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010110
Dang, while working on some posts I just noticed that the date today is all in binary! If you didn’t know, that’s 22 in decimal. So today’s 22! 22 Posted in asides, blogs, mathematics Tagged: 010110, 22, asides, binary, date, fun, m...
Scalzi Puts 1st Chapter of The God Engines Online
John Scalzi just put the first chapter of his latest novella online. He says that it’s dark fantasy and it’s pretty interesting. It makes me want to read it. Posted in asides, entertainment Tagged: books, John Scalzi, science-fiction, The...
Avatar Raked In 232 Million This Weekend
Reuters reports that James Cameron’s Avatar made 232.n million this weekend. Here’s what I thought of it. Posted in asides, entertainment Tagged: asides, Avatar, box office, movies ...
Couchsurfing and Free Hugs in Ljubljana
Stephen Morgan goes couchsurfing in Slovenia. I love the concept of couchsurfing. At my place in Quebec, we hosted a bunch of couchsurfers during the year I stayed there. We met interesting people. I had an Italian roommate, as well as a pure laine Q...
Twitter Is Down & Tweeting While Parenting
Twitter Hacked by Iranian Cyber Army When I realized that a Twitter tab hadn’t been updated in an hour, I checked and found out that Twitter is down. Is Twitter down? Yes! In other news, a popular tweeting military mom gets slammed for announci...
Jessica Doyle’s Year End Giveaway
Head on over to Jessica Doyle’s blog for her year-end giveaway. There are loads of ways of entering. Posted in asides, blogs Tagged: asides, contest, Giveaway, jessica doyle ...
Conflicted Existence Of A Female Porn Writer: Lynsey Goes to a Porn Expo
In her latest column, Lynsey goes to her first porn expo, where she meets a bunch of different porn starlets. I like her descriptions of what she saw, but there’s more to her post than just that. It’s well written and it tries to shatter ...
Language & Glue
Seen at Expo ‘86 in Vancouver, Canada: “Language is the glue. Without it, culture falls apart.” ★ Posted in asides, quotes Tagged: asides, language, quotes ...
Scott Bourne’s Contests
Scott Bourne has got some serious contests on his websites. He recently gave away a Canon 5D. Now, he’s giving away a Canon 7D. Posted in asides, blogs, photos Tagged: asides, camera, Canon, construction, contest, Giveaway, scott bourne ...
Wikipedia & Our Sex Life
Another really funny piece at McSweeney’s about a couple’s sex life that was documented on Wikipedia. Posted in asides, blogs, entertainment, politics-social-racism, technology Tagged: asides, blogs, entertainment, relationship, sex, soci...
A Former Investment Banker & Plan B
I thought that this piece on McSweeney’s was pretty funny. It’s about a failed investment banker turning to his plan B, law school. Posted in asides, entertainment, finance, politics-social-racism Tagged: asides, bank, banking, entertainm...
Even In The US Better Off Drinking Bottled Water
One of the annoying things of living in Taiwan is that the tap water isn’t safe to drink. We buy filtered water. Homes have filtering system installed as well, making tap water safe, but our apartment lacks them. It seems like buying bottled wa...
Emily Gould Vs Cristina Nehring @ n+1
Emily Gould reviews Cristina Nehring’s A Vindication of Love: Reinventing Romance for the 21st Century [Harper, June 2009]. Nehring responds to the apparent vitriolic Gould. Posted in asides, blogs, entertainment Tagged: a vindication of love, ...
Kottke On How to Revive Dead Play-Doh
Kottke discovers the secret way of reviving dead and dried out Play-Doh. Posted in asides, entertainment Tagged: asides, entertainment, Hasbro, how to, kottke, play-doh, toddler, toys ...
Humans Born With an Urge to Help
Some developmental psychologists believe that humans are born with an urge to help. When infants 18 months old see an unrelated adult whose hands are full and who needs assistance opening a door or picking up a dropped clothespin, they will immediate...
Katie West @ FLNGS
This is a beautiful post by Katie West over at FLNGS. I really liked it. Needless to say that it’s NSFW. Posted in asides, photos, politics-social-racism Tagged: asides, body, Katie West, NSFW, nudity, photos, social, Women ...
Crunchpad = Vaporware
Once again, it’s been proven that the Crunpad has become total vaporware. Arrington just announced it on TechCrunch. Unfortunately, like many in the field and like many commentators on the post, I don’t believe that he is telling the whol...
Grannys & Wooly Mammoths
Today, my grandson asked how old I am and whether I’d seen Mammoths “for real” when I was a kid. FML ★ This one had my wife laughing out loud for quite a bit. I also discovered that I was born on a Monday, the same day as my wife....
Dubai Is Finally Bankrupt
After years of spouting nonsense about being a liberal haven, as well as a tax haven, financial megalopolis Dubai is bankrupt. The city built on slave labor is finally as bankrupt as its morals. Posted in asides, finance, news, politics-social-racism...
Would I Pay For Premium Tweets?
Twitter Japan is about to let users charge to follow their tweets. Would you pay for premium tweets? I wouldn’t. Posted in asides, blogs, politics-social-racism, technology Tagged: asides, blogs, social, technology, Twitter, twitter japan ...
Velocite Price List
Velocite Bikes has just released their updated price list. Now that they offer SRAM, I’ll deck out my Magnus with Red. It will be followed by a Millennium shortly after. Posted in asides, cycling Tagged: asides, bicycle, bikes, cycling, Magnus,...
More On Pinker & Gladwell
Lloyd explains why Pinker and Gladwell don’t agree, which is partly based upon Gladwell’s new book, What the Dog Saw., a collection of essays that were published in the New Yorker. Posted in asides, entertainment, politics-social-racism T...
Supersymmetry & What the LHC Is Looking For
Great article over at the New Scientist, giving a digest of the things that the LHC is looking for. Posted in asides, science, technology Tagged: asides, CERN, large hadron collider, particle physics, physics, supersymmetry ...
