March 2012
116 posts
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Mitt-Flops is a new collection of fashion footwear... →
Do you see what they did there? [via @colebirwin]
February 2012
126 posts
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Trailers - The Avengers →
The second trailer is out, and this looks like a big basket of fun.
The Show with Ze Frank is coming back! →
Kickstarter is the bestest.
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Today Mitt Romney recalled fond childhood memories... →
Mitt’s story of being at the Golden Jubilee of the American automobile requires a time machine. [via @eparillon]
Are NPR's new ethics guidelines the way for... →
shortformblog:
With these words, NPR commits itself as an organization to avoid the worst excesses of “he said, she said” journalism. It says to itself that a report characterized by false balance is a false report. It introduces a new and potentially powerful concept of fairness: being “fair to the truth,” which as we know is not always evenly distributed among the sides in a public...
AT&T's New "Troll Toll" →
As a Sprint customer, the fact that they’re losing money hand-over-fist makes me feel like I’ve made a good choice.
parislemon:
AT&T now wants to charge app developers data fees to ease customers running into their imaginary data caps. It’s an idea so bad it’s almost comical. Writes Karl Bode:
It’s an idea we’re sure AT&T will pitch as a cost-saving endeavor for consumers,...
Santorum comes from behind in Alabama three-way →
Best headline of 2012.
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What would Windows look like if it adopted Metro's... →
Answer: pretty damn great. Microsoft should hire whoever did this and drop everything to get this done.
TV Is Broken
minimalmac:
Recently, while on vacation in New Orleans for Mardi Gras and visiting family, we stayed at my sister’s house. She was kind enough to let us have her place while she found accommodations elsewhere. She moved in to this place herself not too long ago and was proud to point out to us the brand new, gigantic, flat-panel television and full Cable TV package she purchased slightly before...
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Failing to Scale Out Push Web Services →
An interesting look at a web-scale design challenge; how he approaches the problem is almost as interesting as his actual solution.
w4lkingafteryou asked: sorry to be a pain. what movie is that gif of the girl with the dark hair in plaits when the blonde girl says 'I'l be the victim!' and she replies 'All your life.' from? i have seen it so many times and always wondered. again sorry to be a pain. :-)
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OnLive Desktop runs a full-featured Windows box... →
This is an interesting new take on “cloud” computing, turning your iPad into nothing more than a remote screen to the server. It will be interesting to see if it’s really responsive enough to feel like a real computer, but I think that may be behind their otherwise puzzling decision to launch on iPad first — on a desktop, you’ll compare it to your existing desktop,...
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The "normal" human sleep pattern may be two... →
History records a “first sleep” and a “second sleep” with a gap as long as two hours between them, during which people read, talked, or had sex.
“No.”
– Actress Julianne Moore, when asked if she gained a newfound respect for Sarah Palin after delving deeper into Palin’s life to portray her in the upcoming film “Game Change.” (via mamaatheist)
“The more social Facebook tries to be, the less intimate our interactions on it...”
– Facebook’s Timeline: A catalog of nothing | MediaFile | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com
This piece is fantastic. Want to quote everything. Read it.
(via s-m-i)
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Twitter is moving away from hashbang URLs, calling... →
This is great news for Twitter’s usability and also the web in general, since now the biggest and most visible proponent of this terrible idea will have abandoned the practice.
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A basic DNA sequencer is now a $900 device that... →
It can only handle relatively simple things like viruses and bacteria, but hey, wasn’t it just a decade ago when sequencing a genome took room-sized computers months to complete?
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The Republican party in Maine admits that some... →
I sure am glad that the nation’s democracy runs on a secure, impossible-to-fake system like plain-text email.
“Do I think this is the last word on his orientation? I don’t know....”
– When Your 7-Year-Old Son Announces, ‘I’m Gay’
Typo tourism
Beth: how do you become influential about something on Klout?
Jeremiah: Retweets and @replies will do it. @jeremiadlee is influential about Dubia
Jeremiah: *Dubai
Laurie: COME TO WONDERFUL DUBIA
Laurie: LAND OF MLIK AND OHNEY
