination works best.
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I do, however, like hunkering down to work at a comfortable desk setup that's 'just so', and mine. Doesn't really matter where that is.
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@thoroughlygood: @jasoncartwright Was resistant to flexible working/hot desking. Now I find it liberating. Eliminates in office politics and tension.
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Love that rapgenius annotates text other than rap lyrics. Warren Buffett down as an 'artist'. http://t.co/JNl9yGt9Vu
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About
Jason is a founder of Potato, a web application development agency in London.
I also co-own Ferrago Ltd, who publish videogames content to around 7m consumers monthly.
Links
- FriendFeed (lifestream)
- Twitter (microblogging)
- Flickr (photos)
- Facebook (social network)
- delicious (bookmarks)
- last.fm (music)
- LinkedIn (social network)
- Google Reader (bookmarks)
Colophon
- Built in Python & Django using a Mac and TextMate.
- Hosted on Google App Engine.
- Activity feed by FriendFeed and augmented by getURLinfo. Icons from getFavicon.