January 2009
32 posts
USB in tEV →
I was very annoyed when the Pioneer Theater closed its doors. I never went there that often, but that’s only because I don’t go anywhere that often. And I loved that I lived near a place that would have a midnight showing of Donnie Darko for weeks on end. Not a lot of places like that anymore.
In any case, I was annoyed. BUT, I just learned what was taking it’s place! The...
“Still, I’m left wondering, was this their best offer or was it just one...”
– Cash 4 Gold would like to melt down and recast their reputation - Cockeyed.com
Rob remains the front runner in the “Person on the internet I would most like to spend some quality time with.”
'Immortal' Jellyfish Swarming Across the World →
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Whoa! I wonder if this is how the scientists at Puppy Recycling have been doing it?
Also, this is the most horrifying thing I’ve ever heard. I seriously think we should set aside part of the US stimulus package to keep this gene sequence away from the monkey robots…
(Link via kirindave)
From the article:
The Turritopsis Nutricula is able to revert back to a juvenile form once it ...
Auditorium →
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Play this.
This is such a brilliant game. Such a good time.
The case against Candy Land - Boing Boing →
I read this more as the case FOR video games. Woohoo!
Songsmith Awesomeness
I stumbled upon a post on Gawker about how terrible is MS Songsmith (the app that has you sing a song, which will then have a background track generated automagically). Maybe I’m a little late to the whole Songsmith thing to be posting an opinion, but I have to completely disagree. Doing youtube searches (youtube’ing?) for Songsmith videos comes up with an entire family of videos...
“Actually, C != C++ is undefined behavior.”
– Some wag on /. discussing whether or not C, C#, or C++ projects were all lumped under “C” when counting the number of new open source projects in 2008
Also, Zombies.
myfirstsodabread:
Lately, when I am sitting next to a stranger on the bus (and only on the bus, never the subway), I have found myself envisioning different scenarios of how I would react if the stranger turned out to be a zombie or vampire.
Is that strange?
Strange? Yes. Why I love you? Yes.
What the F*ck is a Frush?
mikesabat:
From Kennyb: (prettyhuge) Did I tell you guys that I confronted my parents in re: the twitter thing? My mom was like “What’s a twitto?” and my dad was all “I had to come to your apartment to get Skype hooked up, how do you think I know what Twitter is?”
Am I psyched or pissed that I have to reblog a conversation that I had with somebody from a third party’s tumblr? If this...
Mad Decent →
Gawd some of the music I love is just so bad. The Mad Decent crew a podcast, which is sometimes awful, but always incredible.
“It was a big deal when JFK became the first Catholic President, but now it seems...”
– Instapundit » Blog Archive » CONGRATULATIONS TO MR. OBAMA
Glenn Reynolds gives voice to an interesting hope for the future. At the same time, he implicitly points out a fascinating aspect of how we (humans) have a lot of trouble seeing where we are now - we’re only really cognizant...
tonblr:
What kind of paperwork does Obama have to sign on his first day? Does he have to choose a healthcare plan? Does he have to pay a deposit to get the nuke keys? Does he have to sit through a boring seminar on worker safety?
Really good point. Sexual harassment talk by the ironically sexy lawyer lady?
The Jonas Bump
mobilecommons:
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The Jonas Bump? Isn’t that what you get a few months after you spend a night in the tour bus with...
Getting off track
In my life, dependancies and distraction combine to create the greatest potential pitfalls. As a for-instance, I just decided I had something I wanted to share in Twitter, but I was in Xcode with pretty all distractions shut down (no web browsers open, in my bedroom with the cat outside, etc), and I was thinking how great it would be to have a little twitter app running. I generally use...
How I'm Spending My 15degree Day →
aka: Test post for hoey
"Look Around You" - Google Video →
A faux-educational science show, in the style of something you would ‘get’ to watch instead of paying attention to your 5th grade teacher. I first heard about it on The Sound of Young America, but was reintroduced by a link on some blog. REEEEEEEEEALLLY funny.
The new tumblr dashboard
I really like the new tumblr dashboard, having all the tumblogs I’m a contributor to on the right side of the content. It makes me want to start a whole new set of tumblrs, and not update *them* on a regular basis, either!
Leonard Nimoy sings a song about Bilbo Baggins →
Top Ten Steps for Reducing Allergies to Cats →
myfirstsodabread:
… and dip the cat in water once a week for 6 weeks and then once a month thereafter.
I’m so excited for this game!
Top Ten Steps for Reducing Allergies to Cats →
We need to try some of these. Or spring for one of those cat-to-hypoallergenic-cat conversion kits that you hear so much about.
I spilled some coffee an hour ago, and I just noticed now. It had dried, and created a stain on my desk that I couldn’t remove by just rubbing it with my finger. I didn’t have any water on my desk to clean it with… But I *did* have a cup of coffee. So I poured some coffee on a napkin, and used that to rub away the coffee stain. I understand why that works, more or less. ...
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BUG! http://isitaleapyear.com/ is not updating properly. Problems have been reported in Seoul, Taipei, and Kuala Lumpur so far.
Resolved: http://isitaleapyear.com/ now behaving properly on all machines.