March 2008
QQ: What is the fastest "0 to global" brand?
pile:
dihard: Basically, what brand (company, product, person, any entity that holds a brand identity) do you think gained awareness the fastest. Reblog your answer, if you’re so inclined. TBC Monday (taking a snowboard trip to Stowe this weekend). I’d have to guess some kind of cigarette. Marlboro maybe?
I’m going to go with either a car company or a gun company (whoever is behind ak-47...
February 2008
It’s our “first” Leap Day anniversary. I don’t see “a new baby” becoming our standard celebration, but it still sets the bar high for 2012.
The Big Word Project →
I bought three words. Should be easy to figure out which three.
Sad Trombone →
When one of my coworkers saw the instant rimshot site, he decided to make his own single serving site. Womp womp womp.I need to make a ringtone of this, for certain “special” callers.
WatchNew Iron Man trailer shows different things from what we’ve seen before, and successfully ups the superhero action and acting ante.
omigawd omigawd omigawd OMIGAWD!!!!
Riddle for you all! =)
A dragon and knight live on an island. This island has seven poisoned wells, numbered 1 to 7. If you drink from a well, you can only save yourself by drinking from a higher numbered well. Well 7 is located at the top of a high mountain, so only the dragon can reach it.
One day they decide that the island isn’t big enough for the two of them, and they have a duel. Each of them brings a glass of...
Can You Say "Network Effect"?
If my Dashboard is any indication, the new Tumblr features are doing a phenomenal job of increasing the density of Tumblr’s social graph.
Between attributions and reblog notes, I see more than twenty tumblelogs I didn’t know about yesterday on the first page alone.
Not sure which is sillier: that the hospital blocks access to flickr from the network ports in the postpartum wing, or that they don’t block outbound ssh.
SSH Port Tunnelling + Home Linux Server FTW!
The Other Thing That Happened Today
In an attempt to steal my darling daughter’s thunder, Tumblr rolled out new features.
I won’t hold it against them, though, since they bestowed upon me the incredible honor of staff pick. If you’ve arrived here via that link and are wondering why they’d pick some dude that goes on and on about his new baby, I’d suggest you check out this warning and play around with...
hilker:
toldorknown:
‘Merson the Person has arrived! Emerson Marie Shankle-Knowlton born 2/27/08 @ 11:40am Central. All 8 lbs 3oz/20” of her!
congratulations, rob! better get a tumblr set up for her asap!
Ok.
‘Merson the Person has arrived! Emerson Marie Shankle-Knowlton born 2/27/08 @ 11:40am Central. All 8 lbs 3oz/20” of her!
Sent to the lobby while they administer the epidural. I feel like I should pace frantically and jump when the door opens, 50s comedy style.
Past the failsafe, so there will be baby b4 long. Upside: Steinbeck’s b-day, downside: also Nader’s. Exact due date FTW!
Six more hours until we’ve dodged the “born on Michael Bolton’s birthday” bullet. If we can’t make leap day, I hope we at least manage that.
Dad-to-be Tip: When she says she’s lost her mucus plug, don’t ask for details. At least not before breakfast.
Fair Warning
At some point in the next few days this tumblelog is sure to suddenly become pretty “OMG! We’re Having/Had A Baby!!!”-centric. It shouldn’t be too high volume, but if you don’t care for that sort of thing at all feel free to unfollow me for a couple weeks.
On the other hand, if you’d like even more info, you can add yourself to the announcement mailing list.
Sarcasm
What’s the emote for sarcasm?
:-\
2 old 2 blog
From sunluvr
40! oh no, according to Julia you’ll be to old to blog :-( (she removed her post but you can find it here… http://brooklyngirl.tumblr.com/post/26719355 )
I guess I’ll go disappear into the suburbs and start throwing dinner parties. Wouldn’t want to throw Julia’s universe into a tizzy.
Can you send me an invite to one of those dinner parties? Apparently I shouldn’t have...
Don’t they usually sprinkle in some Supporting awards early on? No individual awards so far. Maybe they’re still writing the presentations.
“This is the only one. This whole pregnancy thing is making me feel too girly.”
– Amanda, on how many kids we’re having.
Andy Ihnatko's Less Than Celestial Tumblr Blogging... →
I hope he provides some particulars later, when he’s not busy liveblogging the Oscars. Not that he has to justify his statement (opinions being like other things we all have), just that I’m curious what in particular prompted it.
I Think I Can
The Pillows
Scott borrowed a...
macosxhints.com - 10.5: Use Automator variables... →
This works around an issue I ran into when putting a workflow together yesterday. I love it when that happens.
“As for countering what she sees as the empty Obama brand of hope, she offers...”
– The Audacity of Hopelessness - New York Times
Conjunction JunctionBetter Than Ezra provides an...
Today’s Old Paperwork Mystery: Why did I write “Juan Toothreego” on the back of a bank statement envelope in 1999?
Must be tough to be a kid in the von Sydow household. Papa Max’s voice has enough menace to turn even Goodnight Moon into the stuff of nightmares.
Brain Hacking - Mike Lee →
This mechanism is quite primitive, and can be easily hacked via the feedback loop that exists between the body and brain. It’s a simple two-step process.
First, fool your brain into believing your family is bigger than it really is. Our modern world allows a level of interaction far beyond what the brain is prepared for. If you take an interest in other people, by talking to them, learning...
“We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The...”
– the fine print at xkcd
BirdlandGrammy winning signature song of The...
Vocalese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Vocalese is a style or genre of jazz singing wherein lyrics are written for melodies that were originally part of an all-instrumental composition or improvisation. Whereas scat singing uses improvised nonsense syllables (bap ba doo dweeba da habba da bop da dop) in solos, vocalese uses lyrics, either improvised or set to pre-existing instrumental solos. The word “vocalese” is a play on...
How many colors can you name in five minutes? →
Think Crayola colors. I only got 32.
That’s one more than I got.
“Note that they are deploying the same tricks, the same damn language games, that...”
– neurosophy, on Obama and language. Go read the whole thing.
oAutoPagerize - AutoPagerize mod for Safari 3... →
That’s a direct link to the userscript. If you want to read about it (and can read Japanese), you can do so here.
In the time since Lawrence Lessig asserted that the Clinton campaign was using the Karl-Rove-ian tactic of casting an opponent’s strength as a weakness, nobody has provided more reinforcement for that argument than the Clintons themselves.
From the brilliant simplicity of “It’s the economy, stupid” to the total cluelessness of the current approach in just sixteen years —...
Wishing everybody a happy No Postal Service or Banking, But Lots of Auto and Furniture Sales Day.
You Can’t Overlove Your Underwear...