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Angry Birds Project Management, by Michal Migurski

1. The object of the game is to hit the pig with the bird.
2. Bird over the pig means the project is at risk of losing money.
3. Bird past the pig means it’s at risk of being late.

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The source is on github.

Mixels go to Colorado (and everywhere)

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Paul Soulellis writes:

I’m addicted to Khoi Vinh‘s new social collage-making app, Mixel. This is one of a small handful of apps that gives my iPad its reason for being — always on and I don’t even have to think about using it. Something that just lets me use my finger to cut up images and push pixels around feels so natural, but it’s also unlike any creative tool I’ve ever used. It’s intuitive and easy and dream-like; they’re ripe for interpretation.

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Paul is going through the process of preparing a few of his mixels (he has many great ones - a self-curated set is available on flickr) for a photography exhibit in Colorado, focused on "digital works made with mobile devices."

One thing I love about Mixel is that the experience of sourcing pieces for and creating Mixels takes place entirely on the iPad. Other acclaimed "creator" apps, such as Apple's Garage Band or Autodesk's Sketchbook are also iPad native, but they approximate off-iPad experiences, such as the guitar or the watercolors. Mixel skips the pretensions of emulating the physical world and wholly embraces the iPad; you don't use fake scissors & a fake glue stick to assemble the collages, you use your finger and the standard metaphors of iPad interaction - swipe, touch and hold. When an app feels as natural as Mixel, it's easy to take for granted how much work went into paring away all of the metaphors and inclinations that would get in the way of the experience.

More mixels are available! Here's my favorite mixels (my tumblr is mostly mixels), Mixels curated by Ariel Aberg-Riger, Able Parris' blog, a Christmas Card, Kim Jong-Il, and my own Christopher Hitchens tribute. I love Mixel!

On moving to the Upper West Side:

"I live downtown, but when I first got to the show, I didn't know anything about New York. I asked a friend where I should live, and he was like, 'live on the Upper West Side.' So I just got an apartment there, and it was nice, very quiet. But I was going downtown more and realized that's where I was meant to be.'

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Kristen Wiig actually lived down the hall from Adriana and I (we were apartment C6, she was C3). Once she left her keys in the door. I knocked to let her know and she was like "what?" (there was a party going on in her apartment! Who was there??), but then she was very grateful. She had a lot of keys, maybe a hundred keys. Also, that building was not quiet - it was filled with Columbia students. Adriana and I were actually pretty miserable there.

I bring this up fairly often. Consider this blog post the official retirement of the story about Kristen Wiig living down the hall.

The NBA is back.

"Timing is everything. Chemistry is something that you don't just throw in the frying pan and mix it up with another something, then throw it on top of something, then fry it up and put it in a tortilla and put in a microwave, heat it up and give it to you and expect it to taste good. You know? For those of you who can cook, y'all know what I'm talking about. If y'all can't cook, this doesn't concern you."

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Kevin Garnett has taken a page out of the David Jacobs playbook.

"What we've found is that our front-page traffic is growing really fast but the reason people are coming is changing," Peretti told me. "They come to see what's the zeitgeist … but increasingly they're coming for something to share. They come to the site looking for things their friends will like. They aren't coming to consume content they are coming to share content."

It's an important and subtle point he's making. Many web editors think of sharing as the natural behavior of a reader who is so moved or entertained or angered or intrigued by a piece of content that their enthusiasm bubbles over into a tweet, a Facebook post, an email to a group of friends or coworkers.

But sharing has become such a function of everyday life for so many that in fact readers are acting like producers. They have to keep their feeds alive, they have to keep their friends engaged, to talk to them about the world, which is being experienced so universally through the medium of the web. In other words, BuzzFeed went from being a document of what's being shared on the web to a sort of wire service for citizen publishers with a network they want to keep engaged. BuzzFeed goes from being a chronicler of what's being shared to an arbiter. And in that there is an opportunity to place real reporting on top of an incredibly powerful platform.

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This article is full of smart ideas from friend of Hello, TypePad Jonah Peretti about Buzzfeed's evolving focus.

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tickling the otter

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I love the last second, when the otter says "stop! But not really!" with its right paw. That's what human babies do too.

?uestlove Talks Michele Bachmann Fiasco, D'Angelo

And as for that forever-awaited follow-up to Voodoo, ?uestlove says it's "97% done" and that it's "the black version of [The Beach Boys'] Smile."

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So it's going to be the most overrated black album of all time? Bummer.

David Foster Wallace Playing Tennis

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