September 2009
62 posts
WatchIf you have half an hour to listen to one of the greatest media moguls in the world talk about: the future of journalism and MSM, paying for online content, and the success of the Daily Beast, then watch this now!
As Tina Brown says, “We’ve got a GREAT team of these AMAZING kids.” That’s right.
1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth... →
Oh. God.
WatchBarry Diller On Paying For Online Content - CBS News Video
Barry Diller is my home boy. You know that beautiful building in Chelsea? Yea. That’s his.
Oh, and great conversation too.
“Those rewrite men—some of them were so drunk!” So begins Gay...”
– Everybody at the New York Times Used to Be So Wasted Every Day - Gay Talese - Gawker
AWESOME.
Thank You – Invisible Dogs « Improv Everywhere →
Can’t wait to see this one.
“It’s larger than a sextillion dollars, or a 1 followed by 21 zeros....”
– Man sues Bank of America for ‘1784 billion, trillion dollars’
JQuery is fun! Haha.
Restaurant Nuevo Aurich →
I’m going to eat my computer screen.
there are two jugs, a 5-gallon and a 3-gallon....
christneyweenie3: you didn't figure out my math problem did you
Lara Chelak: no
Lara Chelak: it's fucking STUUUUUPI
christneyweenie3: only caue you can't figure it out
christneyweenie3: TEHEHEHE
Lara Chelak: what the hell does it mean?
Lara Chelak: i mean
Lara Chelak: like
Lara Chelak: can i pour some oil in there first?
Lara Chelak: do i have to fill up the whole god damned thing?
Lara Chelak: can i cut it?
Lara Chelak: what if i use frozen water?
Lara Chelak: that expands... so
christneyweenie3: no you can't use any other supplies!
christneyweenie3: just the water thats in the jugs
christneyweenie3: and the jugs
Lara Chelak: wait what
Lara Chelak: this is fucking confusing
Lara Chelak: what do I Have to do?
Lara Chelak: i thought they were both empty
christneyweenie3: yeah sorry they are empty
christneyweenie3: i forgot to mention they are by a fountain
christneyweenie3: so theres a fountain
Lara Chelak: soooo,
christneyweenie3: and then the jugs
Lara Chelak: hahaha
christneyweenie3: so you need to fill one of the jugs with exactly 4 gallons
Lara Chelak: well
Lara Chelak: i'll just not fill up the 5 gallon all the way
Lara Chelak: is that so hard?
christneyweenie3: here illl tell you the answer
Lara Chelak: lolllll
Lara Chelak: is this natty's?
christneyweenie3: you have both jugs empty. you fill the 3 gallon jug and pour all that water into the 5 gallon jug
Lara Chelak: ....
Lara Chelak: and then one more
Lara Chelak: gallon
christneyweenie3: then fill the 3 gallon jug again, and pour it in the 5 gallon jug
Lara Chelak: so you've filled it
Lara Chelak: wtf
Lara Chelak: THIS IS STUPPIIII
christneyweenie3: until its filled
christneyweenie3: and then theres one gallon left in the 3 gallon jug
christneyweenie3: so you pour out whats in the 5 gallon
Lara Chelak: then you have 6 gallens in the 5 gallon jug
christneyweenie3: fill it with the 1 gallon
Lara Chelak: AKA FLOOD
christneyweenie3: and then fill the 3 gallon and put it in the 5 gallon
Lara Chelak: i refuse
christneyweenie3: NO IT'S MY FUCKING MATH PROBLEM ITS COMPLEX
Lara Chelak: hahahahahaha
christneyweenie3: hahaha it was a problem in my book
christneyweenie3: they took it from the movie " die hard with a vengeance "
Lara Chelak: well.
christneyweenie3: the one with bruce willis and samuel l jackson
Lara Chelak: the 5 gallon jug is broken because you filled it too much.
Lara Chelak: way to go.
christneyweenie3: math problems are so tricky tricky!
Lara Chelak: what does "fill" mean
Lara Chelak: i mean you could argue
Lara Chelak: the jug needs to fill an emotional void
christneyweenie3: lara this isn't fucking the debate team
Lara Chelak: jugs have feelings too
christneyweenie3: it's mathamatics
Lara Chelak: i'm putting this on my blog.
christneyweenie3: i know i know its not very EFFICIENT
christneyweenie3: you should
Lara Chelak: haha
503 on Gmail! You’re slipping Google!
