Archive for April, 2007

The Best Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs: Scientific Lab Test vs. Incandescent – Popular Mechanics In case you’re in the market to buy new CF bulbs, Popular Mechanics has a good ol’ fashioned scientific showdown to see which CF bulb gets you closest to incandescent light without making Al Gore angry. (tags: home lighting green) Server…

Brand New: Equality is King I love the new “brand” that has been given to King County. (Seattle is part of King County, if you did not know that.) (tags: brand design mlk)

YouTube – BMW M5 vs Audi RS4 This kind of driving is fucking stupid. You could be the world’s best driver with the world’s best car but you’re still endangering innocent people and putting your life in the hands of drivers who just want to cruise from point A to point B. (tags: cars illegal)…

Over at Ze’s Page, there is a modest little post about lip-dubbing. It’s pretty much like lip syncing only you wear headphones to sing along and then completely dub over the audio afterwards with the actual song. Gives it that music video effect. One of the upshots to using an iPod to sing along is…

Gosh, look at the time. – Head Nurse Advice for graduating nurses. I’m sure a lot of it applies to doctors too. (tags: medical advice) YouTube – white and nerdy I know, I know. You may groan at this but the lyrics are actually pretty clever. I likes it. (tags: video humor) Nurse Ratched’s Place:…

Mmm… bossanova. This song has been stuck in my head for the past week and it’s making me walk a little gay. But I’m ok with that because it’s a nice, short song with cute lyrics. Jack Johnson – In Between Dreams “Belle” Oi Lienda Bella che fa? Bonita; bonita que tal? But Belle… Je…

Anil Dash: Is Pidgin the Firefox of IM? I would love for Pidgin (formerly Gaim) to be the open-source poster child of Instant Messaging. If there’s two things I need on every computer, it’s a web browser and an instant messaging client. (tags: im opensource firefox) A Letter on Rape in Prisons – 3quarksdaily (tags:…

Ladies; I saw. After years and years of observing the human race scurry about like cockroaches on a kitchen floor, I finally witnessed a woman sizing up another woman. Maybe I’m slow but I like to think women are extremely subtle about these sorts of things. They simply must look at another woman’s outfit but…

VWvortex Forums: First AutoX At this AutoX, someone was driving a friend’s GT3 and hit the clutch instead of the brakes. He went right off the track and managed to do damage to a Celica, Subaru and A3. Dang. (tags: cars racing) 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will…

Are you missing important CSS classes from your del.icio.us daily blog posting? Classes like delicious-link, delicious-extended and the always popular delicious-tags? If so, you had the same problem I did. This problem is caused by: signing up for del.icio.us’ daily blog posting using WordPress creating a separate user for the daily blog posting setting that…

Flickr: 24 hours of Flickr Chronicle your May 5th in pictures and select the best one to share with the group. You get to see how people live their lives for a day and if your best photo is really sweet, it gets compiled into a book. (tags: flickr photo social) Denver – News –…

There is a certain absurdity in my everyday life that I enjoy pointing out from time to time. Plus, it’s the only thing I can do to entertain myself that doesn’t involve an internet connection. Say I had a time machine and I traveled back about 365 days to find myself. Ikea Instructions by gillicious…

Private Practice (2008) (TV) No no no no no no no. Having a spin-off means that I can no longer take this show seriously. It means divorcing it as a religion and relegating it to mindless soap opera. This has ruined my day. (tags: tv) SNK on Witch Touching Game – Kotaku It’s a game…

YouTube – My baby! Dear. God. Today is a good day to punch your monitor in frustration. (tags: video america)

You guys know the light bulb riddle right? You would have studied it at some point if you are a computer scientist and you’ve ever had to go to a job interview. It is the sort of ridiculous question they will never ever ask at an interview but people believe they might anyway. Vancouver is…

My 6-week journey to the land of thin – TimesOnline Revealing story about Kate taking on the challenge to be stick thin. I think society at large completely underestimates how badly our personality can affected by our diet. (tags: diet women culture) The Morning News – The Adventure of the Missing Stocking by The Writers…

Flash MP3 Player (tags: flash music webdesign tools) Innovative Idea : Magnetic Clothes Hangers Cute idea but it will not be picked up by the OCD sufferers that must have all their shirts aligned perfectly and facing the same way. (tags: design home clothes) mental_floss magazine – How to Win at Rock-Paper-Scissors RPS is a…

It’s black, it’s green. There is big text over there. Most importantly of all: the links are back, baby. I am sure you all missed them, I know I did. I liked sharing links with people. For the first time ever, these links have comments associated so you can write a little about what you…

I have been up to my eyeballs in WordPress lately. And I just want to get a few things off my chest. Theme support is awesomeboat The amount of customization permitted by WordPress is amazing now. Even before adding plug-ins, you can do a lot of things design-wise. I don’t know when someone added all…

quixoticals: The Most Frustrating Super Mario Mod Ever This level is the most evil Super Mario Bros. level ever invented. There is like 25 minutes of dying here. (tags: funny games video nintendo)

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Hey all, I’ve been using del.icio.us lately and here is a dump of all the links I’ve collected in my month and a half of using it. From now on, there will be automated daily postings to this blog of the links that I gather. Hopefully it won’t be too overwhelming. Hardcore Telemarking Opt-out Script…

Dear Jamie Oliver and Italy, Forgive for I have sinned. Tonight I was feeling good so I decided to make a risotto bianco and have something on the side. Unfortunately I was a little short on ingredients so I committed some cardinal sins. I used jasmine rice instead of arborio rice. I added parmesan cheese…

UPDATE: Photos are here. So yes, my parents and I spent the weekend in Vancouver as part of a tour. It was not a fabulous holiday weekend because it seems Seattle’s trademark gloomy weather had migrated north. It was overcast with light patches of rain all day long. It is hard not to have your…

Hi guys, I’m back from Canada. More later. I can’t upload photos right now because my connection is really slow. Hmm… maybe I can sneak into a free wifi bar somewhere and upload. Maybe not. We’ll find out soon. I’m not going to be signing up for internet juuuust yet. Most likely next week or…

Ok guys, I need to find a couch. Criteria: Couch says, “You can crash here! But don’t forget to leave my apartment!” I can eat food there Modern but conservative I can lounge there in extreme comfort Doesn’t kill my budget (it’s an expensive month, yo) They have do deliver to Seattle. No leather. Questions:…