December 2008
70 posts
I sincerely wish that last tweet was merely hyperbolic exaggeration. Sadly, this is not the case.
Feeling somewhat better after pizza, blue moon and good company. Hoping tomorrow is better.
Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Chocolate... →
Cupcakes Take The Cake
Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Chocolate Ganache and Buttercream. Yummers. As the picture indicates, and the caption confirms, this is, indeed, food porn. …
Today may possibly be the worst day of my life. