A curtmerrill.com blogTumblr (3.0; @curtmerrill)http://north.curtmerrill.com/<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_d6KuiuteIA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>“Minority Report” is here.</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/23674849571http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/23674849571Thu, 24 May 2012 12:01:18 -0400<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/TUdKz4Iglc4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><blockquote><p>Thirty-five.</p></blockquote> <p>Happy Birthday, big brother!</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/23233761641http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/23233761641Thu, 17 May 2012 12:41:07 -0400<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/health/coffee-drinking-longer-life/index.html">Coffee drinking linked to longer life</a>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/23184173453http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/23184173453Wed, 16 May 2012 17:23:58 -0400“I’m betting £10k that I can build a portfolio of products which is profitable enough to live off before running out of money.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://bootstrapchallenge.com/">The £10k bootstrap challenge</a></em>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/23170213576http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/23170213576Wed, 16 May 2012 12:46:13 -0400<a href="http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/006198.php">ShopBot</a>: <p>I don’t have a particular use in mind, and probably wouldn’t use it often enough to be worth the price. But I still want one.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://www.kk.org/cooltools/">Cool Tools</a>)</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21914306262http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21914306262Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:16:54 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m353twL8sr1qzc6qso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The <a href="http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/">Descriptive Camera</a> prints out a description of the photo you just took.</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21910600646http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21910600646Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:22:44 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33g5v2foc1qzc6qso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Inside a website using Firefox’s 3D view. (right click > inspect element, select “3D”)</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21851452663http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21851452663Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:53:55 -0400“In some small way, as my life leaks out of me, I will know this is a little bit my fault. I should have bought Medium. Buying the Hot salsa was just trying to be macho in front of my Dad.”<br/><br/> - <em>KmikeyM</em>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21456854297http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21456854297Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:44:01 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2qyby9uzQ1qzc6qso1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Do you know anyone who hates you?”</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21399519567http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/21399519567Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:57:34 -0400“Data isn’t worth much to collect, unless something meaningful and useful can be done with it.”<br/><br/> - <em>“<a href="https://trends.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/ships-and-tools/">Ships and Tools</a>”</em>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/20966360319http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/20966360319Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:27:28 -0400<p><a href="http://kmikeym.tumblr.com/post/20912481115/this-is-an-e-mail-lottery" class="tumblr_blog">kmikeym</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>One person a day wins a chance to write to the growing list of subscribers. <a href="http://thelistserve.com/">The Listserve</a>.</p></blockquote>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/20915474221http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/20915474221Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:22:44 -0400<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WmhvdtX72eQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/20915338702http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/20915338702Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:19:59 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1likbLR8g1qzc6qso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>VIP</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/20060376651http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/20060376651Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:55:23 -0400“<p>His goal is to sleep at night, comfortable that he has made choices compatible with his personal beliefs and that he has given other people the freedom to make choices compatible with their own personal beliefs.</p> <p>I can think of no greater definition of freedom.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>“<a href="http://raganwald.posterous.com/the-freedom-to-drink-coffee">The freedom to drink coffee</a>”, by Reginald Braithwaite</em>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/19305996821http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/19305996821Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:13:44 -0400“The phrase “Wild Card Champion”, which I have seen, is vomit-inducing.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/joe_sheehan/02/29/wild.card/index.html">Joe Sheehan, Sports Illustrated</a></p> <p>(The Braves have a “wild card champion” sign. It’s embarrassing.)</p></em>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/18605995882http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/18605995882Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:24:50 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m05ph8mgpS1qzc6qso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://infovore.org/archives/2012/02/26/a-year-of-links/">Infovore</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I thought it would be interesting to produce a kind of personal encylopedia: each volume cataloguing the links for a whole year. Given I first used Delicious in 2004, that makes for eight books to date.</p> </blockquote>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/18492903425http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/18492903425Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:29:31 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzg4rwy6EK1qzc6qso1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>For <a href="http://kmikeym.com">KmikeyM’s</a> benefit.</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/17663544251http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/17663544251Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:02:20 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzbep27teK1qzbok1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://feltron.tumblr.com/post/17537139903/afrasia-watershed" class="tumblr_blog">feltron</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Afrasia Watershed</p></blockquote> <p>This makes my brain hurt. In a good way.</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/17560789312http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/17560789312Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:13:41 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3b4lCycH1qzc6qso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/DOUBLE-EXPOSURE-PORTRAITS/863461">Double Exposure Portraits</a> (via <a href="http://www.subtraction.com/2012/02/08/double-exposure">Subtraction.com</a>)</p>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/17274524408http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/17274524408Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:50:45 -0500“Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html">Letter from emancipated slave Jourdan Anderson to his former master</a> (via Letters of Note)</em>http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/16866419229http://north.curtmerrill.com/post/16866419229Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:56:51 -0500