Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Links to Learn Something
The biggest full moon of 2009 will be visible this weekend. When the perigee Moon is near the horizon, an illusion mixes with reality to produce a truly stunning view.Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early. When you have a built-in reason for failure, the rare victory is even sweeter. (via Lifehacker)
A class action lawsuit by residents of the Amazon may cost Chevron up to 23 billion dollars! No one disputes that Texaco (which was later acquired by Chevron) left an environmental mess in Ecuador; the question is who is legally responsible for rectifying it.
The hacker who infiltrated Twitter a few days ago explains the very simple way he did it. The lesson learned: don't make your passwords so easy to guess, especially if you administer a social network site.
The Washing Machine That Ate My Sari. When it comes to developing successful products and services for a global market, there is an almost infinite number of ways to get it wrong. Also see Cross Cultural Marketing Blunders. (via Metafilter)
9 Methods for Mastering Your Money in 2009. Commonsense advice with tips on getting these things done. (via Consumerist)
Despite DNA technology, it's harder to solve a murder than ever before. Factors on both sides of the law have causes a drastic drop in the case clearance rate.
Friday, January 09, 2009
Someone Behind the Door
1971 thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Charles Bronson. From IMDb: A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.
Friday Fun Links
Watch the entire pilot episode of Gilligan's Island, with a different Professor and two girls you don't even know, setting out on a doomed six-hour tour.Top Ten Birds That Could Kick Your Ass. (via Unique Daily)
You'd be surprised to see what TV newscasters do during commercial breaks. (via I Am Bored)
Loss Cat. (via Everlasting Blort)
Ten Movie Endings Spoiled By History. (via Look At This)
What happened at 3:18 PM?
Can you ace this logic test? Or would you rather argue about the answers?
This dog wants her blanket! And she knows exactly how to get it.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Links to Learn Something
How to convert your car to run on trash with a homemade biomass converter. Just like Doc Brown in Back to the Future! (via Gizmodo)The Real Story of the Von Trapp Family, on whom The Sound of Music was based. See what they are doing now. (via Metafilter)
Fred Syversen skied off the wrong cliff, fell 351 feet, and lived to tell about it. He accidently set a world record for the highest cliff jump, according to video evidence. (via Arbroath)
How cool would it be to be a buyer for Think Geek? In this interview, meet John Frazier, the guy who looks for cool toys all day.
Ann Edie has a guide dog, but he's a horse named Panda. Parrots, pigs, monkeys: who decides what kind of creatures can be considered service animals? (via Metafilter)
Blow soap bubbles in cold weather and watch them freeze and break! Or see pictures from someone who did just that.
The Iguana That Darwin Never Saw. It's an evolutionarily distinct species that lives only on one volcano, and it's endangered. Oh, and it's pink!
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Fun Links
Photographs of people re-enacting memorable panels from The Far Side. I don't even need captions to laugh all over again!Sparebots, delightful figures made out of resistors, caps, pots, chips, sockets, and other electronic parts!
Accusations of Photoshop! Matt Harding spills the beans about his Where in the Hell is Matt? videos.
Fark's annual headlines of the year.
All you need to rent a U-Haul is a license and a credit card. A bit of driving experience would have done this driver some good.
What happens when Dr. Who meets Captain Kirk? Watch and see!
A look at what happened to Michael Vick's dogs.
Monday, January 05, 2009
Weblog Awards
Through some quirk in the universe, I am up for a Weblog Award in the category of Best Large Blog! Please take a minute to go vote for me here. You can vote once every 24 hours until January 13.
A couple of the other sites I work for are nominated, too. Vote for YesButNoButYes in the Best Humor Blog category here. Vote for Geeks Are Sexy in the Best Technology Blog category here.
Vote for everyone else here. There are a lot of fine blogs in the running you should check out! I posted a list of recommendations if you don't have a favorite and want to do me a favor.
Thanks a million!
The Times of Harvey Milk
The 1984 documentary about Harvey Milk the San Francisco openly gay member of the Board of Supervisors. Milk and mayor George Moscone were assassinated in 1978. The new movie Milk starring Sean Penn is now in theaters.
Good Reads
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The End of the Financial World as We Know It. The mess we're in now required all sorts of important, plugged-in people to sacrifice our collective long-term interests for short-term gain.5 Homeless Guys Who Accomplished Amazing Things. Any accomplishments are much more difficult without an address, bathroom, or place to keep your stuff.
Yesterday was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, who invented the reading system for the blind. The instrument that caused his blindness became the tool used for his invention. (via Fark)
25 of the Greatest Self-Made Men in American History. Finding a man like this is a lifetime project -I know!
Numbers are Innate. I'm surprised; I thought the process of learning math is why we have all these fingers and toes.
The Natural Basis for Gender Inequality. The sexes are so different, why should we work for equal rights?
Cities needlessly shine billions of dollars worth of light directly into the sky each year. Turn down the light pollution, and we'll be able to see the Milky Way. (via Metafilter)
The Legacy of Sadako. A 12-year-old girl who did fifty years ago is still inspiring people around the world.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Friday, January 02, 2009
Friday Fun Links
The 11 Manliest Cocktails In The World.This is the time to cry for mama. Not that mama wants to hear it... or see it!
How to get into the office when there's no one there. Like I always said, necessity is the mother of Southern ingenuity.
How Not To Do Plastic Surgery. (via Look at This)
Escape from Icy Hill. A bird's eye view of an icy hill in Portland, with the most appropriate music possible. This video is full of win.
A journalist/comedian interviews Fred Phelps, Junior of the Westboro Baptist Church. And then begins to flirt with him.
Watch a super-cute video of a gang of dogs decorating a Christmas tree. The site is in Hungarian, but don't let that stop you from enjoying the fun! (Thanks, Johnny Cat!)
The Legend of Master Legend. Rolling Stone takes a hilarious look at the lives behind real life super heroes. (via Neatorama)
Cheetah Cub and Puppy
The Cincinnati Zoo trains a cheetah cub to be an "ambassador cat". When grown, Tommy T will be taken to the public for educational talks. (via Arbroath)
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Good Reads for th New Year
8 Television Pioneers. Meaning, the geniuses who invented television.Please Don't Divorce Us. A large and growing Flickr set in reaction to California's Proposition 8.
Mystery of the Brain: a blind man navigates an obstacle course perfectly with no visual awareness.
It's Cheaper to Keep Her. The recession and economic turmoil is creating a new class of casualties: Married couples who can't afford to get divorced.
People say they understand their pets' language, and vice versa. Pets have no comment at this time.
Some things about traffic that may surprise you. Excerpted from the book Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt. (via Look at This)
The White House is still working to gut environmental legislation with a policy that prohibits controls on greenhouses gases for coal-fired power plants. The incoming administration can change that, but it will take time.
Men may flirt with risk because they think it will help them score women. That'll only work if they don't get killed first.
The Top Ten Dinosaur and Fossil Finds of 2008, from National Geographic. It's been a bizarre year for paleontologists.
The origins of Jesus' name.
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