Month: October 2013

Drug Take-Back Day

The Next National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is scheduled for October 26, 2013. One or more of your local pharmacies will likely accept your old pharmaceuticals free, no questions. It disposes of them safely and keeps them out of landfills or sewers where they apparently are having ever-worsening effects on water supplies — for example putting female hormones from birth control pills into what you drink from the tap. Go through your cabinet!

Sriracha

Huy Fong Foods has neither employed a single salesman nor spent a cent on advertising. Advertising would merely widen the gap between demand and supply even further. ”I don’t advertise, because I can’t advertise”

Lines are overrated

amen.

the line, and the accompanying difficulty of getting a reservation, is a way of marketing the restaurant to potential customers. Which means the place needs marketing in some manner, which means its audience is in some way not so well-informed about where they ought to be eating. They tend to be trendy people who follow…lines. Conformists, in other words.

example: that stupid ramen place in nyc, ippudo.

Youtube Emmy

this is nice recognition for the outstanding engineering on the youtube team:

Since YouTube’s founding in 2005, the world is surprised on a daily basis by the creativity, inspiration and passion that the planet’s most creative people bring to the YouTube platform. Each month, 1B people watch more than 6B hours of video. Each minute, creators upload 100 more hours for the world to watch. To meet this fundamental engineering challenge, the YouTube team has created new, innovative ways to upload, store, manage and deliver all kinds of video programming to viewers the instant they want to watch it.

YouTube’s parallel media transcoding engine and media processing framework provide for massive media processing capability with extremely low latencies. YouTube’s streaming infrastructure is a unique achievement that operates at unparalleled scale, globally. In the last year alone, their new “live” platform delivered coverage of 1200 live events from the 2012 Summer Olympics and scaled to deliver over 8M concurrent streams during the Red Bull Stratos Mission. As the world increasingly comes to the internet for high-quality, original content, YouTube’s Content ID platform allows copyright holders to manage whether and how their content appears on YouTube, providing those rights holders with an automated way of protecting and managing their rights and monetizing their programming on a global scale.

Together, these achievements have fundamentally changed the way an entire generation thinks of and experiences television.