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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Incompetent People Really Have No Clue, Studies Find

My new favorite headline. Not even from The Onion. [thx, kevin]

Down for everyone or just me?

Useful little tool tells you if a site is… well, it’s kind of obvious, huh?

Rick Astley on Rickrolling!

The LA Times Managed to Interview Him About it
For his part, Astley was nothing if not modest about his new cultural role. “If this had happened around some kind of rock song, with a lyric that really meant something — a Bruce Springsteen, “God bless America” … or an anti-something kind of song, I could […]

Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments

The comparison is striking. And funny. And stuff.

Less white people, more football: Sports Illustrated covers since 1954

more graphs on SI covers

Hallelujah

Awesome post that starts with looking at the grow(ing|n) popularity of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”—which you probably know as Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah”—and goes on to discuss The OC, indie rock, music as lifestyle versus music as politics and a bunch of other stuff. Be sure to watch the montage video, it’s nifty. As a […]

Taking the Rick

The Guardian gets Rickrolling

Lipstick Jungle

Gotta love The Onion

Monks build multimillion-dollar business and give the money away

Monks build multimillion-dollar business and give the money away - this is the raddest thing I have read today. Monks, technology, charity… fantastic.

photographer

Best EULA Ever

Check it out. [thx, gg]


Wikihistory

Short story in which Wikipedia meets time travel. Everyone wants to kill Hitler. [thx, fbs!]

And Great Lyrics Quiz Rock Roll The

You may rock the karaoke, you may even have impressed the judges on American Idol, but you don’t know lyrics until you’ve seen them in alphabetical order.
I found this surprisingly hard (and fun) try it for yourself.

Deified and Demagogued

The best tribute to Gary Gygax I’ve read.

Girls Rock! The Movie

Mental note: Go see this film.

Girls Rock!, the website, thanks to Lilly for the heads-up.

The Myth of the ‘Transparent Society’

When I write and speak about privacy, I am regularly confronted with the mutual disclosure argument. Explained in books like David Brin’s The Transparent Society, the argument goes something like this: In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, you’ll know all about me, but I will also know all about you. The government will be watching […]

Meep Meep

the cartoonist

Coolness, explained

Cool . . . Cooler . . . Coolest . . . Coolest-est [via]

I Love to Ride My…

So, obviously I like the “is your new bicycle” meme. I liked the [Your Name] is your new bicycle a lot, and noticed that they were adding new ones pretty rapidly. I wrote a little script to pull the text from the website, and I think I’ve collected them all. They are […]