July 2009
21 posts
“…the images of teenage drinking are jarring. Previous Harry Potter movies...”
– Taken from a NYtimes article. Really.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/health/28well.html?_r=2
“An intensifying nationwide crime wave over the past decade has pushed the...”
– The wonders of my country. via nytimes
"Chavez targets Venezuelan Media" --preventing a...
A proposal that critics say will limit freedom of expression is a law being pitched by Cabinet Minister Diosdado Cabello that would channel all Internet communication through servers controlled by the state telecommunications company, CANTV.
Atty. Gen. Luisa Ortega Diaz will present to the National Assembly soon that would create a new category of “media crime” punishing those who...
Project Natal →
As everything Microsoft, I’m weary. A lot of their cool products are all bark no bite. Remember the Microsoft Surface?
Also, note the “Product vision: actual features and functionality may vary” at the beginning of the videos.
Pictures of a (crazy)guy rollerblading down a... →
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for...”
– Gloria Naylor (via littlemiss) (via kirstenjordan)
I love this. Its the perfect definition for friendship.
“I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down...”
– Marya Hornbacher.
I thought I was the only one that suffered from that.
(via robot-heart)
Strange Attractor » The plural of anecdote is not... →
emilyjane:
Analysis of the research note prepared for Morgan Stanley by a 15 year old intern.
Agreed.
“…scientists found lesions in their livers, lungs and kidneys, as well as...”
– PS: Its a looooong article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12whales-t.html?_r=2&hpw=&pagewanted=all
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten?printable=true
“[In Venezuela] 154 FM radio stations will be taken off the air and shifted into...”
– Democratizing my ass. (source)
Are "deleted" photos really gone from Facebook?... →
Twitter and Flickr deleted our photos within seconds. Direct links to the photos in question broke after a quick hard refresh, so you can be sure that your salacious pictures mistakenly posted to Flickr while inebriated will no longer be accessible to your enemies (assuming they didn’t copy them to their hard drives, that is).
Facebook and MySpace, however, did not fare so well. As of this...
Becoming Minimalist →
marco:
I had a thought last night that I wanted to wake up this morning and get rid of 75% of the ‘stuff’ that I own. […]
How do you start to get rid of these things?
Get some sort of external storage. The basement, a small rental storage unit, your parents’ place, or New Jersey. The less convenient it is to access, the better.
Put nearly everything you own there. Leave out only what...
You should clean your ladybits with Lysol. No... →