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You might not know The Doctor, but just in case a blue box arrives in your yard someday, you can learn to write his language so you’re prepared. Loren Sherman created this chart that shows how you can write her version of Gallifreyan in just nine “easy” steps. If you’re looking for a an official translation, well, that could be a bit trickier since there isn’t one—but who cares? Being able to write Gallifreyan is still brilliant!

Check out the guide after the break.

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One of the most depressing things in the world: having a beer without a bottle opener. The carbonated deliciousness is looking at you through the glass, teasing you, popping your tastebuds. But of course, you don’t need a bottle opener to open a beer. With the right amount of leverage, anything can open a bottle [...]

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Clothing retailers don’t have it easy. It’s very hard to keep up with what’s in style. And what’s in style now? Fracking! Which means flame-retardant clothing for when shit gets out of hand.

Last year in the United States, sales of flame-retardant clothing rose from $1.5 billion to $1.6 billion. By 2017, sales for protective clothing are expected to reach $2.3 billion. To this end, companies like Carhartt and Cabela’s are sending people out into the field to check out what’s new in the world of flame-retardant clothes. They’re looking to make stuff that’s hard to set on fire, but also, well, cute. Which is to say that although the motivation is safety, workers also want clothing that they can perhaps wear outside of the job site. So manufacturers are looking to make clothing that does the job but is lighter and cooler than the usual flame-retardant clothing.

The reason for this fashion trend? An abundance of fires, not just at fracking sites but at drilling sites and refineries. It’s a hazardous world, and you can’t just wear a T-shirt and jeans to work at a place where there’s stuff that catches on fire. I suppose you could move the country towards a less mortally dangerous fuel source, but I dunno, that sounds hard.

Now, of course, just as America started wearing Levi’s even though they were originally made for gold miners, will we start wearing flame-retardant clothing just for fun? Will we wear it, like, to clubs and stuff? Not only am I betting yes, I am betting that Chris Brown will tweet about his flame-retardant jeans before the end of 2014. Anyone willing to take that bet?

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New French press design uses raw materials from the US and offers a lifetime guarantee.

The TrackingPoint rifle uses a built-in computers to make an accurate shot and only fires when it is pointed in the right place.

What does SEO look like when tailored to a Spanish-speaking audience? Here’s a hint: it’s not about a direct translation of keywords. Basic literary translation theory says that good translations move beyond issues of “letter” (that is, a literal word-for-word trot) into the “spirit” of the language.

Social marketing scientist Dan Zarella just released data that shows how including exclamation points in your tweets earn more syndication (Retweets) but less clicks.

Even though Portland missed out on the Playoffs this year, Damian Lillard was unanimously named "Rookie of the Year" for his efforts in an impressive and promising season. Accordingly, adidas has created a special edition "Rookie of the Year" version of the Real Deal sneaker for the young player. The silhouette, originally introduced in the 1990's, is executed in colors commemorating each stop on Lillard's ascent to success. The release, limited to 510 pairs, also features an ode to Lillard's neighborhood in Oakland, his high school mascot, and other hidden features. Pick up this exclusive release at Portland's Compound or Oakland's Shoe Palace on May 23 for $120 USD. Damian will also make an appearance at Compound on the release date between 6:00 and 7:00 PST.

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It's Black Friday at The Village Voice:The planned layoffs at the Village Voice, which caused its brand-new editor-in-chief and deputy to quit in protest, went down this morning regardless, Gawker reports, and included legendary gossip columnist Michael Musto and veteran theater critic Michael Feingold, both of whom had already filed forthcoming pieces for the paper. Food critic Robert Sietsema was also let go. "So many people have come out to offer their love (and opportunities)," Musto told Hamilton Nolan. "My brand will be feistier than ever." We don't doubt it. The Voice, on the other hand ... - [Intelligencer]Michael Musto had been with the iconic NYC alt-weekly since 1984. Also leaving, The Voice from its longtime Cooper Sq. offices.

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Skream with a disco mix to help us get the weekend started just the right way.

“Here’s a new disco mix I did before I left for Asia….Share,Upload do what ya want with it..”

The fast food chain has come up with a creative new way to encourage people to get take out.

Being a commercial airline pilot isn’t as glamorous as Leonardo di Caprio would have you believe; in practice, it’s more akin to long haul trucking than aerial acrobatics. So rather than force a human pilot to endure the monotony of maintaining course, a European research consortium wants to replace them entirely — with software. The [...]

A recent study shows Twitter outperforms LinkedIn and Facebook 9 to 1 for lead generation. For B2B marketers, that's a big deal. Here's a quick guide on getting the most out of your Twitter for lead gen campaign.

