February 2008
65 posts
China Vows to Stop the Rain
Since the Olympic stadium doesn’t have a roof, the Beijing Meteorological Bureau has been given the task of making sure the games remain dry. According to Zhang Qian, head of weather manipulation (best title to have on a business card ever) at the bureau, they’ve had success with light rain but heavy rain remains tough to control.
January 2008
39 posts
“I always wonder how different the world would be if kids knew there are a...”
– The Dilbert Blog: Your Job When You Grow Up (via marco)
Today's Random Fact
Reindeer milk is fatter (17%) than cow milk (4%) but fin whale milk is the fattest of all (42%). Tasty!
“The Big Three are the ultimate “Frenemies.” Twenty-first-century geopolitics...”
– Parag Khanna’s piece in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine
Wadler
I really don’t know much about my lineage, but today I learned a little about my [very uncommon] last name:wadler South German: nickname from an agent derivative of Middle High German wadelen ‘to wander, roam’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): unexplained.
“But the company has declined to do banner ads, said Newmark. He added he already...”
– Craig Newmark (craigslist.org)
View your videos on your iPhone
Today we launched http://iphone.viddyou.com - if you have an iPhone, check it out! You can view and browse videos from the public stream, or if you have a viddyou.com account you can login and then view videos from your friends/family/etc. It’s pretty sweet!
Today's Random Fact
A pineapple is actually a kind of berry.
My girlfriend is the coolest person I know.
Mike Bloomberg
Bloomberg holds political positions which are generally centrist, drawing from both Democratic Party and Republican Party positions. He is socially liberal, supporting abortion rights, gay marriage, and normalization of the status of illegal immigrants, for example. Economically, he is moderate, supporting government involvement in issues such as public welfare and climate change, while being...
Maybe it's time I moved...
East Bay is pig latin for “beast”
Startups: What to do after the TechCrunch Bump? →
When Data Center Cabling Becomes Art →
Today's Random Fact (Eat Up)
January is national oatmeal month.
Today's Random Fact
Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women. Damn =/
In The Emotion Machine, Minsky suggests that chronic pain is a kind of “programming bug.” He writes that “the cascades that we call Suffering’ must have evolved from earlier schemes that helped us to limit our injuries — by providing the goal of escaping from pain. Evolution never had any sense of how a species might evolve next — so it did not anticipate how pain might...
Today's Random Fact
Zildjian (the company that makes cymbals for drum sets, and has a difficult name to pronounce) was originally founded in Constantinople in 1623.
Today's Random Fact
An average person laughs thirteen times a day.
WatchSOULJA BOY - “CRANK THAT” Acoustic remix I really can’t stand the original version of this song, but when I saw these guys uploaded a cover to Viddyou I was amused.
WatchOne of the nicest $1800 toys I’ve seen in a while. Too bad it’s just a toy. Though, I am excited to see the future of portable computing. I’d guess within five years all laptops come in a similar form-factor, and aren’t so underpowered. Jobs-o, if you’re listening: refresh the MBP line pleeeease. I’d like to buy a new one, but I have a feeling that the day I buy...
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the [Amazon Kindle] is, the fact is that...”
– Steve Jobs
The Apple Product Cycle →
MacWorld San Francisco
Me: mwsf?
Jasmeet: omgwtfbbq?
Jasmeet: no, I got class tomorrow
Me: bbq!
The Real Liquid Diet
One glass of orange juice, 2 glasses of milk, and 47 pints of Guinness contain your daily nutritional requirements.
“Luck favors the persistent. (Except in Vegas)”
“Like most overnight successes it was twenty years in the making.”
– Sam Walton
Draft Michael Bloomberg →
Me: I’ve decided I think Bloomberg should run for president he’d be my vote I think Annette: i’d vote aapon and the walrus Me: he’s a self-made billionaire, Jewish, current mayor of NY, philanthropist, fiscally conservative, socially liberal mi gusta
Bummer.
I had a dream last night that there were a lot of people following me on Tumblr. So, I log in to my dashboard today to check: Following 4 people / 3 people following me Sigh.
WatchI want to have kids just so I can do stuff like this with them.
Annette: what are you going to have for din din?
Me: since I didn't wake up in time to have it for lunch: pizza
Annette: good call
Me: wasn't that great though... sorta bummed
arrived a bit cold
but itsok
I will prevail
and sneeze
like I just did
ta-da!
Annette: take a bow
Replace my number with this one... →
Every cell phone user has done it: forgot to lock their phone’s keypad and accidentally called the first person in the contact list. Usually some unlucky person by the name of Aaron or Abigail. Belgian ad agency Duval Guillaume came up with a clever campaign that turns accidental calls into accidental donations to the Belgian League for the Blind. They’re asking people to add ‘A...
Peanuts can be made into diamonds & 99 other... →
WatchHow often do you think they put the zamboni around here?
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I tried bone marrow last night! Happy New years everyone!