April 2008
jwz - Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day! →
Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!“In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project, home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online. It took some doing. There is comedy. # Download Quad650.zip and MacStartup.img from Redundant Robot (a Mac ROM and disk image of MacOS 7.5.5). # Launch “BasiliskIIGUI”. Under...
joshua's blog: stupid internet joke day →
“While I might occasionally notice interesting inconsistencies in the structure of the world and phrase them into semi-witty banter, I know in my bones that I am not a funny person. So when I realized that tomorrow’s imminent arrival of Stupid Internet Joke Day (was: April Fool’s Day) would require the avoidance of all unnecessary internet contact, it also occurred to me that I...
Watchzadi sez let’s go by Steve Woolf
March 2008
Muxtape embedded in your tumblr
wizzninetynine: I’m in love with Muxtape and i thank JSTN for that great service! I spent some hours now to develop a possibility to embed my Muxtape in my Tumblr. Fortunately it works! I guess that JSTN has planned to develop such a function later on, but meanwhile you might want to use my little javascript. To embed it you just need to add the following code to the description of your tumblr...
“Yes, big business sucks. We all know it. But the question is: what does our...”
– -Bubblegeneration: A Wake Up Call For The Venturescape Missed this a couple of weeks back.
WatchHey! Chelsea and Julie are in this video!
Aggregating & blasting on the content graph →
jamiew: “What we’re aiming for here is a good cat-to-#FF00FF ratio.” Weekly art-n-tech videoblog Epic-Fu’s latest post talks about personal content aggregators like FriendFeed and SocialThing,… JamieDubs uses cats to explain the mess that is the social graph/content graph.
The Story Behind the "Free Public WiFi" SSID →
“The answer to why this SSID seems to be everywhere can be blamed on Microsoft, more specifically a Windows feature called Wireless Auto Configuration (aka Wireless Zero Configuration). At one time or another somewhere out there someone connected to a real WiFi network that had the SSID “Free Public WiFi”. They added this network to their preferred network list. They then traveled to a...
Watch‘Perfect Strangers’ on Vimeo (via Vimeo)“So, Justin is moving to Sacramento for four months - he came by earlier to hang out one last time before the big move, and when he first showed up, he was in a pretty bummer of a mood from a bad day. But, we decided to make a video together and ended up with this… cheesy awesomeness… 80’s style, baby.”...
Interview with Marisa Olson - we make money not... →
“Before meeting her, i had always imagined Marisa Olson to be an hyperactive blond girl running around the internet playground.” (easily my fav Regine intvw intro ever.)
WatchCardboard Tron found via the Epic-Fu Blog.
College Basketball rickroll is fake →
jamiew: BREAKING NEWS: College Basketball Game Rickroll is fake, edited together by a random college student. And, uh, no one is surprised. Except, you know, the New York Times, and LAist, and… Tonight is FULL OF FAKE!!!
Black Sheep - Flavor of The Month This song seemed...
MotionPortrait: MotionPortrait Demo (Dog) →
Never seen it before! You can animate your photo! MotionPortrait is the technology that automatically creates 3D face model from one single picture, which can be animated in a variety of facial…
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just walked home from 21st street. to brooklyn. hell yeah.
“wow, the day I join tumblr it goes down. downforeveryoneorjustme claims tumblr...”
– Twitter / Jared Klett: wow, the day I join tumblr … Dear Jared. Tumblr works for me. -kc.
OMG! Nintendo Characters Making Out!
Elspeth Rountree: but the thing is, is the aim of the tumblr to get the most re-blogs?
Elspeth Rountree: or to stay true to the direction of the RB blog in general
Elspeth Rountree: if i wanted more re-blogs i'd post photos of nintendo characters making out.
Yatta: i'm so reblogging that.
Walt Disney cartoons ‘contain secret messages on... →
“Walt Disney films such as Bambi, The Jungle Book and Pocahontas have played an important role in educating the public about the environment, a new book by a University of Cambridge academic has… (Filed under: retcon)
having a great discussion about the wreckandsalvage video with folks over IM.
“It’s like getting paid to do what you’d be doing anyway.”
– JamieW, on working at Rocketboom (via ronen) Damned lies!
Watchschlomo: Wreck and Salvage deserve a medal. A medal commenorating something and made out of cubic zerconium. Club Iraq on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Agreed. Fucking brilliant.
now that i know what colorwar is, it looks like fun.
“Drinking latte while driving to Obama rally in my Civic hybrid and updating...”
– emptyage (via brownpau) Pounding back Old Milwaukee while I drive to the gun show in my first-generation Hummer. What now, motherfucker? (Not really. :-p)
150MB upload, 20MB to go, 19% battery life and no power adapter in sight. The drama!
Just watched a guy in a suit chain smoke 3 cigs then come inside, chug a lg coffee, then his gf showed up and they started making out. Yeah.
another day without office internet, another day uploading at starbucks.
that wasn’t supposed to sound like a ‘yeah’ of affirmation. more like a ‘wha?’ which in turn is less like a ‘wtf?’ and more like a chuckle.
smallroomsoftware.com: Broken MacBook iSight -... →
The cable to the iSight becomes disconnected. Grab a philips screwdriver, pry off the LCD, reconnect the cable, refasten it with tape.
I have a crapload of Fela Kuti on my iPod. This wouldn’t normally be a problem except that every song is 15 minutes long.
Blue eyes and low salary make perfect woman -... →
Dear Ellie: You may love London but London men are obviously fucked up if an unscientific online survey of limited reach is to be believed. American men are equally fucked up, of course, but our economy is so far in the crapper that we don’t mind it if you make more than we do. - Patriarchally yours, kc. Blue-eyes, blonde hair, and most importantly on a salary considerably lower than her...
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