December 2008
89 posts
“Wind chill values as low as 3 below.”
– Conditions & Forecast : New York (11217)
If there wasn’t snow/sleet on the bridge right now, I would totally bike to work in this. I have an awesome outfit.
My New Years Resolution: Only listening to show tunes. As performed by high school theater depts. http://tinyurl.com/8fxat2
“Birthday: January 4, 1924”
– My cousin Sherman’s Facebook profile.
He friended me this morning. At first I laughed a whole lot: Cousin Sherman is on Facebook‽ What’s next?
But it turns out he’s been active on Facebook since last April. He just hadn’t bothered to friend me until now :(
Of all the studies comparing the TCO of a Mac vs a PC, none factor in how hard it is to clean a shattered jar of salsa out of a Dell.
NPR’s Technology Pick of the Year:...
My projector bulb died :( Any recommendations for an inexpensive HD (720p) projector?
Twittering with a picture & geolocation. First time. http://twitpic.com/wltz
“Going through your parents liquor cabinet isn’t as exciting when...”
– Mike Sabat
Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer...
Homer: Well, there's not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol is sure doing its job.
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, sweetie.
Lisa: Dad, what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers.
Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work. It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: I see.
Lisa: But you don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.
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I've been thinking about making an iPhone app called Rock that keeps tigers away. Would you pay $0.99 for it?
“International Early Lung Cancer Action Program began a 12-year study to examine...”
– Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer
I can’t believe Arin got into Wired before I did!
CyberCrime & Doing Time: More than 1 Million Ways... →
This is a pretty clever hack. Quite scary too!
Microsoft has since fixed the problem on their end impressively quickly, and most of the offending pages have been removed from Google’s index.
A Cure for Canker
I’ve gotten canker sores since as long as I can remember. They are incredibly painful and such a nuisance.
About 6 months ago, based on a recommendation from some random person on the Internets, I switched to using a sodium-laurel-sulfate-free toothpaste.
SLS is the chemical in toothpaste that makes it foam and gives you that fresh, clean mouth feeling. I have to say, I do miss that...
“I am so excited for all the fun you will have with goo. Love, the sign writer”
– Arin on Lori’s Wall.
Wow. My wife just made a video game reference in real life. I’m speechless.
I’ve finally decided on my nerdcore DJ name: “Master Branch”
Bicycle Commuter Benefits Act →
$20 a month tax free for riding a bike to work starting in 2009! w00t!
Results from the iPhone's new rate-on-delete...
marco:
The new rate-on-delete popup in iPhone OS 2.2 has already destroyed the average for Instapaper Free.
Before 2.2, it was a solid 4.5-star average (the same as Instapaper Pro). Since then, very few written reviews in the App Store have been added (about 10 of the 180 total in the U.S. store). And if you look at the written reviews (sort by Most Recent), they’re overwhelmingly positive,...
Does She Love You? →
Working at Mobile Commons is Funny Sometimes
Mal (on IM with his wife): Can you please look at my Facebook wall and see if I donated $5 to "Shave the Bears"?
Mal: My boss wants to know.
“I don’t care if you cure cancer, save global warming and win the superbowl, you...”
– Life and Life Only
Expecting to see a lot of Tumblr & Twitter posts this week that include pictures of childhood bedrooms and boring stories about quirky parents.
I might have to unsubscribe for a week.
Bageltique in Park Slope makes an AMAZING Steinwich (http://steinwich.org)
RT @mobilecommons We just open sourced our legislative lookup tool, find congressional & state legislators by lat/long: http://bit.ly/mHv5
With this RSS feed, I never have to look outside again: http://tinyurl.com/537zo6
“We officially have a robot dog!”
– Arin, on Kugel’s new implanted RFID chip
BBC News | Mice Suspected in Deadly Cat Fire →
“It’s unfortunate and ironic that mice caused the fire that killed the cats” -Toronto Humane Society spokesman Ian McConachie
therealfirstworldproblems:
We keep a corporate [company name redacted] Tumblog. We recently started pulling in the posts to display prominently on our company home page. I was accidently logged in to the wrong Tumblr account when I posted a picture of a hippo butt. It’s now on our company’s homepage. Also, there’s a bug in Tumblr’s API; they don’t seem to expire their cache properly. I...
It's break time!
AllyB:
Last night was my last night of classes for the first semester. I cried when I got home. It felt good.
That was probably very confusing for your husband.
An Egg With No Shell!
One of our chickens laid an egg without a shell this morning! It’s really freaking weird. It holds its egg shape, but it’s really soft and see-through. I’ll post a picture later.
I googled a bit and it’s probably one of two things: a lack of calcium (doubtful since all the other chickens are laying OK) or shock. Evidently getting scared (e.g. thunder, crazy beagle...
Today was One of those Days...
… in which I refresh Tumblr over and over in the hopes that Kennyb or Kennyf might have posted something. Sigh.
Wow. @malmckay has been surfing Facebook for the ENTIRE DAY!
Mobile Commons’s Project Ligerhorn is coming along really nicely. Looking forward to a public release this week!
Dark Energy Stunts Galaxies’ Growth →
“After bulking up rapidly in the first 10 billion years of cosmic time, clusters of galaxies, the cloudlike swarms that are the largest conglomerations of matter in the universe, have grown anemically or not at all during the last five billion years.”
Jesus. And to think I was upset about the brief flurry of snow in NYC this afternoon.
Twitter Search: "it's snowing" near:10007... →
An RSS feed of this search + Google Maps Street View… There is very, very little reason to waste effort turning my head to look out the window these days.