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|  | April 19th, 2012 | | Posted 1 day ago by  Garry Tan to Y Combinator Posterous | | Congrats to Eric and the InPulse team (YC W11) -- they've created something truly remarkable in the Pebble e-Paper watch. So far, Migicovsky has raised more than $3.8 million (ed: now $4.1M), making the watch the highest-grossing project since Kickstarter was founded two years ago, a spokesman for the website said. The fundraising will go for another 31 days, and then Pebble gets to collect the money it has raised. Kickstarter takes submissions from aspiring authors, hardware tinkerers, thespians and video-game developers with good ideas and video cameras to shoot their pitches. Some 1.75 million people have given more than $185 million to 20,000 projects on Kickstarter, a spokesman said. Migicovsky said he’s more adept at pitching to consumers than to venture capitalists. “With VCs, they worry about models and size of market and stuff like that,” he said. “With consumers, one of the things I love about the videos, we just showed how you’re going to use it.” Read the full article at Bloomberg Contribute to the Pebble Kickstarter and help make history | | | Posted about 22 hours ago by  markbittman to bittman | | Colin Spencer, whom Germaine Greer once called “the greatest living food writer,” turns 80 next year, and shows no signs of slowing down. His latest book, “From Microliths to Microwaves,” a history of food in Britain from pre-historic times to the present, is the work of a scholar. (In it he argues, in a way that’s reminiscent of Jared Diamond, that agriculture — or at least agriculture as it’s practiced now — is one of the great tragedies of the human race.) Yet Spencer’s scholarship is only one of his many achievements. Indeed, he’s as close to a Renaissance man as you can get, an accomplished artist, novelist, analyst, activist, playwright and journalist. Read the rest of this column here. | | | Posted about 19 hours ago by markbittman to bittman |  4 | | I’M here — back in the Dining section with a new column — to insist once again that not only can you cook it at home, but you can likely cook it better. “It,” in this case, is pizza, and the impetus for today’s installment was a visit to a highly acclaimed pizza joint in Manhattan, where I was served (for $15, or about four times the cost of the ingredients in a supermarket) a perfectly ordinary, overly poofy, drearily sauced pizza. Granted, the mozzarella was first rate. Big deal. Read the rest of this column, watch the video, and get the recipes here. | | | Posted about 22 hours ago by  Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! | | 4 | | Sometimes the geek spilleth over onto all sorts of unlikely (and illegal) spaces, and while property destruction may not make your day, spotting one of these graffiti masterpieces might make your inner geek crack a smile at the very least. Full story at Neatorama. Street art. Photo credit: tashland, Abode of Chaos , stringberd , Mr. Nightshade | | | Posted about 21 hours ago by  Maestro Limbo to Conozca Más | | Sostener los libros suele ser un problema, especialmente en ciudades sensibles a los temblores. Una manera de hacerlo es usar la pesada Biblia de mamá como contrapeso junto a tu libro de supervivencia zombi o Las memorias de Adriano. También puedes usar un ladrillo, botellas de vodka, un Buda, la cabeza de tu ex novio… Para que sostener libros y revistas tenga un toque estético y con un halo de humor, la gente de Knob Creek Metal Arts ofrece una línea de sostenedores de libros (¿habrá de sostenes?) que van de lo cursi a lo bestial y de regreso. Aquí unos ejemplos. Nota: también pueden usarse para salvaguardar tus ediciones de Conozca Más. | | | Posted about 20 hours ago by  Futurity to Holy Kaw! | | The brain network activated during an intense response to art overlaps with the brain network associated with inward contemplation and self-assessment. “Aesthetic judgments for paintings are highly individual, in that the paintings experienced as moving differ widely across people,” the New York University researchers observe. “But the neural systems supporting aesthetic reactions remain largely the same from person to person." Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: Fotolia | | | | | Posted about 6 hours ago by  Rüdiger Klos-Neumann to wopStar | | 4 | | Guess which means of transportation was presented?! Errate welches Transportmittel vorgestellt wurde?!
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- Pure thrills and action await you! | | | Posted about 14 hours ago by  Annie Colbert to Holy Kaw! | | 4 | | Coca-Cola created a vending machine that doesn't take quarters, crisp dollar bills, or even Canadian quarters. So how do you pay for your high fructose-y goodness? Love in the form of hugs. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Spread the love by doing something good. | | | Posted about 13 hours ago by  John Weez to Dont Tell the Hipsters | | 1 | | Embedded media -- click here to see it. It was reported today that the much anticipated Halo 4 is being released on Election Day. Whether it was on purpose or just a coincidence this is going to be one of the biggest video game releases in years. The series left off with the main protagonist Master Chief crioginically freezing himself, awaiting to be called upon again. | | | Posted about 12 hours ago by  Gerardo Torres to Conozca Más | | 1 La versión animada de She Hulk ya tiene voz. Se trata de la actriz Eliza Dushku (voz de Selina Kyle en Batman Year One y actriz en películas como Mentiras Verdaderas) y podrás escucharla en Hulk and The Agents of S.M.A.S.H –Yeah! 2 No tenía muchas ganas de ver G.I. Joe Retaliation hasta que me encontré con esto. –Adrianne Palicki, ladies and getlemen. ¡guarraguau! 3 Este es el avance de introducción de la nueva serie Beware the Batman, que está por estrenarse en Cartoon Network –Es muy corto, pero, me gusta. Embedded media -- click here to see it.4 Después de los desastres naturales del año pasado en Japón y, con la finalidad de activar una industria que sufrió un fuerte daño, una agencia desarrolló la idea de grabar con una técnica láser las hojas de alga (nori) que se utilian en la preparación de rollos de Sushi. Así es como se ven los rollos inspirados en Flor de cerezo, gotas de agua, concha de tortuga marina, caparazón de tortuga, cáñamo. –Si es sushi, como venga. 5 Un clásico –instantáneo– de todos los tiempos. La obra maestra jamás filmada de alguien que tiene mucho tiempo libre. Una obra provocativa, reflexiva e irreal. –Parece que estoy listo para hacer crítica de cine... Atención especial a los créditos, por favor. | | | | | | |
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