June 2007
52 posts
Two of my friends have been in lines all day to get an iPhone. One in Boston, which I can see outside my office window, and one in SF. Good luck!
Gordon Ramsay's pet lamb slaughter 'has turned... →
“Animal rights’ group PETA has praised Gordon Ramsay for showing scenes of lambs being slaughtered to millions of viewers on his TV show. PETA claims the images of two lambs being stunned with 200 volts of electricity and then being hung up and having their throats cut have turned a number of viewers vegetarian.”
OK, I have no idea who this guy is. Maybe he is the UK...
Now that Nintendo has officially announced WiiWare, Google needs to write that YouTube app.
I just (purposefully) broke one of my window panes to get my non-standard air conditioning unit in. Fuck, it’s hot. It’s at least 85 degrees in my bedroom at 11:23pm.
MET-RX Big 100 Colossal Crispy Apple Pie Meal Replacement Bar. 410 calories 7 g sat fat 47 g carb 32 g protein. 100% delicious. I guess these are so new that I can’t even find a picture of the wrapper.
Prediction: ZFS won’t show up in Leopard as an option for the default fs.
Prediction: Leopard is the last rev in the Mac OS X 10 series.
Girls Secret Diary for the DS
Me: OMG I WANT IT
Amanda: Will it stab me in the back and steal my boyfriend too?
You have chosen to use the “Comic Sans” font. As a... →
WatchPlaid - Itsu. By Pleix. One of my most favorite videos (and songs), ever.
Paris is going to make jail the new rehab.
The Kellogg Company today announced it will adopt... →
The cereal and snack food giant said that 50 percent of its products marketed to kids currently do not meet the criteria. These items will either be reformulated to meet the new Kellogg Global Nutrient Criteria, or they will no longer be marketed to children under 12 by the end of 2008.
A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes... →
New Zealand authorities have blocked a couple's... →
Let the cyborg names begin… ten bucks we see a request for “R2-D2” by 2010.
Hybrid Juice →
“Google — known for its good intentions almost as much as its search engine — has entered its nonprofit wing into the red-hot science of hybrid vehicles and energy conservation.”
The ESRB has issued an initial rating of AO... →
Where can I pre-order?
I vow to never do floor/mat abdominal exercises again.
Justice - D.A.N.C.E. →
Free iTunes song.
Me: it'll be hard to lower my calorie count to 300/day for that last week before ptown.
Joe: 300? that is kind of a lot.
Me: ugh, fuck.
Landmark study prompts rethink of genetic code →
The researchers speculate that there is a point behind this survival of the evolutionary cull. Humans could share with other animals a large pool of functional elements — a “warehouse” stuffed with a variety of tools on which each species can draw, enabling it to adapt according to its environmental niche. The data is being placed in the public domain to help medical and other...
Take that, Zunetards →
Okay, Microsoft, so you think you’re pretty cool because you managed to get some poor gormless fatty to tattoo himself with a Zune symbol? Well guess what? We’ve got a cutter.
MP3 is so 03.
Safari 3 beta: I’m pleasantly surprised to notice a speed increase in browsing … seems like an improvement in progressive display.
I do not like the semi-transparent menu bar.
MEOW WANT LEOPARD.
Second Life Makes Dream Of Owning Fictitious... →
HAILEY, ID—As a teenager, Kerry Jarrett never thought she would have the opportunity to own and operate a completely fabricated coffee shop and performance space. But thanks to Linden Lab’s popular Second Life digital world, Jarrett, 31, has turned her dream into a virtual reality.
A museum like no other →
“Last weekend was the first weekend the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY, (near Cincinnati) has been open to the public, and I, your intrepid reporter, braved the crowds to see what the fuss was about.”
The new YouTube player may be growing on me.
I do not like the new YouTube player.
“I think your position is yesterday forever.”
– Today’s Wicked Awesome Comeback comes from Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. Doesn’t matter whom he said it to, or why (OK, it was to Big Auto because they’re raising a stink about fuel efficiency) — it’s applicable in all kinds of situations.
Since Joe and I went our impromptu mini-vacay in Ptown this past weekend, I have not been able to keep my mind on work. I haven’t taken any time off from work for a vacation since last August and I’m looking forward to having the first week in July off!
Divers dismantle artificial tire reef →
Divers began removing up to 2 million old tires from the ocean floor Monday after a plan in the 1970s to create the world’s largest artificial tire reef became an ecological disaster.
