What planes are overhead?
What’s that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yup, it’s a plane, and it is currently 31,100 feet high and traveling to St. Louis from Chicago. Simply enter “planes overhead”, and Wolfram|Alpha will provide a list of flights overhead based on your current geoIP location.
You can also click on specific flights to learn more information, such as departure airport, estimated flight duration, and more:
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry shares a few poignant thoughts via some very Bad Lip Reading.
How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing
Porsche’s move took three years of careful maneuvering. It was darkly brilliant, a wealth transfer ingeniously conceived like few we’ve ever seen. Betting the right way, Porsche roiled the financial markets and took the hedge funds for a fortune.
First sentence of a video about a marketing automation tool I’m actually interested in
“… cloud-based revenue performance management solutions transform how marketing and sales teams of all sizes work together to close the right deals faster and increase revenue growth.”
Why.
Rhythm, Rhyme, Results: Featured Teacher : Amanda Kruppenbacher, Uganda
Name: Amanda Kruppenbacher
School: GSF International School/Good Shephards Fold Orphanage in Jinja, Uganda
Subjects: 2011-2012 teaching 4th and 6th gradesHow are you using educationalrap.com and/or rrr.fm in the classroom?
Last school year I worked hard to include different…
Profile of a teacher in Uganda using RRR with students. Yes!
Marketing Insanity
Earlier today I dropped this toot about context switching and marketing. I want to elaborate on this a tad, given the reputation we marketers have earned for acting out of our minds.
Marketing requires constant reporting on all activity; after all: we’re signing contracts and actively spending money, and we’d better have something to show for it. To accompany this, we have clear business goals against which we’re measured: generate traffic, convert traffic to lead, convert lead to purchase, etc. Every channel, campaign, and web page has its own goals that contribute to these larger goals. We report on these results weekly and monthly.
Now, imagine that for every feature a developer built, that person were then expected to monitor it, report on results, and constantly weigh its efficacy against all former and future features.
How is it being used? Could it be improved? Should it be cut? Is it accomplishing its goal?
In other words, imagine that every feature in the app cost actual money to keep. (The reality is, features do cost money in the form of time required to maintain and extend code.) Every day would become a balance between creation, release, and some part of the test-release-assess-analyze-iterate chain among every single feature that’s out in the wild. And these results would be reported on a weekly basis with charts and test plans and all sorts of analysis.
I don’t think engineers or product teams do this.
What would happen if they did?
Google Correlate
Fun!
American tattoo artist Scott Campbell glued a cannon fuse in the shape of “That’s All Folks” to plywood, with a small pipe-bomb strapped to the back. Then he filmed it with his cell phone duck-taped to a sign post and then pressing record. [via]
The Shapes of CSS
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