June 2010
28 posts
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (Told you so, everyone who has tried to convince me that our elevators’ door-close buttons did anything.) (via marco)
I am 95% certain that door close buttons actually work in Japan.
“At the end, the reason why I yell all the band names, is because I suddenly...”
– James Murphy on “Losing My Edge”, from yesterday’s episode of Fresh Air with Terry Gross. This is a terrific interview. (via perpetua) (via sleuth)
I listened to the interview yesterday - Murphy isn’t at all what I expected.
“But I wore the juice!”
– Wheeler had walked into two Pittsburgh banks and attempted to rob them in broad daylight. What made the case peculiar is that he made no visible attempt at disguise. The surveillance tapes were key to his arrest. There he is with a gun, standing in front of a teller demanding money. Yet, when...
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How to destroy the earth →
This is not a guide for wusses whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity. I (Sam Hughes) can in no way guarantee the complete extinction of the human race via any of these methods, real or imaginary. Humanity is wily and resourceful, and many of the methods outlined below will take many years to even become available, let alone implement, by which time mankind may well have spread to other...
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leoncrawl:
Holy moly. I’m sure there’s some easy way to turn off the Google background that I haven’t yet figured out but the fact that they’ve hidden it somewhere that’s not immediately visible at google.com is fucking insane of them.
http://www.google.com/trends - Hot Search #2 = “Remove Google Background”
Child Support: The 2k10 Adventure →
Hello friends,
I have decided to try to resume blogging in anticipation of one of the greatest journeys in my life, nay, in American history. Myself, Thomas J. Lawless, Philip J. Daniel, and James M. Wilsterman will set out tomorrow on a cross-country road trip that will redefine the genre and…
You guys should consider stopping by Denver on the West—>East leg! I have a place...
Countering the Perception That the iPhone OS Is... →
mrgan:
I’m in virtually complete agreement with John Gruber on this, and I’m also in agreement with The Small Wave on the point that even if the iPhone OS allowed sideloading, we’d hear roughly the same amount of complaining about the closed nature of this or that Apple property.
I don’t know what all iPhone apps don’t exist today due to the restrictions imposed by the App Store, but I’m not...
hardware question
leoncrawl:
I have a Mac at home and a PC at work. My iPhone is formatted to work with a Mac, but I have mp3s on my PC that I want to put on my iPhone. What do I do?
Put those MP3s on your mac (maybe use Dropbox to make this easier).
Or try mucking around with this: http://www.andrewgrant.org/2008/03/30/how-to-sync-an-iphone-with-two-or-more-computers.html
