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Don’t Be Evil
This is an interesting read: Scraping and ad-stripping Google’s results I liken it to a brave little ant picking a fight with an elephant. You applaud the little guy’s tenacity,…
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“This is Method.”
So you expect us to believe that a man used to get mistaken for O.D.B. all the time and didn’t fully take advantage of it? Seriously, if tricking “drunken admirers…
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Woeful Branding
Recent tragedy aside, “Typhoon” is just a horribly unimaginative name for an (albeit yuppified and second-rate) rice rocket. “The new wave of bold style,” indeed. (Note: I’d like to suggest…
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Annotated Command Line
For hardcore Neal Stephenson fans: The Command Line in 2004
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Buddhist HIV Awareness Campaign
“Buddhist monks in Lao PDR have developed a series of posters aimed at spreading love and compassion for people living with HIV and AIDS, while addressing the stigma and discrimination…
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What the internet was made for
Search Google with one of these strings: inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=” inurl:/view/view.shtml?videos= In the search results, you’ll find hundreds of unsecured webcams, many of which are being used as security cameras. BONUS: You…
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Stunningly accurate ego trip
For those who are into the quiz thing, check this one out: Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An…
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Don’t mock the guy in alligator skin shoes
Is it really prudent to enforce traffic with mimes in the “Ciudad de Uzi?” (Via BoingBoing)
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Earthsea: “Not-so-uppity” version
From a young age, I always found solace in science fiction and fantasy writing. I read The Hobbit for the first time in 4th grade, and never looked back. So…
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The War Book
I found another great archive of posts from Iraq by one of our soldiers (now back home): Citizen Frank: The War Book
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Ben Gay, Astro-Glide, etc.
To the Big Ho: I agree that neither Ben Gay nor Tiger Balm is good for the “Nardic Sack” in winter, but there’s no need to have it sent from…
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Events occur in realtime
A blogger killing her mother may seem like a fairly unremarkable event, in the wider scope of things. Posting about it on her blog, however, is a significant variation.
