March 2012 Neatlinks

Thu, Mar 8

Tent + Treehouse = Tentsile (0 comments)

Fri, Mar 9

What a concept:

Even though Holga D is a digital camera, in order to achieve its simplicity, it reduces the feature set to absolute minimum. Even the display is not there! So your photographs remain mysterious until you download the images. This makes the experience quite similar to the good old film based cameras.

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Sun, Mar 11

Pretty: Onion Ring Sunny-side Up Eggs (0 comments)

Mon, Mar 12

My jaw-dropped watching this: Over-elaborated rubegoldbergian steampunk corkscrew (0 comments)

Tue, Mar 13

Simpleform = Simpleform + 1 (0 comments)

Great video: Vice Munchies with Danny Bowien (of Mission Chinese fame) (0 comments)

I’m admittedly a passive investor, with 100% of my retirement savings invested in index funds, but this article in Slate, ostensibly about Facebook’s impending IPO, was the first I’ve read that expressed a downside to emerge from index fund investing: ineffective corporate governance.

On some level, this is how investing already works today. Actively managed mutual funds are a bad deal for investors, as are hedge funds and private equity funds. But if you invest in broad indexes as most people think you should, then by definition you’re abandoning any ability to exercise control over the companies you nominally “own.”

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Sun, Mar 18

The square we live in: There are at least 18 Reasons to love Mission food (there’s enough restaurants here to keep us busy for a long, long time) (0 comments)

Mon, Mar 19

OMFG: The Free Universal Construction Kit (3D printers make me want to be a kid again) (via Kottke) (2 comments)

Fri, Mar 23

This is probably not what GoPro intended by the “World’s Most Versatile Camera”:

When the police tried to break down his door, [Mohamed] Merah, who had an Uzi, Kalashnikov and other weapons, fired. Then he decided he wanted to talk. From 7am until late on Wednesday night, he had several walkie-talkie conversations with a police negotiator. He also gave them a location for a bag containing a blood-spattered GoPro camera device which he had worn round his neck to film his attacks.

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Very cool: Andre was quoted in Austin Kleon’s new book, How to Steal Like an Artist, which is based on one of my favorite blog posts of all time (0 comments)

Tue, Mar 27

I have a bone to pick with you, Josh Miller:

Why Branch Is Moving Back To New York City: San Francisco is just too nice. The nature is too accessible, the architecture is too Victorian, and the weather is too perfect. The quality of life here is unrivaled.

The weather in San Francisco ain’t perfect. (0 comments)

Fri, Mar 30

Shopping has felt awfully like this lately: Reviews (0 comments)