Author: timbatchelder

  • Trap Rock Brewery

    (via Trap Rock Brewery) Related articles Fulton Brewery plans a patio ‘oasis’ (bizjournals.com) Venture Capitalist Brewery (winedeposit.wordpress.com) Brooklyn Brewery Stop-Motion (winedeposit.wordpress.com) Best Craft Beer State: Does Quantity Equal Quality? (beerandwhiskeybros.com)

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  • Magnus Nilsson’s Faviken Cookbook a How-To for the Amateur Forager

    (via Magnus Nilsson’s Faviken Cookbook a How-To for the Amateur Forager – Newsweek and The Daily Beast) Related articles Rhino darting clip | Newsweek/DailyBeast | Margot Kiser (margotkiser.com)

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  • Geonaute 360 degree sports camera catches all the action

    Geonaute’s 360 degree sports camera catches all the action, even our hands on James Trew, engadget.com Sport and action cam­eras are big busi­ness, and even though there are a cou­ple of main play­ers, it doesn’t stop other’s try­ing to get a bite of the apple. Geo­naute, how­ev­er, have come at the sit­u­a­tion from a dif­fer­ent…

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  • Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone

    Zoom iQ5 professional stereo microphone hands-on Kevin Wong, engadget.com Ear­li­er at CES, we got our hands on the Rode iXY 30-pin stereo micro­phone iPhone add-on that left our Light­ning users a bit sad. Cheer up! The folks over at Zoom got us over to their booth to take a peek at the com­pa­ny’s new iQ5…

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  • Facebook tests VoIP, adds voice mail-like service

    Facebook tests VoIP, adds voice mail-like service by Donna Tam, cnet.com The social network updates its Messenger app with the ability to send recorded voice messages globally, but tests actual voice calls in Canada. iPhone users in Cana­da can now use Face­book to make voice calls, the social net­work revealed… http://flip.it/SKLUK Related articles Facebook launched…

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  • Get instant pulse readings with iSpO2 for iPhone

    Get instant pulse readings with iSpO2 for iPhone, iPad by Jennifer Van Grove, cnet.com Need a pulse check? iSpO2 — an iPhone and iPad accessory — gives you an immediate reading on your vitals. LAS VEGAS—The iSpO2 by Masi­mo ports the hos­pi­tal check­up expe­ri­ence to iPhones and iPads and makes on-the-spot pulse read­ings… http://flip.it/wJG9a Related…

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  • Washington, Massachusetts Top TechNet State Broadband Rankings

    Washington, Massachusetts Top TechNet State Broadband Rankings John Murrell, allthingsd.com If the local broad­band cli­mate is a major fac­tor in decid­ing where in the U.S. to set­tle your fam­i­ly or busi­ness, Tech­Net has some guid­ance to offer. The tech­nol­o­gy advo­ca­cy group sur­veyed the states to com­pare indi­ca­tors on… http://flip.it/fEhqx Related articles Washington state No. 2…

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  • Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning

    Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Sales­force Mar­ket­ing Cloud and Adobe Mar­ket­ing Cloud demon­strates the need for enter­pris­es to devel­op new ways of har­ness­ing the vast poten­tial of big data. Yet these mar­ket­ing clouds beg the ques­tion of who will help… http://flip.it/sfvZe Related…

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  • Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data

    Early Flu Season Found Lurking in Social Data Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com A small start-up called Sick­weath­er says pub­lic tweets and Face­book mes­sages helped it declare an early start to this year’s U.S. flu sea­son, six weeks before the CDC. Baltimore-based Sick­weath­er tweet­ed about the early flu sea­son on O… http://flip.it/j4OW2 Related articles The new bird…

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  • Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services

    Apple’s Next Battleground Isn’t TV; It’s Web Services John Paczkowski, allthingsd.com Apple does hard­ware and soft­ware well, and it’s at the top of its game when it does them togeth­er. But when it comes to Web ser­vices, the com­pa­ny is a lag­gard, with an ever-lengthening conga line of mis­steps. There are hands-down fias­co… http://flip.it/fuyg5 Related…

