March 2008
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Adam Carolla To Host “Gear”, The American Top Gear →
February 2008
47 posts
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Goodbye, productivity
All the new additions to the Tumblr front page, including the map, are making it really easy to find new tumble logs. A little too easy…
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“I framed the pictures to make it look larger than it actually was (THAT’S WHAT...”
– xkcd on his in-apartment ball pit.
“It’s a baby Veyron. […] It cheats the laws of physics.”
– Autocar on the new Nissan GT-R. (via Autoblog)
Impressive day for "homebrew" on the Wii →
Proposition 3-17 →
Guinness is attempting to amass enough signatures to convince Congress to make my birthday a national holiday. Awesome.
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WatchMario Kart Wii in Motion (via Nintendo Wii Fanboy)
Microsoft launches new open standards,... →
The following is going to be a part of this program:
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008
SQL Server 2008
Office 2007
Exchange Server 2007
Office SharePoint Server 2007
Of course, all this is based off of the “promise” not to sue…
Microsoft Source Fource Action Figures →
Seriously? Seriously?
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Evolution of Car Logos →
Mario Kart Wii Preview →
This should be awesome.
Minimum Vehicle Sound Levels →
Apparently lawmakers in Maryland want vehicles to have a minimum noise level, for people like the blind who rely on volume to navigate obstacles. My wife was just clairvoyantly hypothesizing about this the other day.
However, to paraphrase Jeremy Clarkson, if a child lost his ball in the road, and a Prius was coming toward him, he could run out into the road, collect his ball, grow to puberty,...
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Synchronized RSS Readers
marco:
Please develop and release an update to [some Mac-based feed reader] that synchronizes between multiple computers.
I use Netvibes for precisely that reason—synchronizing between work and home computers. When it’s all online anyway, nothing to synchronize. Works well for me, but naturally your mileage may vary.
Tumblr Feature Request
It would be neat if your dashboard provided a RSS feed of all the posts from all the people you’re following. Said differently, there would be one feed that aggregates all the posts of those whom you follow.
I like having the tumblelogs that I enjoy reading available outside my dashboard, but I don’t want to have to add many individual RSS feeds; I’d rather add one mega-feed...
The Laser Elevator and Interstellar Diplomacy →
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Re: The Mac Pro
The debate rages on! :)
marco:
It’s badly designed, it looks tacky, quality control sucks, and it flakes out too often. I can’t even begin to count the hours I spent in high school and college screwing around with my (or my friends’) PC hardware, trying to get custom hardware combinations to work properly together. And just try to find a PC case that looks decent and is comfortable to work...
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The Mac Pro
marco:
[The Mac Pro] is, by far, the most amazingly fast, spacious, capable, and well-designed computer I’ve ever used.
I have no doubt that’s a nice machine, and I am certainly glad his all-too-familiar, all-too-painful wait is over. That said, can one of the Fanbois explain to me what makes Apple computers any better than a PC set up by an intelligent user? Admittedly, I...
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Writer: the internet typewriter →
aatw:
cubicle17: Think of it as WriteRoom for your web browser, no account required. Might make a nice companion to Instapaper.
As a programmer, I’m a fan of clever and simple designs. While I don’t think this site has much use for me, I can’t help but admire how simple it is to use. Plus the retro green-on-black throwback is always fun. :)
Obama claims Virginia →
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“If there is one thing which will turn a casual internet conversation into an...”
– w00t
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Parenting? Why bother! We have pills for that!
marco:
When I was a kid, we called those kids “annoying” or “assholes”. At what point do personality flaws (often caused by parenting flaws) become a “disorder”?
Couldn’t agree more. Although I’m not a parent, parenting seems to be a lost cause/art these days…
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Instant Netflix Works Well... sorta.
As a super-geek, and Ubuntu user, I have learned to live without a lot of things that I was used to in Windows:
Slowness
Crashes
Overpriced hardware… wait… that’s Apple
etc
I don’t really miss anything else. I even run Quicken in Ubuntu, thanks to Wine. That said, I really wish that Netflix would support Ubuntu for their “Watch Instantly” stuff;...
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“Warning
1. The finger can not touch the blade, otherwise you may damage...”
– Electric fruit peeler instructions
Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags →
marco:
“In 2002, Ireland passed a tax on plastic bags; customers who want them must now pay 33 cents per bag at the register. There was an advertising awareness campaign. And then something happened that was bigger than the sum of these parts.
Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Within a year, nearly everyone had bought reusable cloth bags, keeping them in offices and in the...
Wait, it's Groundhog Day? →
Does anyone really care or pay attention to this anymore? Or did Bill Murray sufficiently kill it?
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Exxon Mobil Posts Record Profits (Again) →
Admittedly, I’m no economist, but it seems to me if they’re posting record profits, couldn’t they lower the price of gas just a smidge?
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Microhoo! - ?
Apparently Microsoft is bidding to buy Yahoo!?…
I guess this makes sense, given their profits and stock have (as far as I knew) both been going down the toilet lately.