mikecosentino.com is a collection of things that I, Mike Cosentino, find interesting on the internet, along with photos that I've taken, videos I've filmed and posts that I've made on twitter.
Cool motion graphics opener for the Fifa 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
(that I’m kind of gutted I’ll be missing)Animaton by Dirk Rauscher - http://behance.net/koerk
Busting an iPhone thief
The whole thing started when my plane landed in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon at 2:55pm coming from Cabo San Lucas. The guy sitting next to me on the plane asked me to loan him a pen so that he could fill out his customs form. I watched him fill out the form and clearly remember his birth year of 1984, but am a bit unsure about his name. I think it was ——-, but in this story, we will refer to him as Pinche.
Brilliant post about a guy whose iPhone is stolen, how he tracks it down and, finally, how he gets it back using websites and MobileMe’s iPhone tracking.
“ Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple’s new tablet computer. ”
The Four Big Myths of Profile Pictures
In looking closely at the astonishingly wide variety of ways our users have chosen to represent themselves, we discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong.
OkCupid.com analyzed over 7,000 user profile photos to find out which types of profile photos — cleavage, “The MySpace Angle”, abs — help or hurt a person’s chance of being contacted.
The results are very interesting.
“ If Apple doesn’t plan to announce their rumored Tablet at the event, our first tipoff will be the protective floor-to-ceiling wall of chicken wire that’s been erected between the stage and the audience. ”
Two weeks away from work has strange side-effects.
- Esme:
- I've forgotten how to type.
- Me:
- I've forgotten how to do my job.
- Me:
- I sat here for about ten minutes this morning trying to remember what I do in the morning.
I have been in Cape Town, South Africa for the past two weeks and while I was there I setup my camera and shot this time lapse over the Fish Hoek valley.
My camera took one photo every minute from 2pm until 8am the following day.
“ It has also increased the possibility that it will one day be possible to reproduce long-dead species such as woolly mammoths and even dinosaurs. ”
Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning - Telegraph
Bring on the dinosaurs.
“ Yes, this is correct the phone is not offered to you because New York is not ready for the iPhone. ”
AT&T Customer Service: “New York City Is Not Ready For The iPhone” - The Consumerist
I find it amazing that AT&T is getting millions of dollars a year from the iPhone and yet they still manage to mess it up.
