The Tuesday Ten: 2012

A look back at the first year of The Tuesday Ten, a weekly cultural cache curated by Rosie Siman (that strategist with the pink hair, who works at 360i.)

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12.18.12 / 50th Edition [The Best of 2012: Trends, Recaps, Mashups & Lists]

12.11.12 / 49th Edition [Twinter Wonderland, Death by Algorithm, Anonymous Compliments & more] 

12.4.12 / 48th Edition [The Gift List + A Chance to Win Rosie’s Favorite Things]

11.27.12 / 47th Edition [Obama’s Tech Team, Netflix for Nails, The Rule of Reciprocation & more]

11.20.12 / 46th Edition [Prototyping on Paper, Placebos, Everything You Need to Know About Content Marketing & more]

11.13.12 / 45th Edition with Guest Curator @Faris [GIF is the word of the Year, Microsoft Builds a Babel Fish, The $20 Tablet & more]

11.6.12 / 44th Edition [The Plot to Destroy America’s Beer, Politics of Disgust, Typing Karaoke & more]

10.30.12 / 43rd Edition [Narquitectura, Making Reporting Prettier, Take A Stab at Stabilizing Our Debt & more]

10.23.12 / 42nd Edition [Self-Destructing Pictures, The Universe in a Nutshell, How Much Google & Facebook Are Making Off Your Privacy Settings & more]

10.16.2012 / 41st Edition [DIY Infographics, What Nike’s Fuelband Could Be, Why Gay Men Still Can’t Donate Blood & more]

10.9.2012 / 40th Edition [#FirstWorldProblems, The Best Unapproved Election Ads, Why Cyclists Are Hated & more]

10.2.1012 / 39th Edition [A Short Lesson in Perspective, Saving the Rainforest, Confronting Trolls & more]

9.25.2012 / 38th Edition [The New MySpace, How to Negotiate, Turn Your Fingers Into A Phone & more]

9.18.2012 / 37th Edition with Guest Curator Colin Dunlop [Old Media Gets ‘Balls,’ Google’s Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Marissa Mayer hating on Blackberry & more]

9.11.2012 / 36th Edition [Gangnam Style Dissected, Fat Ties Made Skinny, Heat Proof Paint & more]

9.4.2012 / 35th Edition [100 Twitter Accounts to Follow, A Critic’s Manifesto, Responsive Design & more]

8.28.2012 / 34th Edition [SXSW, The Future of TV, Your Face on Drugs & more]

8.21.2012 / 33rd Edition [Social Media’s Black Market. Copyright Wars, The Future of Storytelling & more]

8.14.2012 / 32nd Edition [Wikipedia Redefined, Small Batch Spirits, ToS;DR & more]

8.7.2012 / 31st Edition [NASA’s Mohawk Guy, Regrets as Street Art, Chicken Offsets & more]

7.30.2012 / 30th Edition [The Future of Technology, The New Hotmail, Jason Alexander’s Amazing Gun Rant & more]

7.24.2012 / 29th Edition [A Manifesto for Free Radicals, The Cost of Being Born Female, America’s Space Station Under the Sea & more]

7.17.2012 / 28th Edition [The Accuracy of Jay-Z’s ‘99 Problems,’ Original Logos of Tech Companies, The Non-Nerds Guide to the God Particle & more]

7.10.2012 / 27th Edition [Smart Plugs, Fast Food to Avoid (According to Fast Food Workers), Athletes Getting Naked & more]

7.3.2012 / 26th Edition [Split2Fit Shorts, Truth or Dare in NYC, Pizza Vending Machines & more]

6.26.2012 / 25th Edition [Why Nigerian Scammers Claim to be From Nigeria, The Slow Web, A Post-It Note Desk & more]

6.19.2012 / 24th Edition [Split2Fit Shorts, Truth or Dare in NYC, Pizza Vending Machines & more]

6.12.2012 / 23rd Edition [Museum of Endangerd Sounds, A New Generation of Homemakers, Tat-Twos & more]

6.5.2012 / 22nd Edition [The Culture of Reddit, America’s Most Innovative Neighborhood, Banksy IRL & more]

5.29.2012 / 21st Edition [To-Don’t Lists, Words to Avoid if You Don’t Want the Goverment Spying on You, The New Bit.ly & more]

5.22.2012 / 20th Edition [Refer.ly, Non-Stick Condiment Bottles, The Most Culturally Relevant Business Card & more]

5.15.2012 / 19th Edition [DIY Infographics, Lucid Dreaming, Tales from Tumblr’s Dashboard & more]

5.8.2012 / 18th Edition [Rise of the Brogrammers, Kickstarter of Doom, Livehoods & more]

