March 2012
105 posts
Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the... →
worldheritagesites:
The Bellinzona site consists of a group of fortifications grouped around the castle of Castelgrande, which stands on a rocky peak looking out over the entire Ticino valley. Running from the castle, a series of fortified walls protect the ancient town and block the passage through the valley. A second castle (Montebello) forms an integral part of the fortifications, while a...
FlipFire studio sharpens its image - Arkansas... →
vimeobuzz:
“It costs more to host HD,” Whitman said. “I think most [video-sharing] services didn’t see the market there for it, but we did.”
A quick note about Vimeo →
vimeobuzz:
“If all of this video stuff can be as easy as Vimeo is, why would you want to use another provider?”
“Vevo’s video player is reasonably OK — pretty much YouTube quality (which isn’t...”
– THE BOSTON PHOENIX: Five suggestions for improving Vevo.com, the music industry’s answer to Hulu and YouTube - On The Download (via vimeobuzz)
Watchteamcoco:
The Conan Blimp is back! #theconanblimp
U.S. Department of State: DipNote: The Week in... →
statedept:
About the Author: Luke Forgerson serves as DipNote’s Managing Editor.
Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Paris, France to participate in a senior-level meeting of the Contact Group on Libya. Following the meeting, Secretary Clinton said: “…Today,…
Retiring this blog. Follow my other blog,... →
thisguyhasmymacbook:
I’m retiring this blog, but if you would like to keep up with me on Tumblr, you can follow my main tumblelog, unraveled also. I can also be found elsewhere on the web, including my main website, unraveled.
Thanks to everyone for following “This Guy Has My MacBook” and supporting the effort to get my MacBook back!
The Historic 2011 Harmontown Twittersode
danharmon:
Here is an image of what transpired for those that missed it. Harmontown tickets may still be available at http://bit.ly/q5rtzm Special thanks to @Mr_Hambone for putting this visual transcript together!
The Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents →
rosalarian:
bigbigtruck:
I didn’t even know the panel-to-panel thing was considered a tangent, I made that mistake recently on those panels with Amal’s phone…
Anyway, this post is good stuff.
(Sorry, I can’t seem to find who linked me to this at the moment… the post was just on my screen, what)
Tangents have always bothered me, and while some definitely slip through in my work, it’s like...
Why Vimeo is better than YouTube - Technology Live... →
vimeobuzz:
“If you’d like to share your videos from a high-definition camcorder online, there aren’t a lot of options. The Web’s most popular video site, YouTube, shows videos in standard definition, and usually in lower resolution than I would like. Not so at lesser-known competitor Vimeo, which has some big advantages over YouTube and other video sites:”
Dan Harmon Poops: Things They Might Never Tell You... →
danharmon:
Thirty seconds after it gets easy, you will forget how hard it was.
Time does not advance 1 second per second. It advances 1 important moment at a time. You have less and less of these as you get used to them, therefore, the older you get, the faster time goes.
[I assume] you can jump out of…
U.S. Department of State: National Children’s... →
statedept:
About the Author: Krysten Carrera is a Presidential Management Fellow at the National Cancer Institute. She presently serves in the Department of State’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs (IO).
If you knew that your child’s lifestyle would greatly impact his or her health as…
