April 2009
94 posts
March 2009
120 posts
Hunch.com will own me in 6 months.
UPDATE: Turns out the site (ostensibly) remembers far less information about me than it could. Hunch.com may own me in 18 months.
Why are you reading this?
Review: Skype for iPhone. Verdict: Awesome. →
(via azspot)
This does it. I’m quitting my cell phone and getting an iPod Touch.
Everywhere I park myself there’s wifi.
I can’t afford $70 a month for iPhone service, plus the phone.
I doubt I’ll miss being out of range when I’m elsewhere.
If I change my mind on that last one, I’ll get a $20 prepaid phone for those rare occasions.
Someone on Facebook just messaged me to ask if I was the Zach Rose they met in Roseburg last weekend. I am not.
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is the same as
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PETA is offering a $1 million prize to anyone who can make the first in vitro chicken meat and sell it to the public by June 30, 2012.
There are 275 Zach Roses on Facebook.
AAAARG.ORG →
Eight cups of coffee and I still can’t sleep.
I wonder if there will ever be Obama-class warships.
I remember hearing once that if Roe vs. Wade were overturned, the Republican Party would emerge much weaker. I can’t remember the exact logic behind this. Maybe it’s that such a ruling would galvanize the pro-choice demographic and weaken the pro-life Republican base?
Anyways, I’m also not sure why this is of sudden interest to me.
“[Herbert Hoover’s] reputation as a humanitarian from this endeavor was...”
– Wikipedia
“The Future will become Primitive. In other words, ideas of the future as...”
– Roger Macdonald
mikehudack:
adamiss:
mikehudack:
Why does everyone always want to do phone calls? What’s wrong with IM and e-mail, people??
Tone. When someone write’s “WTF” in an IM, are they:
incensed?
bored?
curious?
being sarcastic or ironic?
excited?
And meaning. I build relationships through phone calls and meetings. I transer information through IMs and email.
Phone call is to virtual...
“Yeah, I know it just looks like I drew a face on this pitcher, but this campaign...”
– The creative director of the General Mills Kool-Aid campaign, circa 1955.
Commissioner Randy Leonard blogs about the Made in... →
leslieismore:
And gets it absolutely right.
‘The University of Oregon’s proposed change is not, as some may lead you to believe, simply about changing the letters of the sign to reflect the newest tenant occupying the building. While the University of Oregon is rightfully proud of its many accomplishments, both academic and extra-curricular, it is also an institution that is now and forever...
I folded all my laundry while watching Crash.
I really hope the sequel, Crash 2, is one of those sequels where they get together for a roundtable discussion about the myriad forms of racism and the complex tensions that are far beyond the grasp any monolithic conception of the topic. (Except for the innocent black guy who was shot and killed by the white cop.)
Synthetic Diamonds
I am all about synthetic diamonds. More synthetic diamonds, please.
Peeing in the pool.
langer:
<head> <explode>
Apparently Jamie Wilkinson’s “Internet Famous” course at Parsons was just the beginning: this spring at Indiana University students can accrue four honest to God college credits upon successful completion of “CIT 499 Emerging Technologies”.
Of the course’s three primary objectives, one stands out in particular: “build a ‘personal brand’ using...
“This speaks to the rise of the do-it-yourselfer, someone who is not just a...”
– Open Source Hardware Hackers Start P2P Bank | Gadget Lab from Wired.com (via Marginal Revolution)
Whenever I have to set up any kind of desktop mail application it downloads 5 years of Gmail history, starting with mail from my then-girlfriend.
I’m looking for something more customizable than an embedded Google Calendar and less hardcore than the full-fledged GData API.
Do you know of anything? Hit me up: zachrose@gmail.com. Thanks.