Trendsmap - Real-time local Twitter trends →
Pretty awesome find today. Watch hashtag trends on Twitter as they exist throughout the globe. It even dynamically updates in real time while you have the page open. #awesome.
“Boutique was deemed too pretentious…small, indie, and QOQ didn’t cut...”
– Small batch businesses
Letters of Note →
Amazing record of history: pop culture, nuclear weapons, and basic familial correspondence giving readers great cultural insight in to times they never had the chance to live through.
“When I recently told former CIA director James Woolsey that the USSR had built a...”
– Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
iRex DR800SG Touchscreen E-Reader Will Have... →
Move over Kindle. There’s another black and white e-reader in town.
New England Foliage Map - Yankee Foliage - Your... →
W.A.S.P.s unite!
The 50 best foods in the world and where to eat... →
Gotta get on this.
Read the Speech - OpenInternet.gov →
Openness is the key.
“Bringing a full-on garden shovel to the beach: If you’re heading to the...”
– Recommendation of the day: read McSweeney’s. Especially their recommendations.
Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: McSweeney’s Recommends
How a 'Fundraiser' Ate Up Nearly All of a $50,000... →
It’s time to play… let’s see how quickly we can waste this $50,000 grant at a public school in Washington D.C.!
Digital Music Streams for Work
I love all types and sorts of music. However, I find that while working some genres are clearly more conducive to completing everything on your “to-do” list than others. Unfortunately, my own library of ambient tunes is pretty scarce, so I enjoy finding digital streams that play high quality tunes with few ads and for free. Here’s what I have in my iTunes at the moment along with...
Change the world? Slow down there, buddy...
jared:
Recently, there has been a barrage of articles espousing the need for startups to set out with the mission to change the world. I think this notion is backwards. The software and services that change the world solve people’s problems in a simplistic and granular manner. They don’t set out with the ambition of changing the way people do things on a global scale. Solving people’s...
peopleofwalmart.com →
Awesome find from my Dad. Almost as good as latfh.com.
Kindle Nation Daily: Kindle edition of The Lost... →
Twitter Raising Money At $1 BILLION Valuation! →
Ohhhhh. Fancy.
Oh, woe is me, Gmail. Why must you be so slow and unresponsive? #gmail
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Health Care Reform:... →
Highly informative.
“Such knowledge might help solve the long-disputed question of exactly why dogs...”
– The Origin of Dogs: Scientific American
YouTube - jagbodhi's Channel →
If you <3 conspriacy theories, take a few hours to watch this channel.
I know I didn’t.
Keywords: the end of the world, the matrix, big brother.
Yay for compasses!
I know I do it just for fun.
From The Scientific American:
Yes, people really do walk in circles—but only when stripped of important visual clues, such as the sun or moon, according to a paper published online today in Current Biology. To test the common wisdom, Jan Souman, a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, and his team sent test subjects out into a...
“In July 2006, a monthlong triple-digit heat wave scorched California, killing...”
– Got Goat’s Milk? The Quest to Save Dairy from Climate Change: Scientific American
100 years of special effects →
PRETTTTTTYYY cool. I still love my ’30s action figure-like King Kong.
Auto-tune your life...
After realizing that the day’s news is just so much better when it’s in auto-tune (and officially endorsed by the Federal Comission of T-Pain) I’ve decided to download the OFFICIAL “I Am T-Pain” iPhone app:
Introducing the first iPhone app to give you Auto-Tune in the palm of your hand. You can sing along to T-Pain’s hits or create your own. You can record and...
The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii... →
Color photography created out of negatives decades before it was ever invented.
Federer's Footwork: Artful and Efficient -... →
Some quality physics nerd analysis of Roger Federer.
via Kottke.org
Edward Rondthaler →
One cool dude.
Josef Stalin 'returns' to Moscow metro - Telegraph →
What the FUCK?!
Fan Submission # 2 – “A-story-a” « Vorochta 5 →
One of my favorite Vorochta 5 posts.