March 2008
38 posts
Emerald Swell: Riding the Frigid Waves of a Raging... →
Surfing aficionados have known about Ireland’s northwest coast for years, situated in a pleasantly volatile stretch of the Atlantic, making it the first port of call for any promising nasty storms brewing out in the ocean. Its position, as well as its rocky, serrated coastline, full of reefs and point breaks, makes it an ideal place for the sort of surfer who seeks a good wave, forget the creature...
Royal Flush (Feat. Andre 3000 & Raekwon) by...
Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments →
How to enable single window mode in Safari →
A great tip to make all your clicked links open in one window. If you’re a tab junkie, you know how annoying it is when a link opens in a new window. Even with the great Safari plug-in, Saft, this was hard to control. In the latest Safari 3.1 Apple finally added a (hidden) preference! To enable single window mode and have all links open in a new tab that would normally have opened in a...
Starbucks Buys Clover
In a sad development for coffee aficionados, Starbucks bought the company that developed the revolutionary Clover coffee machine. The $11,000 Clover allowed coffee shops to brew single cups of coffee within the unique parameters that best served that particular bean. You could control the grind size, dose, water temperature, and contact time, on a cup-by-cup basis. The good side of...
“And so, at 11 o’clock am on a Tuesday, a prominent politician spoke to Americans...”
– Jon Stewart (via seriouslythough)
Twitter message from Merlin Mann: →
“twat” (n.) - Twitter post that self-links to blog post, whitepaper, or webinar on using Twitter to promote yourself. Alt.: author of same.
Ugh
elspethjane: bjornstar: bellavita: I just realized a handful of people I was following, became unfollowed. I kinda just thought they weren’t posting. Has this happened to anyone else? I heard that if you don’t reblog a single post from a person in a one month timeframe you will automatically unfollow them. Supposedly, this is to encourage people to stop lurking and contribute to the...
Love So Sane →
And if you must, Courtney Love’s Tumblr site.
lindsaycampbell: Did I die? Is this heaven? New...
The end of The Wire →
As usual, Jason Kottke does a great job of corralling everything worth hearing about the end of The Wire. My wife is watching the first season as I’m watching the last. Seeing these bookends gives you a realy appreciation for the integrity of the story arc(s) that David Simon created. I can’t think of another show in recent memory that gets to begin and end on its own terms. While...
Sony, Nokia shudder at iPhone games plan →
Apple’s iPhone will become one of the world’s leading mobile gaming platforms, as games developers worldwide make plans to deliver titles for the platform, now the iPhone 2.0 SDK (beta) has been made available.The irony of all of this is how little love the Mac-faithful got in the gaming world for the last two decades. We’re like a third world country, skipping one generation of...
“Baby, I’m An...
Workplace Experiments →
I’m posting this, hoping someone at my company reads my blog.We decided that 37signals would help people pay for their passions, interests, or other curiosities. We want our people to experience new things, discover new hobbies, and generally be interesting people.
WatchIt’s 3 AM…Hillary asked a serious question in her latest campaign spot. We thought it deserved an equally serious response
