September 2008
41 posts
Watchheartbeep’s LOMO India set
What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of... →
frothyparadise:
Answer: a lot of weird shit. (via psychoviolinist)
Ah, suburbia. I remember you well. I’m seriously hoping the author prints this post out and sends it to the drug store.
Watchirrg:
Interesting article in the sports (!) section of Gapers Block: New Documentary Rolls Dice With Gamer Girls. While the documentary ‘teaser’ itself teased me to both sleep and a little bit of annoyance with the younger girl’s brilliant (cough) idea to disown her kids if they’re not gamers…aaanyhow. The article looks interesting and this is probably going to become a more relevant subject as...
Schtock blog » What’s this, then? →
Schtock was a neat idea in itself, but according to the press release, it turned out to be a viral viral campaign… which is to say, not a viral marketing campaign, but a viral campaign to… well, go read it.
“For Brendan Doyle, it’s a matter of equal pay for equal work.
Doyle, 57, has...”
– Joe Davidson - Benefits for Same-Sex Partners Focus of Senate Hearing - washingtonpost.com (via robot-heart, via notthatkindagay)
Ludicrous.
(via indieandyy. via smalltowngayblog)
Tacos, cake, coke
oh
there's a taco truck nearby i think if you want a cheapie veggie one
well "nearby"
nearby = near me
:p
are you two near each other?
Yeah, and there's one on... what, Folsom and Spear?
yes
Yeah, we kinda are. Maybe 4 blocks away
being that I'm walking the distance. :)
going the distance
10 minute walk.
going for speed
The one on Folsom and Spear has BRILLIANT burritos
all alone, all alone in the time of need
(aaaaaah, aaaaaah.... aaaaah, aaaaah)
(*trumpet*)
hehehe
... out of curiosity who did that?
Cake
Cake
jaschu buys Nicole a coke
coke cake?
a cake coke?
more like "jinx, buy me a coke"
i'll take the cake
though it was "poke, poke, owe me a coke?"
Yeah, word, now I want cake. THANKS NICOLE
;)
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WatchTechnoviking Grandma (for Jamie)
Star Simpson's first interview on the Boston... →
“The real news is why would a bunch of people who have been screwed by Valleywag...”
– Jamie Martin
Seriously. My answer: people are lazy and hate doing the fact-checking themselves, regardless of how easy or hard it would be. And if they hear something they want to believe, they’ll just believe it rather than investigate. It’s easier that way. Go America!
Why Loud Music in Bars Increases Alcohol... →
cultrvultr:
randyhaddock:
People sitting around quietly nursing their drinks for hours are no good for profits. Talkers aren’t the best drinkers. At least that is the received wisdom in the industry. And this received wisdom turns out to be accurate according to field studies conducted in French bars by Professor Nicolas Guegen and colleagues.
I find it funny that they don’t mention...
“<meta name=”warning” content=”HC SVNT DRACONES” />”
– Fun Latin in JSTN’s html.
“The artist is now the insider who finds a new style of trifling within the game....”
– McKenzie Wark, “Gamer Theory”
To put this in context, this comes from a book describing (as far as I can tell, not having read it all yet) how the imposition of the digital onto the world has transformed it into gamespace, and the above passage from a chapter that describes the...
Watchsmalltowngayblog:
funtime:
This has been posted a few times by other Tumblrs but Keith Olberman really drives it home, especially at 6:20 and on in the clip.
Mr. Olberman thank you for saying it so well and saying it so passionately.
Keith Olberman. Bad. Ass.
History of the browser user-agent string [WebAIM:... →
This is how it starts ramping up: “And Microsoft grew impatient, and did not wish to wait for webmasters to learn of IE and begin to send it frames, and so Internet Explorer declared that it was “Mozilla compatible” and began to impersonate Netscape, and called itself Mozilla/1.22 (compatible; MSIE 2.0; Windows 95), and Internet Explorer received frames, and all of Microsoft was happy, but...
WatchHug a Developer Today (via Tiffany)
Seriously, been there.
In defence of hipsters | Comment is free |... →
Mazemod →
About: “Mazemod is a web radio dedicated to amiga & tracker music culture streaming various styles of computer electronic music from the demoscene & computer art subculture. ¶ Most notorious styles which came out of the trackers are the chiptunes, synthetic sounds with a videogame & fun melody appeal, demo songs featured in the crack warez intros & also acid techno tracks...