Category: Web

What’s up with this error message I’ve been getting all day?
“del.icio.us is down for maintenance. we’ll be back in one hour.”
One hour? Why so specific? Especially if it’s obviously not true? Maybe I’m being tough on them, but this has never happened before.
I just remembered why I’m so irritated at Yahoo… It was that whole turning over private information that led to one of their users in China being jailed thing. They can try and justify that by saying that’s the price of doing business, but that makes them no less responsible or morally lacking. Hmm… Back to Furl?

How much did Yahoo pay for your del.icio.us bookmarks?
Here is a good answer, if not a very specific one: LINK
Yahoo now owns both my photo archiving account (flickr) and bookmarking (del.icio.us) account. Google owns my main webmail account (gmail). In the future, companies will buy and trade your everything. Maybe that’s just evolution… For now though, I have a fuzzy ball of lint in my pocket that I rub when I’m nervous or stressed out, and it’s ALL FUCKING MINE, BABY!

Okay. Pay attention.
THIS IS THE FUNNIEST VIDEO I’VE SEEN FOR MONTHS.
That is all.
Note to self: Find out more about “Japan Culture Laboratories”

Those of you in the states may have already seen this Spike Jonez commercial for Gap, but it deserves linking anyway: PARDON OUR DUST

With all these recent posts about Snow Crash, I was wondering when an actual Rat Thing sighting would surface on the net.
Go check it out.

This is what a $150 electricity bill can do for you in America:
Part 1
Part 2
That would cost about $400/month in Japan.

I just love stuff like this: Name the Mystery Fish
My bro, Adam, is kind of a fish otaku…
Ko used to work fishing boats, so for all I know he may have caught one before…
I have a funny feeling that one of my readers can solve the mystery – go take a look!

This is the film that started the whole “Getaway in xxx” genre (plus the driving scenes in Ronin, I’d imagine, as well as that promotional short for the 350z that Nissan did a couple years ago).
Check it out: LINK
I recommend you download the movie to your computer before watching it (right click & Save as…) because the server can be a bit pokey. I figured out a fun game to play while watching this movie: Count all the Citroen 2CVs!
(via mefi)

Oh my GLAM.

Check out this awesome gallery of improbable airplane runways.
(apparently, some embedded ads on that page are NSFW)
(via kottke)