July 2010
5 posts
listening to "Local Natives - Warning Sign" →
I love the arrangement on this old T.Heads song.
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas...
– from this epic Stack Overflow collection of Great Programming Quotes
Discoball Murder Kit at RISE
June 2010
5 posts
The England team visited an orphanage in Cape Town today. “It’s...
– @flosoft
May 2010
2 posts
Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world (found via the mediafront.org demo)
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
4 posts
1 tag
January 2010
7 posts
Probably the best Ghillie-suited marching band video you’ll see this week: OK Go - This Too Shall Pass on Vimeo
Internet Archaeologists Find Ruins Of ‘Friendster’ Civilization (via @aaronwhite)
December 2009
3 posts
Big surf on Peahi (via @russhans)
Exploiting MW2's 'Javelin Glitch' Will Get You... →
It’s just annoying in Team Deathmatch, but it can destroy objective games like Domination and HQ.
November 2009
8 posts
“I’m at the stage now where you get homesick, so you go out into the desert and sort of…stare at nothing. It’s intense.”
Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany (BBC documentary)
Chorus iPhone app: bloaty, useless, and socially...
I gave Chorus a try…so you don’t have to.
Chorus seemed like a good idea when I read about it: iPhone app discovery based on what your friends are using. With 100K apps in the store, it’s tough to sort out the great ones, and I would love to know what my friends are using. But I don’t want to explicitly ask for recommendations, or require anyone to do any extra typing....
1 tag
October 2009
13 posts
Windows 7 Torrenting Party
BetaHouse Recommends
Testing the embedded version of the new BetaHouse Recommends calendar.
2 tags
I feel like I’ve already played this movie, back when it was called Fallout 3. (HT @ebeinke)
1 tag
Adobe can barely write Objective-C apps themselves. We’re still waiting for an...
– Jeff Rock: On Authoring iPhone Apps via Flash CS5 (Chartier beat me to quoting it) (via marco)
1 tag
September 2009
4 posts
Think of it like a movie. The Torah is the first one, and the New Testament the...
– How to Explain the Religions of Abraham to the Hollywood Generation (via azspot)
Of course! Now I understand completely. Any religious discussion that uses the term “retcon” is okay in my book.
(via monkeyairplane)
Rafer sez: Canonical, indeed.
(via rafer)
This is especially incisive if,...
If I were going to start a startup today, there are only three places I’d...
– Paul Graham, How to start a startup, March 2005 (via dancroak)
Reblogging to respond: Kendall has improved in 4 years. Back in 1992 Tech Square was the hottest place for networking startups, but thru the 90s they moved out to the 128 and 495 rings, closer to the CEO’s homes in Lexington and...