March 2009
215 posts
“i wanted to see if she was human”
– Rob, explaining his motivations for a hookup
February 2009
225 posts
Matt Welsh is blogging! →
He was my professor for systems programming. And his favorite music website is Pitchfork? Crazy.
I'm obsessed with DropBox →
Awesome file sync software that runs unobtrusively in the background and keeps a set of folders sync’d to “the cloud”, your other computers, and (if you set it up) your friends. Also includes a “public” folder you can use for drag + drop web hosting.
Sign up through this link to increase my storage space quota :-)
“Fans of indie-label bands may claim that their distaste for major label artists...”
– Learning to Love Hootie and the Blowfish by Ted Friedman
cool
knickknack:
2arrs2ells:
blazamos:
mollybierman:
so I just noticed that google reader now embeds tumblr audio posts directly into your google reader feed (as opposed to how it was before where it was just the text - no allusion to the fact that it was an audio post even, other than the fact that there were usually musical artist names somewhere in there, that is - which was always sort of...
Translating "The Economist" Behind China's Great... →
Like fan translations of anime, except with potentially huge socio-political ramifications. Another great article by Andy Baio.
cool
blazamos:
mollybierman:
so I just noticed that google reader now embeds tumblr audio posts directly into your google reader feed (as opposed to how it was before where it was just the text - no allusion to the fact that it was an audio post even, other than the fact that there were usually musical artist names somewhere in there, that is - which was always sort of awkward and confusing)
also,...
“Left work early to do coke and masturbate with the dismembered vagina of a...”
– An update from Patrick Bateman’s Twitter (can someone say movie night on Saturday?) (via myumbrellaiswet)
Physical characteristics of the Buddha →
The Buddha would totally have been beat up in a high school locker room. Some highlights:
He can touch his knees with the palms of his hands without bending
His sexual organs are concealed in a sheath
His body hair are separate with one hair per pore
He has a large, long tongue
He has a white soft wisp of hair in the center of the brow
Smokey the Bear Sutra →
By Gary Snyder
(via my Buddhism course pack)
amandatong:
“Philosophy” - Ben Folds
He played...
Gawk'd →
Thank you Gawker for saying the things we all want to say, but can’t.
WatchThe Boy Least Likely To - A Balloon On A Broken String
I can’t wait for their new album! They also just put out a video for Every Goliath Has Its David (the other half of their “Double A-Side Single”
Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 →
messianictime:
2arrs2ells:
givemesomethingtoread:
Local business owners say Yelp offers to hide negative customer reviews of their businesses on its web site … for a price.
I’m not sure what to make of this. Something is definitely sketchy - six sources seem to agree that ad reps have promised to make negative reviews disappear. But the evidence that this actually happens (and the...
Is "scarf rock" an actual genre? →
“I’m easily distracted, so I have to draw the circle very small so I can step out...”
– WWdN: In Exile: what to expect if you follow me on twitter (or: how I’m going to disappoint you in 6 quick steps)
So sound.
(via sleuth)
I really, really want to have a beer with Wil Wheaton.
songpong:
Lost+ - Coldplay, ft. Jay-Z
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In which [2arrs2ells] unmasks the dude (likely)... →
hid:
2arrs2ells:
The IM worm hit my GTalk contacts pretty hard… so I looked into it a bit. Ended up leading to a 3-4 hour investigative journalism adventure with phone calls to lawyers and a path that led to a dude in San Francisco.
Tell me what you think of my newswriting! I’m going to try to write a bit here about old media/new media, and what it would have been like if I’d Tumbl’d this...
How to properly insult someone
williblog:
Via William Shakespeare, King Lear 2.2.13-24:
OSWALD
What dost thou know me for?
KENT
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in...
How Twitter was born →
Great telling of the origins of everyone’s favorite nano-communication tool.
(via WWdN)
In which I unmask the dude (likely) behind the... →
The IM worm hit my GTalk contacts pretty hard… so I looked into it a bit. Ended up leading to a 3-4 hour investigative journalism adventure with phone calls to lawyers and a path that led to a dude in San Francisco.
Tell me what you think of my newswriting! I’m going to try to write a bit here about old media/new media, and what it would have been like if I’d Tumbl’d...
Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 →
givemesomethingtoread:
Local business owners say Yelp offers to hide negative customer reviews of their businesses on its web site … for a price.
I’m not sure what to make of this. Something is definitely sketchy - six sources seem to agree that ad reps have promised to make negative reviews disappear. But the evidence that this actually happens (and the other claims - like the one...
FDR's Harvard digs
williblog:
The Crimson has a fun profile of FDR’s luxuriant Harvard dorm, now being preserved. It gives some insight into the wealthy young man who would become the populist president, and of the severe social stratification that once was at Harvard:
Well-heeled freshmen, including Roosevelt, enjoyed the luxury of Gold Coast dormitories—ornate, privately owned residence halls that often...
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What's cooking? →
givemesomethingtoread:
The evolutionary role of cookery.
Richard Wrangham is the man. He also proposes that cooking is one of the reasons for the sexual division of labor we see in almost every modern + hunger-gatherer society.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Ramones...
