January 2011
23 posts
A Rose Scented Conditioner By Any Other Name Would...
My wife Arin has used the same hair conditioner for about 15 years: Herbal Essences by Clairol, and more specifically, the one with Rose Hips, Vitamin E, and Jojoba.
A couple years ago Clairol discontinued the line. They stopped making her favorite conditioner, which was crushing for her. For a while you could still find it in the store shelves, so it was okay. After that inventory got scarce,...
Wish List: Photo Printing Service Built on Dropbox...
Deal Internet,
Here’s the problem: lots of people in my family still prefer printed photos to digital ones.
I’ve been using iPhoto’s Order Print functionality to send family members printed copies. This doesn’t scale well, both because they don’t get the exact pictures & sizes they want and because I have to pay to order 12 copies of every cute photo.
No...
Port to Google Voice?
Dear Internet,
When I get a Verizon iPhone, should I get a new phone number, then port my old number to Google Voice? Or am I going to regret that?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
Why Renting Can Be Cheaper
Maybe I’m just an idiot, but I never really understood why renting can be cheaper than owning.
We all know mortgage payments can be higher than rent payments, but aren’t you building equity instead of “throwing your money away”? That’s the point I’ve never quite understood. But cm pointed me to this very simple explanation, which I will dumb down even...
Keanu Reeves says the Wachowskis have plans for... →
We’re basing about 90% of our new car choice on this fact alone.
“Who has?”
– Joseph Heller, when told that he never wrote anything better than Catch-22
My Year Of Everything →
This guy’s idea is brilliant:
You know how every non-fiction book in the last three years has been about the author doing one odd, life-disrupting thing for one full year and then writing a book about it? I’m reading one of those books a week for one full year and then writing a book about it.
(Thanks, Texas John)
Apple’s Diabolical Plan to Screw Your iPhone →
I might be willing to forgive this diabolical plan because “pentalobular” is the coolest new word I’ve learned in 2011.
“You driving around with a wife, two kids, 3 chickens, a dog, and a bag of...”
– Tonblr
Good Bye Nard Dog
We’ve had our car, the Nard Dog, for about a year. It was a small, beat-up 2003 Ford Focus hatchback with manual transmission. I love that little car.
On Monday afternoon, we’re driving down St Marks place and pull over in front of a hydrant to run a quick errand, about 1 long block from our apartment. I turn the car back on and click-click-click. Dead alternator :(
Arin walks...
Email to Web Service API?
I would like a service that does the following:
Give me a unique email address
When i fwd something to that email address, it sends an HTTP POST to a specified web service w/ the subject, body & attachments
Recently I’ve come up with a few problems that this solution could solve really easily:
My bug tracking software has a great API. I would like to fwd customer service requests...
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - The... →
Great article for your Instapaper. (thanks Freedom)
(via Instapaper)
“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Discover Magazine
