LEGO launched a white noise playlist, to "help listeners find a moment of relaxation in their busy lives". The tracks were made by experimenting with the sound of 10,000 LEGO bricks!
Over on Bplans, Jennifer Quinn from Irish software company Phorest Salon Software describes the steps involved in setting clear & actionable goals for your business. The article covers everything from SWOT to SMART to KPIs to habits, and hopefully on to success if you follow tese great tips.
Web Savvy Marketing posted a very useful checklist of SEO items to do when moving or upgrading your website, covering content creation, technical SEO review, and go live checks.
A very non-intuitive UI resulted in a Citibank sub-contractor accidentally repaying a $500m to creditors instead of transferring the money to another account, despite the process being signed off by two other superiors.
The University of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance created a Bitcoin Electricity Consumption index, including a neat dashboard showing a mining map and comparing the consumption of electricity by the Bitcoin network with those of countries, and boiling all the kettles in the UK and the EU, among other comparisons.
Jared Mauch, a network architect at Akamai, couldn't get good broadband at his home in Scio Township in Michigan other than wireless internet . Comcast quoted him $50,000 to lay the cables to his house, so he decided to do it himself.
Omatsuri is an extremely handy collection of web development & design tools, which such as a gradient generator, a lorum ipsum generator, and a page divider generator.
Power People Platform is a great library of diverse 3D avatars to use in your designs and UX personas. The library features 12 different characters, everyone with 3 different skin colors, 6 hair colors, 5 dresses, 23 dress colors and endless background colors
Radio Garden is a fantastic website that allows you to surf the globe and listen to radio stations in different countries. The interface makes it so easy to hop around the world listening to music that you can easily spend lots of time listening without realising it.
