July 2010
9 posts
RT @justin: “Rescue Me” is an AA meeting with fire.
Last of our 4 govt subsidized digital TV convertor boxes died today after 12 months of use. The 9 year old TiVo is still going strong.
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Kate insisting we listen to the Sirius 80s station as we drive thru rural Nebraska is causing me to have powerful high school flashbacks.
I just earned the Discoverer Pin on @gowalla! http://gowal.la/r/HVU5
You were doing it wrong | Ask MetaFilter →
Great (long) thread.
Now http://twitpic.com/22p2z8
WatchLightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! (by Craig Shimala)
June 2010
18 posts
RT @RyanNewYork: My friend Joe @Rospars reminded me that it’s been 7 years since Howard Dean announced his candidacy for President - Jun …
did we just have a mini-quake? #btv
WatchWhat if Carter had been relected and the NREL in Golden, CO had been funded at NASA like levels in the 80s? A thought experiment.
I wish their “projects” were tied more into current technical reality and extrapolated to what they would look like after 30 years.
Sascha Pohflepp - The Golden Institute
RT @ryansholin: Not only was Manute Bol an incredibly tall basketball player and nice guy, but he’s the origin of “my bad” http://p2.to/TDZ
RT @fivethirtyeight: I’m not the first to point this out. But right now, the Big 10 has 12 teams and the Big 12 has 10 teams.
RT @textfiles: By the way, does anyone in the world look at Carly Fiorina’s history with HP and goes “man, good job - now go into politics”?
Glee and copyright →
everything the actors do on the show would be illegal in real-life, like every cover on YouTube [via]
When my 3yo’s toy train tips over, as he loads it up again, he says “Buffering.” As in waiting for a web video to load…
WatchSTEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 (by Peter Samuelson)
jimray: Understanding Paul Thurrott →
To date, attempts to categorize tech pundits have been met with resistance. I had a revelation skimming Paul Thurrott’s thoughts on the iPad, published a mere two months and 2 million sales late — Paul represents a new category of technology writer.
But first, a bit of background. Some find…
WatchHOVERBOARD - NILS GUADAGNIN (by nils guadagnin)
May 2010
29 posts
Canada is on fire. And Vermont now has a smokey maple flavor.
RT @pattonoswalt: Dio, Coleman and Hopper. The angels are very confused right now.
RT @SpillBabySpill: #BP wants Twitter to shut down fake account mocking them. Twitter wants BP to shut down #oilspill ruining the ocean.
Still amazed I can see weather radar for my exact location in less than 5 secs. We are living in the future. http://gdzl.la/85hbLa
WatchLost’s Unanswered Questions
This isn’t even all of them.
Touched the remote and had a #lost orangey time flash where I saw 40 min into the future. I am both happy and annoyed at the ending
Fin. Let us never speak of this again. #Lost
Watching Tivo’d pre-#Lost at 2x speed. Cute but nothing useful.
RT @LiberalHitGirl: I didn’t look today, did the free market clean up the oil yet?
WatchMatt Haughey at Gel 2010 (by Gel Conference)
Quality over Quantity: How We Built iTeleport into... →
WatchMesmerized (by David Lanham
) Watch it in HD on Vimeo
“Here’s the process for a full vector drawing where I don’t really have any preconceptions, just having fun and seeing where the drawing takes me, I picked a base color and ran with it. This is shown at 1200x actual time, speed up from about 4.5 hours of drawing.”
Final drawing: dlanham.com/art/mesmerized/
May 16, 2010 →
So tiiiired… but, tomorrow’s vid is so goooood.
RT @barkingmoose: Avoid Facepalm with Faceblock from @incanus77, a utility to block FB tracking when you’re not on the site: http://bit. …
Adobe®: We Love Choice →
valhallaisland:
The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications.
The free Mac OS X Developer tools (that require an $800+ Mac computer) are the only way to produce iPhone and iPad applications.
Both systems are as closed as each other.
Adobe claims Flash is open.
Apple makes no such claims. If you want to make iPhone or iPad apps you use Mac OS and Xcode, take it...
RT @big_picture: Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico - http://b.globe.com/9NfTFs
Taxes at Lowest Level Since 1950 →
USA Today: “Federal, state and local taxes — including income, property, sales and other taxes — consumed 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950, the Bureau of Economic…
Incision →