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  • The New Places Where America’s Tech Future Is Taking Shape

    The New Places Where America’s Tech Future Is Taking Shape Joel Kotkin, forbes.com Tech­nol­o­gy is reshap­ing the eco­nom­ic geog­ra­phy of the Unit­ed States, but there’s dis­agree­ment as to how. Much of the media and pun­dits like Richard Flori­da assert that the tech rev­o­lu­tion is bound to be cen­tral­ized in the dense,… http://flip.it/MESlA Related articles Don’t…

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  • New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets

    ‘This generation’s Agent Orange:’ New registry to tally, track burn pit illnesses among vets By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor, nbcnews.com An Amer­i­can flag dan­gles from the Tor­res home, the sign of a long bat­tle won: a new law — signed Thurs­day by Pres­i­dent Barack Obama — cre­at­ing a reg­istry of U.S. ser­vice mem­bers per­haps…

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  • Turn your iPhone into an action cam

    Mophie OutRide action-cam case for iPhone now available: 170 degrees of Xmas footage for $150 Sarah Silbert, engadget.com We took a look at Mophie’s Out­Ride ruggedi­zed action-cam case back at IFA in August, but the month of Decem­ber noto­ri­ous­ly brings many more photo ops. Per­haps that’s why the com­pa­ny has cho­sen to announce avail­abil­i­ty of…

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  • Xmas rules for proper iPhone conduct

    Teenager Gets New iPhone For Christmas… Along With 18-Point Contract From Mom Killian Bell, cultofmac.com Imag­ine your delight as a teenage boy who’s just unwrapped a shiny new iPhone for Christ­mas. It’s prob­a­bly your first smart­phone — maybe even your first cell­phone peri­od — and you can’t wait to turn it on and start play­ing…

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  • What can Best Buy learn from B&H and Apple stores?

          How Best Buy can learn from B&H Photo by Greg Sandoval, cnet.com New York’s top photography store provides a clinic on how to sell tech gear. This is how you sell tech gear: Yes­ter­day I walked into B&H Photo in New York, which claims to be the coun­try’s largest non-chain cam­era store,…

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  • Crack the job application systems

        4 Strategies for Conquering Online Job Application Systems Brie Reynolds, lifehack.org If you’re like the majority of job seekers, you spend quite a bit of time searching for jobs online. While there are lots of other job search methods—networking, company research, career fairs, recruiters, and the like—once you finally find a job… RT…

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  • Why big data is about mining real world behavior

    By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet. RT @nytimesbits: Big Data: Rise of the Machines http://flip.it/X0O7J http://flip.it/82cR0 Bits Blog: Big Data: Rise…

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  • Professions that encourage a lack of empathy?

    Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest? Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The Wis­dom of Psy­chopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Ser­i­al Killers Can Teach Us About Suc­cess, by Kevin Dut­ton, has this side-by-side list of pro­fes­sions with the high­est per­cent­age of psy­chopaths (CEO tops the list) and low­est… RT @BoingBoing: Which professions have the most psychopaths?…

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  • Sarah Palin, fruit flies and science funding

    The Fiscal Cliff Is Forcing a Biomedical Day of Reckoning Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke TimmermanSarah Palin, the onetime candidate for the second-highest elected office in the U.S., once delivered a rant on the campaign trail about waste she perceived in federal support of fruit fly research.Scientists everywhere were… http://flip.it/DNFcj Related articles Watch the Palin Turkey…

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  • Avoid recruiters and put your skills up for auction

    Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction J.J. Colao, forbes.com When Pete Lon­don post­ed a resume on LinkedIn in Decem­ber 2009, the JavaScript spe­cial­ist stum­bled into a trap of sorts. Short­ly after cre­at­ing a pro­file he received a mes­sage from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, anoth­er from… RT @ForbesTech: Hounded by…

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