Mark Allen

I am a designer and product manager in San Francisco, currently making things at MyFitnessPal. You can find me in other places such as Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, Foursquare, Instagram, GitHub, Goodreads, Flickr, LinkedIn, Rdio, Quora, Yelp and a bunch of things I’m probably forgetting.

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Realtime Map of Lightning Strikes

I had no idea lightning strikes could be detected so far away with just a $300 microcontroller-based kit. Would love to play with a full data dump of all lightening strikes over a long period of time.

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If we were sent back with a time machine, even 20 years, and reported to people what we have right now and describe what we were going to get in this device in our pocket—we’d have this free encyclopedia, and we’d have street maps to most of the cities of the world, and we’d have box scores in real time and stock quotes and weather reports, PDFs for every manual in the world—we’d make this very, very, very long list of things that we would say we would have and we get on this device in our pocket, and then we would tell them that most of this content was free. You would simply be declared insane. They would say there is no economic model to make this. What is the economics of this? It doesn’t make any sense, and it seems far-fetched and nearly impossible. But the next twenty years are going to make this last twenty years just pale. We’re just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There’s a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we’ll look back and say, “Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.”

Kevin Kelly

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2014’s Hot New Emoji

Apparently the Emojinati cabal that controls the world emoji supply found that to-do list they wrote in 1992 and are adding the following high-tech emoji this year:

Film Projector

Portable Stereo

White Touchtone Telephone

Black Touchtone Telephone

Telephone On Top Of Modem

Clamshell Mobile Phone

Pocket Calculator

Black Hard Shell Floppy Disk

White Hard Shell Floppy Disk

Soft Shell Floppy Disk

Tape Cartridge

Trackball

Old Personal Computer (not to be confused with the also-new Desktop Computer emoji)

Fax Icon

Optical Disc Icon

Full list at Emojipedia (via Brian)

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Body Shapes : A Handy Guide

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Sutro from the previously undiscovered (by me) Grand View Park (at Grand View Park)

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It’s ok, I’m a professional.

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Demand is off the charts! Rates have increased.

4x the normal cost between 12:00 pm and 1:30 pm at Chipotle. Expect a burrito to be between $28 and $40.

3x the normal cost between 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm at Regal Cinemas. Tickets will be $39 for adults, $30 for children.

8x the normal cost between…

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Posters for the movies from Seinfeld.

I love these so much more than I should. I can’t believe it took until August of 2013 for to make this happen. Based on posters alone I would see Check Mate, Prognosis Negative, Death Blow, and Rochelle Rochelle (obviously).

Cry, Cry Again is obviously Oscar bait, and Chunnel looks like garbage. I bet the converted it to 3D in post.

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Martin Heuwold lego bridge (Germany)