Archive for June, 2007

YouTube – iPhone’s first scratch/crash test ever! -iPhone Stress Test Every expensive device should be put through a similar scratch/drop test. Luckily there are lots of people that want to embarrass Apple and lots who want to silence the doubters so consumer tests like this will always be widely available. (tags: video apple)

Seattlest: Desperate Seattleites Ask: Which Gender is to Blame for my Loneliness? Generalizing dating in Seattle. Erm… this may or may not be relevant to my interests. I am about 2 drinks away from blaming all my problems on the opposite sex and devoting my life to knitting (nah I’m lying, I hate knitting). (tags:…

Hi guys, I have probably not mentioned this to the large majority of you but I’m taking a vacation to Japan in November this year. I’ll be going for two and a half weeks. That means I won’t have any leftover vacation time to make a trip back to Australia to be reunited with the…

YouTube – NES Bad Dudes ending Clearly one of the best video game moments ever. You save the president from ninjas and then he invites you out for a burger. (tags: gaming video) That Ain’t Art: Time Newsflash: the kid on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind is older now. That means you are officially old….

5½ lessons that legitimate retailers can learn from pirates [dive into mark] It is a genuine problem that pirates treat their users better than the movie studios do. There’s (currently) very little incentive for pirates to fuck their users over. (tags: drm movies) YouTube – Singing Tesla Coil at Duckon 2007 Making music using huge…

Seriously, I don’t know why you all start blogs that you are never going to keep anyway. Instead, you should sign up for Twitter and then add me to your friends list. For those of you that don’t keep up with the internet’s social technology, Twitter condenses the world of blogging into the size of…

New Australian Anti-Speeding Campaign Hits Below the Belt I think it’s an interesting way to get through to young people. Who knows if it will work though? (tags: advertising) Paris Hilton released from jail (kottke.org) When asked how she felt, Paris responded, “:-D” (tags: photo culture) Mullet : hookermedia.com (tags: funny) Ironic Sans: She’s a…

Simple Homemade Chicken Stock Using a Supermarket Rotisserie Chicken ∞ Get Rich Slowly (tags: cooking) Cult of Mac » Blog Archive » Waiters Wanted Ads on Craig’s list to be paid to wait in line for an iPhone. (tags: apple) Stevey’s Blog Rants: Rich Programmer Food Must read later. I’ve always thought compiler contains some…

O’Reilly Network — How to Build Simple Console Apps with Ruby and ActiveRecord I’m slowly moving from console scripts to console apps in Ruby. Database capabilities in the command line sound like a neat idea. (tags: ruby programming) front.jpg (JPEG Image, 1499×1159 pixels) Fun facts about dinosaurs! (tags: funny science culture image)

People, Please comment on this thread. Please. I am holding an informal survey to see how many people read this site. If you read my blog, leave a comment. If you don’t want to leave a comment, then I’m going to have to ask you to leave. Today’s topic is: The Importance of Being Paris…

In German crash test, China’s Brilliance BS6 sedan fails miserably – Autoblog Um. Do not buy this cheap car that looks like a luxury sedan. Although I’m sure the insurance companies will thoroughly destroy the any would-be owners before the engine gets a chance to crush your legs. (tags: cars)

Hanging out with David is fun. During his whirlwind 2 days in Seattle, we seemed to reach all sorts of conversational highs and lows. The highs because he’s doing a lot of study in the Web 2.0 stuff that I live and breathe and lows because he will not let any double entendre slip by…

Ok, so I signed up. I didn’t really want to but I did and it’s done and let’s not go over it again. One of the annoying things about F***book is that it finds a way to dredge up all the old high school people that you never really liked. I mean, sure, we sat…

YouTube – Daft Hands – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger I think this is user-made. It was done all in one take, no tampering. Watch until the words come in, it’s a lot of fun. (tags: video music) YouTube – Microsoft Surface Parody “One day, your computer will be a big-ass table.” Freakin’ sweet. (tags: video…

the original sushi pillow by Cindy and Mel (tags: cute food pillow wishlist)

The Dilbert Blog: The Day You Became A Better Writer Some quick and simple ideas on how to tighten up your writing. (tags: writing) YouTube – Real Transformers More accurately, real peopl dressed up as Transformers. (tags: video geek) Steam-Driven Dreams: The Wondrously Whimsical World of Steampunk Retro-futurism. Steampunk stuff looks so freakin’ badass. (tags:…

A Beginner’s Guide to Once-a-Month Cooking ∞ Get Rich Slowly Cook all your food for an entire month? Might be possible. Even the TV chefs say there are certain base ingredients that you can safely store in the freezer. (tags: food cooking) sweet sweet coffee (tags: shirt funny) http://www.wrongwroks.com/shopping/stuff/items/paris-tee.htm This photo is hawt. Umm, the…

Projectionist: A tumblelog Multi-touch computer interface for $2. This is a brilliant hack. (tags: geek)

Wow. This movie may be Michael Moore’s most important work to date. If you haven’t heard, Michael Moore’s SiCKO is a movie that examines America’s market-driven health insurance system and the glaring lack of universal health care that the majority of other developed nations provide. Michael Moore’s introduction to the movie and a call to…

