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BlogsMake #4 now availableMerlin Mann | Oct 20 2005MAKE: Technology on Your Time, Volume 04 O'Reilly's quarterly Make Magazine Volume #4 is now available for order from Amazon.com. As ever it will be filled with new ways to turn your doorbell into a death laser or make a functional hovercraft from a Mr. Coffee or even remove the DRM from a six-pack of Mr. Pibb. It's all in there, along with the usual "Life Hacks" column from Danny and me. This month's column features our long-anticipated showdown/throwdown on digital vs. paper. Two step into the octagon and only one, One, ONE will step out. (Well, actually: after realizing it's all been a simple misunderstanding, they shake hands and agree to work quietly on separate projects.) An excerpt: read more »5 Comments
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Can we learn from the proximate candy jar?Merlin Mann | Oct 20 2005Science tackles candy nibbling: clear containers close by get patronized more often than opaque containers a bit further away.
Sure, no duh, right? Put candy out and people eat it. Big whup. Well, maybe. But try processing this from a slightly different angle. read more »POSTED IN:
43F Podcast: Fake Mail, 2005-10-19Merlin Mann | Oct 19 200543 Folders: Fake Mail, 2005-10-19 (mp3) read more » POSTED IN:
NPR: Clive on "Interruption Science"Merlin Mann | Oct 19 2005read more » POSTED IN:
Ads on 43F (and helping improve them)Merlin Mann | Oct 19 200543 Folders - October 2005 Reader Survey In deciding to run ads on 43 Folders, it's been important to me to try and get things right. Over the past few weeks you've seen the site go way over the edge, then pull back--mostly just so I could learn where that edge was, although it's also accidentally provided me with a fascinating crash course on how industry standard ad units and software work. I've also listened to you guys, moved some stuff around, and tried to keep things both sane and modestly profitable. Whether I've gotten that mix perfect on any given day will always be open to debate, but I'll tell you two things that are important to me: read more »POSTED IN:
Review: iPod Nano, 2GBMerlin Mann | Oct 19 2005While I don’t really “move” much except to place orders for food delivery or to occasionally evacuate my bladder, my girlfriend runs a lot and for long distances. She loves to have music with her but hates lugging the deck-of-cards-sized 40 Gig iPod I bought a couple years ago (for, I don’t know—like, $1800 or something). She has an iPod Shuffle, but it recently started acting really squirrely plus it never had quite the capacity she’d have liked. But, friends, the iPod Nano I got her for her birthday has been an especially huge hit. Big time. And now I want one, too. read more »POSTED IN:
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