“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — [...]
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StateStats: Allows one to enter search terms and see which demographics correlate. Fascinating. 10 Lesser-Known Saints: St. Thomas of the Superfluous Ear Hair St. Jchn the Bpptist, patron of cheap designer knockoffs St. Jackie of the Indeterminate Gender St. Street of the Easily Mistaken Directions Sts. Tommy K and the Badger of the Hott 93.5 Morning Madhouse St. Lucifer the Going Through A Phase To Annoy His Parents [...] Wow. William Tell. At least it didn’t end up like William S. Burroughs’ wife. via Dark Roasted Blend: Bullet Proof Wife I’d never thought of it before, but the silhouette on the Wyoming license plate of a bronco rider is actually based on a real person. Albert “Stubby” Farlow (1886-1953) was born with short legs, but made his mark as a bronco rider, at least long enough to get his image plastered on every Wyoman’s car. [...]
Confession of an economic hit man via Cowboy Books On his part, my father could never believe in something as comic as an ephemeral old man who lives on a cloud and whom — after a brief burst of creative creationism in his early twenties — has been spending the last six thousand years of his early retirement kookily obsessing about where and how [...] wall-e : The script from Wall-E. I follow along while I watch, it helps because I don’t understand robot-speak. The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other docs at Truman Library. I wish this had an OCR’ed version of the text… I’m mostly off work this Thanksgiving week, and as is the tradition around these parts, most of the rest of the company is off, too. Either for real or “Working From Home”, as opposed to, say, “Living at Work”. But I digress… This week is project week. I built a kitty escape hatch so the [...] Pictures of Numbers : A great reference for how to display information in ways that are intuitively obvious to the viewer. Clean, concise visualization is a treat.
marco: daisymay: kate-elizabeth: YES. YES. YES. !!!!! YEAH! Thank you America, you done well!! Oh yeah!!!! That acceptance speech was gold. What a brilliant man! What may not be readily apparent, is these are the original actors who did the original “Wassup”. Awesome! http://www.andrewgrant.org/2008/03/30/how-to-sync-an-iphone-with-two-or-more-computers.html Vote Obama : McCain lacks the character and temperament to be president. And Palin is simply a disgrace. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine Physical Security Maxims: Apropos, considering the work I’m doing on the network infrastructure.
MobileMe Loses Contacts If you use MobileMe, stay away from the contacts app in the web interface. I mean, you could probably look up a contact or two in there, but don’t use it to do anything serious, like, edit. You run the risk of losing all your edits and even entire contacts, too. [...] Surgical Necessity? Instead of a knee surgery this woman instead got installed a prosthetic anus. Wait, what? It’s the best thing since, well, I don’t know what they had before this… If Osama’s only 6 degrees away, why can’t we find him?
I’ve mentioned Scotch a few times, and figured now I’d throw this link to the Caol Ila Distillery up here. This scotch is unique in my mind because it’s got a really peaty, earthy aroma, but the taste is clean and fresh, almost disappearing as soon as it hits my mouth. Compare and contrast [...] Darwin on the Origin of Species : The Atlantic finally opened its archives, and this gem really stood out for me for a number of reasons: 1) it’s a primary source, being the immediate reaction to Darwin’s work in the time and mindset of the people of the day, and 2) it’s so well written [...] How to take control of a massive iTunes music library Not what I expected, but the inspiration for this guy’s approach to dealing with an overloaded iTunes library came from a GTD-like approach to house un-packing, wherein you dump all your moving box contents into the middle of the living room floor and only take [...] Now, it’s time for another episode of “Jakey, it’s time to go to bed” but he doesn’t want to go to bed and so he keeps coming up with excuses to not go to bed. He just wanted to fix Mac, he says. So, he is going to fix Mac and then he is going [...] |
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