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Umbrella Today? : Here. You can check it yourself and then you can txt me if I need an umbrella. What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com : This is a series of charts worthy of Tufte.
THIS was Punky Brewster? [via Dwyer & Michaels :: 2Dorks.com] This thing arrived in a Happy Meal(tm) today. Are you kidding me that no one thought this was a little too throbbing gristle for McD’s? DFL : Ya gotta love the DFL list. Even moreso that the people keep trying. I mean, if I got ALL THE WAY to the Olympics, I wouldn’t give up no matter how badly I was doing. That’s the true Olympic spirit.
Double-Taker (Snout) This thing is so cute, I want to have one. SongMeanings : Finally, someone put this together. Now I can know who Howard the Duck was hanging with when he stayed. 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony : I watched the opening ceremony on TV, but my reception was lousy… the pics here do a great job of getting up close and detailed views into the ceremony. I hope they publish more. Arrested Development (2009) : Back from the dead? Srsly, why are programmers so lazy? If you’re coding up a web site that is collecting credit card numbers, why does your expiration date dropdown include the years 2003-2007? You’re not going to accept anything that’s earlier than this year, so why put it there? If Judge Judy was around in the 70′s would we have seen Sid opposite? Some years ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. Apple has a lot of work to get MobileMe working as advertised. Little, if anything, works as flawlessly and quickly as their video overview would have you believe. MailRarely, if ever, syncs the state of the messages. I read messages on my iPhone, but the read status doesn’t get to the mac. The web app [...]
Now that is Subtle! Moreso than the “Pointers and Setters” I recall from Le Pissoir Publique at the Double Hex.
Jake just took another art step today (after having drawn 3D last month). He drew shadows coming off of real objects. This is even without the benefit of sun to help. This one is the lawnmower. from Shouts and Murmurs, by Simon Rich, who also has a whole book out called “Free-Range Chickens”
The Rolling Bridge and other Heatherwick Designs I read about this in the New Yorker, and was so interested in the description that I had to look for an actual photo of it. And so… True, true. http://msftextrememakeover.blogspot.com/2008/06/eight-years-of-wrongness.html marco sez: It’s 93 degrees outside. I’m comfortably sitting inside, with air conditioning, drinking hot coffee from the roaster downstairs. I love my life. So that’s where the hot is. It’s sure not in Seattle. 50 degree days are the norm lately, peaking around 60. I suppose it’s the global warming and all, weather starts [...] Sync iPhone with Google : Wowee. Just in time for Mobile Me. Using Truecrypt to Encrypt Your Entire Hard Drive : Now that Customs is hot on getting access to computers that go across borders, this is a fun and flexible way to crypt your entire disk. Steganography for Dummies : Given my line of work now, things like this are of more than a passing interest. The ECC Blog : Every now and then TradeMark G shows up in my inbox, and he’s always interesting. Nice hair, Mark! Benjamin Bratt For Terahertz Computing Hackintosh : Now if Apple would stop being such pussies about other hardware platforms, we could see Windows and OSX compete on merits alone. jakoblodwick: It seems like most Tumblr users are Mac people. But there must be some PC/Windows Tumblrs out there. If you are a Windows user, can you explain why in a reblog? … In my case, [...] I soon enjoyed being a computer user without needing to be a computer expert anymore. Not [...] Photoshop Disasters : Hilarious, in some cases. How not to photoshop things. Puzzlin’ Evidence : Here’s a fun “Olla Podrida PLEXUS Puzzle”. Our rescue cat, Spike, has grown from a skinny, scrawny little runt into a massive tabby/tiger that can nearly suffocate me when she crawls onto my chest while I’m laying down. In the winter, she’s taken to growing an extra belly that flops from side to side whenever she runs… it’s quite mesmerizing, really, to [...] TagCrowd : Saving off this little nugget so I can tagcrowd my next test spec. Surprise Scrabble Gram : If you’re having trouble decoding, start with ‘B’ Free Programming Tips are Worth Every Penny. : Awesome thoughts about coding that everyone should read, at least, everyone that codes. And tests. MusicIP Mixer : Quite possibly THE thing that will help me sift through my music collection. This app does a complex analysis on a music file (complex being proprietary and mystical), “fingerprinting” the song for later reference. You then pick a song, and the app generates a playlist of similar songs, or songs that you [...] If a demon lover visits you in your sleep, it’s said it’s either an incubus, or succubus, depending on your gender. The etymology of incubus comes from the latin “I lie on top”, and correspondingly a succubus lies underneath. What if the demon does a Reverse Cowgirl[nsfw], then? Does the succubus become the incubus? [...] Cracked : I can’t believe that I haven’t spent more time on Cracked. It used to be the sadder cousin of Mad Magazine, but boy did it hit the web in the right way. I laughed and laughed… The Qualthog is the traditional first visitor of New Years. The tallness and darkness factor of the visitor determines your luck for the rest of the year, taller and darker means luckier. The internets, infinitely wise and wide, have no mention of this. Google returns no hits, even Live Search is at a loss. It’s [...] BLDGBLOG : A fascinating blog about various buildings, architecture, and landscapes around the world. It’s going on my regular reading list.
Why I’m going back to XP Years and years of MSFT never having gotten backup right has made Symantec and plenty of other backup providers very rich. In Vista it’s no different. I attempted to backup my system today, and got this dialog. I’ve searched the web and all the online help for and [...] The muse awakens: Happy The Man : 30 years after their heyday (I’m not counting the mediocre middle albums), Happy the Man returns with a decent offering, and it’s on MP3, too! Wii Oldster Bowling : Funny how this came up yesterday in a conversation I was having with Terri, and then this article appears. The universe is telling me something, but I don’t know what it could be… Secret Amazon Discounts : From DealLocker, via InterestingDrug. It’s a good reference to know how to bend the amazon search engine to your will. we make money not art : I’ll have to come back here and look around some more. Paleo-Future : “A look into the future that never was”. I can remember some of these predictions from the 80s and 90s. We thought we were so smart… Medical myths — hydration : Ha! I knew that 8 glasses of water a day was bunk! Fimoculous.com – misc – Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading : Here’s how I found Tumblr
Giraffe, complete The Giraffe and friends are complete. There’s perhaps some tung oil that has to be applied, but it’s otherwise done. I only cut myself 4 times while making this. All told, it took 18 months to finish this, not because it was that tough but because the kids took up most of [...] |
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