July 2009
19 posts
“But I have little doubt and some direct knowledge that we’ll be hearing...”
– Josh Marshall, such a tease. Italics mine.
June 2009
21 posts
i demand you watch 'dog day afternoon' this... →
natashavc:
*it’s on the instant-watch netflix thing!
*it’s Pacino before he started doing a Pacino impression. He has an underbite and delicate voice. One of his best performances. It’s all tenderness and nerves. Fredo is in it too! SYDNEY LUMET! You will like him!
*populist rage! brooklyn! i hate this economy! ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
Randomly saw this for the first time in mid-May. ...
xkcd - Idiocracy →
I love this cartoon so much I want to marry it.
Seriously, get to a television and turn on the...
Think Big | SubMerge Magazine →
I like Jesse Hazelip’s stuff.
“One [idea] that has surprised me is the ability to predict the price of a wine...”
– Just a guy in a garage: How Netflix predicts the price of wine
Google Trends: paul erdos, Jun 19, 2009 →
The reason. XKCD has really developed a following outside its original audience if there are that many readers who don’t get this joke.
EFF Busts Bogus Internet Subdomain Patent |... →
The EFF successfully backed reexam and eventual rejection of a patent on internet subdomains, such as tumblr hosting manymachines.tumblr.com. The patent in question was originally granted despite being filed well after the technique was well-known by the technical community.
The EFF does good work, and deserves your consideration.
He has sucked his thumb on three occasions.
Always the left thumb, which occasionally escapes his balled fist and roams free. It happens randomly, when the thumb is loose and manages to snag the corner of his mouth — once it’s in there, he knows what to do with it instinctively.
By now he realizes that the thumb is there, and that it is suckable, but he doesn’t know how to coax it out of his fist. He gums the side of...
giles:
Something that kinda bugs me about Twitter: it only matches the reality of a specific personality type. You have to be someone kinda insular for it to feel really comfortable, and I’m not surprised it comes from San Francisco, because this is really how (I feel) people live in San Francisco. You have some people you’re in touch with every day. Everybody else you ignore completely.
...
Just realized this
If Twitter were to solve their single point of failure issues and add a real channel model, they would have succeeded in re-inventing IRC.
Surely there is an easier way to get to that endpoint.
GfE
goldenfiddle:
Lane can’t touch me on this with his of late vapid dismissals of my taste…
DQN
Haven’t seen GFE, but agreeing with this bit in general, recently.
xkcd - Troll Slayer →
I saw something like this happen once, when the Fires of Heaven Screenshots forum decided to invade some My Little Pony fan forum. Revenge came in the night, in the form of My Little Pony-themed porn. FoH was forced to negotiate a truce.
