April 2009
27 posts
Pressure
delgrosso:
Everything feels different when done under duress. Not the violent variety, mind you, like handing over your wallet at knifepoint. I’m speaking about the little pinprick pressures that we get from people who are constantly cajoling us to do things we really aren’t interested in doing. The times you’re asked to Come On, or Be A Pal, or Do It For Me, or You Owe Me One. Oh, and my...
The Twitter/Tumblr List
funsizebytes:
Ok, fine
insert fake exasperated sigh here
Since no one else is going to do it, I’m compiling a list of Twitter/Tumblr people.
This Is How It Will Work
It will exist at this URL (the page you are reading now) unless it grows so big it has to be moved elsewhere, at which point this URL will link to it.
There are several ways that you can get on the list. They are listed in...
What Does Your Tumblr Name Mean?
faneffingtastic:
balut:
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The title of my Tumblr, “Dust and the Residue of the Original Contents” is a fragment of a quote by Samuel Beckett. I’m bullshitting you. It’s really from the sign on the bottle and can return machines at a nearby supermarket.
I think mine is fairly obvious. In My Fallible Opinion. In My Fucking Opinion. I Made Frakkin Onions. All of them are true as...
This Lousy Twitshirt →
I’m linking to my blog post about Twitter on Tumblr. If the social media experts find out about this, they’ll make me their god.
“The Rodenator Pro pumps propane and oxygen into the tunnels of squirrels, then...”
– Spokane to detonate squirrels tearing up parks | KATU.com - Portland, Oregon | Outdoor News
1) Yeah, being blown up is really very humane. They’ll never even know what hit them…
2) As John Gruber observes, this sounds an awful lot like “CaddyShack”
(via jamiek)
My favorite part of that...
Your NPR Name
ronbailey:
apollosraven:
pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:
spiegelman:
liana:
Eric and I recently discovered a shared fascination with the slew of impossibly named NPR hosts we listen to every day: Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep, Corey Flintoff, Korva Coleman, Kai Ryssdal, Dina Temple-Raston.
In fact, we’ve often wondered what it would be like to be one of them. A Nina Totenberg or a Renita...
Newsarama.com : Animated Shorts: Warners... →
Why parents allow their children to watch present-day cartoons, when all the great classic stuff is on DVD, is beyond me.
I don’t intend to make that mistake.
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without... →
Experiment 638(c): White Russian Cereal
fancycwabs:
Back in the day, the inimitable Lore Sjoberg wrote a rating of breakfast cereals in which he lamented the fact that they hadn’t followed Apple Jacks with Kahlua Krispies, which put the wisps of a thought in my head.
This was probably close to ten years ago, mind you. In the intervening time, I’ve examined how cereal was made, driven by the local Kellogg’s factory countless times...
Answers
I’m a little slow on the comeback, but here we go:
faneffingtastic: How has fatherhood changed you?
The change I’ve noticed most is that things that should bother me, don’t. I have rather OCD tendencies, which means if I get my hands dirty I need to wash them, like, now. But with Sam, those tendencies are suppressed. Pee? Poop? Puke? Whatever, I’ll deal with it...
About Those New CrunchPad Pictures →
Shared by Billy
Remember, Techcrunch originally claimed they could build & sell this thing for $200. Now they think they can sell it for $300 & maybe not go out of business. Mark my words: If…
Gizmodo - Unbelievably Detailed Wall-E PC Case Mod... →
Ho-lee crap. This is one serious case mod. The incredibly precise and detailed project took one dedicated Russian modder 18 days to complete, which is an accomplishment by itself. Jaw =…
Thoughts on Bill O'Reilly and Squeaky the... →
I understand you believe one of the Sun-Times misdemeanors was dropping your syndicated column. My editor informs me that “very few” readers complained about the disappearance of your column, adding,…
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what this...”
– Me (with apologies to Douglas Adams)
Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
(Apologies for the repost, I screwed up the last one. Thanks for the help, @faneffingtastic.)
So this seems like as good a way as any to jump into the whole Tumblr thing. If you’d like to ask me a question, go for it. I’ll try to answer as honestly and as humorously as I can.
And if enough people ask questions it will unlock bonus answers something something charity.
So, what do you want to...
A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media... →
So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that…
“As I’ve been thinking of this technological revolution, I’ve...”
– Is Your Company Designed for Humans? - Peter Merholz - HarvardBusiness.org
Sports: Cheering Fans, Thrilling NCAA Tournament... →
DETROIT—Claiming that determining an unquestioned national champion through a playoff system “went against the very idea of sporting competition,” and that the sheer exuberance of college basketball…
A Brand New Language on Google App Engine! →
Posted by Alon Levi, App Engine Team It’s been almost a year since we’ve launched App Engine with support for Python, and what a year it’s been! We’ve gotten fantastic feedback from developers,…
Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of... →
Yes, yes, silly April Fool’s story. But I’m sharing this for two reasons: First, working in the newspaper industry, seeing a real headline like this in a few years wouldn’t surprise me at all. And second, the idea of them converting 188 years of archives to tweets is pretty damn funny.
