June 2008
“Both Greenland and the West Antarctic ice sheet are huge bodies of ice and snow,...”
– Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica
Highly, highly, highly disturbing. Apparently the sea level could/would/will rise by 6-7 meters.
“Asexual reproduction. […] It’s just like masturbating, except that...”
– Jerry Holkins in “Penny Arcade: The Case of the Mummy’s Gold”
“Not too long i heard someone say: “With the power of the PS3 and the 360...”
– Eskil Steenberg
“Every car dash has a few unlabeled buttons that look like they should do...”
– xkcd store: Switch and Button Stickers
WANT.
OS X : Unplugged(.prefpane) →
This looks neat. I have to give this a testdrive once I got a working battery for the MacBook.
"BOOM DE YADA! BOOM DE YADA!" indeed! →
“PARIS (AFP) — Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands...”
– AFP: Internet body approves domain name big bang
Holy fuck?
“Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business...”
– Anil Dash [via]
“ROFL! just got a call from yahoo accounting asking what department i’m in,...”
– Anil Dash
“Acronyms are initialisms used as if they are words. Clearly, it is not desirable...”
– English plural - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I’ve finally remembered to look that one up.
Homebrew returns just in time for WiiBrator -... →
It makes sense when you think about it. It’s probably the only console on the market with a rather large female user base. :p
WatchBjörk - All Is Full Of Love
Localization Problems: A Cellphone's Missing Dot... →
inky:
The surreal mistake happened because Ramazan sent a message and Emine’s cellphone didn’t have a specific character from the Turkish alphabet: the letter ‘ı’ or closed i. […]
The use of ‘i’ resulted in an SMS with a completely twisted meaning: instead of writing the word ‘sıkısınca’ it looked like he wrote ‘sikisince.’ Ramazan wanted to write ‘You change the topic every time you run out...
“I fought my [creative] despair with what I call “morning pages”—three pages of...”
– Julia Cameron (via thedaytheytriedtokillme) (via inky)
YouTube - Kim Stanley Robinson On Google and... →
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– Gametrailers.com - Battlefield: Bad Company - Run Wild Trailer HD
“The current guy is worthless, probably the worst president in American history....”
– KSR
“Pathological assholery”. I like that.
“Even here in California, 50% of cars on the freeway are SUVs, and they’re...”
– KSR
Martian Skies - The Big Picture - Boston.com →
“Presented here are some of the best images of Martian atmosphere (and beyond) in action.” I’ve actually recognized Valles Marineris on one of the images, even though it’s not mentioned in the text. Go me?
McCain uses game music in ad, composer a Barack... →
“I’ve just released Syncman 1.1 which adds the ‘long awaited’ feature of...”
– Wateree Blog » Syncing on Schedule
Booya! Nice.
“Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, WATER...”
– Twitter / MarsPhoenix
Holy crap!
“Pondering over Twitter.com’s Over Capacity error page, I noticed that the...”
– Tw* Tool Tracker
Watch[via]
A half-workday with Firefox 3
marco:
…makes me want to switch to Safari.
Go read, I fully agree with Marco. It doesn’t work for me, sorry. Also, I’ve switched to Safari months ago.
Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter... →
Totally cuckoo. I love it. :) Gotta admire the chuzpe that comes with $35mio in vesting money.
“I know exactly who that visitor was as Plaxo released his email address. Yes,...”
– BuiltByDave.co.uk, by David Stone » Plaxo release email addresses
“In Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science in the Capital novels,...”
– Emerson for the Day: About
This made me smile.
WatchTeam Fortress 2 - Meet The Sniper Trailer
Loving it.
“Fussball ist wie Schach, nur ohne Würfel.”
– Lukas Podolski [via]
“i have to wonder at what point marriages will fail because the husband forgot to...”
– jr conlin’s ink stained banana » Noise to Signal
Overheard In The Office (via tumblelog.marco.org...
CSR, on speakerphone: And where would you like this order shipped?
Secretary: 123 Main St.*, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
CSR : We don't ship out of the country.
Secretary: That's fine, but this address is in the country.
CSR : No, you said to ship it to New Mexico.
Secretary: Yes, New Mexico is a state in the US.
CSR : Sorry, but we can't ship out of the US.
Secretary: Do you have a supervisor I can talk to, please?
[Long pause.]
CSR supervisor: This is Tim. Can I help you?
Secretary: I hope so, Tim. Your employee doesn't seem to understand that New Mexico is a state in the United States, and so refuses to ship me your product.
Supervisor: Well, that's true. We can't ship out of the country. I'm sorry ma'am.
Secretary, raising her voice a little: Have you never even heard of the state of New Mexico? It's one of the big, square ones? It's right between Texas and Arizona? It's one of the 50 United States?
Supervisor: I'm sorry, it's just our policy not to ship out of the US.
Secretary: Tim, let me get this straight. Your company is going to lose a $14,000 order because the people in your customer service department are too moronic to know or comprehend that the state of New Mexico is a part of the United States?
Supervisor: Yes, ma'am. That's our policy.
Secretary, completely exasperated: Well, I guess there's nothing more to be said, is there?
Supervisor: No, ma'am. Have a nice day.
“Scegliendo un piano Ricaricabile per Privati potrai acquistare direttamente...”
– Vodafone
Yadda yadda yadda €569. Okay!
