December 2011
10 posts
Snobby robbers annoyed by Droids, prefer iPhones →
Today’s secret word is “techno-elitism” (actually, if you follow that link, you’ll find the secret word is a bit more salacious). Whatever your personal views on Android vs. iPhone vs….
Geek Toys : Portal 2 PotatOS Science Kit →
PotatOS au Gratin, anyone? If you missed the children’s Science Fair at Aperture Labs, no worry! Follow the directions and in minutes you’ll turn a mild-mannered Russet potato into your very…
Sketchy Santas: This is Why I Pray to Santa →
The winds of Scotland are waging war on fun and... →
The winter wind in Scotland was angry yesterday, and at the top of its shit list were turbines and trampolines. More »
After Being Denied Food Stamps, Despairing Mother... →
Rachelle Grimmer and her two children were a struggling family living in a rundown trailer park. The Texas Department of Health and Human Services denied her application for food stamps,…
Aaron’s Twitter Viewer →
Not sure how I missed this before: I made this little program so you can view and link to a whole
conversation from Twitter in context.
Example. Pretty sure I prefer this to the aforelinked Exquisite Tweets in every way — especially in terms of information density in the display.
Sketchy Santas: The Season of Snow Pranks →
Kickstopper: paying Hollywood studios to cease... →
The Dork Tower webcomic has a modest proposal: a crowdfunding site called “Kickstopper” that raises funds to persuade Hollywood studios to halt production on tired sequels, franchises, and…
365 rock T-shirts a year →
Amy Seidenwurm says:
Isac Walter has a massive collection of t-shirts, most of them music-related. He puts one on every day, takes a picture of his torso, and posts a story about the…
Imagine If It Were Apple →
John Brownlee, writing for Cult of Mac: Once logged, Carrier IQ then sends all of this data to its own
servers. That’s incredible. One privately held company that
almost no one has ever heard of…
November 2011
12 posts
This is why Christians in the United States drive... →
Obama doesn’t mention God in his Thanksgiving day speech, and they squeal and whine, making it today’s nontroversy.
Keep in mind, he didn’t say anything to denigrate Christianity or make any…
CanvasPop's Instagram prints: Art from your iPhone →
See those nice art prints on the wall in the image above? They were all taken using Instagram on an iPhone, and then printed on canvas by CanvasPop. The canvas prints are a wonderful…
Jay Leno's Chevy Volt still has original tank of... →
What daily driver do you pick when you’re rockin’ a warehouse with over a hundred enviable whips? Well, if you happen to be a famous comedian named Jay Leno, apparently it’s the Chevy Volt. Since procuring the plug-in chariot last year, the late night star has “yet to put gas in it,” despite accumulating over 11,000 miles driving to and from what we’ll assume...
How Storifying Occupy Wall Street Saved The News →
In the dead of night on Monday, November 14, Zuccotti Park in New York City was raided by police. In the preceding days, there were crackdowns at several of the major Occupy protests around the…
Navigon updates iOS app, adds regional map... →
GPS companies are focusing more and more on smartphone apps instead of standalone devices, and Navigon’s no exception — a month after releasing a Windows Phone 7 app, the company’s launching…
HOWTO attain radical hotel-room coffee... →
I travel a lot — book tours, sf conventions, paid lectures, activist visits — and I am no stranger to jet-lag (I even wrote a novel about it). My favored tonic when I find myself restless…
Time-lapse video from ISS →
This is pretty spectacular footage, an amazing combination of profound human impact on the planet, and vast spaces with no detectable human impact.
Time lapse sequences of photographs…
What friends are for: making Simpsons humor real →
A grief-stricken Redditor asked by a friend if there was anything he needed quoted the Simpson’s episode in which Barney’s Japanese girlfriend requests “A single plum, floating in perfume,…
Daily Mac App: Muscle System Pro II →
Back in March I raved about 3D 4 Medical’s Muscle System Pro II iPad app. It’s a photo-realistic 3D atlas of the human body that allows the user to navigate through layers of muscles with…
M Thru F: Laugh Until You Realize It’s True →
Check for your boss before visiting M Thru F!
Via: Dueling Analogs
Google Kills Its Other Plus →
Andy Baio on a recent change to Google’s web search — the removal of the longstanding and beloved by search nerds + operator: Google wouldn’t disclose exactly why they phased it out, though…
Here’s the (first of many to come) voting fraud... →
Here’s the voting fraud story we’ve all been worried about. Via the AP:
Madison County’s top elections official and a school board member are among eight people arrested Tuesday in an…
October 2011
9 posts
Google Reader Getting Overhauled, Removing Your... →
Today Google announced its long-ignored RSS app Google Reader is getting an update. Most notably, it’s getting a fresh new design along the same lines as Google’s other products, like Docs,…
Ball Camera Captures 360° Panoramas When Tossed... →
The ‘Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera‘ is an awesome new camera developed by a group of computer science researchers led by Jonas Pfeil.
