December 2010
34 posts
“CHICAGO—Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence...”
– Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8 | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
For Michele, though I’m sure she’s seen this.
Me: C'mon, Buddy, come in and eat your sandwich.
Boy: C'mon, Buddy, come in and eat your sandwich.
Me: Seriously, come in here.
Boy: Seriously, come in here.
Me: Daddy, will you please eat all of my sandwich?
Boy: ...
Me: ...
Boy: Well, I'm not gonna say THAT.
Got it!
Thanks go to zhubi and blurbed for pointing me to http://vimeo.com/17909042 and http://bit.ly/eqacsa!
Lazy Tumblr: Ski-parachuting video?
I can’t remember who posted it and trying to go back more than a day in the dashboard is madness. It was posted about a week ago (probably Wednesday), featured some people skiing with parachutes, and had a somewhat hip-hoppy soundtrack.
Anybody recall this? My son watched it then and has been going nuts for 2 days wanting to see it again.
“We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
Do you think the Net Neutrality decision doesn't...
Let’s break this thing down by saying that:
The Internet = The roads in your town
Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc. = Fedex, restaurants, taxis, etc.
Given this, we can say that corporations being given control over the Internet and being allowed to set up paid tiered Internet access is akin to:
Charging Fedex to deliver a package to your house when UPS pays no such fee.
Adding a...
It is done. Adieu, Quicksilver. →
incorrigiblerobot:
glueslabs:
merlin:
It was a good run. So long, old friend.
I love LaunchBar—but she’ll never be another you.
[Now, for our memorial service—please, cue a shitty Harry Chapin song. Any will do.]
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Nooooooo. LaunchBar? WHAT.
But Merlin, it was you who introduced me to that awesome magic trick. Indeed that episode of MacBreak was my introduction to both...
HEY TUMBLR STAFF!
toldorknown:
There’s a growing problem of Tumblr “notes” being used to game PageRank, resulting in lots of insincere “likes” from, for now, a bunch of hyphenated-french-usernames (usernoms?).
Explanation of the problem and the simple fix, per Guillermo Esteves:
The HTML partials with the notes are still available and indexable, Google site:http://toldorknown.com/notes and you’ll see. They...
Amazon, Kindles, Bodice Rippers, and Water Fowl
While passing time in Amazon’s Kindle store, I discovered a huge number of free Kindle books. Most are old texts that have passed into the public domain—pretty much the entire Penguin catalog. I didn’t get very far into Next Page Hell, but I did happen upon this:
Well, va-va-vaoom! Not my bag, baby, but just the product info page has shown me an unexpected side of Amazon. See...
“By the second half the Jets looked like Tiger Woods trying to get out of his...”
– New York Jets and Rex Ryan melt under pressure of bright lights against Tom Brady’s Patriots
Credit where credit is due, but I swear this was written by Jelisa under a pseudonym.
Things the elderly receptionist did after she said...
Complained about how dry the air was in the office.
Explained how it was, therefore, impossible for her lipstick to stay on.
Procured a tissue to wipe off her dry, flaking lipstick.
Wiped off said lipstick.
Still going.
Uh huh.
Complained that she must now look 10 years older.
Fished for compliments with the metaphorical equivalent of a trawling net.
Explained that that meant she looked...
WatchThis is so, so upsetting. That cat was probably just minding his own business, reading his Dungeon Master Guide, and these ruffians came around and they probably stole his d10 and d12 and he tried to get them back but they were all “Hahaha come and get ‘em, dork!” and he was all “My Dad bought me those after I made him return the football he gave me and he was crying when...
