September 2008
“A consortium of Nigerian businessmen have tabled a formal bid for Newcastle...”
– Formal bid made for Newcastle United - CNN.com
i think i have received some emails from nigerian businessmen too.
“You do not want a speaker that sounds like a “disco smile”. ...”
– All About Home and Project Studio Monitors
“What I’m saying is, either N’Sync should start wearing bras, or...”
– None More Comic - The Pressing Issue of Guy Nipples
“I do think he looks like me quite a bit — in an email my friend Dan says...”
– In the morning on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
thing i miss in browsers
90% of time i open links in new tabs. and after i read the content maybe hours later and want to tumblr it i don’t remember the page i came from. so i cannot credit the person who showed me this and i break the workings of internet.
How to Blog
merlin:
Here’s some totally choppy video of a dude named “Marilyn,” talking about How to Blog
watched whole talk. a little bit over an hour of merlin. liked it a lot.
“Lying to your risk-management computer is like lying to your doctor. You just...”
– How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
falling you - wicked
“A software patent is a right to litigate against authors of software granted to...”
– World Day Against Software Patents - 24 September - Stefan Tilkov’s Random Stuff
“Besides, if we got rid of the penny, how would we pay for items costing an odd...”
– The New Penny: A Total Waste Of Money? | WALL STREET FIGHTER
“A lot of people have lost the basic rules of behavior of society at work:...”
– False Myth - “Scrum teams need to be mature” « Scrum 4 You
“Distinctive is fine; goofy is not. Novelty fonts, weird fonts, outline fonts,...”
– Typography for Lawyers
“Capitalism will never fail because Socialism will always be there to bail it...”
– Wall Street Socialists | CommonDreams.org
“A font walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hey, we don’t serve your type...”
– Typographunnies
new tumblr feature - sound box
for no apparent reason i checked the html source for tumblr dashboard and found this gem:
// Type 'listen' for some experimental stuff ... Effect.BlindDown('sound_box_launcher');
for me it worked only in firefox, but after you type ‘listen’ you get popup with what appears to be soundbox.
mogwai - Stupid Prick Gets Chased by The Police...
“Obviously, if you come up with a nice REST testing framework, you need to call...”
– ongoing · Testing REST
“UNIX is user-friendly, it just chooses its friends.”
– Andreas Bogk (via livejamie)
i don’t think i was chosen by unix.
“Balanchine said that every beard grown after those worn by men in his...”
– PREVIEW: The Kindergarchy
“there are lies, damn lies, and demos”
– What is Oslo? « Douglas Purdy
HD Xtreme sports on Vimeo →
“Please understand…many of us Americans do think the President is stupid...”
– Russell Brand calls George Bush a ‘retard’ at MTV awards - Times Online
WatchRead this story about FLIP Research Vessel
(Metacafe video)
“Git, for example, was designed to manage a massive project called Linux. Maybe...”
– Configuration Management Systems, Automated Tests, CI, and Complexity
“people are social beings, and society is much more than the arithmetic sum of...”
– Ian Angus, “The Myth of the Tragedy of the Commons”
“As Sinclair Lewis said,”When facism comes to America it’ll be...”
– Greg Mitchell: The Democratic Dossier on Palin: 62 Pages of ‘Oppo Research’ Revealed
“For most people, a browser that remembers which tabs you had open before a crash...”
– Browser Wars: Episode n+1 - The Fishbowl
“We love to proclaim how much we cherish our “freedoms” in the...”
– Federal government involved in raids on protesters - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
August 2008
“Give it 10 minutes (I know, that’s *forever*).”
– Bill de hÓra: Embrace Change 