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- Garmin Communicator Will Fuck You #
- This is amazing - the installer for the browser plugin will, without any sort of warning, terminate all running instances of Safari and Firefox. Bang bang!
- NYT: Super Bowl Twitter Overlay #
- Go!
- Flickr: Highlander Novelisation Book Cover #
- Some ideas are so great, the execution so bang-on, you just have to throw up your hands and say, "Beautiful."
- YouTube: Asian Girl Secretly a Ninja #
- Holy crap.
- Happy Valentine's Day #
- Sorry about the late. This is worth it though, huh?
- Q&A on Mozilla and the European Commission #
- "Mozilla’s involvement with the recent European Commission (EC) conclusion regarding Microsoft’s tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system." What to do about it, that is the question. This could have a very interesting outcome.
- YouTube: Little Kid Gets Destroyed by a Huge Gym Ball #
- I am a terrible person.
- Icicles of Brick #
- Wow.
- Video: From the Floor at Webstock #
- Because if I'm going to embarrass myself, why not in front of the whole internet? What are they gonna do, call me names? (Perhaps hard to tell, but we're dancing there. This is why.)
- Webstock #
- See you Sunday.
- Grid #
- Looks like a fun place to live.
- Stuff: Police Rescue Woman After Internet Relationship #
- I always enjoy the crazy extremes of these stories: People will do anything to be happy.
- NYT: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall #
- Might not be worth reading the whole thing, but there's some interesting shots in here. Two takeaways for me: One, as noted in the piece, Bush seems more regretful about bad photos than bad realities. Two, the guy actually did embody good leadership qualities (only in the narrow sense of the word, sadly) which helps to understand why so many were endeared to him. Also, that last series of 3 photos... the guy looks ruined.
- JavaScript CAPTCHA Solver #
- Uses HTML 5 Canvas to pull out the pixel grid, then extracts each character and sends it into a neural net (very loosely, a learning pattern-matching machine - a pale imitation of the human brain) to determine the most likely match. All in JavaScript.
- Video: Joaquin Phoenix's Bizarre Letterman Appearance #
- That's either great character acting or a bad comedown. I was really impressed by the way Letterman handles it all. Ultimately it's good advertising for Two Lovers, which does sound pretty damn good.
- Maybe You Should Consider the Alien Perspective Once in a While #
- Wicked posters, only partially spoiled by another of Gawker's crap site layouts.
- This Is Why You're Fat #
- I am equal parts sickened and starving. How about that Mega Double Oreo?
- YouTube: Palm Pre and WebOS Demo #
- Cool huh?
- Herald: Australia Rocked by 'Lesbian' Koala Revelation #
- I dare you to read through this with a straight face.
- We Bleed Design #
- Scroll down. Oh yeah.
- Softwear by Microsoft #
- I really like the many-flavours-of-candy Microsoft shirt. (Some people may suspect sarcasm. No, seriously! I wouldn't be seen dead in a Vista shirt, but I like that design a lot, and it harkens back to the days when I was hugely inspired by the Microsoft products I was using. DOS: It's been so long. You're still beautiful. Call me!)
- The Vista Shutdown Crapfest #
- I remember reading this when it first came out a couple of years ago, and it's such a goodie because it cuts right to the heart of what is so wrong in Microsoft. I would really enjoy being hired in as a (highly paid) management consultant to clear all that shit out. (Of course, the reality is that it would be pretty much the toughest job in the world.)
- Designer Bullshit: Perimeter Oscillations and the Pepsi Ratio #
- Yeah, so did you notice the new Pepsi logo is an observation of the Earth's magnetic field? What, you didn't see that? Shame au!
- Wellington Apple Pie Contest, 1940 #
- The roaring 40's.
- Dwelling in Possibilities #
- An hour-long read (via Stewmail, April '08) that is astonishing in its insight. If there is any possible way to make your brain explode, this is it. If prose can change your life? This is it.
- TED: James Howard Kunstler Dissects Suburbia #
- This one is courtesy Mr Underwood (and had been sitting in my inbox since May 2008). The reason I enjoy it, and I am probably being overly romantic here, but the reason I enjoy it is that it vividly exposes a root cause of modern society's bizarre disconnection with, well, anything real.
- Act Against Proposed Copyright Law #
- And if you're lucky, you'll get the Terry Pratchett quotation. Now there's a man I'd vote for.
- YouTube: Bill O'Reilly Flips Out #
- Oh, this is good. 0:50 especially - how unhinged is this guy?
- Raygun #
- Wow.
- The Biggest Sexology Breakthroughs of the Past 130 Years #
- This kind of stuff is always fascinating. Check this out: "In the nineteenth century, doctors used vibrators to help relieve women of 'hysteria,' though almost no medical accounts from the time acknowledge that this therapy was basically masturbation."
- Raptors Ahead #
- Great subhead. If it is a mystery to you, this might explain it.
- YouTube: Cabel Sasser's Latest #
- Of Buggy Saints Row and DS Lite Video Review fame. Now he's composed music and lyrics for a podcast theme. Also? He makes my FTP client. Some people should learn to just stop throwing their awesome in your face.
- Anti-Theft Lunch Bags #
- Genius, it would fit right in with all the other stuff in my work's fridge.
- The Sun: Toothy Raccoon Bit Off Man's Penis #
- As he was trying to rape it. What the Hell. I'm never sure if these publications just make it up, but I'm linking it anyway for this perfect quotation: "When I saw the raccoon I thought I’d have some fun."
- YouTube: Enter Songsmith #
- That Metallica classic. But wait, there's more: Intergalactic Songsmith, Roxanne (Songsmith) and Eye of the Songsmith.
- The Lost Cult of Microsoft Program Managers #
- Interesting post, see also Top ten reasons managers become assholes. Follow it up with some If They Are Genuinely Defining Your Work Culture, You Probably Don't Even Know It.
- YouTube: Top That #
- Wow, so there's a special moment in movie history.
- Video: Lamp Post Foils Escape Attempt #
- Perfectly formed comedy.
