August 2009
51 posts
Google Chef in Top Chef Clam Embarrassment...
BookishLookish: That's gonna haunt her like a bad clam.
Lymed: @BookishLookish: I hope she doesn't keep her emotions clammed up inside her.
SalomeSandwiches: @Lymed: I'm sure she can mussel her way through the bad press.
Martiniman: @SalomeSandwich: I'm sure the media will give her quite a shell-acking.
Smitros: @Martiniman: I hope she has a good cry with her mother-of-pearl and moves on.
SalomeSandwiches: @Smitros: I agree. I hope it hasn't affected her marriage. If she gets divorced over this she should sue for abalone. She shouldn't ask for too much, you don't want to come across shellfish.
Smitros: @SalomeSandwich: Part of the problem may be conjugal. She may just want to cuttle.
Botswana Meat: @BookishLookish: For some reason, I'm not surprised she goes for the bi-valves.
Mo MoDo: @BookishLookish: She does look a little shrimpy for a chef.
Smitros: @Botswana Meat: Would this make her a scalloping gourmet?
“Music can lift us out of a depression or move us to tears —it is a remedy, a...”
– Oliver Sacks (via hrrrthrrr)
Min-Kyu Choi's Folding Plug System →
Pure genius – by a design student at the Royal College of Art. I somehow missed this while it’s been circulating online since.. April-ish? (via HN)
Come on Apple, you can beat your own UK plug USB Power Adapter!
“In addition, other work by Van Boven suggests that experiences don’t usually...”
– Happiness: A buyer’s guide - The Boston Globe
Steven Brill: New York City's worst teachers. (The... →
The Rubber Room: the battle over New York City’s worst teachers.
The Longest Poem in the World →
The site takes realtime public tweets and selects those that rhyme! Growing at ~4000 verses/day.
Marco.org's Official Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard... →
marco:
But there’s no reason to rush the upgrade and be among the first to hit compatibility problems. Day-to-day use is almost unchanged from Leopard. That’s a good thing, but it won’t make for a flashy release. Upgrade when convenient. No rush.
(emphasis added)
“For dessert, consider the durian ice cream, made from a Southeast Asian fruit...”
– Picnick’s $8.50 Barbecue Sandwich Is Way Bad Bliss: Ryan Sutton on Baoguette Cafe
“I am the Queen of Spades. I equal the entire suit of Hearts.”
– seen on MSN.
Infiltrating a Botnet →
Cisco Security Intelligence Operations chats with a botmaster.
Automatic Font Activation on OS X
OS X Font Book help:
“Automatic font activation: Select this checkbox to enable fonts on your computer whenever they are needed by an application, even if you haven’t installed the fonts using Font Book. For example, if someone sends you a document that uses a font you haven’t installed, but the font is in your Documents folder, Font Book will find and enable the font so the document appears...
Why we don't use Galileo's last name. - By Brian... →
Galileo Galilei.
“To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of...”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson (via leprintemps) (via mylive)
marco:
Tech geeks are terrible at knowing what they want from technology. (A faster horse.) It’s embarrassing, because we’re supposed to be the experts. But we suck at this. If you listen to geeks, you get products targeted at geeks, usually at the tremendous exclusion of design, usability, marketability, and usefulness to regular people.
Then, when someone shows us what we really want but were...
“While Microsoft’s Windows Enthusiast wags desperately try to make the iPhone...”
– Microsoft’s Outrageous Office Profits — RoughlyDrafted Magazine - no wonder those two are so bloody expensive.
Hacker News | Ask HN: Trivial etiquette question -... →
“Life is a confluence.”
Presentation Zen: 11 ways to use images poorly in... →
Unfortunately, these still happen too much.. all of them.
Blog of a Stanford PhD turned taxi driver →
(via ndoo)
Meritocracy
Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success | TEDGlobal 2009
You know, in the middle ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an “unfortunate.” Literally, somebody who had not been blessed by fortune, an unfortunate. Nowadays, particularly in the United States, if you meet someone at the bottom of society, they may, unkindly, be...
“If men can run the world, why can’t they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent...”
– Linda Ellerbee (via simko)
“You [Sarah Palin] have no idea what it’s like to be called into a sterile...”
– Southern Beale: Don’t Talk To Me About Death Panels
“The free market sees taxation as damage and routes around it.”
– /.
“When you’re in IB, the phrase “I got five hours of action last...”
– Seen on Facebook
WatchPeter Belanger | Blog | MacWorld cover creation
of bears and hugs
Questionable Content 1426
Angus: Wait, how do I know yer not just exaggeratin' this so's I don't try and get with her?
Angus: F'rall I know yer still holdin' a torch.
Marten: Dude, if a park ranger warns you about the bears, it ain't 'cause he's tryin' to keep all the bear hugs for himself.
Super speed: a brief history of USB 3.0, 2007-2018... →
A pretty interesting history, and predictions for the future.
B: [text removed]
A: ...
A: you're scaring me
A: why are you hitting on me?
B: but you're nice to hit on
B: all soft and pokable
B: and huggable
