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Yearly Archives: 2008

links for 2008-07-09

09-Jul-08

How it turned out
*sniffle* waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah …
(tags: sad powerful amazing cute nostalgia)

links for 2008-07-08

08-Jul-08

Over is Right, Under is Wrong
(tags: funny insightful)

Ron Mueck: Hyper-Realist Sculptor
Absolutely amazing sculptures. Creepy as fuck, but absolutely amazing.
(tags: amazing cool pictures art)

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?
(tags: reference health fascinating)

5 Weird And Hilarious Google Search Results
No. 5 is hilarious.
(tags: funny cute)

San Francisco to vote on George W [...]

links for 2008-07-04

04-Jul-08

OmniFocus URI Handler
(tags: reference apple)

Creeeeepy. Funnnnny.

01-Jul-08

Jesus Crud, I could …
OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets
… feed 21 cannibals.

links for 2008-07-01

01-Jul-08

macosxhints.com - 10.5: Disable shadow in screen window captures
“defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true”
(tags: reference useful apple)

Ironic Sans: Idea: Electric Outlet 2.0
Good idea.
(tags: reference interesting food4thought)

Boing Boing has dipped into its archives and deleted every post about Violet Blue it ever wrote.
Interesting, and more than a little troublesome. There’s anecdotal linkage from blog coverage [...]

Boing Boing Making Former Blog Subjects Nonpersons?

30-Jun-08

BoingBoing seems to have silently removed all posts and podcasts mentioning Violet Blue. Others say it’s not a new phenomenon.
As this blogger notes, a blog is not a public utility, and thus can censor as much as it likes. It’s not a government entity subject to the First Amendment.
Still, BoingBoing, for a very [...]

links for 2008-06-28

28-Jun-08

The Price Of Food: 2007 Versus 2008
(tags: reference interesting)

Rainbow

27-Jun-08

Last Sunday, I was on my way home, having gone downtown to meet Mom for some dinner and a walk around Millennium; she had been in town visiting with her best friend.
On the way home, we had a brief rainstorm followed by the sun coming out in full regalia quite quickly. Hopeful, I looked [...]

links for 2008-06-26

26-Jun-08

Evidently Bill Gates hates Windows, too.
(tags: microsoft hysterical woohoo)

Okay … no kidding here … “David Cronenberg’s The Fly: the Musical”.
Man, they have Spike Jones working with Allan Sherman up there in the Universe Creation department, don’t they?
(tags: weird funny hysterical whaddafuck)

Hybrid Medical Animation | Animation | Interactive Heart
Un-fuckin’-believable.
(tags: amazing science cool webtoy)

Kill It, Lion Jesus!

25-Jun-08

Heh. McSweeney’s does “Lit 101 Class in Three Lines or Less” (via Kottke).
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. LEWIS: Finally, a utopia ruled by children and populated by talking animals.
THE WITCH: Hi, I’m a sexually mature woman of power and confidence.
C.S. LEWIS: Ah! Kill it, lion Jesus!

links for 2008-06-25

25-Jun-08

The 15 Greatest Man-Cries
The fifteen times men have cried and yet most men everywhere agree in each case that it was not a machismo violation.
(tags: interesting funny food4thought)

“¡Díselo a mi brillante culo metálico!”
How to tell someone to bite your shiny metal ass in Spanish. (In case you were watching Futurama in Spain.)
(tags: [...]

links for 2008-06-21

21-Jun-08

What If Your Son Was A Were-Piranha?
(tags: interesting weird movies scifi)

Spoiler-ific Description of the Plot of “Wanted”
This actually sounds rather good. Upgrading my evaluation of its potential likability …
(tags: interesting cool food4thought)

Frank Opposes Obama-Nunn Ticket — Political Wire
“The Massachusetts Democrat cites a number of examples of what he calls Nunn’s ‘real record of hostility’ [...]

links for 2008-06-20

20-Jun-08

Two-person effect using Photo Booth and Preview
(tags: reference cool apple)

gride
“To make a grating sound; scrape harshly; grate; grind. “
(tags: reference useful)

Nuking the Fridge (from “Indiana Jones 4″)
“A colloquialism used to delineate the precise moment at which a cinematic franchise has crossed over from remote plausibility to self parodying absurdity, usually indicating a low point in [...]

The Dark Side of Firefly Fandom

19-Jun-08

The Dallas and Denver coordinators ran off with the profits:
While I no longer have any authority to speak on behalf of the worldwide Can’t Stop the Serenity effort, and can comment only from the combined perspectives of being the event’s founder, part of this fandom, and an observer, I post the following message because no [...]

(Skin) Cancer Cured?

19-Jun-08

BBC:
Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient’s own cells cloned outside the body.
The 52-year-old man involved was free of melanoma two years after treatment.
US researchers, reports the New England Journal of Medicine, took cancer-fighting immune cells, made five billion copies, then put them all back.