April 2009
BB Video: Top Chair? Joel Reviews The Herman... →
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Proof that the Top Gear format works with everything.
(MP4 Download). Boing Boing Gadgets’ Joel Johnson says,
Two chairs enter…two chairs leave. In fact,…
The Happy Gilmore tee shot tested →
Sport Science recently tested to see whether professional golfer Padraig Harrington could drive the ball further than normal by employing a Happy Gilmore swing. The good stuff doesn’t…
Steven Frank on the Office 2010 Preview →
Steven Frank: This is impenetrable. It’s UI salad. I realize this is not (yet) shipping software, but my god. If you sat me down in front of this, I wouldn’t have the slightest idea where to…
The Playing Field →
In the town of Wilson, North Carolina, an ISP battle is underway that could have implications across the entire United States. When Greenlight began offering cheaper and faster internet service to…
How do you say "wipe out" in French? →
90 minutes of rally car crashes. That is all. [via]
The dot and dash that adorn his hat constitute the... →
Just what is the deal with Jughead’s weird crown cap? I’m learning to share investigates a forgotten history of haberdashery.
Must See: Where Your Power Comes From, Visualized... →
NPR has an amazing interactive map of our power grid—the complicated mesh of power plants and transmission lines delivering juice to your house. This picture shows new proposed lines—it…
Chase Jarvis’s iPhone Photography →
Chase Jarvis: The best camera is the one that’s with you.
Excellent photography using only the iPhone camera and software.
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Farbs' resignation letter to 2K Australia →
best resignation ever, from the creator of ROM CHECK FAIL, who’s gone full indie
User Interface of the Week: Microsoft Office 2010 →
Keep rocking that floppy disk icon, Microsoft.
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The Net WWW Dot Explained →
Apartment Therapy - →
via http://gallery.apartmenttherapy.com/photo/041808corey/corey3
Nizmlab, surfacing the best of YouTube and Vimeo →
fed up with YouTube’s most popular, they built an elegant community site [via]
Windosill, Vectorpark's new exploration game for... →
holy cow, this is amazing; if you’re a fan of Vectorpark, try and buy this immediately [via]
MBAs: Most Bloody Awful, Aussie radio documentary... →
In this superb Australian public radio documentary, “MBA: Mostly bloody awful,” the idea of “scientific management” and “professional management” is subjected to an extremely critical look and comes…
instinctually sedentary →
obsessivecompulsive →
via http://obsessivecompulsive.tumblr.com/post/74993908/via-szymon-thomas-keeley
US refuses to let jet into its airspace because it... →
Irene sez, “On April 24th, an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico had to make an unscheduled stop in Martinique when US air traffic controllers notified the jet that it would not be receiving…
Ferris Bueller's felonious day off →
Ask Metafilter tackles the important questions of the day….like the crimes committed by Ferris Bueller and his friends on his day off. At the restaurant, on the phone with the Maitre D’ he…
London cop's Facebook: "Can't wait to... →
One of the policemen who participated in the assaults on the London G20 protesters had earlier posted to his facebook that he couldn’t “wait to bash some long haired hippys.”
The police officer’s…
Handmade, effect-heavy feature film →
Mary sez, “The Diamonds of Metro Valley is a DIY feature film, made almost entirely on green screen, with full scale people and small-scale, hand-made models, sets costumes, props etc. We…
Tony Danza, Asshole →
You know how it’s 1998 and you’re third-tier actor/tapdancer Tony Danza, and you’ve been booked to appear on some local news show? You know how you’re also a dum-dum who smacktalks the…
They Still Make 'Em Like They Used To →
ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR means it’s time for eggs! Finally there’s a cross you can hold uncomfortably close to your eyeball!
Look at This Fucking Hipster →
Aptly-named web site of the day.
