Pay Attention: The Great American Adderall Drought | The Fix
november 2011 by domnit
A widespread shortage of the popular ADD pill is distracting a nation of Adderall users. Naturally, it’s all about Big Pharma profits.
drugs
business
november 2011 by domnit
Natasha Schüll at Gel 2008
november 2010 by domnit
Las Vegas casinos increasingly pay attention to their customers - their likes, dislikes, moods and patterns - in order to create an engaging experience. As Natasha Schull explains, the stated goal of these new designs is "customer extinction" - the moment at which the customer is out of money. This talk, essential viewing for anyone in the design or user experience fields, underlines the neutral nature of customer experience methods: like any tool, they can be used for good or ill.
vegas
gambling
business
november 2010 by domnit
Open Letter to Fans from Cavaliers Majority Owner Dan Gilbert
july 2010 by domnit
Re: LeBron James brouhaha
sports
basketball
business
humor
typography
july 2010 by domnit
Gainful employment
april 2010 by domnit
On the "third drive," the "inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore and to learn."
business
psychology
april 2010 by domnit
Kid Cannabis
september 2009 by domnit
How a chubby pizza-delivery boy from Idaho became a drug kingpin
drugs
business
september 2009 by domnit
NYT - Music sales by format
august 2009 by domnit
I'd like to see a similar chart for independent label and independent artist releases. I suspect that declining sales is only half the story, the other being that there's a thriving music industry that's not the RIAA. (via waxy)
music
business
statistics
august 2009 by domnit
Google wants your phonemes
december 2007 by domnit
"The reason we really did [GOOG-411] is because we need to build a great speech-to-text model ... that we can use for all kinds of different things, including video search."
google
search
compsci
business
december 2007 by domnit
A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions
november 2007 by domnit
WSJ on OLPC's unexpected competition
olpc
business
november 2007 by domnit
NYT on how Rick Rubin is trying to fix the majors
september 2007 by domnit
RR is wrong about subscriptions, but an interesting article
music
business
september 2007 by domnit
Federal Register: Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies
march 2007 by domnit
Argh. Some good news here, but the fact that this is even necessary makes it so obvious that the DMCA is broken.
copyright
freedom
mobile
dmca
law
politics
business
march 2007 by domnit
Dallas Food - What's Noka Worth? (Part 1)
december 2006 by domnit
Epic 10-part series exposing deceptive chocolate re-branders Noka. Best investigative reporting I've read in a blog.
chocolate
food
business
scam
blogging
december 2006 by domnit
Cisco makes videoconferencing cool with new telepresence systems
october 2006 by domnit
3 HD screens + 3 HD cameras + 17 dual core CPUs (H.264 codec) + 10 megabits of bandwidth + custom components + careful lighting and positioning
business
meetings
highdef
video
videoconference
future
travel
october 2006 by domnit
Wal-Mart - The HUB (School Your Way)
july 2006 by domnit
Are they fucking kidding?
propaganda
marketing
walmart
school
children
business
july 2006 by domnit
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