2008

Aug

4am: One of the tracks off my upcoming sophomore album.

Fourth top song at SPU this week: Me.

“The statement claims that there is conclusive scientific...”
— Michael Phelps Returns To His...

“Mr. Protocol really likes treaties, so we got him this...”
— Bush Told To Sign Birthday...

Quantum Teleportation

Dustinland - The Music Nerd’s Burden

via 8 golds, one Olympics

“Some 20,000 people said, “Who cares if I have to work...”
— Music & nightlife |...

“It’s not a shame,” Cseh said, “to be...”
— Phelps sets world record in...

“In a summer of stoner movies, “Clone Wars” fits...”
— ‘Star Wars’: Game...

Voting Machines

Freemanic Paracusia

Penny Arcade! - Can You Tell Me How To Get

“But even with distcc, compiles could take a long time:...”
— Google Open Source Blog:...

The Bay Bridge at night.

“Oh, I get it. It must be Canada day. That’s when they...”
— Canada, America’s Baseball...

Working from San Fransisco.

“There’s something cinematic about this. I’m...”
— Overload, recently composed by...

“I created a typing tutorial game similar to Typing of the...”
— Scrabulous Returns To...

Jul

Image worth a thousand words.

“The Koan of Lazy Evaluation: Michel Mauny was giving a guest...”
— Functional Programming Koans

Look what Sydney did!

“ ”
— Larry Lessig says the law is...

qwantz.com - dinosaur comics - July 25 2008

“Hasbro: We’ll show ‘em! No one plays games with...”
— Slashdot | Hasbro Sues Makers...

Increases in the National Debt | Incredimazing

“‘We have long believed that nobody in America is...”
— Obama addresses 200,000 people...

Bush Or Batman?

Upcoming Hurricanes

DTV :: All the demoscene on a web TV !

Rolling dice. On my computer. Using a Python script that I just wrote. Check it out:...

Dragon: Features

In the US, trains are like long-distance buses. In Europe, trains are like short-distance...

via davies.lohudblogs.com

Colbert: The Word - Priceless

“But my fellow Americans, whatever your political beliefs, I...”
— Your guide to the WALL-E...

“I think that the idea of the deliberate invention of words...”
— George Orwell: New Words

Things Fall Apart

Thriller by Michael Jackson in Mario Paint Composer (via geoffnet1)

“To save time, I’m going to write a whole issue of...”
— reddit.com: Cosmopolitan...

“[W]e both agreed that the next time we launch a project,...”
— 200 Nipples | Blog

“After I regale a group with this talk, the despairing cry...”
— Op-Ed Columnist - An Ideal...

Too Old For This Shit

“The old adage is that 99% of the time operating system bugs...”
— Call Me Fishmeal.: Pimp My...

“This is economics at its most basic. Seriously. It doesn’t...”
— The tyranny of...

“Notice also what etc. means. It means “I’d like...”
— “How to Say Nothing in...

In Popular Culture

I Am Not Good with Boomerangs

Wall•E is awesome.

Macgyver Gets Lazy

Entertainment Scientists Warn Miley Cyrus Will Be Depleted by 2013 | The Onion - America’s...

Jun

Bill Gates’ Last Day at Microsoft - CES 2008 (via hewvideo)

Know Your Vines

“Nacho cheese is ghetto fondue.”
— reddit.com: Vote up if you...

xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel

Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams

“But after takeoff, won’t it start floating around the...”
— Virgin Galactic, Eat Your...

“[G]iant telecom corporations worked with our government to...”
— Senator Dodd Speaks in...

“”
— The Colbert Report Official...

George Dyson at the birth of the computer | Video on TED.com

Reading about being a Magic: The Gathering judge (now that I’ve passed the test to become a...

“The idea is that the content is the interface, the...”
— Administrative Debris

My parents just bought a Wii!

T-Rex is: Matthew Broderick in: COMPRESSED FILM COMICS.

“Man, Serra Angel will be really angry if I don’t show...”
— Building Your First Deck

Pork and Beans (via weezer)

“I’m going to make my friends eat infinite oregano and...”
— Alt Text: Killjoy Cooking With...

Internet Argument

“Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth.”
— Inconspicuous Consumption

How it Happened

“The laws and constitution are designed to survive, and...”
— BBC NEWS | World | Americas |...

“Eberron will be released some time in 2009.”
— Official D&D Insider FAQ

BMW’s fascinating GINA Light Visionary Model design study

“Excess consumption is practically an American religion.”
— How to Live With Just 100...

xkcd Goes to the Airport

Scion tC, just back from detailing.

D&D Release Event!

Trial of William Penn

Reprap: A Replicating Rapid-prototyper.

“A friend of mine was recently teaching a SQL Server class...”
— OvidPerl

For the Magic players: This deck is 40% enchantments, and it...

Bizarro: Salvation Army’s Special Forces

Going over a casual deck: http://tinyurl.com/64cj2p

May

Every Damn Morning

That Kratos! Always carrying on!

Kratos: "GRRR, RARRRGH, I WILL KILL ALL THE GODS!"
Eegra: "How about a sliced orange, Kratos dear?"
Kratos: "NO NOT SLICED I DON'T LIKE TO EAT IT THAT WAY, GRARRRGH!"
Eegra: "Well why don't I make us a nice cup of tea."
Kratos: "YOU CANNOT APPEASE ME WITH HOT BEVERAGES; I WILL HAVE VENGEANCE!"

Thinking: Qwantz (http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001230.html) is the sonnet form...

Forgetting to eat lunch.

Reading about chess; it’s really a conversation about tactics and strategy.

Waking up in Anchorage, Alaska.

Fortune Cookies

Fafblog: If you could say one thing to the average legless Iraqi on the street right now, what would it be?
Hillary Clinton: I'd tell him, you know, we've done our part here. We got rid of Saddam, we set up a government, we provided intermittently running electricity and free bandages for your leg-stumps. We gave you your chance. Now you've gotta step up.
Fafblog: Figuratively speaking. 'Cause he doesn't have legs.

“Will you do this? No. You will not.”
— Letter to a young...

Making Hash Browns

Enjoying Painter’s Servant combos. http://urltea.com/35xm

Do you have wood for sheep?

Watching Senator Harry Reid on the Daily Show. He is an amazing man.

“If thirty or forty million people join the Economics Party,...”
— The Dilbert Blog: The...

“They’ve essentially “fixed” Jenga.”
— Penny Arcade! - The Expected...

They installed a fiber drop a week or two ago, and for a...

Forks and Spoons

Stove Ownership

“This format can be very difficult to play correctly as there...”
— Scott Wills on the Solomon...

“The single thing that comes close to a magic bullet, in...”
— Frank Hu, epidemiologist at...

Uploading a new piece of music: guitar, piano, drums, bass, Metafilter: http://tinyurl.com/6lt8e2

Apr

“Your valve covers are puking oil.”
— The mechanic working on the...

The Man Who Fell Sideways

Cauldron: Magical Card Search

Zealous Autoconfig

“She heard this story and she shook her head and said,...”