Archive for July, 2008

Baby’s First Internet – The Morning News This actually sums up all the pet peeves about the internet. Luckily, it’s a big internet so you can ignore the things you don’t like. (tags: fun) StupidFilter Not a joke. It’s like a spam filter but it keeps out the stupid, really interesting if people will try…

Free Money Finance: Our Real Estate Agent Has Never Met Sane People Before Buying a home with your head and not your heart. (tags: money) 42 Kilobytes Unzipped Make 4.5 Petabytes Cute hack. Make a tiny zip file that expands to a ridiculous size. Fun way to take down programs that try to peek into…

Nedroid Picture Diary – Downtime This is my idea of porn. (Totally safe for work.) (tags: comic)

KODAK Zi6 Pocket Video Camera Pay attention to this. A pocket HD camera for $180. (tags: video wishlist) FUCKING NDA A site dedicated to all the tweets about Apple’s iPhone NDA. I understand the pain associated with it but do you really get to complain when you voluntarily signed the legally binding document? (tags: apple…

The WVb » Corn Fed Venison – It Looked Good On Paper! “I took a step towards [the deer]…took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope and then received an education.” (tags: funny) YouTube – Feist on Sesame Street Whilst very endearing for my inner child to watch, I just miss…

Inappropriate movie soundtracks (kottke.org) I loved the Terminator 2 one. Monsters Inc was way too obvious. (tags: video music funny) Office of Strategic Influence – Friday on my way home from work… Man stops a lady from walking in front of a bus and then pretends he is from the future. (tags: funny)

Paradise Unpaved | Franke James Someone in Toronto dug up their ripped out their brick driveway because they no longer wanted a car. Then they planted a flower and herb garden in its place. Beautiful. (tags: environment) YouTube – ‘Coal’ by freeloveforum “My friend has a pool.” (tags: humor video) Seattlest: Tomatoes in, Jalapenos Out…

“You prefer a magic trick, instead? Watch me make this pencil disappear.” Uh huh. I’m still on hiatus but this movie rocks so please add your spoiler-iffic thoughts in the comments. If you haven’t seen it yet then we aren’t friends anymore. You’re demoted to a frenemy.

Report: 1998 Was Ten Fucking Years Ago Seriously, what the fuck? 1998 was just yesterday. It moves too fast. (tags: humor audio)

Full List of U.S. Store Closures All the mermaid stores that are closing down. Here’s hoping they turn their brand around so that Starbucks doesn’t become synonymous with Wal-Mart. (tags: business) TurboTax® – Learn How Employee Stock Purchase Plans Impact Your Taxes Erk. I hate taxes. (tags: money) Twitter / Craig Hockenberry: Apps remain active…

Terminator Salvation trailers and video clips on Yahoo! Movies I never would have thought to cast Christian Bale as John Connor. Considering what a blech movie T3 was, I’m surprised he signed on. Well, here goes nothing. (tags: movies video) DirtGetsWet » I Kissed A Girl…And I Liked It! The Statue of Liberty kissing Lady…

If you’ll allow me; a declaration. Michael Scott declares bankruptcyI miss The Office. Come back already. I have nothing to post these days so I’m going to take a break. This is not so much news to you as it is to me. I post so infrequently that you won’t even know I’m taking a…

I said I would revisit buying the iPhone in a month’s time so here I am. In terms of coolness, I want the iPhone 3G more than ever. It lives up to the expectations I had, the App Store looks like it’s the bee’s pajamas. My one reservation would be the battery life. I never…

The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOURCE » Break Up Card Simple, effective. (tags: dating) The Boys and the Subway – Niemann Opinion Art Blog – Abstract City – NYTimes.com (tags: parenting fun) The most beautiful suicide (kottke.org) “On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer…

Salon.com Technology | Ask the pilot The TSA’s security checks are fueled by fear, not logic. It’s moved from comically absurd to tragically absurd. They’re a disorganized, bureaucratic mess. (tags: america) Patton Oswalt’s Speech to his high school Brilliant speech but like all speeches of this genre, I can’t help but wonder how much is…