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Viva La Vida - A Copy of a Copy? →
Did “Auto-Tune the News” guy accidentally write Coldplay’s Viva La Vida? Michael Gregory, aka Auto-Tune the News guy (previously) talks about how his shower singing was turned into something
London cop's Facebook: "Can't wait to bash" G20... →
One of the policemen who participated in the assaults on the London G20 protesters had earlier posted to his facebook that he couldn’t “wait to bash some long haired hippys.”
The police officer’s…
Handmade, effect-heavy feature film →
Mary sez, “The Diamonds of Metro Valley is a DIY feature film, made almost entirely on green screen, with full scale people and small-scale, hand-made models, sets costumes, props etc. We…
RIP, Geocities →
Yahoo is closing Geocities “later this year”. Yahoo bought the service in 1999 for $3.57 billion. Tags: geocities yahoo
Game Developers and Porn Stars →
though I suspect money’s more of an incentive for porn than in game development [via]
USPS WTF LOL FAIL →
Georg Jensen aruges that the USPS has, in effect, turned into a huge mail spamming operation (among other problematic aspects of the organization). Just as General Motors has in effect…
just in case →
2009-04-23 22:59:19 i made this comic and then you read it, we are both to blame. the art in tiny kitten teeth has consistently blown me away so now i am showing…
Auto-Tune The News →
Ugly Sunglasses + AutoTune + News Pundits = Our New Favorite Band. Sounds random, but it’s a pretty awesome mash-up. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links:…
In Defense of Eye Candy →
Stephen P. Anderson in A List Apart, on the importance of aesthetics: Researchers in Japan setup two ATMs, “identical in function, the number of buttons, and how they worked.” The only difference…
Hark, a Vagrant: too much austen →
Casual Profanity's liquid sculpture made from... →
see also: the Superfluid Skirt [via]
The Farm Has a Nickname For Its Rooster →
Achewood strip for Sunday, April 19, 2009
Baby T-Pain →
I nominate you for link of the year: Baby T-Pain. A baby’s cry put through Autotune.
Harvester: a concept design for a Lorax-terrifying... →
Niko Kugler & Georg Heitzmann’s concept design for “The Harvester” is a Lorax-terrifying device that can pick up felled trees in a forest and extract them without harming nearby growth.
The…
Bush Administration’s Legal Memos Justifying... →
Read them and judge for yourself.
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Phuc Mac Tells It How It Is [Phuc This] →
Since our Cranky Windows Guy retired, his post has been vacant. No more: Hereto I present you with Fry’s employee Phuc Mac, our new honorary Cranky Windows Guy. Phuc Mac, we love you. [
Can scavenger died wealthy →
“Tin-Can” Curt Degerman, a well-know aluminum can scavenger in the Swedish town of Skellefteå, was apparently a multi-millionaire when he died last year. He was apparently very thrift and also a…
Space-Based Storm Control →
[Image: From a February 2006 patent application by SolarEn, proposing that terrestrial weather systems might be controlled by mirrors in space]. It was reported yesterday that a…
13-Year-Old Seth Rogen's Stand-Up →
Cute, skinny, teenaged Seth Rogen tells a lot of Jewish jokes. There is actually a pretty amusing Cain/Abel constipation joke in there. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment…
Alkaline - Litmus [del.icio.us] →
Oh shit, this looks super useful for browser testing
All Things Ill-Considered →
What’s your NPR name? Rapidly spreading meme generates hilarious lists. Via AskME
Pulp browsers →
“What” ain’t no rendering engine I ever heard of! They support CSS3 in “What”?!
Dresden Codak does not work to potential →
4/16/09 | Onald Creely, the Professional Ghost Story
Ronald Reagan was a secret FBI anti-commie snitch →
Newly released documents Documents released in 2001 revealed that Ronald Reagan served as a secret FBI snitch during the Red Scare (we already knew he named names during the hearings, but now we…
Promotional Materials →
Wanted: Wolfman to holler at tourists on a New... →
Bill Farrand, the longstanding “wolfman” of Clark’s Trading Post in Lincoln, NH, is retiring after fifteen years. Now the company needs to find a new geek to scream from the woods at passing steam…