July 2008
51 posts
Tesla announces the Model S: a $60k, all-electric,... →
Yay for technology.
June 2008
63 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29) →
Less Than Jake
Flogging Molly
They Might Be Giants
Muddy Waters
Millencolin
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Mercedes to Cut Petroleum Out of Lineup by 2015 →
Hmm… I feel like putting a reminder in my calendar for seven years from now to see if this has happened. I hope it does.
WatchThis video confused me when I was young. Because I was not familiar with the original “Walk This Way,” the entire concept of what was happening in the video was lost on me.
Now, I’m amazed at how clever it is.
iPhone to Work as Remote Control for iTunes →
O.M.G.
I want this so bad.
Any lawful device: 40 years after the Carterfone... →
It’s always been my understanding that back in the day, AT&T regulated the devices that could be used on their lines and today, just about anything with a plug can be used.
What was not clear to me, was how the precedent changed. This article discusses a landmark decision by the FCC to allow consumers to utilize any device on the AT&T network.
Fascinating.
OH MY GOD IT'S THE POOP SIGN →
Dear Santa,
This year for Christmas I only want one thing—a poop sign to hang over the baby’s diaper bin.
Thank you-
Thaddeus
Dying Is Hard. Comedy Is Harder. →
Jerry Seinfeld on George Carlin’s Life and Comedy.
Calls From Crocodile Eggs Serve as Alerts →
June 23, 1983: DNS Test Sets Stage for Internet... →
Twenty-fifth anniversary for DNS. It’s almost as old as I am!
Make Plastic from Milk! →
Watchmerlin:
Scott’s House
Inline PDF Plugin for Firefox on a Mac →
Useful to those of you who know what the title means.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
Less Than Jake
Flogging Molly
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Muddy Waters
The Epoxies
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Tartan Designer →
I don’t really think it gets better than this.
Well, I’m sure it does, but if you want to waste a few minutes, this is a good place!
A Really, Really Ex-Parrot →
I’m not linking to the real article. I’m linking to a Slashdot link to an article. That way you can all read the comments and revel in the wonderful nerdiness of it all.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal... →
Obviously, don’t read it if you haven’t seen the movie yet!
I think this is funny, but I also enjoyed the film. Why would I watch an Indiana Jones movie and nitpick? It was fun!
Watchmerlin:
Not This Quarter
Phone Guy’s not gonna boil the ocean.
I don’t even know what this is, but Merlin always makes me laugh.
Secrets of James Bond's success with women... →
Law of averages is on his side.
Classic Color Palettes: Video Games →
Cool Stuff.
The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design →
Food for thought.
A good paragraph is not even noticed, it simply does its job.
Cooking For Engineers - Step by Step Recipes and... →
Wow… I love the recipe ‘chart’ at the bottom of each article.
Alaska Airlines saves millions by rethinking... →
An article about Alaska Airlines re-engineering how people wait in their lines.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15) →
Less Than Jake
They Might Be Giants
Bad Religion
Face to Face
NOFX
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
WatchScouts tell of escaping tornado
From about 2:00 in:
Reporter Anne Currie: I know you said something very interesting. You said, ‘If it had to happen it is good it happened at a Boy Scout Camp.’ Why would you, at the age of 13, say such a thing?
Boy Scout Ethan Hession, 13:
Because we were prepared. We knew that shock could happen. We knew that we needed to place tourniquets on...
Synthetic dingo urine could save marsupials -... →
Not very interesting article, but the title really seems like a bunch of random words stuck together.
How about- Could Synthetic Marsupials Save Dingo Urine?
The Cinematic Color Palette: Pixar →
A fun review of Pixar and the colors that they use in their movies. Best bit of trivia: the company that would become Pixar did work on Young Sherlock Holmes.
Of course I immediately went and added Young Sherlock Holmes to my Netflix queue.
Study: consumers lust after high-speed broadband,... →
Um… Duh.
Boy Scouts of America look to open-source... →
Wow, two of my worlds collide.
I’ve got to commend the Boy Scouts of America for this approach. There should be an award for working on these projects.
Say Goodbye to Wimpy Paper →
Rock, paper, scissors… Paper wins all!
Magnetic Paint →
In our new kitchen, our fridge will have wood paneling. That means no magnets!
But now we can have magnets on ANY PAINTABLE SURFACE!
FireNes Brings 2000 NES Games to Your Browser →
Whee! Video Games! Web Browsers! Nintendo! Firefox!
Sounds like nerd heaven to me.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8) →
Face to Face
Less Than Jake
Barenaked Ladies
Bad Religion
NOFX
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
That design is money! →
The birth of an ATM user interface. Pretty cool!
It's solar power's time to shine →
Not a very interesting article. It’s talking about Solar Thermal Energy as an alternative energy source, which IS interesting, but what’s changed? I learned about STE when I was in fifth or sixth grade (around 1990). STE was touted as the only real way to harvest solar energy. Here we are twenty years later and it’s still a great idea, but only an idea. What needs to happen to...
June 5, 1833: Ms. Software, Meet Mr. Hardware →
As a CS Major, I learned of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, but only as concepts or abstractions. This article from Wired gives them a little more depth.
Live Daily brings the new cut off of Less Than...
How Different Group Voted in the Democratic... →
Fascinating interactive data that compares voting support between Clinton and Obama.
Don’t get confused like I did and think that the different groups are arranged in a horizontal matrix.
You Look Nice Today →
If you don’t listen to You Look Nice Today, you’re missing out. This is THE reason to start listening to podcasts. Every episode has me laughing. It’s completely inane, very smart and the delivery is completely straight. It’s not news, it’s not tech, it’s simply whatever the team wants to chat about.
Each ‘bit’ is separated by a mandolin interlude...