February 2010
50 posts
Rip Torn charged with breaking into bank with... →
Actor Rip Torn charged with breaking into bank with loaded gun while ripped, torn.
Get ready. #lost http://twitpic.com/10qbhi
January 2010
121 posts
Give Space a Chance, Says Phil Plait →
The Bad Astronomer writes “A lot of pundits, scientists, and people who should know better are decrying the demise of NASA, saying that the President’s budget cutting the Constellation program and…
I’m at Bar Copa (2810 Main St, Ashland Ave, Santa Monica). http://4sq.com/9cspis
RT @BeatlesTweets: On this day in 1969, The Beatles performed live for the last time on the roof of the Apple offices http://is.gd/7mXQu
Daddy, What's a Mouse? →
“Daddy, what’s a mouse?”
“It’s something that we used to point at objects on a computer screen”
“Just one thing at a time?”
“Yes honey.”
“Wow! But how did you do this?”
[She resizes a square…
Making It Hard For Extraterrestrials To Hear Us →
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“In addition, we’ve switched to digital which makes the transmissions even fainter.” Maybe all ETs eventually switch to digital, and that’s why space is so quiet…?
quaith writes…
Intel and Micron start 25nm flash production; SSDs... →
Intel and Micron have a history of pushing the state-of-the-art in flash storage — their joint venture IMFT was responsible for the first sub-40nm NAND flash and bringing it to…
Out of Print T-Shirts →
Following yesterday’s sad news of J.D. Salinger’s passing led us to Out of Print, a new company presenting the world’s greatest literature through book cover t-shirts. Each seminal…
RT @kendraelyssa: @eddieizzard E= cheese + haircuts
Future Shock →
Fraser Speirs gets it: What you’re seeing in the industry’s reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock.
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Eddie Izzard! (@ Nokia Theatre w/ 3 others) http://4sq.com/5PtWc8
In (Further) Appreciation: Howard Zinn →
Big Think, the online think tank whose mission is to deliver progressive insights from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, had a chance to sit down with Howard Zinn, educator and…
David Pearson's Cormac McCarthy Series →
Prior to our weekly Things review going up this afternoon, I thought a special mention should go out to a very special package that reached us early this week. A re-issue of Cormac McCarthy’s…
Out of Print T-Shirts →
Following yesterday’s sad news of J.D. Salinger’s passing led us to Out of Print, a new company presenting the world’s greatest literature through book cover t-shirts. Each seminal…
The Scale of the Universe: from yocto to yotta →
From the smallest observable length, the Planck length, measuring 0.00000000000000000000000000000000001 meters; to the greatest length, the length of the whole Universe estimated at …
Entire Lost canon on Hulu →
All 101 episodes of Lost are available on Hulu right now (US only). The season premiere is in 5 days…plenty of time to catch up on all ~73 hours of plane-crashing, hippie-communing,…
RT @BreakingNews: Pasadena Playhouse to shut down Feb. 7 for lack of money; theater trained Hoffman, Hackman, many others - Los Angeles …
I could die of a panic attack with all the iPhone/iPad app ideas I’m having. what do I do?
Bylaws of Haute Couture →
photo by Patrick Demarchelier for Vanity Fair
My fellow D+R guest-blogger Greg Allen’s puzzlement over the purpose of haute couture reminded me of an article I recently read in …
Dan Hay! →
How is it possible we’ve never linked to Dan Hay’s work? Behold!
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Registration open for TED2011 and TEDActive 2011 →
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Life goal 1: attend TED. Life goal 2: present at TED.
We’re delighted to announce that registration for TED2011 is open. Next year’s theme takes us right to the core…
Philippine island qualifies its way to a "World's... →
Qualifiers are a lot of fun. Example: Greenland is the world’s largest island. The world’s largest lake is the Caspian Sea. But the world’s largest island on a lake, on an island, on a…
Monopoly Boards Are Circular Now. Circular! [Board... →
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Weird.
For its 75th anniversary, Monopoly’s getting a massive update, pitting brazen and new against proven and old: Circular board or quadrilateral? Cash currency or fake credit…
J.D. Salinger →
It’s a sad day for bananafish: the great J.D. Salinger passed away yesterday at the grand old age of 91. Celebrate the author of Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey and Nine Stories with…
★ Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations... →
Automatic Transmission Used to be that to drive a car, you, the driver, needed to operate a clutch pedal and gear shifter and manually change gears for the transmission as you accelerated and…
Lucha Loco →
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Dave, didn’t Gabe work on this? I could swear I met him in the graphic design studio in London while his company was working on this.
Whether you’re a long time wresting…
Overhyped, Overpriced & Disappointing: iPad?... →
“I still can’t believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! … I want something new! I want them to think differently! Why oh why would they do this?! It’s so wrong! It’s so stupid!”
Finishing designs for 1st iPad app. Teaser: the codename is “Billy Wilder.”
No wifi on this flight. I’ve been spoiled. Airline FAIL.
What We Learned About Apple Yesterday →
When I woke up today, it took me about half an hour to get up to speed with the iPad (I’m in Croatia, so the bulk of the news came in overnight for me). After I’d read a couple of…
A take on the iPad, by @stephenfry. Well writ. http://j.mp/bAy11C
Can Curiosity Be Programmed? →
destinyland writes “AI researcher Jurgen Schmidhuber says his main scientific ambition ‘is to build an optimal scientist, then retire.’ The Cognitive Robotics professor has worked on problems…
What We Learned About Apple Yesterday →
When I woke up today, it took me about half an hour to get up to speed with the iPad (I’m in Croatia, so the bulk of the news came in overnight for me). After I’d read a couple of…
Lehel Kovács: Google Street View Illustrations →
What happens when when the ABCs meet Google Map’s street views? Using the online superpower’s vast database of photography, Budapest-based designer Lehel Kovács illustrates a partial…
RT @atebits: “It’s just a big iPod touch” is the new “less space than a nomad”. The Mac had a great run, but this is the end of the de …
Digging under the hood of happy hour app. Scary. ;)
Howard Zinn dies at 87 →
Goodbye Howard. I owe you one.
The Haven of Contentment →
From Square America — the same people who brought us the excellent “IBM Slides: 1975” — comes this set of images depicting what…
Chronicles of Seymour-Hoffman →
Ned Hepburn, (the genius behind, erm, Boner Party) has also been posting tidbits from his forthcoming “book” ‘The Many Faces Of Seymour-Hoffman’
“During the filming of the 1999 drama ‘The…
Internacional →
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Obligatory Muppet share.
Internacional by Paco Pomet.
found at BOOOOOOOM!
Caulfield Preparatory SS10 →
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love the name
Caulfield Preparatory is a new contemporary menswear brand playing up unique off-beat details such as signature half sleeve silhouettes on their button down…
★ The iPad Big Picture →
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Nail on the head.
There was a meta-message in today’s Apple event, not about the iPad in particular, but rather about Apple as a whole. Jobs’s brief preamble included a bit of…
Cuddle Class couches come to coach on Air New... →
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cuuuuute
Air New Zealand has created a “cuddle-class” seating arrangement in its coach cabins: a couple can purchase three seats abreast for a small premium (an extra 25% per…
How the fuck did CNN get a camera in the ceiling?
OOohhh, calling SCOTUS out! Sam Alito looked like a pissed 11 year old.
“I do not 2nd place for the United States of America.” Good line.
Madam Speaker, the President of the United States. #SOTU It’s given me chills since Season 1 of the West Wing.
That was an amazing SOTU. In its honesty, in its simplicity, in its tone. It was real, direct, casual, and at times awkward. But amazing.
Those SCOTUS bastards don’t stand for anyone.