January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
9 posts
Why is luxury pronounced with a G?
Yugodrom →
November 2011
10 posts
A New Path
parislemon:
Almost exactly a year ago, Path first launched. I remember the initial response being highly mixed. Some found its smaller network refreshing. Others thought it was just about the dumbest thing they’d ever seen. Something about it struck me. Not even the product itself as much as the core concept behind it. And I took to this blog to write as much.
A year later, Path was never...
…one of the great social pleasures in my life has been to leave gatherings or...
– What I Didn’t Write About When I Wrote About Quitting Facebook (via nevver)
October 2011
8 posts
Here’s a little video I made on my iPhone called “Death of a Salesman”
2 tags
We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back. We think it’s benign. But we...
– An unnamed source familiar with a virus that’s infected America’s Predator and Reaper drones tells Wired it’s ”logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.” Sweet Jesus. (via newsweek)
Um, all our base?
September 2011
2 posts
4 tags
July 2011
5 posts
Roman dodecahedron →
bestofwikipedia:
A Roman dodecahedron is a small hollow object made of bronze or stone, with a dodecahedral shape: twelve flat pentagonal faces, each having a circular hole in the middle which connects to the hollowed-out center. Roman dodecahedra date from the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD. The function or use of the dodecahedra remains a mystery; no mention of them has been found in contemporary...
3 tags
June 2011
4 posts
May 2011
20 posts
TweetDeck is a great example of a third-party developer that designed tools for...
– Twitter Blog: All Decked Out
Um, isn’t that an incredibly ironic statement?
RT @brainpicker: What’s your college major worth? http://j.mp/mRR60P
Trying to cheat the system so I can check out my geek cred http://t.co/hbTPL9T via @coderwall
RT @GeorgeTakei: Irony: Gov. Schwarzenegger vetoed same-sex marriage bills twice to protect sanctity of marriage. #HastaLaTrystaBaby
I hear this band is playing live on Saturday, can’t wait to see them http://t.co/B5e44Ry
William Gibson’s cyberpunk classic ‘Neuromancer’ may finally get to screens http://zite.to/m94a7Q via @Ziteapp
RT @davidbgk: Inspiring terminal display, the future of Terminal.app? http://t.co/pSyXaot /via @rgaidot
Dear Arnold: Thanks for nothing. →
motherjones:
Sincerely, Kevin Drum.