March 2008
34 posts
pile: I’ve noticed an interesting trend lately on my and my friends posts: more and more people I don’t know are reblogging. Tumblr is showing a classic social network growth spurt and beginning to pull in whole new circles of users. That’s a good thing for Tumblr, but it’s only good for me as long as I like what these new people are saying. In any successful social network you need to tools...
brag!
i just received one of the best compliments of my life, so i’m going to go ahead and brag this one out… i gave a talk last night & because the day was running a bit late & everyone was tired, i was sitting in the audience before my talk trying to cull slides from my presentation so i could speed it up a little bit. it was meant to be an hour & a half talk - the longest...
me : i'm so f'ing excited right now.
the internet : ...
dr radical : so seriously
dr radical : fuck Coolidge
me : you should start a rap with that line...
ING's sharebuilder investment account →
i’m interested to see where this goes. i like what ING does - i’ve had an ORANGE account for 4 years now - and i think this is a great addition to their services. my current wishlist is : an account that will let me hold money in multiple currencies & is accessible from anywhere & where i can specify which currency to withdraw from & deposit into at any ATM. so…...
??? !!! (lol, jk)
so… the guy i was sitting next to at dinner last night is from south korea and he was telling me that sms messages can be typed much faster in korean (Hangungmal) than in english because there are only 16 korean letters on cell phones, as opposed to the 26 in english. so… this made me think about priority alphabets, where, depending on the communication channel, you’d want to...
“sneezing is socially unpleasant, but individually ecstatic.”
– anyway, i think that’s how it is… i hate sneezing in an unfamiliar crowd, but, given the chance, i’ll sneeze the heck out of a buddy situation. whatever.
question!
so… i have a question for the internet today : i’m setting out paper for a communal printer & i’m wondering : does perceived scarcity affect consumption of finite, shared & zero-cost resources? my intuition tells me that if i put out a huge stack of paper for printing, people are going to print more and more carelessly than if i slowly add extra paper - sort of...
prediction :
vocoders are about to blow up in hiphop. so… the shot across the bow was the t-pain jam - buy u a drank - this summer, which i was hoping was an anomaly, until i heard the new snoop song - sexual eruption/sensual seduction a few weeks ago & then, most recently, there have been two new little wayne singles in which he’s using a vocoder. i hope i’m wrong, but it doesn’t...
“You know what, DavidSimonCreatorOfTheWire? I just read the five-thousandth...”
– from ftrain, by way of kottke.
“At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:
Reporting my first temporal excursion...”
– taken wholesale from kottke - who got it from the international association of time traveler’s forum.
“when i was just home, i learned that my great grandmother’s nickname for...”
– the context? we were hooking her up with a skype account.
computers do sick shit.
cloois@sirio% foreach i ( */*params ) foreach? set name = `echo $i | sed ‘s/^.*.\///’` foreach? cat $i | sed ‘s/.*workdir.*/&\/FCmaps/’ >! $name foreach? end that line just saved me lots of time doing stupid editing.
“If ten years ago the medical community had figured out a way to reduce the...”
– rolling stone
word of the day (2) :::
Catarrh (pronounced /kəˈtɑr/) is a discharge or mucus blockage caused by the swelling of the mucous membranes.
word of the day
Rhinorrhea - commonly known as a runny nose, consists of an unusually significant amount of nasal discharge. It is a symptom of the common cold and of allergies (hay fever). The term comes from the Greek words “rhinos” meaning “of the nose” and “rhoia” meaning “a flowing.” Rhinorrhea can also be a sign of withdrawal, such as from opioids (especially...
“Make your mistakes quickly. You may mess things up on the first try, but do it...”
– ed boyden in the technology review (via carrot revolution)
“the sense of joy i get when i close browser tabs freaks me out.”
