April 2008
34 posts
1 tag
“I love you. You love me. We’re best friends, only on T.V. With a great big hug and a kiss from me to you, won’t you sign my paycheck too.”
March 2008
50 posts
BigDog Beta →
Here is some video of the beta version of the supremely creepy BigDog robot. I think it will take the edge off of my nightmares of giant robotic dust mite overlords.
“In this life, you should try everything once, except incest and folk dancing.”
– Composer and poet Sir Arnold Bax, as quoted on Stephen Fry’s blog (via jonathandeamer)
“If you still doubt the awesome power of the Internet, consider this: it has the...”
– Time Magazine on Garfield Minus Garfield (via marco)
wikinear.com →
Simon Willison introduces his new web application that uses your location according to location service Fire Eagle to display Wikipedia pages of sites nearby. That’s a really cool hack, but what excites me the most is what amazing things can be done, these days, by combining various web-based services with just a little bit of effort. Simon says (I bet he never hears that):
[…] the...
LimerickDB →
Fantastic! Check out the top 150. Thanks to heather-rivers via her interesting Box Factory theme.
“[…] a programmer working as programmers are meant to is always making new...”
– Paul Graham in You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
Note →
Okay. I was a big fan of The Wire. But, come on now…this is totally, absolutely, completely true.
“All Google really wants are broadband wireless networks that cannot discriminate...”
– Breaking: FCC Confirms that Big Winner in Spectrum Auction is Verizon. So Why Is Google Smiling?
Wikihistory →
Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what’s the harm?
(via Simon Willison)
A dramatic representation of my week thus far →
…aaaaaaand scene.
“You know that feeling when you have to pee, and you’re wearing gym pants with a...”
– A girl named Jess
“We are grateful for ink. Always.”
– David Simon from The Wire’s Final Season and the Story Everyone Missed
This quote isn’t representative of the crux of the article. There is, in fact, a giant “but” immediately following. But it struck me all the same.
“Living with a golden retriever means regularly pulling a six inch hair from your...”
Haikuvies →
Movie summaries as haiku, via Kottke. I love this one:
A long time ago
George Lucas made a movie
that didn t suck ass
This goddamn LOST theme gets me every single time.
FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why? →
TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley questions the hype surrounding
FriendFeed. I’ve been thinking the very same thing. It just
seems like a redundant place to view information you’re already
seeing elsewhere. I’ve been slowly removing all the feeds that I
configured under Tumblr for the same reason. Maybe the
FriendFeed advantage is the conversation that coalesces, but I
still think...
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making...”
– A.A. Milne
kottke.org is ten years old today →
He includes a tour of his various site designs and mentions that, around 2003 kottke.org became a bit of a tumblelog.
Hydrogen Cars Are Here. There's just one hitch. →
A fueling infrastructure and commercially viable cars are mutually dependent. We can’t seem to get one without the other.
Some good news from the article: we’re starting to build solar-powered electrolysis facilities rather than consuming fossil fuels to make the hydrogen in the first place.
(via shadowfirebird)
“I just wanted to see something new every day and write a story with it.”
– Augustus Haynes (David Simon)
Griddle 1.0 →
A nice new Tumblr theme from Heather Rivers. I’m going to try it out for a bit while I fix up my own.
Tumblr’s 48 pixel default following portraits ({FollowedPortraitURL-48})—the default ones for users who don’t have a portrait—aren’t working for some reason, though. I switched those out for the 64 pixel ones ({FollowedPortraitURL-64}) which are still...
Dropbox →
Watch the screencast. Humina humina humina.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow...”
– Pablo Picasso (via aatw)
“Twitter is golf for nerds.”
– Merlin Mann
“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand...”
– Thomas A. Edison
Google Contacts API →
Great news via David Recordon. Since the Great PowerBook Disaster of 2007 my contacts have been adrift and unhinged. Perhaps this is the way through.
1 tag
“If Clay Davis used Twitter, would they be tweeeeeets?”
ExpanDrive →
A Finder-integrated application to provide virtual access to SFTP
servers as local disk. In this review, The Daring Fireball says:
For many typical tasks, ExpanDrive is far more convenient and
seamless than a standalone client like Interarchy or
Transmit. You don’t have to worry about uploading or
downloading, it works more like a USB flash drive — you just
save and open files...
Haiku for a new car
Shiny car of gold
Newer than you—the scratch ‘fore
you were one day old
Bugger.
“With Tumblr, I publish more than I ever have before.”
– Marco Arment
In the end, this is what Tumblr is all about, for me. I’ve been “maintaining” a weblog since 2000, when I read an article called The Blogging Revolution by Biz Stone (also a Tumblr user by the by). In the ensuing 7 years I posted a total of, maybe, 20 times.
I tried all kinds...
