February 2009
152 posts
“Moose was another one of them. Moose. I said, well, what if the dog isn’t...”
– Michelle Obama on names for the new dog.
Moose is also a one-year-old yellow Lab who lives at my parent’s house. They love this.
“Thank God it’s Friday.”
– Dr. Dre
Zach: Ah yeah and Cranbrook and them.
Allison: Yeah, we're reading a lot about Herman Miller.
Zach: It's funny, from a design history class you'd think 90% of the furniture in the world comes from Knoll and Herman Miller. Nobody talks about, like...
Allison: La-z-boy.
Meet Ray Kurzweil →
azspot:
Kurzweil’s most ambitious plan for life after the Singularity, however, is also his most personal: Using technology, he plans to bring his dead father back to life. Kurzweil reveals this to me near the end of our conversation. It’s a bright, clear afternoon, and we can see the river that runs behind the trees outside his wide office windows. The portrait of his father looks down over...
“I try to use the rules of typography to govern the way that I...”
– Chris Ware
I want my tax return to be more like the Tumblr login page.
Tax on (legal) marijuana would net California $13... →
mikehudack:
(via spiegelman)
Doing some math on these numbers also reveals that California produces $377 of marijuana per person per year. For comparison, Oregon is at $125.
(Oh and Kentucky is at $1048.)
David J. Gingery - Wikipedia, the free... →
The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds) transition to The...
Kanye stopped doing the “Where are you Yeezy?” speech bubbles on hot models.
marco:
@danielpunkass:
At a time when RSS is only getting more popular, the Safari 4 Beta RSS feature marketing section is void of “New” claims.
Regular people still don’t use or understand RSS, so it’s understandable why Safari wouldn’t play that up very much.
I think we’ll see more products and features that are based on RSS but don’t call it that. RSS is valuable, but like other underlying...
Today I was using a dremel tool to smooth down the ends of some soldered wires. I was about halfway through when I realized I covered in lead dust.
Aspen Movie Map →
1978 precursor to Google Street View
Resolution to name a state berry starts a rhubarb →
leslieismore:
(via oregonian)
Almost as good as Hockey Mom Takes Her Shots.
Real-time data on the flow of of the Willamette... →
Or something like that.
Obama Bans Gimmicks, and Deficit Will Rise -... →
“Let them say ‘Death to Israel,’ ” he said. “I’ve been in this store 43 years and...”
– Roger Cohen - What Iran’s Jews Say - NYTimes.com
Hearts and Minds →
For everything bad in the world right now, Internet Explorer is responsible.
“The old rating system granted up to five stars but now the maximum number of...”
– Marginal Revolution: *Spin* magazine moves from a five star system to ten
“I think you just need to find something you love and do it for the rest of your...”
– Max
Sugar →
I liked this movie. Doughy Iowans.
It plays again on Saturday.
“We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that...”
– new RNC Chairman Michael Steele, on his strategy for a GOP comeback. He was wearing an analog clock on a gold chain around his neck during the interview. (via spiegelman) (via mikehudack)
Throw some Ds on that Laffer Curve.
“[British woodworker David] Pye ingeniously introduced the division between...”
– Glenn Adamson interviewed by PORT
Oh yeah. This is good.
“Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic...”
– First sentence of the new post from Kevin Kelly. I hope this article doesn’t disappoint.
Buckypaper →
Watchjakeandamir:
Sick Day Part 3 (Goodbye)
Heartbreaking.
I’m showing Andrew tumblr and trying to tell him how it’s sort of a big MMORPG.
“Neurosurgery professor Tipu Aziz, said: “There is evidence that this chip...”
– ‘Sex chip’ being developed by scientists - Telegraph
!!!
Mad Science: Five Brain-Manipulating Technologies... →
(via tba)
Woah.