March 2008
36 posts
pophub: introducing new cluster view →
ever wished to group the content by topic rather than by feed? well, now you can.
there is a new feature that allows you to choose between the familiar classic or river view as well as the…
British Airways loses 15-20,000 bags since... →
The much-ballyhooed opening of Heathrow’s £4 billion Terminal 5 has been a debacle. British Airways has canceled 208 flights since Thursday, and has “stranded” between 15,000 and 20,000 bags. Area…
Last Supper With Video Game Characters →
Ever wonder what da Vinci’s Last Supper would look like with video game characters? Possibly something like this. Except why on earth is Donkey Kong portraying Jesus? That’s sacrilege if…
Mr. T Cookie Jar Keeps Cookies Safe, Fool! →
Listen up, fool! Stuff your cookies in my head and I’ll help keep them fresh and safe from annoying rugrats. And if I catch one standing on a stool trying to get at them I’ll bite the little…
Wow! →
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Cabel Sasser: In Japan, URLs Are Totally Out →
Cabel Sasser reports that in Japan, rather than URLs, advertisers are promoting search terms. Like, say, instead of “daringfireball.net”, an ad would feature “Daring Fireball” in a text field with a…
Important Life Lesson →
Baby Galapagos Tortoise →
A weeks-old Galapagos Giant Tortoise crawls in front of its 70-year-old mother “Nigrita” inside an enclosure at Zurich zoo. [via]
AG Lite - Issue 278 | Vote 2008 →
Funny no-parking message →
Flickr user Ian Boyd posted this photo of an amusing garage door warning, noting “This was on the old Island 2000 Trust garage up along the Forest Road, sadly now demolished and gone forever.”…
Sheep stomach lamp →
Michelle @ CRAFT writes:
It sounds gross, but this amazing looking lamp, Ruminant Bloom, is made by artist Julia Lohmann out of preserved sheep stomachs.
Ruminant Bloom lamp - [via] Link.
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Life Isn't So Bad After All: The Rainbow Book →
Rainbow in Your Hand is a little book designed by Masashi Kawamura. When you flip the pages like a flipbook a little rainbow appears. How beautiful is that? You know, this makes me think that…
★ The Flip Side of the Multitasking Argument →
Hank Williams argues the other side of the iPhone multitasking debate in a piece titled “Apple’s iPhone SDK Prohibits Real Mobile Innovation”. It’s the best argument I’ve seen against Apple’s “no…
Mmm...Bacon →
AOL Buys Bebo - Owners Turn £8,000 Into £300m →
A British couple who met in a London university bar and started Bebo in 2005 with £8,000 are today £300 million better off after the social networking site was bought by AOL for £425 million in…
det_fugitivetee.jpg (Image JPEG, 730x500 pixels) →
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The Ring →
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Apparently “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence. Mental Floss explains.
Morning →
A thoughtful memorandum from the archives of the... →
A thoughtful memorandum from the archives of the RAND Corporation as they contemplated designing a new building for the optimal accomplishment of work in 1950. This implies that it should be…
Mozilla Makes Web Apps Easy →
Mozilla started creating an application last year called WebRunner that would allow you to run certain websites in a standalone version of Firefox. Eventually WebRunner was renamed to Prism, and…
Reznor makes $750,000 even when the music is free →
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I Am Legend alternate ending →
much better
How Not To Defend →
twitter: if you're on a <=30" ACD... →
marban: if you’re on a <=30” ACD don’t use any dark icons on your desktop. they’ll burn into the screen; just happened to me. google for ghosting
Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation - Wired... →
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Vista Cracked By Pirates →
A genuine crack for Windows Vista has just been released by pirate group Pantheon, which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly…
Dog Adopts A Pig →
More cute pics here.
MSI employs Stirling Engine Theory :: TweakTown →