Bigger Than Cheeses – My webcomic will knife fight your webcomic A day in the life of CSI Miami’s David Caruso (tags: tv comics) YouTube – CSI Miami – Endless Caruso One Liners I’m not sure if I’ve linked this one before but it’s funny (and painful). It’s a collection of all the stupid opening…

Rent-a-goats gain foothold – News – MSNBC.com Using goats to clear invasive and unwanted plant growth. Save money! Woohoo! (tags: environment) YouTube – Biggest Hit Songs of 1999 (That Didn’t Reach #1) Nostalgia Alert! I would be happy if pop music just stayed in 1999 forever (ok I lie). (tags: video music) YouTube – Britain’s…

I think I’ve probably been thinking too much about Forza Motorsport 2. One notable aspect is that all my metaphors are now based around car racing. Whether I’m dealing with the absolute clusterfuck that is human relationships or pontificating the appeal of open source technologies to start-ups, my mind wanders to metaphors about friction, cornering,…

A Craigslist Wedding » The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century Two gals who are very much in love head up Toronto to make it official. After posting a Craigslist ad, they somehow ended up being married to a live accordian version of Praise You. (tags: culture love) How to Convert Color Digital…

Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” on the theremin – Projectionist: A tumblelog God this instrument is freakin’ weird, haha. It sounds like someone with a muffled voice is singing. (tags: video music)

What have I been up to lately? Pfft, sweet fuck all. I am enjoying playing Forza Motorsport 2 though. I’m enjoying it so much that I look at roads and try to draw imaginary racing lines. But I’m not in anyway a good fast or knowledgeable driver. Just today I realized that AWD makes things…

Forza Motorsport 2 – Force Feedback and Forza Motorsport 2 An interesting discussion of Forza 2 and the thought that goes behind generating the tactile feedback to the player. Who knew that it would be some complicated? (tags: games cars) Apple – Safari 3 Public Beta Apple announced a public beta of their web browser…

Videos Treadmill Bike www.gozino.net Treadmill bike: what the Segway should have been. (tags: video funny) Optimash Prime Mr. Potato Head Transformer | Uncrate Sweet. (tags: fun) Al Jazeera English – News – Indian Slum Girl ‘Makes Good’ Pissing off your family and working your ass off to get out of the slums. (tags: culture)

Egyptian Ratscrew FINALLY. I’ve been trying to figure out the name of this game for ages. This is the game where you have to burn the deck if you get three 6′s in a row. (tags: card games) Wii Dildo (PNG Image, 348×551 pixels) I don’t know what this is. (tags: wii nsfw) “I’ve got…

“Oh that’s right, they’re closed for the holidays.” Cafe Stax, easily the favorite haunt of the LMS team during that final year of uni, had shut its doors for a few weeks. I remember I stopped by months before during the mid-year break and the owner lamented how business suffered when the students were away….

I think I’m going to change the way I start that first conversation with strangers here. So far it’s “Oh I’m from Melbourne. Yeah, I’m here for work. I’m a programmer. I make computer programs.” And then people make a half-assed attempt to relate to the job of programming. Something along the lines of, “Crushing…

The AfterEllen.com Hot 100 List | AfterEllen.com Hot women as nominated by lesbians. Less-than-typical choices that I totally agree with: Tina Fey and Kate Walsh. I would recognize more of these women if I watched The L Word. (tags: women gay) Stanford JGuide – Japan > Cell Phone Rental (tags: japan phone) Graffiti Friday: Mix…

Question Authority with Dr. Peter Rost: Michael Moore on Oprah about his movie Sicko Sicko, like Michael Moore’s other documentaries, features a brilliant cause worth fighting for. Now if only we could all get over our collective distaste for Michael Moore and some of his publicity stunts. (tags: movies video)

So, like I said, this design ain’t working. And I thought, what about a two-column design? I like the links that I post and I’d hate for them to be ignored so they should have a prominent position. Plus there are a lot of them so they’ll take up a lot of space. On the…

Crazy Apple Rumors Site » Blog Archive » Friday Feature: Crazy Apple Help Desk. Why people buy Macs. (tags: humor apple)

Ok, I’ve very obviously made a mistake in this latest blog design. Because it’s a pain in the ass to read the front page. I had no idea I would link to so much (really good) shit. Any ideas?

YouTube – Pac Man The screams of terror are freaking hilarious. (tags: video humor games) 25 Rockin’ Soundtracks Page 1 25 best movie soundtracks ever? Hrm, maybe. The ones that I have from here are pretty good. (Sorry Lachlan, John Williams is not listed. These are not the soundtracks you are looking for.) (tags: music…

random-045 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! “MODELS FEMALE: For artistic nude photography. Aged 18 – 24. Slim, attractive earn from $300 – $4000. Cash paid on day of shoot. Many projects to choose from. Beginners welcome. Privacy Assured.” You have got to be brave (or dumb) to answer this ad. (tags: funny)

Parenting Lessons from Animal Husbandry | GNMParents – Parenting Tips, News, Discussions, And Diatribes If you think about it, babies are about as close as humans get to being very animal-minded. (tags: parenting)

Zen and the Sweet Basil || kuro5hin.org (tags: cooking food) YouTube – 55 Miles Per Hour 55 miles per hour is pretty slow for a freeway. Most people do 60-75. Here’s what happens when you are dumb enough to get 1 car in each lane do 55 mph. Just skip to 3 minutes, 38 seconds….