Evolution of a homepage from 37signals on Vimeo.

Facebook now autosuggests that friends Tag you in photos based on facial recognition. Sketchy. Duck that camera when you have a beer in your hand. Now it isn’t just your boss that could find it… Facebook already knows it is you!

From Lifehacker:

1. Head your Privacy Settings and click on Customize Settings.
2. Scroll down to the “Suggest Photos of Me to Friends” setting and hit “Edit Settings”.
3. In the drop-down on the right, hit “Disable”.

Innovation
noun
The action or process of innovating.
• a new method, idea, product, etc.

This menu bar is from Businessweek.com

The action of creating new things has become a topic for the mainstream. This says great things about our culture. It is, after all, what humans do best. We innovate, adapt, and create. We create tools to help us master our environment, we create tools to help us better connect with other humans, and we create tools that allow us to live better lives.

However – it seems like the topic is still too new for companies like Bloomburg to understand what it can be. It seems like they are using it as a sort of “soft tech” category:

This is a waste, and cheapens the idea of what innovation is. From Wikipedia:

In many fields, such as the arts, economics and government policy, something better must be substantially different to be innovative. In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. Innovation and the introduction of it that leads to increased productivity is a fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.^[2]

And

Schumpeter c.s. (~1930) states that “innovation changes the values onto which the system is based“. When people change their value system, the old(economic) system will change to make room for the better one. When that happens innovation has occurred. Innovation can be seen as something that does, not something that is.

North GA has some amazing roads for sport driving. I am looking forward to getting back up there before it gets incredibly hot here this summer.

From Dahlonega to Clayton

The Tail of the Dragon, starting in Deal’s Gap, NC.

This hits home as someone who simply stopped taking ADHD medicine in high school and never looked back.

Simply find something that interests you, then get really good at it.

Chances are you will not find this thing in school.

RedBox gives you a great incentive to confirm your email (which is not needed to use the service).

This builds their database, allows them to send you marketing, deals, and to track your rental history to suggest movies you may like.

The coupon is for $1. The cost of a one night rental. I have to drive to the store again, and still go through the rig-a-ma-roll of getting the movie from the box.

One of the benefits of “products as a service” is that it comes to me, on demand, when I want it. Netflix still wins here because I don’t have to get in my car.

Red Hook ESP has been something of a family tradition – My grandfather loved them, and by default, my brother and I enjoy them from time to time. We still find bottles from years ago tucked away in the cabinets of our mountain cabin.

They have just updated their bottles and brand image – Do you like it? I need to see them on the shelf and hold a bottle before I decide if I approve.

I think they made a mistake losing the yellow that has been part of their image for so long.

Original post (http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/redhook_line_and_sinker.php)

Ebay could stand to give its homepage images a once over before publishing them. The compression in this is pretty bad.

The difference between a glossy, professional image and a thrown together artifact filled image can make or break an initial impression.

(Artifacts are the little jagged areas you can see around the text in this image – they occur when compression is done poorly.)

Google’s last update to Chrome changed many things, one of them being the “Inspector” functionality.

Before, when editing css in the inspector window, Chrome would autocomplete the property, but not the value. Also, use of the TAB key to selected the auto completed element was not enabled. You had to use the left arrow key.

Now, just like in firebug for FireFox, Chrome autocompletes both property and value, allowing for the TAB key to toggle a correct entry. Speeds up my in browser manipulations quite a bit!