Brier Dudley: Early Peek at Amazon’s Amazing new HQ – “Builders working for developer Paul Allen are putting finishing touches on the centerpiece, a cluster of buildings around an open amphitheater built into the historic Van Vorst building, which used to be a stable for the Frederick & Nelson delivery horses.“
The Mechatronics Guy: ArduinoCheatSheet – “I really love cheat sheets. In a lot of cases they can take the place of an entire manual. So I was surprised, given its popularity that I couldn’t find a single-page reference for the arduino online. I tried to make a sheet that captured all the things I hit the reference for while programming. What data type does the millis() function return? How long till that overflows again? How large can a long get? What baud rates can the serial handle?“
Illuminated Mind and Body: Seven Weird Habits That Will Change Your Life – “3. Ignore and doubt yourself. Sometimes listening to yourself and getting in touch with your intuition is important. But what if you don’t like what you have to say to yourself? What if you have patterns of thought that aren’t serving you? Sometimes it’s better to allow them to be there and ignore them, rather than trying to push them out. “
Business Week: Zynga and Facebook. It’s Complicated – “More than 90% of the company’s revenues come from users converting real cash into proprietary virtual currency. FarmVille, for example, has Farm Coins. Say you buy a tractor for 5,000 Farm Coins, which equals about $3.30. Typically the company pays less than 10% of that to a third-party transaction handler such as PayPal and keeps the rest. “
Apply to TechStars – “TechStars is currently accepting applications for the Seattle program, to be held during the fall of 2010. The application deadline for our Seattle program is June 1, 2010 at 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time.“
Market Ticker: Bill Black Calls It As It Is – “What Bill Black has documented is not only how and why Lehman blew sky high, but that nothing has, in fact, changed – other than the fact that we have now effectively backstopped this activity among the current survivors by sweeping the truth under the rug! If we do not stop it now the system will blow sky-high – again – and this time there won’t be enough money or credit available to the United States Government (or any other government) to stop it.“
Bill Black: Public Policy Issues Raised by the Report of the Lehman Bankruptcy Examiner – “The economic substance, in every case, of Lehman’s Repo transactions was a loan, not a true sale. The sole purpose of entering into the transactions was to attempt to achieve an accounting treatment directly contrary to the true nature of the transaction for the purpose of deceiving investors and regulators. If these transactions are not frauds, then accounting and accountancy have ceased to have any value or integrity. It is time for accountants, business people, and regulators to demand an end to the deliberate use of accounting to deceive.“
BrickCon 2010 – “Join us to view hundreds of models created by LEGO® Hobbyist Builders from around the nation and the world. Build your own masterpieces with LEGO® parts at our Building Zone. Purchase current, past and custom LEGO® sets, parts and minifigs at our Brick Bazaar. Win Prizes!“
Wall Street Journal: Entrepreneurs Doing Business by Avatar – “Two years ago Second Life, the largest of the virtual sites, with 1 million monthly visitors, created an enterprise group, to better cater to businesses. Companies like Dell shut storefronts and retooled their virtual-world platforms for meetings and training. A whole flock of specialized sites now provide business services, such as hosting conventions. “
The Arch Network: Welcome to H-Town – “Rather than flipping through the pages of a magazine, or browsing a website as a passive observer, H-Town gives you a presence – a place where you can see and be seen. To me, this is so much closer to the way we actually experience architecture in the real world, and represents the future of every kind of online architectural resource. Looking at a picture of a house is great, but experiencing a house in an immersive, realtime environment alongside others is much better.“.
