February 2010
25 posts
WatchVenice drum circle is crazy.
January 2010
53 posts
Hands-free cellphone rules aren't reducing... →
“The laws aren’t reducing crashes, even though we know that such laws have reduced hand-held phone use, and several studies have established that phoning while driving increases crash risk,” Adrian Lund, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and its affiliate, the data institute, said in a statement.
I’m surprised that cell phone use actually went down.
How to Suck at Facebook →
dandrews:
I think I know all of these people.
Is it bad that a lot of the ones I know combine many of these?
Working on Tweet delivery delays
twitterstatus:
We are investigating the source of tweet delivery delays this morning.
I belive it’s called the iPad.
Scratching
mrgan:
But I admit that this is all just five minutes of armchair thinking by a complete amateur.
What do you think - why do we scratch?
Well we don’t just scratch at random patches of skin, we scratch because something itches. So instead of asking “why do we scratch?”, the question might be “what causes one to itch?”
Just reading this article caused me to...
WSJ: ‘Apple New Money in Old Media’ WSJ report by Yukari Kane and Ethan Smith, very light on substance but chock full of interesting rumors regarding The Tablet and deals with book, magazine, and newspaper publishers to sell content through iTunes. Also this, near the end:
Apple has also been planning a revamp of its iTunes music service by creating a Web-based version of it that could launch as...
Salt & Fat →
mrgan:
Hey folks, there’s a new blog about cooking and enjoyment of food, written by Jim Ray and yours truly. We call it Salt & Fat. Join us as we learn!
This is one of those sites that I feel guilty sticking into an RSS reader, simply because I love the way the site looks. A pleasure to read.
Today's word is... interdigitate!
savantemeritus:
Meaning
to become interlocked like the fingers of folded hands
courtesy of the Merriam-Webster Word for the Day: http://www.merriam-webster.com
Sentence
The Na’vi neurally interdigitate their minds and souls with their planet’s essence.
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Yes I just watched Avatar and like the rest of the planet, am obsessed. And pity myself because imagination is infinitely funner than...
Real America, with Abe Sauer: They Even Put Ads on... →
Windsor Canadian, an unremarkable brand of whiskey, has, for years now, sponsored a remarkable ad campaign, ‘After the Hunt.’ Simple as ad campaigns go, the After the Hunt promotion tags several hundred pheasants with Windsor Canadian ‘After the Hunt’ markers and releases them into the wild. Hunters that ‘bag a banded bird and return the tag will be entered into a drawing to win one of five top...
Nakatomi Space →
“In it, Weizman—an Israeli architect—documents many of the emerging spatial techniques used by the Israeli Defense Forces in their high-tech, legally dubious 2002 invasion of Nablus. During that battle, Weizman writes, ‘soldiers moved within the city across hundred-meter-long ‘overground-tunnels’ carved through a dense and contiguous urban fabric.’ Their movements...
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Commands I wish Voice Control on iPhone would...
mrgan:
“What time is it?”
“Rate song three stars.”
“What’s the weather?”
“Notifications!” (“You have one unread message and two unread emails.”)
“Redial.”
“New voice memo…”
I also wish if I have a contact’s phone number favorite’d, it would know I mean that number when I say to call them.
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What has Obama ever done for us?
squashed:
Net neutrality
Maybe spoke too soon on this one?
Today's word is... wushu!
savantemeritus:
Meaning
Chinese martial art
courtesy of the Merriam-Webster Word for the Day: http://www.merriam-webster.com
Sentence
I was surprised to learn that “kung fu” is the popular name of the hand-to-hand form of combat called wushu.
This made me look up the term “kung fu” and I was pretty surprised too.
From wikipedia:
In Chinese, kung fu can be used in contexts...
It's "Twenty ten," not "Two thousand ten."
indefensible:
jemaleddin:
indefensible:
(via nickdouglas)
It’s “two thousand and ten”. The extra syllables are all that separate us from the savages.
You only say “and” between the counting numbers and fractional amounts. “Two thousand ten and twenty-five one hundredths.”
It’s being pedantic that separates us from the savages.
Good lord but you’re a staggering cock.
Look, saying the...
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We're not in fifth grade
mrgan:
Tumblr has a new feature:
Now testing: Ask Me
The new Ask feature lets your friends or readers ask questions that you can choose to answer on your blog.
This was annoying when Formspring did it, it’s annoying that Tumblr copied it wholesale, and it will continue to be annoying to see these in my feed. The first few Q&A posts that trickled in resulted in immediate unfollows from...
marco:
In related subway-gadget-spotting news, I saw a Nexus One today. I asked its owner about it, who ended up being a Google employee, and I got a great tour of its performance and capabilities. Impressions:
It’s sluggish and jerky during scrolling and animation. There’s no excuse for that, given its hardware.
How the fuck is this possible? The thing has a 1 GIGAHERTZ cpu in there and it...
