Wednesday, March 26, 2008
My new favorite headline. Not even from The Onion. [thx, kevin]
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Useful little tool tells you if a site is… well, it’s kind of obvious, huh?
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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 […]
The comparison is striking. And funny. And stuff.
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 […]
The Guardian gets Rickrolling
Monks build multimillion-dollar business and give the money away - this is the raddest thing I have read today. Monks, technology, charity… fantastic.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Short story in which Wikipedia meets time travel. Everyone wants to kill Hitler. [thx, fbs!]
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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.
The best tribute to Gary Gygax I’ve read.
Mental note: Go see this film.
Girls Rock!, the website, thanks to Lilly for the heads-up.
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 […]
Cool . . . Cooler . . . Coolest . . . Coolest-est [via]
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 […]