February 2010
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Roger Ebert: Hello, this is me speaking →
After I lost my speaking voice, everybody thought they had this brilliant idea. “Hey! Why don’t you just take your voice from your old shows and put it on a computer?” Sounded good to me.
I kept getting suggestions: “I know this guy who says it would be easy.” Either there wasn’t a guy or he didn’t think it would be easy. In the meantime, I was...
Is there a record for most songs in an audio post?...
“If you use a computer, constantly refine and expand your autocorrect settings....”
– Geoff Dyer (another quote from Ten Rules For Writing Fiction)
“Oh, don’t mind me. I’m just over here living in the future.”
– Merlin Mann
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Nancy Sinatra singing Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me...
Simplicity is hard. Let's go shopping! →
By Mark Pilgrim.
Pilgrim’s Wife: What do you want for your birthday?
Pilgrim: Nothing.
W: You’re impossible to shop for.
P: Actually, I want less than that. I want you to let me sell my car and replace it with nothing.
W: Be realistic. We live in the suburbs.
P: I have a bike.
W: But what if my van breaks down?
P: We have AAA.
W: It would still put...
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On the internet, nobody knows you’re not a...
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“You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with...”
– Margaret Atwood in The Guardian’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction (via 52Books)
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Your Path to Divinity, by Jesu.
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Instapaper’s Secret ‘Instaserif’ Feature...
You can use the Instapaper Text bookmarklet to “instantly view any compatible web page in Instapaper’s Text view”. It’s very cool. But there’s something it’s not telling you. This humble bookmarklet can also be used to settle the eternal sans-serif dilemma: is it a capital i (I) or a lowercase L (l)?
It may not save you in the event of the Helvetica Scenario,...
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I said, you know, you look like a man
who can appreciate a bigger house.
He looks at me and agrees.
So we drive down the street and there’s a bigger house,
and an even bigger house,
and I say, which one do you want?
Just kidding, you want the biggest house.
I can see it in your eyes.
Subprime lenders going on benders
(I’ll fuck your credit up)
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Drunkship of Lanterns by The Mars Volta.
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nostrich: who the fuck needs 100gb of music
inky: wat
nostrich: i have 38gb and i don't listen to anywhere near all of it
igowen: inky has 250GB of music consisting of the same note
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Labour of Division →
Instead of division [by 13], there’s multiplication by a bizarre number: 1321528399. What wickedness is this?
1321528399 is an example of a “magic number:” a number that lets you substitute speedy multiplication for pokey division, as if by magic. In this post, I become a big fat spoilsport and ruin the trick for everyone…
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“TUMBLR STOLE MY VIRGINITY”
– LANGER HAS RAGE BLACKOUTS
Bill Gates is officially redeemed from... →
Why is he suddenly a great communicator and presenter? What has driven his transformation? I think it’s because he moved from presenting about his job to presenting about his passion…
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Einstein (via fwarg)
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Double nostalgia attack from folkblackdeath:
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“CAPTCHA would have made Blade Runner a much shorter movie.”
– Simon Goetz
