September 2011
When Kerouac Met Kesey →
Sterling Lord:
Kesey and the Pranksters, on the other hand, were on an extended high that peaked in New York. According to one of the Pranksters, Ken Babbs, every place they had stopped on the bus trip, they had gotten out their musical instruments, donned their regalia, turned on the cameras and tape recorders, and broken into “spontaneous combustion musical and verbal make-believe...
I’m kind of impressed by this. Pinboard’s developer, Maciej Ceglowski, put out a call to fanfic writers to let him know what kind of features they’d like to see in Pinboard, having all been displaced by Delicious’s shitty relaunch, and hours later they produce this meticulously organised Google Doc with a bunch of great feature suggestions.
I’m impressed that Maciej...
“Xtrafolio is $16.99 in the App Store, which is a bit pricey for this category....”
– TUAW
I’d love to see the breakdown of this expert analysis.
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Week of warm weather forecast for Britain →
Can’t say I miss living in a country where nice weather near Summer is news.
“Sent from Sarah’s iPad that her wonderful husband George bought her”
– Puke
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Tumblr Staff: Blah blah blah →
Staff blog or crappy PR-speak generator?:
A large segment of custom domain blogs experienced an outage earlier this afternoon with roughly 3.5 hours of intermittent availability.
The interruption stemmed from an issue in the way this blog traffic gets load balanced (distributed across our servers). This system has been undergoing a delicate but comprehensive overhaul to handle the...
Heather Reviews "Plastic Beach"
H: Can we listen to Gorillaz?
Me: Sure.
H: ... Richard, is this Gorillaz?
Me: Yep.
H: Are you sure?
Me: Yep.
H: Are you just saying that because I don't know any better?
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