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Matthew

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Madrid Spain

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What I Love About My Small Home:

Its wonderful location and eccentric character. We moved from LA to the Malasaña neighborhood of Madrid a year ago, and this was the second apartment we saw. The minute we ducked through the narrow Frank Lloyd Wright-style entryway, and were greeted by the high slanted ceilings and dark wooden beams of an oddly converted L-shaped attic, we knew we were home. It’s a hundred-year-old building without a single right angle, with a series of floating platforms dividing the space, a little wood-burning stove for heat, and the bath tucked directly alongside the bed. We’d never seen anything like it.

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As our recent report “Travel: Changing Course” outlines, hospitality brands are increasingly using customer data to offer hyper-personalized service. While most consumers will prefer to be treated as individuals more than demographic segments, as personalized marketing gets more finely tuned, they will also take time to adjust to the idea that brands know a great deal about their lives and can predict their needs. Our research found that consumers are currently of two minds about brands analyzing their personal data in order to customize offerings: a little freaked out by the idea but also ready to reap the benefits.

Close to two-thirds of respondents said they feel discomfited by the idea of brands tracking and analyzing their data, saying it makes them anxious and that it feels as if Big Brother is watching. Half of respondents go so far as to say it makes them feel violated. (We surveyed 1,016 adults in the U.K. and U.S. using SONAR, JWT’s proprietary online tool.) On the other hand, consumers are open to personal data collection if there’s a clear benefit, and especially if it directly affects their wallet.

Transparency will become increasingly important for companies that leverage consumer data—they will need to explain what information they collect and why, assure consumers they’re to be trusted with the data and demonstrate how customers benefit.

Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry – Bob Dana was the former employee No. 1 and first CFO of Virgin America. He once wrote the business plan and feasibility study for Sir Richard Branson in 2003. And now he’s doing a travel startup.

Dana tells us the inspiration for Tripshare was based on a personal experience he had years ago. As CFO, he spent 10 hours on a plane each week flying back and forth from New York to California. In 2006, Dana was trying to convince his family to come out to California for a vacation, so he put together a proposed itinerary to help sell the idea.

“I ended up preparing this 10-page Word document that included text and photos I cut and pasted from various websites. It was intended to be persuasive in nature, and collaborative, too,” he explains. “I thought afterwards, that collaborative travel planning was something that was rather difficult to do.”

But not only was it difficult to plan, it was also hard to move from the point of inspiration and discovery to actually booking the trip. This idea later formed the basis for Tripshare, which he founded two years ago.

The app was originally built in conjunction with then co-founder and CTO Ken Goto, a former director of engineering at Apple. Goto has since moved on but his ex-Apple development team, including acting CTO Eric Kapke, now continues the work.

The app itself has actually been live in the iTunes App Store as unpublicized beta since August 2012. However, though that app was functionally similar, it drew some criticisms from early users because of its user interface. Today’s version is an overhaul and much improved.

Still, despite having done no publicity or marketing, Tripshare has been downloaded nearly 20,000 times while still a work in progress. In other words, today’s release is technically a version 2.0, but for all intents and purposes, this is the big debut.

Designed for those planning vacations or other complex trips with multiple destinations or activities, Tripshare allows you to browse, collect and share information with others before booking. Using the iPad’s big screen, you can flip through photos of destinations and lodgings, create itineraries and discover flights, hotels, restaurants, activities and more.

Today, the app allows you to explore more than 20,000 cities worldwide, plus 500,000+ lodging options, thousands of flights, and more than 200,000 tours, activities and restaurants.

After creating a sample itinerary, you can then share it to other Tripshare iPad users, or via email, Facebook, and Twitter. For those not using the iPad application, the shared trip displays in the web browser. These trips can include all the details, too – photos, descriptions, reviews and prices – so your family and/or friends won’t have to redo the work on their end before giving you their feedback. Pricing and availability also update in real time, something another new planning app, Pintrips, offers as well, but on the web.

Users can also communicate with the trip organizer within the application using an IM-like chatting function, or leave suggestions if the trip’s planner is offline.

While there are quite a few trip planning applications and services on the market (and that’s an understatement ) what makes Tripshare stand out is not the uniqueness of the idea, but the overall package. The app’s user interface is easy to use, which is critical when planning complicated trips where you’re trying to pack in a lot of activities and outings.

At first glance, Tripshare seems inspired by Khosla-backed social travel app Jetpac, which uses smart technology to index photos from social networks, allowing you to see where friends have traveled in order to find inspiration for trip-planning purposes. It has the same general layout, and it shares some common features, such as the idea of making a list of places you want to go.

But Tripshare’s photos don’t come from Facebook. They’re high-resolution images from its travel partners, including HomeAway, Fly.com, the Expedia Affiliate Network, and Viator.com. Plus, the overall vision for the application is not one of just inspiration, but converting that inspiration into an actionable itinerary by actually allowing you to book the trip, including the flights, hotels, outings and more, directly in the app.

