January 2010
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A True Story
So there I am, doing the laundry. I empty the washing machine and put most of it straight into the dryer, leaving the rest on the floor where it fell (don’t worry, they were Heather’s). I fill the washing machine with another load of our dirty underwear and shirts and sweaters and various ass-less items for when we have friends over, and some clean clothes, because I always forget if...
“I’m not “sex negative” so much as “trapped like a rat in...”
– Merlin
Oops! Jessica Simpson Farts During Business... →
It’s official: we live in a world where a celebrity farting is news. Congratulations, world.
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Ok, one more thing.
I’m amazed at how arrogant geeks are sometimes. Here’s what happened yesterday: Apple launched a device that is a first of its kind (don’t try and tell me it isn’t, it is), and the collective response was: doesn’t do anything I need, this thing is going to be a total failure. Ok, the collective response was a deluge of terrible jokes about...
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Insanely Good
newsweek:
Summers on the iPad:
The level of tablet hype that Apple allowed to build before today, however, demanded a radical demonstration on day one of what the new machine is capable of.
What? No it didn’t. Apple didn’t “allow” anything: when your company is that good, hype spreads organically, and it’s not Apple’s job to stem it,...
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Predictions!
Cutting it fine here, but I have some Apple Tablet predictions too!
It will be exactly what you thought it would be, and you will delight in telling the internet as much
Tomorrow, the number of Apple pundits on the web will dramatically decrease, but not before tallying how many of their predictions were correct
TUAW will have absolutely nothing of interest to say, and their...
Aberfeldy - “A Friend Like You”
This...
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“It feels kind of rude to be able to hear two people arguing. They’re down there, in the privacy of their own home as far as they know, engaged in this visceral back and forth they wouldn’t dream of having publicly. It’s almost a little voyeuristic, intruding on their most private moments.”
“Will you shut up. I can’t hear what he’s saying.”
Pogo - “Unbirthday”
Although an EP...
“I guess my biggest beef with theism is when it causes one to attribute a very...”
– abcsoupdot
Take - “After Words”
ragbag asked: should women be given the right of suffrage in the united states?
The Title of This Post →
merlin:
“It always takes longer than you expect; even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
— [Douglas] Hofstadter’s Law. Which law governs my life on levels so recursive, fractal, and self-referential that it could only have been described this profoundly by the Gödel, Escher, Bach guy.
See also: Metamagical Themas. Section 1: self-referential sentences,...
It's Tumblr Tuesday!
staff:
You see the Golden Globes on Sunday?
Wow, I thought you might give the misogyny a rest after what happened last week, Christopher.
“I don’t deserve all of this attention! I’m so confused!”
– My wonderful, humble, old wife.
Secret’s out: Surprise dinner party starting up in this hizzy in about 40 minutes for Heather’s birthday, to which ten of her friends have been secretly invited.
Best husband ever strikes again!
Michael Molinari's Blog →
I really enjoy reading Michael Molinari’s blog on Gamasutra. No idea who this guy is, but he claims to be a computer animation major, indie game developer, and shmup expert. His blog posts almost all focus on shmups — he cross-posts most of it to a blog called Shmup Theory — but there are some really interesting things covered, like: lag in video games (from the intentional...
indefensible:
You know I love mashups, right?...
Why? - “These Few Presidents”
My...
nsbarr:
Exploring Tumblr today, I accidentally ended up getting a funny little ribbon on the bottom-right corner of my avatar. This signified that I had donated money to Haiti relief, which I hadn’t done. To remedy the situation, I tried to remove the ribbon. This proved to be impossible. Left with no other options — except hypocrisy — I gave some money to Doctors Without Borders.
A bad...
NYC Explosion in Vicinity Grand Central-NYPD, Mayor’s Office: It’s Steam, Not Terrorist Attack-One Fatality, At Least 15 Injured
The tweet that, as far as I can tell, got today’s party started.
This is funny, because although it’s being reported as a hoax, it wasn’t actually a hoax at all, as far as I can tell. The Grand Central tweets all started out...
I’m so dead – shot by both sides in the website... →
I’ve decided that the biggest issue in all of this is the internet. It’s a monster. An invisible machine over which mankind has absolutely no control. We can’t even turn it off.
Let us start by listing the good things it has achieved. Well, er, it is now possible to find out where James Garner was born without going to the library and order your Sunday lunch without going to the shops. And...
On Facebook and Black Helicopters →
That guy you love to hate, Matt Langer, summarised that whole Facebook hoohah from yesterday. Aside from the revelation that Facebook are spying on you through your iSight, my favourite part of that interview happens to be the same as Matt’s (and hopefully others’):
I trust their instincts, and I think if more people considered the people behind the Facebook operation then the only...
fuckyeahinfo (great place to go for infographics, by the way) solved the mystery!
The first part is correct.
Second part: They — Richard Dunlop Walters with his wife — have been in my “excellent”/”wonderful”/”beautiful” list, but since I never write about that darn list, I never get a chance to tell/talk about those people in that list. The list isn’t very long, there are barely 30 links in it,...
Someone on Tumblr reblogged me and said this, in Russian:
Ричард (nostrich) пишет, что «Guess who». Но мы-то знаем, что наверняка это была Хезер.
(Они — Ричард Данлоп-Уолтерс с женой — у меня давно в списке «прекрасное», но так как я никак не напишу, наконец, про этот чёртов список, то и рассказать про людей в этом списке никак не выпадает случая. Список не очень длинный, в нём от силы...
The Spinto Band - “Oh Mandy”