July 2008
Vortex Fountain →
Vortex Fountain - best fountain ever.
'Life of Brian' Banned ... Until Now? →
Filed under: Comedy, Celebrities and Controversy, Politics, Religious
One time’s shocking boundary-breaker is a future time’s child’s play. That’s just the way things go. What…
Cautionary →
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“Follow George Orwell’s diary “live” on wordpress.com - shame theyve buggered up the layout somewhat”
‘When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the…
Telescopic Text →
Telescopic Text: simple but hypnotic!
Leandro Erlich’s Swimming Pool →
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wow.
Leandro Erlich’s Swimming Pool installation has been doing the internet rounds forever. Each time I see it I like it a bit more and I can no longer ignore it….
This man is about to show you the future. →
Slides from a 1975 IBM presentation. I have an odd love for minimalist, 70s design. Strangely, the slides also refer to a “data base”, not “database”. I wonder when the single-word form became…
Tenori-On Inspired PacklSound1 iPhone App Coming... →
The Tenori-On is the zany Yamaha touch-based musical sequencer that caught our eye earlier this year, but this cool PacklSound1 iPhone app could very well be the portable version that…
Soviet-era Estonian meat commercial →
Check out this 1980s, Soviet-era Estonian commercial for meat and meat products. Now this is what advertising is about: echoing chants, meat slurry being extruded from a machine, and nervous…
Hahlo - two weeks on since the App Store →
deanjrobinson posted a photo:
Its been two weeks now sine the App Store launched, and with that (unfortunately) it looks like a few people have jumped ship in favor of the other…
AWS Service Health Dashboard - Amazon S3... →
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So turn it of and on again then? - we determined that we needed to shut down all communication between Amazon S3 servers, shut down all components used for request processing,…
Well worth the wait →
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O2, the sole UK network provider, had its site go down hours after announcing pre-booking; the BBC’s technology site is so afraid of looking as though it “favours” Apple in some…
The Sites Drawer →
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I was very pleased all those years back when my site got accepted to the NNW drawer
The Sites Drawer will be gone as of NetNewsWire 3.2. It was a great feature, but it’s no…
Twitter Blog: Follower Stats by TwitterCounter →
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Slowly rising
The dark secret behind iPhone battery life →
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Yes, that IS very much true
Rands on the Twitter: PEOPLE the battery life appears less because YOU CAN’T PUT THE DAMNED THING DOWN. That would pretty much explain it.
Font Conference →
The best joke is the Courier New one.
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Staff Blog / New upload rules →
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Vimeo are approaching a fine line in deciding whats creatively valuable or not.
Use Vimeo to share your videos with only the people you want to. We have a bunch of privacy…
An Ongoing Battle →
Because following another account on Twitter is something you must do with intent, we don’t see the same kind of spam normally associated with email—namely, lots of unsolicited Twitter updates…
Spiced Hams →
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Yes, indeed about fucking time. Ive had enough of being friended by name_3numbers - thank-a-you-very-much.
Twitter continues to suffer load issues. The thing that continues to…
The Rut →
I was trawling through the cartoons over at The Rut last night and was crying with laughter…literally. This morning, they aren’t quite as funny as they were but they are still among the…
Bletchley Park kicks so much ass →
Yesterday, I got one of the best and most memorable birthday presents of my life — a trip to the legendary Bletchley Park, site of the British WWII codebreaking effort, where Turing and co…
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Flower power/acid house mashup album →
Simon sez, “We did a free Summer of Love mashup compilation/album to tribute the first (1968) and the second (1988) Summer of Love revolutions in one. So we mashed Flower Power hits with acid…
Paper-craft Batmobile Recreates Tumbler From The... →
Despite wanting desperately to watch The Dark Knight, I still haven’t gotten a chance to rush out to my nearest movie theater and bask myself in the two-or-so-hours of nerdgasmic delight I know…
Man electrocutes pickle to demonstrate power of... →
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lol, christians are like frying pickles heh
Newsvine - 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G →
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good article
“This is the phone that has changed phones forever,” Mr. Jobs said.
We agree.
WatchOpenMoko Train Wreck on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchMore OpenMoko Train Wrecking (Now with Qt!) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
How Did I Miss This Tripe? →
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Ha ha ha haha
OpenMoko Usability Train Wreck →
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ha ha ha ha ha. ha.
Dave Fayram’s hilarious video demonstrating the OpenMoko user interface and on-screen keyboard. This is the phone the FSF wants would-be iPhone buyers to…
The Free Software Foundation’s Five Reasons Not to... →
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Lulz, Apple being a company and all I cant believe for one moment that they would actually want to make a *gasp* profit - freetards!
They’re accusing Apple of concocting the…
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The Best Stephen King Remake in Years Is on... →
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Gutsy move, interesting short.
Canadian filmmaker Mathieu Ratthe is determined to remake The Talisman, a 1984 fantasy collaboration by Stephen King and Peter…
Notorious H.I.T →
Damn awesome!
● The most beautiful suicide →
On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death. The…
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via bigeyedeer.files.wordpress.com
It all makes sense now. I like gory movies (I... →
It all makes sense now. I like gory movies (I don’t LOVE them), but I HATE musicals. Whew. Almost started killing people for a minute there. (via travors)
Saddam Hussein's Music →
Spotted in iTunes on wifi in the San Francisco International Airport: The plane was boarding and I didn’t have time to open his collection to see what he likes.
Informal Review of iPhone Radio Applications on... →
We take our dog on daily walks so she can eliminate outside of our apartment. Mishka, our dog, was adopted by us a month ago. I’ve had to expand my music library and podcast subscriptions to listen…
The Loopt SMS Mess
merlin:
[previously, on Kung Fu Grippe]
WordPress Plugin: Clean Notifications →
Mike Davidson’s WordPress Plugin: Clean Notifications -
In converting Mike Industries to WordPress recently, one of the things I noticed right away was that the e-mails WordPress would send me…
Hell →
Cream of the App Store Crop →
Cream of the App Store crop. -
Sebastiaan de With:
A lot of great apps are already available, and I wanted to share my selection of fantastically designed and useful apps that you can grab when…