Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Defective Yeti on “Hoaxes”
The advantages of labeling something like this a hoax are obvious: you didn’t massively overreact to a situation that the average person would have recognized as harmless, you were tricked into doing so! You didn’t just take a quotation from a clearly phony article on a random webpage and build a story […]
The A.V. Club Interviews Will Sheff of Okkervil River - I heart. [thx gg]
It appears that some people think it’s all cocaine and caviar for Okkervil River. And it’s not. I’m making a little bit more than I was making at the video store right now.
Man’s heart stops after Red Bull overdose - weak sauce. OK, so “he consumed eight Red Bulls over five hours”. A can of Red Bull has 80 mg of caffeine. But drip coffee has 145 mg per cup. So 8 Red Bulls is really just under 4.5 cups of standard drip […]
Beijing software company sues over Chinese character fonts in ‘World of Warcraft’ - that’s an unusual one - a US based company (ok, technically a Chinese subsidiary) being sued for IP theft by a Chinese company.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Content-Aware Image Sizing - this is really cool. Watch it. Really.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Reagan on Our Dear Leader
May 17, 1986. A moment I’ve been dreading. George brought his ne’er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 […]
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Tablas Creek on Wine Pricing [via Derrick]
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
If one were to go to a furry convention dressed a Stormtrooper, I wonder what kind of photographs one would get.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
The Shame of the Chicken Caesar
“The Chicken Caesar is an emblem of the mediocrity of American cuisine!” I would cry. Ming would chuckle and turn up the volume on his iPod, and Todd more or less ignored me as a run-of-the-mill crank screaming into the nor’easter of American food culture. Or so I thought.
See […]
Cheat-To-Win Bracelet - no comment.