msg:

Bowery Ballroom, can we start a movement to ditch Ticketmaster? For $15 tickets they charge over 20% for a “convenience charge” ($3.10 per ticket), then charge between $14.50 and $19.50 to print and send you your tickets.

If you want real tickets, the price jumps from $30 to $55.70. So for a company that handles massive quantities of printing and shipping, mostly electronically, they make roughly 2/3 (after UPS charge) of the what the venue, crew, equipment, band, and label take in combined. Robbery.

via david-noel:rdotm

Luckily I live a couple blocks down from the Mercury Lounge where Bowery sells their tix and I buy them in person. With the money saved I usually purchase an over priced beer.

Im surprised Bowery Presents doesnt have their own online ticketing system in place especially since they own 5 venues.

PS the real robbery is the $2.50 they charge you to print your own tickets!!

MSG and I seem to go to a lot of the same shows, and I absolutely agree that this Ticketmaster shit is way past due to be done. For what its worth, most Bowery venues are small enough that the will-call line is the same as the regular line, so choosing that option isn’t any extra work for you.

jimray:

Something even bigger and more badass than a 10-foot great white shark did this.

Make: Online : Cellular Mitosis

innonate:

brit:

A Mindmap iPhone App. Downloaded.

Perhaps I’ll try this out in a meeting today.

After hearing the term 13,432 times, I still don’t know what a “mind map” is and what its use is.

I think mind maps get a bad rap, mostly because there’s so much shitty software out there. Its easy to build a simple mind mapping application and call it done, but nigh-impossible to make a good one (I’ve yet to find one that’s actually usable).

The idea of a mind map is to display and organize information or ideas spatially, allowing you to easily show hierarchy, category, and connections between concepts. This is really useful when you’re trying to understand, create, or remember nebulous concepts with no natural inherent organization. A lot of people use mind maps for brainstorming and organizing ideas for writing or business, and for inspiration in creative endeavors such as design.

An added benefit of mind maps is that if you’re using them as a study aid, you gain an extra aspect of memory over traditional “2D” aids such as lists or notes. Without realizing it, the fact that you can spatially distinguish between concepts in a mind map makes it easier to remember what the concepts are, and how they relate to each other.

The problem with doing this in software is that mind mapping is supposed to be quick and dirty– it needs to be. Pencil/pen/crayon and paper is the best way, and until software is smart enough to understand what we’re trying to do (maybe using gestures, etc), its just going to get in the way.

whatson:

livelauralive:

i would probably know how to do this if they actually tought us how, geez.

B, 6 cans of paint (5.9 exactly). Don’t get confused by the fractions, they’re so small they don’t really make a difference, and they’re easy to convert to decimals if you have a calculator.

I do random word problems on the internet for fun, but I’m taking College Algebra for the 3rd time this semester. FML.

superamit:

wintercheck:

hathathat:

rgrjnr:

How a sewing machine works  (gif source)

Awesome.

Unbelievable. We’re so smart.

I fucking love this kind of shit.