April 2009
83 posts
What do entropy, evolution, general relativity,... →
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“I feel out of touch constantly. But I generally have a sense of who is beloved....”
– Leon Crawl
March 2009
84 posts
everything is an obscene horror
(keyholez)
Almost certainly the title of an eventual ZIzek book.
The Dalai Lama has better IT security than many...
Researchers from the University of Toronto have discovered an online spying operation that has infiltrated in excess of 1,200 computers in over 100 countries according to a report today in The New York Times.
Dubbed GhostNet, the operation is notable. Not only can it phish for information, it has remote access capabilities that can quickly and easily turn any computer into a giant listening...
Where the Wild Hipsters Are
ohwayuphigh:
[…]
6. It’s based on a sort of creepy and dark children’s book, which is also a thing that people who are cool like. Creepy and dark are both so in. In a lighthearted way. Just like zombie cupcakes. Or whatever.
You know you want those fucking cupcakes.
maybe I'm just old-fashioned
keyholez:
If you have a lot of short-term liabilities set off against long-term assets, then it’s only a matter of time before someone wants their money back, and then you die. That’s just a bad way to organize a finance system. But we prefer telling a parable about greed and excess to rolling up our sleeves and building something new.
Literally!
(Apparently people who work in finance are...
ShamWow Guy Beats Up Cannibal Hooker →
[via Gawker]
Nick Carr is sort of a jerk sometimes
But in a good way:
The new issue of Wired has a nifty little article by Rex Sorgatz (wasn’t that the name of Julia’s rich dickhead husband in Brideshead Revisited?) that provides a flowchart-styled guide to the blowhards of the Internet. Sorgatz manages to squeeze me into the group, smackdab between Michael Arrington and Jeff Jarvis. I am, of course, at once pleased and humbled to be...
James Brewer suffered a stroke and, thinking he was dying, confessed to a murder he had committed thirty years earlier in his hospital bed. Like the majority of people who suffer stroke, he recovered and has now been charged with murder. [#]
“…construction has ceased on half the unfinished towers that stretch out...”
– [#]
W. Ellis: “Man, Detroit is turning into the new EVERYTHING!”
Watchebulia:
“everyone keeps calling me s”
@adrianeq
Why do your articles (any only yours) have ALL CAPS headlines?
Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State,...
“A surgical team from Italy have just reported that they’ve altered human...”
– (Mind Hacks)
WatchHDR photos of abandoned elder care and mental health institutions in Britain (Mind Hacks)
IMPORTANT INTERNET NEWS
So, this DISQUS thing. Perhaps I just wan’t paying enough attention but I never thought much of it until I found out about the new feature set they’ve debuted on the social media blog Mashable!:
Go on, Tweet this post. Or share it on Friend. Or post about it on Blogger, Movable Type, TypePad or WordPress blogs. Or link to it from a Flickr comment. Or comment on the story on Digg. Or...
“Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it...”
– (#)
“I am a communist. The difference between myself and a Bolshevik is that I want...”
– Adolf Loos, via the epigram of this pretty good blog
I guess Edward James Olmos doesn't like Obama?
Eddie kept pitching me that they come to Earth in contemporary times, and everyone’s cheering and happy, and cut to the White House and the President goes, “Nuke ‘em!” And they destroy Galactica — cut to credits. And people say I’m dark! (#)
“Crybaby Atheists Upset Over Battlestar Galactica Series Finale”
– Headline, ChristWire.org
100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your... →
What kind of crazy goals do people have these days!?
Oh, it explains some of them:
Twitter Analysis If your goal is to be popular and influential on Twitter, be sure to check out these tools that will tell you how you’re doing.
Information Gathering With these tools, you and gather information for market research, blog posts, and your own simple curiosity.
Network Building & Management...
Gmail gets "undo send" feature →
Military Laser Hits Battlefield Strength →
4/28/2008
hartman:
fiatluxemburg:
elsam:
[discussion of austria and austrians]
Another main thing about Austria is Freud…
ahem…
What’s his relationship with incest?
4/28/2008
elsam:
+Jess: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/world/europe/29austria.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin it’s just…well. creepy as hell. Elsa: god so awful (why do these things seem to happen so often in austria?!) +Jess: I know! (haha, umm…the guy on the BBC this morning asked the same question…or, he was like “is there something about austria that makes these...
Florida state wildlife officials are taping magnets to poor crocodiles’ heads when they catch them in people’s yards or wherever they’re not wanted […] Magnets attached to the side of their heads throw off their internal navigational system, which it’s believed is based on Earth’s magnetic field, so the crocs don’t return to where they’re...
jlovett:
I don’t know what this means in the larger context of competing cupcake ideology, but the new Google Android software is called cupcake.
“The changes introduced in the cupcake branch have been merged into the master branch, preserving all of the previous commits to master. The same will happen for each future drop to cupcake…The Android team has begun pushing these changes...
“In other words, Nancy Pelosi is the only person in the history of recorded time...”
– Intern Juli
