January 2009
22 posts
Awesome. More auto-tuned babies, please.
(via...
WatchBlack Dynamite
(via Twitch via Coudal)
Owl City – “West Coast Friendship”
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Troopers – “Gassenhauer”
I was...
“When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your...”
– PETA
Okay, so I heard about the sea kitten thing last week and duly ignored it because PETA is crazy, but I hadn’t actually read the any of their related text until now. Considering their argument that the word “fish” is bad because it’s also used as a verb for capturing...
marco:
(via peterwknox:kristynseda:soupsoup:brooklynmutt)
‘I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear…’
Our 44th President takes the oath of office. There was a trivial, momentary slip when Chief Justice John Roberts asked Obama to recite the first line of the oath in the incorrect order. Roberts said “execute the office of President of the United States faithfully,” rather than “faithfully...
“ 4. Do not destroy what you cannot create.”
– Leo Szilard
(via Trivium)
“Eggs on a Spit: Pierce eggs lengthwise with a well-heated spit and parch them...”
– Platina, De honesta voluptate et valetudine, 1475 (as quoted in On Food and Cooking)
Firewater – “Knock ‘Em Down”
DHH
strelau:
montoya:
Leave it to Mr. Rails to tell us that it’s better to buy more hardware than optimize your architecture.
Is there a source of this complaint? Last I heard Merb was getting merged into Rails 3, along with many/most of the performance enhancements that make Merb so great. Not to mention the hundreds of tiny speed improvements that have been added to Rails recently.
Assuming...
Star Wars musical in the works →
I think I’m actually more depressed by this than I am by the existence of Star Wars porn. I’ve accepted the fact that everything I love from my childhood will eventually be destroyed and denigrated, but even I was surprised by this. At this point, I still consider the original trilogy holy articles but pretty much anything else Star Wars-related is completely meaningless and open to...
1. Sigur Rós - “Inní mér syngur...
2. Wolf Parade - “The Grey...