April 2009
82 posts
Adam St. Patrick Observes a Public Beheading in... →
I love how short this piece is.
Mommy, why is there a server in the house? →
rocketboom:
It’s just like trying to answer “mommy, how are babies made?” except with a server.
The book is out of stock at Amazon, but there are some sellers. Edit: To be clear, this was an odd promotional endeavor for HP, which sells one of the more practical/useful off-the-shelf servers. It’s like a Time Capsule for Windows.
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This Day In History: Gorilla Goes on AOL
HaloMyBaby: A basic earthy question for Koko from Earth2Kim: Koko, what is your favorite food, fruit, or vegetable? DrPPatrsn: Ok…she’s thinking… LiveKOKO: I like drinks. DrPPatrsn: What kind are your favorites? LiveKOKO: Apple drink.
Today’s Wired: This Day in Tech recalls the days when AOL would hold celebrity chatroom events, specifically this one from 1998...
“Vinyl sales grew 15 percent in 2007 and 89 percent in ‘08”
– HUH? This bump has prompted Best Buy to start carrying vinyl in about 100 stores across the country. Right, so since people don’t buy CD’s anymore they are instead buying vinyl? I don’t even know any DJ’s that still spin records in the days of Serato. (Link) (via deleteyourself)
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WatchIt makes no sense, but they were able to squeeze every token bad-comedy-trailer effect into footage of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Graphical indicator of travel time from a given... →
This is righteous for apartment searching.
(via wwjzd)
Watchsimko:
Video for Passion Pit’s The Reeling…
Electrifying all the way through.
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WatchCreep - Radiohead
9 St. Marks Place
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Someone scanned a copy of David Simon's pitch for... →
In the beginning, there was Detective McArdle and Stringy Bell. More @ kottke.
Although the mayor supports medical marijuana, Newsom has said he does not favor efforts to legalize pot, and his office was noncommittal about the proposal for the city to sell it.
“The mayor will have to hash this out with public health officials,” press secretary Nathan Ballard said. “It’s the mayor’s job to weed out bad legislation. And to be blunt, this sounds...
Bird laughter from my window.
Watchshaneguiter:
TED Talks Shai Agassi: A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars.
Shai Agassi says it’s electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020.
How nice it would be if Better Place’s successes began with this publicly available academic pitch.