David Lidsky's Blog, page 3077
January 15, 2015
"Broad City" Is Back, And Taking Secret Handshakes To A Redic High Level
Watch this and you'll never shop at Bed Bath & Beyond the same way again.
The web-series-turned-comedic-TV-gold Broad City is back with its second season, and during last night's premiere, Abbi instantly made all your secret handshakes irrelevant with her besties at Bed Bath & Beyond. Find a quiet place to be alone with this one.
How Sleater-Kinney Promotes An Album: Starring Sarah Silverman, Fred Armisen, And Natasha Lyonne
Sweet Rolodex, S-K.
Sleater-Kinney's new album No Cities to Love drops January 20, and to help promote it, they've called upon a slew of celebrities to sing and dance (for better or worse) to the album's title track. Fred Armisen, Sarah Silverman, Andy Samberg, Miranda July, Natasha Lyonne, Ellen Page, and a host of others are all present and accounted for.
Nest's Tony Fadell Is Now Overseeing Google Glass
Google hopes Fadell can bring some class to Glass.
Despite its promise, Google Glass still isn't the coolest technology around, which goes some way to explaining why its profile seems to have dipped over the past few months. With this in mind, why not hand it over to one of the tech gurus behind a previous ultra-chic gadget like the iPod, then?
Kickstarter's Beautiful, Redesigned iOS App Now Works On iPads
Now available for iPhone and iPad, the new Kickstarter app doesn't just look gorgeous. It feels fresh.
Crowdfunding super-site Kickstarter has just released a new iOS app. The first major overhaul since version 1.0 debuted almost two years ago, the new app is a major design overhaul that is now compatible with iPads and features a unique, colorful, and fluid new user interface, making Kickstarter feel almost like it was built from the ground up for iOS.
Meet Timeline, A Mobile News App With A Long, Long Memory
By connecting the dots between past and present, this iPhone app turns every story into an epic.
As someone who majored in history but never took a journalism course in my life, I've always maintained that it's impossible to understand the present without knowing the past. If Apple announces a smartwatch, my mind will turn to past Apple product launches, all the way back to the 1970s. When someone declares that the web is dead, I have flashbacks to previous technologies whose obituaries were written prematurely. And so on.
What Would The Original Mac Look Like If Apple Made It In 2015?
CURVED/labs reimagines the classic 1984 Mac for an entirely new generation.
In 1997, Apple released the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, an audacious attempt to celebrate the heritage of Cupertino by pushing the design of a Mac to the then-cutting-edge. The first major product of Apple design legend Jonathan Ive, and released without Steve Jobs behind it, it was a flawed vision of Apple's future, to be sure, but still an important one. You see the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh forecasting a lot of what Ive would accomplish with the Mac over the next 20 years: the vestiges of the iMac's all-in-one design, the Mac Pro's trashcan-like form factor, and even the Magic Trackpad are all visible in the Twentieth Anniversary Mac's intriguing (yet grotesque) proto-design.
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Boeing's Latest Office Is A Building Inside A Building
Design engineers can now work within a few seconds walk of the production line, instead of across the company's Renton, Washington, campus.
When Boeing, the world's largest plane manufacturer, started designing a new version of its top-selling aircraft, the company wanted to put the plane's designers as close as possible to the manufacturing process. At the airplane maker's sprawling Renton, Washington, campus, office workers often face as much as a 20-minute walk from their desk to the factory floor, making meetings between the people designing the aircraft and those building the aircraft dreadfully inefficient and time-consuming. Facing pressure to churn out more planes to meet demand, the company decided to put its design engineers closer to the action—in a new office building built directly inside the factory.
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Giddiness, Terror, Cornbread: Here's What A Y Combinator Dinner is Really Like
As our series following the largest startup batch ever begins, the air at YC's weekly gathering is filled with excitement and trepidation.
As Sam Altman walks into Y Combinator's dining room on Tuesday night, he is confronted with a scene that seems almost surreal. The converted warehouse, with vaulted wooden ceilings and the sort of long wooden tables one might find in an Ivy League dining hall, is filled with 300 of the most ambitious tech entrepreneurs in the world. They have come here—many from the Bay Area of course, but others from China, Colombia, Argentina, and France—to participate in a three-month long development program for startups.
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Why Creative Teams Are Loving Talko
The unique applications of Talko, the more visual and verbal coworking and communications app.
Julie Santos often sends her employees to the mall. Santos, a marketing manager for Coty, one one of the biggest fragrance companies in the U.S., pays for her perfumes to sit in particular spots at departments stores and wants to make sure she gets her money's worth. Up until recently, it would take multiple distinct interactions to communicate with her team that everything was in order: Call, take a picture, send a text. Now that she and her team use Talko, it all happens in one go.
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When These Clothes Wear Out, You Can Throw Them In Your Compost Bin
Three-year-old jeans, meet last week's food scraps. Now it's possible to turn your old clothing into backyard dirt.
Though a lot of clothing is made from natural fibers like cotton, most of it shouldn't be tossed in a compost heap, thanks to things like dyes, buttons, and polyester tags. But Swiss manufacturer Freitag has designed a new line of clothing that's safe for your garden or a city's compost bins.
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