Pleased with myself. Yesterday, I saw a number of people charging phones and laptops in every available outlet, sitting/lying on floors, moving furniture to reach outlets, etc. I proposed a recharge station and two hours later, it existed. Tons of people using it.
I set up some tables in the south lobby, velcroed some power strips to the tables. Installed a shiny new wireless router so people could work and a magazine table so folks would have something to read.
- Greg Schwartz
I'd have to jump through too many hoops to be able to post pictures of the area in use. Maybe when it clears out, although it doesn't look particularly impressive then.
- Greg Schwartz
We're actually planning a "recharge room" for our new library. An entire lounge dedicated to powering stuffs, with outlets on every surface.
- Jason Griffey
from twhirl
I love the image that goes with that name -- recharge not just your tech batteries, but your personal ones too -- a sunny room, with comfy squat and popular magazines....
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
from twhirl
@friffey @greg am adding this to my list of thigns I want to make happen in my new space!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
from twhirl
That's great! But I would be happier if they could confirm if there will, or won't, be an actual cd in the future. [and I'm hoping that the answer is that there WILL BE a cd, and that it's in a not-so-far future, so I can actually buy it] But yey for everyone who can! *That's not meant to be ironic at all. I'm trully happy it's out and people can buy it!*
- Dani Figueiredo
[Sorry, Felicia, given that I already subjected you to this rant]. Where is the UNLIKE button when I want it? I really really dislike itunes. Why can't they make it available somewhere not-evil like Amazon MP3 or Magnatune or anything else that isn't DRM'd to hell? No, I do not have an iPod. No, I do not want an iPod. Bah humbug :-(
- Adam Lasnik
Adam, it's available as iTunes Plus....ie AAC format but without the DRM
- Mike Lambert
I *want* to buy it, I really do, but not from iTunes... I just want plain old mp3 files. Or, in a perfect world, flac files.
- Nathan Howell
Nathan, you can convert the files into mp3's from withing iTunes. Works just fine (and it's perfectly legal), I just did so and I'm listening to it with winamp! It's amazing, everybody sounds even better!
- Laz
Yay for the soundtrack! Now if the DVD would get released fairly soon!
- Joel
Yeah, I know ppl don't like iTunes. I believe it is DRM free though, so that's a plus! I'm sure there will be a CD with the DVD, although I haven't heard that personally, just an assumption.
- Felicia
"I'm sure there will be a CD with the DVD" ... That's what I'm hoping! ... If they tell u something, pleaseeeeee let us know!
- Dani Figueiredo
Ok, I still don't like iTunes, but I bought the soundtrack anyway. My iPhone has put me on a slippery slope. ;-)
- Nathan Howell
bought this yesterday. Can't stop listening to it.
- Edgar Rodríguez
I bought it yesterday and listened to it on my way to work this morning. I love it.
- James Ferguson
Great article. Thank you for posting it. I always forget that Psychology Today has really engaging articles.
- Anna Lynn M.
Yeah I obviously have some self authenticity problems myself as I still live at home at 26 and am unemployed.. Here's hoping we can all find ourselves at some point and live fulfilling lives. Thanks for the link Felicia ^_^.
- Mabase
prevail-whale: glad you all enjoyed the tribute to 1. Yiying Lu's beautiful original design, 2. Twitter's success today. Thanks to Steve Rubel et al. for the inspiration (success).
- John LeMasney
Not sure if birds are trying to pull FailWhale back into the water...
- Andrew Feinberg
One of the reasons I respect Steve. I get very tired of watching all the critics shout FAIL everytime someone tries to do something new and doesn't get it right the first time. It's much better to encourage those who take the risks that others won't.
- Ray Grieselhuber
I considered opening the eyes, but I thought that would play too much with the original illustration. The tweets are indeed trying to pull down the whale into the water, but the whale is prevailing against the strain. That whale is rising up, like a phoenix, or at least that's what I was trying to convey. ;) Thanks again to Steve for the inspiration.
- John LeMasney
w00t!!! Viva da Success Whale - long may he live!!! I'm a diehard Twitter fan - not going anywhere!! ;)
- Mari Smith
finally i can watch it again, my iTunes is on the blink so I can't watch my purchased copy
- robert steburg
Not only watch, now you can embed. And that includes being able to embed just certain user-defined clips, because Hulu allows for that in its code.
- The One True b!X
take my breath away - Berlin (top gun is on in the background). Just before that and for that past few days it's been the freeze ray song from Dr. Horrible. :)
- felix
I have the music from Dr. Horrible stuck in my head. "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do..."
- Dread Pirate PJ
from Alert Thingy
"It's a brand new day and the sun is high, the birds are singing that you're gonna die..." I haven't been able to stop singing the songs from Dr. Horrible since this weekend.
- Andrea
Satisfaction by Benny Benassi -- b/c it's playing on Pandora
- Cliff