November 2009
Dear Browser Vendors
While it is true that I don’t need access to ‘Save Image As…’ or the like when I right-click on an element that isn’t an image, it is not true that I should lose access to ‘Back’, ‘Reload’, or other globally applicable actions because I happen to have right-clicked on image, anchor, or whatever.
Elf Bowling: The Movie →
Based on the popular computer game in which Santa Claus punishes his striking elves by using them as bowling pins, this twisted animated Christmas tale finds the unionized elves kidnapped by Santa’s evil pirate brother, Dingle Kringle. Now, with some help from his elf sidekick Lex, Santa goes on an adventure that takes him to Fiji as he tries to rescue the little troublemakers. But if he...
Seoulbrother throws higher quality stuff out with his trash than I produce on most days.
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps...”
– Henry Ford
(h/t to @hotdogsladies)
The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia →
merlin:
mrgan:
I just Instapapered many, many of these.
Me, too, Neven.
If there were a page that best epitomized why I LOVE lists of links (and why I viscerally HATE the way webcocks have turbo-shat on the genre), this would be Exhibit A.
Based on a quick spot check, there’s about two months of unbelievably interesting reading behind that page. (e.g., no way — this was real?!?)
But —...
“The Internet isn’t about neat little boxes and tidy definitions. The Internet...”
– Justine Musk - the happy death of “genre vs literary” in the world of the Technorenaissance
(via @communicatrix)
“A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer,...”
– Kevin Kelly - 1,000 True Fans (read the whole thing)
Man In Body Armor Arrested In Tulsa Arson,... →
two charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, first degree armor, committing a felony with body armor, possession of marijuana and resisting arrest.
Second degree armor is when you’re wearing armor, but hadn’t planned on it.
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Postcards
rsmallbone:
funsizebytes:
No, I haven’t forgotten
No, they haven’t gone out yet.
I’m just reblogging this to save myself the trouble of writing exactly the same thing.
Likewise
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody...”
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr
My greatest career strength: I pick up new technologies, programming languages, and environments very, very, quickly.
My greatest career weakness: I tend to put them back down just as quickly.
“More than 92 percent of Americans have BPA in their urine, and scientists have...”
– Nicholas Kristof - Chemicals in Our Food, and Bodies - NYTimes.com (via shaneguiter) (via halfbakedidea)
There’s urine in our food?
Is BPA linked to being a smartass, too?
(via redcloud)
Given a substance 92% of a population has been exposed to and a rigor of “though not...
I guess this counts as Defense Exhibit A.
“It wasn’t that long ago that some men called other men “boy”....”
– Marlin Lavanhar, Senior Minister - All Souls Unitarian Church from He Said,She Said (27 Sept 2009)
Worth a listen. Don’t let words like “minister” and “church” throw you off.
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“Tired of media saying that the internet is isolating people. Try being a geek...”
– Marco Arment
Balloons! for iPhone » The world just got smaller… →
See the photos and messages of others who find your balloon.
Because the world needed another way to send pictures of your junk to strangers.
I just realized we'll have to start spelling some...
It made me S-M-I-L-E.
I love how, in television and film, just about every time someone ejects from an out of control fighter jet, which is presumably still going several hundred miles per hour, they land within fifty yards of the wreck. Even if they’re unconscious.
By “love” I mean “hate”, and yes, I’m watching V.