5.1.2012 / 17th Edition [The Creative Monopoly, Why Comments Are Bad Business, Lost Vegas, The Most Brilliantly Pointless Flyers & more]

4.24.2012 / 16th Edition [Tools to Make Your Life More Awesome]

4.17.2012 / 15th Edition [Instagram’s Rose-Tinted Ride to Glory, Frozen Beer Foam, Why Airport Security is Borken & more]

4.10.2012 / 14th Edition [Why Copying Isn’t Theft, Activity Streams vs. Email, Your Price Guide for Everything & more]

4.3.2012 / 13th Edition with Guest Curator Elizabeth Elmore [Why Lists Homogenize Society, April Fool’s & Southern Belles + Keg Buckets]

3.27.2012 / 12th Edition [Are Jobs Obsolete, Why Apple is Crushing Google, A Case for Culture over Content, Touch-Enabled Wall Paint & more]

3.20.2012 / 11th Edition [Hipster Branding, Red Bull’s Mission to the Edge of Space, The Birth of Animated GIFS, Sparrow for the iPhone & more]

3.13.2012 / 10th Edition [Stop Kony 2012, Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas, The Most Insane Letter Ever Written by a Child to a TV Weatherman & more]

3.6.2012 / 9th Edition [Flawsomeness, Creative Business Cards, How to be Lucky, Why TV is Broken & more]

2.28.2012 / 8th Edition [Adolescent CEOs, Kitchensurfing, Spray-on Antennas, the Myth of 8-hour sleep & more]

2.21.2012 / 7th Edition [Danny McBride, Return of the Jedi, Resumes on Pinterest, How Companies Learn Your Secrets & more]

2.14.2012 / 6th Edition [Lovestagram, Myth of the Algorithm, Future Hipsters, Happiness & more]

2.7.2012 / 5th Edition [Context Is King, How To Be Black, The Internet’s Identity Crisis, One’s A Crowd & more]

1.31.2012 / 4th Edition [Teenage Weirdness, Suri’s Burn Book, Star Wars Uncut, 5 Signs of Great UX & more]

1.24.2012 / 3rd Edition [Pirates, Behavioral Pricing, Binder Clips, A Case for No More Overtime & more]

1.17.2012 / 2nd Edition [Why Google’s “Social Search” Isn’t Very Social, Originality is a Myth, Generation Flux, Ten 100-year Predictions That Came True & more]

1.11.2012 / 1st Edition [Learn to Code, Why SOPA is a Really, Really Bad Idea, 20 New Year’s Resolutions for 20-somethings & more]

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Taste Savant: Find the place for your next date.  I’ve been looking for social review sites like this for a while. I know everyone except for me has been into Yelp for years. But I feel like Yelp is full of crazies. I tried to get into it, but I just can’t trust crazies for reviews. Plus, most restaurants have so many mixed reviews that I end up feeling just as undecided as when I went to Yelp to begin with. Which is why I’m excited about Taste Savant. You sign up, fill out your profile and get curated reviews from trusted sources. You can even filter based on neighborhood, cost or occasion. It’s only in NYC for now, but I’d imagine it will be coming to other cities soon. High-res

Taste Savant: Find the place for your next date. 

I’ve been looking for social review sites like this for a while. I know everyone except for me has been into Yelp for years. But I feel like Yelp is full of crazies. I tried to get into it, but I just can’t trust crazies for reviews. Plus, most restaurants have so many mixed reviews that I end up feeling just as undecided as when I went to Yelp to begin with. Which is why I’m excited about Taste Savant. You sign up, fill out your profile and get curated reviews from trusted sources. You can even filter based on neighborhood, cost or occasion. It’s only in NYC for now, but I’d imagine it will be coming to other cities soon.

The curiosity landing already has a meme: NASA’s ‘mohawk guy.’ The dude with the awesome hair was Bobak Ferdowsi, in case you hadn’t heard already. Apparently for big missions, he gets a new hairdo - this one voted on by the rest of his team. “The hairdo, its empiric awesomeness aside, was also a visual symbol of the humanity at the core of NASA’s achievements… Ferdowsi’s mohawk served as a reminder of the individual people — the quirky people — who make all that progress possible,” writes Megan Garber for The Atlantic. High-res

The curiosity landing already has a meme: NASA’s ‘mohawk guy.’

The dude with the awesome hair was Bobak Ferdowsi, in case you hadn’t heard already. Apparently for big missions, he gets a new hairdo - this one voted on by the rest of his team. “The hairdo, its empiric awesomeness aside, was also a visual symbol of the humanity at the core of NASA’s achievements… Ferdowsi’s mohawk served as a reminder of the individual people — the quirky people — who make all that progress possible,” writes Megan Garber for The Atlantic.