Sentry Gun: Some Guy Went and Built a Sentry Gun You have got to be kidding me, this is so hilarious. Some genius built an auto-targeting paintball gun. Autonomous. Seriously. (tags: fun video)

iPhone or Millionaire? – Joy of Tech I too am struggling with this. (tags: apple comic humor) WordPress For iPhone « WordPress for iPhone Good to know this exists. I hear the Movable Type iPhone app is very slick. (tags: apple blogging) Tangible sequencer interface with Skittles – Hack a Day Drum sequencer that uses…

Jack: Want to hear a bedtime story? C: Sure. Jack: Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named C. C: I don’t like this story. Jack: And she ruled over her people with an iron fist. C: Yup, don’t like it. Jack: Then along came the handsome knight, Sir Jack… and he slay…

Video: cat delivers letters | Japan Probe Aww. This cat delivers letters between two houses: its original owner and another house that adopted him (or maybe he adopted them). (tags: cats) kottke.org on Twitter (kottke.org) “Never will kottke.org updates be pushed automatically to my personal Twitter account. I am not a dick, I would never…

I was going to enumerate every single thing I ate on this trip but I realized I didn’t take photos of it all. So instead, I’m just going to post photos in chronological order and write a little bit about each. Eat with your eyes and whatnot. Note that I don’t know the Korean names…

Op-Ed Columnist – An Ideal Husband – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com “But you can be deeply in love with someone to whom you cannot be successfully married.” (tags: advice dating) Jake’s Webbed Journal – The Cat Googler Simple prank to pull on someone’s computer when they go out for lunch. (tags: fun) In what was probably…

Your Dress Would Look Better On Me: Courtney Watches Wall•E Trailer For what it’s worth, I cried like a baby during Wall-E. Nobody in the theater noticed but I was a mess. (tags: video movies) YouTube – Airline Security – EMD Safety Bracelet Jump to about 4:00. This is the new Taser Bracelet that people…

Hey, distracted spunk? I’m sorry. We were chatting yesterday and I just stopped replying and then disappeared offline. What happened? Oh well, I freakin’ fell asleep. At 3pm. At work. (Hey! It’s performance review time!) When I’m tired, I have that fucked-up sleepy logic. I tell myself, Oh, I’ll just lay my head down for…

AppleInsider | New and old AT&T iPhone plans compared, cost increases detailed [u] This is crazy expensive. :( (tags: apple money) Neatorama » Blog Archive » Who Owns What on Television? (tags: tv) Your Last Girlfriend (2008) (tags: humor dating) YesButNoButYes: Segway Disasters Err not really “disasters.” People on Funniest Home Videos have more spectacular…

I am back in Seattle. There’s a whole bunch to say but I’ve been saying it to friends and I feel like I’m repeating myself sometimes and, oh, I don’t know. I’ll upload photos instead. Keep an eye on my flickr stream. Basic run down of the days: Arrived, ate huge Japanese dinner and fell…

“Mojo The Teller” – A classic Bearskinrug Article. Remember having to use the bank teller? (tags: funny comic)

A Whole Lotta Nothing – My cousin’s wedding hack Two artists get married and instead of the usual gift registry, they had a silent auction for artworks to raise some money to buy their first home. (tags: wedding)

Image Fulgurator It detects a camera flash and then projects its own flash in the instant that it expects the camera to take a picture. Very fast, very sneaky, amazingly creative. (tags: photo fun) Hedgehog Launch | Armor Games Flash game to kill some time with. (tags: flash games) Sea-Tac Airport: Parking at Sea-Tac Whenever…

Freedom Bridge at Imjingak It took a little bit of cajoling to get Diana to agree to take me on the South Korean DMZ tour. I couldn’t understand why, I expected the tour to be this huge insight into the tensions that exist between North and South. I expected to find something there. Really, when…