Dana says the company plans to integrate content from more travel aggregators and services into the app in time, including things like vacation rentals from Flipkey, car rentals, restaurant reservations, cruises, safaris, and even travel insurance. By year end, the plan is to have many of these live, as well as an iPhone-optimized application. Afterwards, the goal will be to further build up the social community.

Tripshare is backed by $1.47 million in angel funding; some of that is founder money, and the other part comes mainly from the New York angels community, including David S. Rose.

The app itself is free to users, as it will earn revenue via a percentage of the bookings users make. Tripshare is live here on iTunes.

Tripshare, an iPad application for travel planning, is joining a crowded space. But its CEO knows a little something about the industry – Bob Dana was the former employee No. 1 and first CFO of Virgin America. He once wrote the business plan and feasibility study for Sir Richard Branson in 2003. And now he’s doing a travel startup.

Dana tells us the inspiration for Tripshare was based on a personal experience he had years ago. As CFO, he spent 10 hours on a plane each week flying back and forth from New York to California. In 2006, Dana was trying to convince his family to come out to California for a vacation, so he put together a proposed itinerary to help sell the idea.

“I ended up preparing this 10-page Word document that included text and photos I cut and pasted from various websites. It was intended to be persuasive in nature, and collaborative, too,” he explains. “I thought afterwards, that collaborative travel planning was something that was rather difficult to do.”

But not only was it difficult to plan, it was also hard to move from the point of inspiration and discovery to actually booking the trip. This idea later formed the basis for Tripshare, which he founded two years ago.

The app was originally built in conjunction with then co-founder and CTO Ken Goto, a former director of engineering at Apple. Goto has since moved on but his ex-Apple development team, including acting CTO Eric Kapke, now continues the work.

The app itself has actually been live in the iTunes App Store as unpublicized beta since August 2012. However, though that app was functionally similar, it drew some criticisms from early users because of its user interface. Today’s version is an overhaul and much improved.

Still, despite having done no publicity or marketing, Tripshare has been downloaded nearly 20,000 times while still a work in progress. In other words, today’s release is technically a version 2.0, but for all intents and purposes, this is the big debut.

Designed for those planning vacations or other complex trips with multiple destinations or activities, Tripshare allows you to browse, collect and share information with others before booking. Using the iPad’s big screen, you can flip through photos of destinations and lodgings, create itineraries and discover flights, hotels, restaurants, activities and more.

Today, the app allows you to explore more than 20,000 cities worldwide, plus 500,000+ lodging options, thousands of flights, and more than 200,000 tours, activities and restaurants.

After creating a sample itinerary, you can then share it to other Tripshare iPad users, or via email, Facebook, and Twitter. For those not using the iPad application, the shared trip displays in the web browser. These trips can include all the details, too – photos, descriptions, reviews and prices – so your family and/or friends won’t have to redo the work on their end before giving you their feedback. Pricing and availability also update in real time, something another new planning app, Pintrips, offers as well, but on the web.

Users can also communicate with the trip organizer within the application using an IM-like chatting function, or leave suggestions if the trip’s planner is offline.

While there are quite a few trip planning applications and services on the market (and that’s an understatement ) what makes Tripshare stand out is not the uniqueness of the idea, but the overall package. The app’s user interface is easy to use, which is critical when planning complicated trips where you’re trying to pack in a lot of activities and outings.

At first glance, Tripshare seems inspired by Khosla-backed social travel app Jetpac, which uses smart technology to index photos from social networks, allowing you to see where friends have traveled in order to find inspiration for trip-planning purposes. It has the same general layout, and it shares some common features, such as the idea of making a list of places you want to go.

But Tripshare’s photos don’t come from Facebook. They’re high-resolution images from its travel partners, including HomeAway, Fly.com, the Expedia Affiliate Network, and Viator.com. Plus, the overall vision for the application is not one of just inspiration, but converting that inspiration into an actionable itinerary by actually allowing you to book the trip, including the flights, hotels, outings and more, directly in the app.

Dana says the company plans to integrate content from more travel aggregators and services into the app in time, including things like vacation rentals from Flipkey, car rentals, restaurant reservations, cruises, safaris, and even travel insurance. By year end, the plan is to have many of these live, as well as an iPhone-optimized application. Afterwards, the goal will be to further build up the social community.

Tripshare is backed by $1.47 million in angel funding; some of that is founder money, and the other part comes mainly from the New York angels community, including David S. Rose.

The app itself is free to users, as it will earn revenue via a percentage of the bookings users make. Tripshare is live here on iTunes.

Fans who ordered DVDs of this season’s BBC series Doctor Who have started receiving them, only there’s a catch: The disc contains the season’s final episode, which has yet to air on TV! The show’s producers have made a big deal about that finale, including promises of plot twists and revelations that will be huge for Whovians.

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