The camera is thrown into the air and captures an…
T-Shirts & Apparel : Non-Flammable? →
Stop, drop, and roll. Quick English lesson that’s important for science. Flammable and inflammable are synonyms, not antonyms. You know how you can be “inflamed” with emotion, i.e. “on fire”?…
Swype, The Maker Of Speedy Virtual Keyboards, To... →
Swype has been blowing minds since it first launched at TechCrunch 50 back in September of 2008. For those unfamiliar, Swype is the maker of an awesome app that allows users of…
FREE MUSIC ALERT: SOUTHERN INDEPENDENT: VOL. 3 →
Give Me My XXX is a grassroots movement intended to give “outer-edge” artists a common umbrella to call home as well as a place for fans of a band to try and find other “like sounded” bands….
The Steve Jobs I Knew →
That Steve Jobs was a genius, a giant influence on multiple industries and billions of lives, has been written many times since he retired as Apple’s CEO in August. He was a historical figure…
Kickstarter Hit With Patent Claim Over... →
Kickstarter, which just recently celebrated the 10,000th successfully funded project in its 2.5-year history, is under siege by that most ubiquitous of foes, presently at least: patent…
How Amazon Got Fire (Comic) →
Red Shirt insignia depicts the fate of all... →
Love this Ian Leino Red Shirt t-shirt design, whose Star Trek insignia bears a frank and unmistakable icon depicting the fate of all redshirts in the landing party.
(via Making Light)
Nice guy. →
September 2011
5 posts
Photo of a man in a car in a subway train →
From Reddit. Best guess is that it’s a Kenguru car.
How-To: Roast Coffee with a Popcorn Popper →
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece for credit.com about roasting coffee at home. Today, Craft published a more in-depth piece I wrote about how to do it.
Relaxing in a coffee house…
Family Decals →
Man faces 75 years for recording police →
42-year-old Michael Allison of Illinois could spend the rest of his life in prison for recording police in public. He faces five counts of eavesdropping, a class one felony. Of course, the…
August 2011
4 posts
Ultraminimalist business card →
Boris Smus’ idea for a minimalist business card is brilliant—so long as you’re old enough to have your own name’s domain, but young enough have its Twitter handle! [via Laughing Squid…
Game of Thrones, in the style of Calvin and Hobbes... →
In an inspired recent installment of his webcomic Hijinks Ensue, cartoonist Joel Watson places Jon Snow and some killer Snow Goons beyond the Wall. See also: Calvin and Hobbes,
HOWTO make a metapizza out of pizza-flavored snack... →
Kari Schuster constructed a “pizza” out of pizza-flavored snack-foods harvested from gas-stations and grocery stores. The process stained her fingers orange and clogged her nostrils with the…
Exclusive: Goldman Sachs VP Changed His Name, Now... →
Peter Haller, also known as Peter Simonyi, a former Goldman Sachs VP now working for Chairman Issa to block regulations on Goldman Sachs
Has Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) turned the House…
July 2011
12 posts
Sweet Air FAIL →
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Everyday Carry →
Everyday Carry
Angry Birds on a physics exam →
This was pretty much destined to happen, eventually. The old Wile E. Coyote story problems were getting a bit stale. Via Rishabh Agarwal
Woman Arrested For Being Verbally Abusive To TSA... →
A woman was arrested over the weekend at Nashville International Airport after her refusal to let her daughter be scanned or pat-down turned nasty. “(She) told me in a very stern voice with quite…
Netflix officially separates DVD, streaming... →
Netflix hadn’t hinted at any upcoming plans to change the services it offers, but NewTeeVee spotted an unadvertised DVD-only plan on its site a few days ago, and an anonymous tipster from…
In Midst Of Debt Ceiling Standoff, McConnell... →
Last October, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell confessed that his “single most important” objective was to make “President Obama to be a one-term president.” In an interview on Fox…
Montana governor breaks with Exxon Mobil response,... →
Jim Urquhart/AP
The lousy boom and the paper towels, in one picture.
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer told reporters today that he’s cutting ties with the Exxon Mobil and federal…
Goodies link is down below
longstride:
If you’re looking for the Goodies link on your redesigned Tumblr dashboard, it’s down at the bottom now. I had a hard time finding it. Their help docs need updating.
In fact, I’m pretty sure I had to use Google to find that page. The search on the help site is pretty useless for me.
GOP Lawmaker Refuses To Believe The Fact That Rep.... →
Last month, Salon reported that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is personally invested in a fund that “aggressively ‘shorts’ long-term U.S. Treasury bonds, meaning that it performs…