May 2008
107 posts
“For the past several weeks, Twyman has assembled a group at a soup kitchen in...”
– Activists holding group-prayer at gas stations pleading for divine intervention to lower fuel prices. There are so many things wrong with this.
“It’s the 21st century, there’s not going to be a year in which it’s harder to...”
– Cory Doctorow (via poortaste and marco)
Stupid Secretary WTF →
Must.Follow.Procedure.
I am a post-coital idiot
hugehuge: Recumbent 3 a.m. conversation a few days ago: She [sincerely and without warning]: I’m attracted to everything about you. Even the Darth Vader sword hanging on your wall. Me [thinking]: Oh my god, that’s the sweetest thing anyone has said to me in a very long time. Me [out loud]: Correction: it’s a lightsaber. Haha, excellent.
“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as...”
– Carl Sagan (via jasedit)
New Weezer music video is filled with your... →
marco: (via tylerriewer) Weezer’s new Pork and Beans music video incorporates lots of YouTube viral video stars. Very Internet People-esque. I tried to embed this, but apparently embedding has been disabled for this video. STUPID. Who made that call? Why would you ever want that? Why refuse free publicity?
Niko Bellic actually from Pittsburgh
Ok, he’s actually from Maryland but I just learned that Michael Hollick, the voice of Niko Bellic, star of GTA4, is a Carnegie Mellon alum.
Coldplay - Viva La Vida You’ve probably...
Watchcaryatid: I’m a Marvel…And I’m a DC from yoyoyo Hilarious.
FF3
I installed the Firefox 3 release candidate the other day and so far I’m pretty impressed. The update went super smoothly with my closed tabs and everything being remembered. Truthfully I haven’t even played with many of the new features yet but the performance difference is vast. It may however be a bit exaggerated since most of my extensions are now disabled. I’m taking...
“I just don’t want to work against an Obama candidacy.”
– John McCain’s chief media adviser Mark McKinnon He added that if Obama were to reach the White House, it “would send a great message to the country and the world.” Source: McCain adviser steps down to avoid working against Obama
Florida Bar Finds Jack Thompson Guilty on 27... →
Security through politeness
I had left Firebug open while browsing the Tumblr dashboard and noticed that in the request to load an audio file there is a parameter titled “plead” with the value “please-dont-download-this-or-our-lawyers-wont-let-us-host-audio.”
Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars →
Further proof George Lucas has gone completely bonkers:Lucas had commissioned Jeb Stuart - who wrote the script for ‘Die Hard’ - to write his version, which saw Indy go up against Russian agents and had a climatic battle scene between the US army and alien flying saucers.Maybe that’s why the crystal skull looks like an alien. Read the leaked script here. [via]
joelaz: Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra - Hey Ya...
Web hosting
bg5000: So i’m putting together a web site for me and Whit’s wedding and i was wondering if anyone had any good web hosting companies they could recommend, as i know pretty much nothing about this sort of thing. The site isn’t going to be to complicated; just pictures, directions, news and details about things going on in the city that weekend (about 3/4 of the people attending are coming from...
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nstrich: oh man i just blew the best smoke ring EVER
nstrich: but it was a complete accident and i can't do it again ;_;
ghostvirus: perfection is attained without one's foreknowledge, and can rarely be attained again with conscious effort
ghostvirus: omg, someone write that down
ghostvirus: it sounds like a zen axiom
nstrich: i just googled that to see who said it
nstrich: google said "ORIGINAL GHOSTVIRUS CREATION, FAGGOT"
ghostvirus: win!
nstrich: impressive
ghostvirus: i do my best thinking while intoxicated
“On the one hand, vegetarianism is healthy and humane. On the other hand, bacon.”
– Gruber. (via travors)