July 2009
35 posts
June 2009
47 posts
“Back in my hotel room to write this talk, and I put
Glastonbury up on the tv...”
– From: Warren Ellis To: Bad Signal mailing list Subject: [Bad Signal] Steam Date: June 27, 2009 - 7:17 pm EST
Forex traders love me on twitter.
#wtf
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“One-man circus Michael Jackson has officially died, and somebody is very, very...”
– Wonkette
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Spoon - Jonathon Fisk
One-Organism Ecosystem Discovered in African Gold... →
All known life forms need carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and an energy source to live. Plants need nitrogen, but can’t just pull it from the atmosphere and start using it to make amino acids. Instead,…
My First Earthquake - Cool in the Cool Way
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gunstreetgirl:
kidskiddingkittens:
Tom Waits:...
“Shannon May smelled the rot firsthand. An anthropology PhD student from UC...”
– Green Guru Gone Wrong.
Evidently, there is quite a bit more, to say the least, to William McDonough’s story than I had thought. The above quote from the linked Fast Company article is particularly resonant.
“Tienanmen + Twitter = Tehran.”
– @PatrickRuffini
WatchBladders, petri dishes, cell-jet printing. Inching forward.
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Elvis Costello - Pay It Back
…One of...
amazing carbon nanotube video →
WatchThe Daily Show tours the New York Times… this is just cruel.
(Gotta click through for the embed)
ahahahahahahahahahahahaaha.
gunstreetgirl:
Oh, Joose.
oh christ i had some purple joose earlier why
“A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck...”
– Wolfram Alpha (via my friend Beth)
Wolf Parade - Shine a Light
you know our hearts...
Watchomfgbikes:
get your lockup right! — streemfilms.org walks NYC with Hal of Bicycle Habit, as he grades lockups on the street
Just the right mixture of cheesy and practical. Wish I had seen this video before learning by the experience of multiple bike and component thefts in Boston.
Tweeting Bar Tweets Every Beer Pour →
sostark:
A tech company hooked up their in-office beer draft to tweet every time someone pours a beer; Also lets them know when it’s empty. Science!
What would be really cool (and by cool, I mean ‘horrible but electronic and ubiquitous’): a system that would tweet @you when a friend of yours had a beer poured for them. Marketing! Guaranteed not to be annoying.