Source The Atlantic

You are (probably) wrong about you. Think you know yourself better than anyone else? Heidi Grant Halvorson throws that theory out of the window in her latest post for Harvard Business Review. And I have to admit, I tend to agree. So many of our decisions are made on a subconscious level that it’s often hard for us to decipher why something went well or why it didn’t - and why other people are often better at describing us than we are. After writing Nine Things Successful People Do Differently (originally a blog post), she’s now following up with a diagnostic which tells you which of the Nine Things you may need to work on. As she says herself, it’s not about taking her online diagnostic, but instead understanding that we all need feedback. High-res

You are (probably) wrong about you.

Think you know yourself better than anyone else? Heidi Grant Halvorson throws that theory out of the window in her latest post for Harvard Business Review. And I have to admit, I tend to agree. So many of our decisions are made on a subconscious level that it’s often hard for us to decipher why something went well or why it didn’t - and why other people are often better at describing us than we are. After writing Nine Things Successful People Do Differently (originally a blog post), she’s now following up with a diagnostic which tells you which of the Nine Things you may need to work on. As she says herself, it’s not about taking her online diagnostic, but instead understanding that we all need feedback.

Regrets as street art.  Started earlier this year, the artist behind the Regret Project takes peoples regrets and turns them into pieces of art around NYC. It feels like a bit like Frank Warren’s project, Post Secret, in that the regrets are often intimate and anonymous. So why regrets? Says the artist, “My hope is that getting our regrets out into the open (albeit anonymously) will be a cathartic experience and might strike a few individuals that come across them. Perhaps they will even act in a way that better represents the people they wish to be.”  High-res

Regret ProjectReblogged from Regret Project

Regrets as street art. 

Started earlier this year, the artist behind the Regret Project takes peoples regrets and turns them into pieces of art around NYC. It feels like a bit like Frank Warren’s project, Post Secret, in that the regrets are often intimate and anonymous. So why regrets? Says the artist, “My hope is that getting our regrets out into the open (albeit anonymously) will be a cathartic experience and might strike a few individuals that come across them. Perhaps they will even act in a way that better represents the people they wish to be.” 

(via rosiesiman)

Source regretproject

The Chick-Fil-A Confessional: A way to atone for your sandwich sins. I know, I know - Two weeks in a row I’ve managed to get Chick-Fil-A into The Tuesday Ten. [If we had Nando’s in the US, I wouldn’t care nearly as much.] So if you, too, were feeling bad about your Chick-Fil-A habits last week, this one’s for you. After selecting what you ate at Chick Fil A, you can “right your lightly breaded wrong” by agreeing to a penance, like donating to a LGBT organization. Thanks to Ramzi for sharing this gem with me. High-res

The Chick-Fil-A Confessional: A way to atone for your sandwich sins.

I know, I know - Two weeks in a row I’ve managed to get Chick-Fil-A into The Tuesday Ten. [If we had Nando’s in the US, I wouldn’t care nearly as much.] So if you, too, were feeling bad about your Chick-Fil-A habits last week, this one’s for you. After selecting what you ate at Chick Fil A, you can “right your lightly breaded wrong” by agreeing to a penance, like donating to a LGBT organization. Thanks to Ramzi for sharing this gem with me.

united we fail: we all hit play.

united we failReblogged from united we fail

Don’t push my buttons: A-Trak on the new DJ culture. 

A-Trak challenges those “DJs” who just hit play on a CD set and asks, “In today’s context, wouldn’t it be fair to say that the holy grail is a live performance that has the flexibility to integrate true improvisation? That is the ultimate win-win.” Interesting commentary from an artist who is very much a part of the community.

(He also cites this post from Deadmau5)

deadmau5:

its no secret. when it comes to “live” performance of EDM… that’s about the most it seems you can do anyway. It’s not about performance art, its not about talent either (really its not) In fact, let me do you and the rest of the EDM world button pushers who fuckin hate me for telling you how it…

A sure trick to hiring the most qualified candidates. Hiring new people can be an incredibly difficult task, no matter what industry you’re in. Resumes are only words on paper and a 2011 study showed that 1 in 4 people lie on their resume (I’m looking at you, former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson.) Smarterer lets you choose from hundreds of topics to create a test for candidates - helping you weed out the ones who really don’t know what they’re talking about. I love this idea and can’t wait to try it out.  High-res

A sure trick to hiring the most qualified candidates.

Hiring new people can be an incredibly difficult task, no matter what industry you’re in. Resumes are only words on paper and a 2011 study showed that 1 in 4 people lie on their resume (I’m looking at you, former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson.) Smarterer lets you choose from hundreds of topics to create a test for candidates - helping you weed out the ones who really don’t know what they’re talking about. I love this idea and can’t wait to try it out.