August 2007
“please don’t fall for this BS of paying a commission-based adviser. Yes, they...”
– I Will Teach You To Be Rich » I love these hilarious comments from angry financial advisers
July 2007
Newsweek Interactive: The Autism Quotient →
“You need to have a guiding philosophy that you stick to. You cannot one minute...”
– Blogging essential for a good career » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk (via Dawn)
I’m starting to wonder whether Christian Neukirchen ever sleeps.
Unexpected Up-Side Of My Right Handed Carpal...
Discovering that trackpadding left handed allows one-handed ctrl-clicks on my Powerbook G4.
Told or Known: Having Your Automated System Play... →
Having a flaky connection was just the beginning…
Free Brian Setzer Download - Take The 5th →
(as in Beethoven) Let’s see: rock(-a-billy), swing, & classical. Is there any genre this man won’t fold into the mix? Good Stuff™
Google Shared Feed Box - R.I.P.
Found out it had the side effect of making anything I (or, more importantly, you) moused over disappear in Safari. It wasn’t a well formatted sidebar citizen anyway. Good riddance. It’s back in the link list if you want to check it out the non-integrated way.
Dear CNN email alert person:
I understand that on occasion you might feel the need to justify your existence. We all get that urge from time to time. I also understand that, as you wrote, “Michael Vick and three others plead not guilty to dogfighting charges” today. I must, however, point out that if this scheduled and totally predictable event is what rises to the level “breaking news” for you, then...
“Iraq has almost as many car bombs as cars. Those guys are industrious. But the...”
– The Dilbert Blog: Things I Used to Know
“These examples can serve as useful reminders of the fact that no encyclopedia...”
– Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia (via Anarchaia)
Told or Known: YouTube Advice for All Candidates:... →
Just a thought I had the other day.
“Rudy Giuliani is asked a question about funding for HIV treatment and, robbing...”
– Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > Q: Boxers or Briefs? A: September 11th!
“Going into Belarus? Only if you bring … protection!
A Polish driver traveling...”
– YouNotSneaky!: Non Tariff Barriers
“There once was a girl named Lenore
And a bird and a bust and a door
And a guy...”
– Bad Gods | Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks (via BoingBoing)
The 10 Best Simpsons Endings Of All Time →
“Why $4.6 billion? While ***we think that a robust and competitive auction based...”
– Official Google Blog: Our commitment to open broadband platform (emphasis mine - why can’t any of the news outlets get this story right? Google doesn’t want to own the spectrum, they just want it to be open.)
“if gas were priced by the pound, would people complain that at higher altitudes...”
– God Plays Dice: gas prices fluctuating based on temperature
“After Avon’s arrest the Barksdales are hit with disruptions in their...”
– YouNotSneaky!: The Economics of The Wire
“My solution? A hybrid. Publish the first edition of the book without the last...”
– Seth’s Blog: Keeping a secret
The Top Selling Record Albums of All Time →
(reblogged from travors) My stats Have ever had: 58 Have now: 50 Had on 8-track:9 (2 since upgraded to CD, 1 to iTunes) Had on Vinyl: 1 Had on Cassette: 1Format of the ones I have now: Vinyl: 21 CD: 27 iTunes: 1 Vinyl Picture Disc: 1
The Peanuts gang as anime →
The amount of actual YouTube video shown on CNN’s YouTube Debate Countdown is dropping with each show. At this rate, on Friday’s show Paula Zahn will simply say “YouTube” at the top of the hour and then proceed with her regular show.
“While I initially followed a traditional career path, my path to becoming a...”
– An Interview with Professional Nameologist & Intuitive Maryanna Korwitts (It’d be funnier if there weren’t people paying this chick real money for her services, which include “name therapy” - via Away With Words)
“what’s wrong with being out of touch with the common person’s issues? If our...”
– The Dilbert Blog: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
“An advanced class of 7th graders with access to the internet could have...”
– Threat Level: There’s No Such Thing as the Homeland
“The phrase “Thankee, Sai” is used by several characters, including...”
– The Dark Tower glossary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The solution to our warning woes is undo. With a robust undo, we can close our...”
– A List Apart: Articles: Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo (via Anarchaia)
“Ridicule is fun, persuasive, and best of all demonizes the group of people...”
– Bob Lewis - The value of a little failure here and there (free subscription required after it falls of the front page, but worth it).
Thanks to shadowfirebird for the link that led me...
Wadsworth: Ah, but he was your second husband. Your first husband also disappeared!
Mrs. White: Well, that was his job. He was an illusionist.
Wadsworth: But he never RE-appeared!
Mrs. White: He wasn't a very good illusionist.
the inkscape tutorials blog — a big list of cool... →