January 2009
prayabout.com →
Social prayer site. Damn, why didn’t I think of this.
via (Joe Cardenas)
I need a low-profile female serial gender changer.
“The planetary slum-dwellers of failed states may find the rollicking life of a...”
– Seed: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic
Household electricity approach →
The Household Electricity Approach to measuring the size of the underground economy or black market of a country exploits the presumed relationship between household electrical consumption and a country’s GDP.
"Aloha Zen" →
theyrechangingthesigntouniversityoforegon.com →
Thanksgiving: While You Live
“The participants (referred to as “selectors”) transmit data indicative of their...”
– IDDEA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Obama to Let States Restrict Emissions Standards -... →
This is a good time to mention the peripherally related Massachucetts v. EPA, a two-year-old Supreme Court case that I didn’t hear about until last fall.
The remarkable thing about the case (if you’re into this sort of thing) was that the Court ruled that the state of Massachusetts had standing to sue the EPA for not regulating CO2 emissions because US emissions pose a remote but...
White Rainbow and Adrian Orange tonight at Rontoms at 9. I’m going.
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On Tabbed Browsing
I’m a big fan of the “right-click: open in new tab” maneuver. I’ll use it whenever I’m reading something and I want to check out a link after I’m done. I suspect a lot of people do this. If it’s something like a Wikipedia page, a single article may sprout half a dozen tabs. Tumblr and Google Reader can sprout dozens.
The problem is that tabs are basically...
“If you look with a squinty eye at most of personal computing today, you’ll see...”
– Alan Kay (via azspot)
“YOOOO WHY WON’T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!! I HAD THE TWO GREATEST DAYS OF MY...”
– Yeezy
“Apply Source Formatting”
All this time!
Intel closing plant, costing Hillsboro 1,000 jobs... →
dalasverdugo:
This is why I am not convinced by theories of a technological singularity or other super-techo-sci-fi visions. I believe we will hit a brick wall and never reach the “event horizon.” No, I don’t think we will all be building lean-tos out of old laptops next week, but I do think that it’s highly unlikely we will ever become the technological supermen that many people think we are...
Time 1234567890 is coming up soon →
(via azspot)
Oh yeah.
“Then, instead of reading from a script, as Mr. Bush might have done, the new...”
– A More Informal Style in Obama’s Early Appearances
Yes yes yes. This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for.
“[Obama]’s basically saying if there’s a dispute, and a former...”
– Obama to Bush: I Can Release Your Records. Don’t Like It? Sue.
This is gonna be good.
Mindhacks for Winter
Drive around with the windows down. You might need a few sweatshirts for this one. Turn off the music and listen to your surroundings and the other cars on the road. If it’s a dry out, you may find yourself thinking it’s summer.
Wear sunscreen. Don’t just wear skin lotion with an SPF, try something like Coppertone. You don’t even need to wear much. Maybe even just two...
Oh, Sam.
duplo:
The editorial boards of the Oregonian and the Portland Tribune have both called for Sam Adam’s resignation. The head of the police union has, too. The attorney general is launching an investigation.
I’m curious what other Portlanders think of this.
Personally, I’m really disappointed in Adams. I think having a relationship with an intern is a total abuse of office, especially an intern...
“This economy has transformed the world, but it has merely transformed it into a...”
– Guy Debord
“I don’t know how this is gonna turn out. I know a lot of people who...”
– Jeff Hawkins (20:00) on brain science.
“When there is no transmission, which is to say no signal, the noise or...”
– Noise (video) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The 22-day-long campaign to stop Hamas firing rockets into Israeli territory has...”
– VOA News - Pope Benedict Condemns Gaza Violence
My friend Nina wrote a script that turns a Tumblr RSS feed into something resembling a Blogger RSS feed.
If you’re into that sort of thing.
Watchjakeandamir:
Scared
Man, these guys are great.
“Specifications
Bat-diamond (power source for the Batcomputer, must be far more...”
– Batcomputer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The logical extension of over-Auto-Tuning is dystopian: the erasure of...”
– The best music of 2008. (7) - By Robert Christgau, Ann Powers, and Jody Rosen - Slate Magazine
Au Clair de la Lune - Wikipedia, the free... →
Perhaps the most technospiritual thing of 2008: The earliest recording of the human voice was digitized and put on Wikipedia. It’s from 1860.
“[Ron Popeil and his ancestors] married beautiful women and made fortunes and...”
– gladwell dot com - the pitchman
Alan Braxe - In Love with You
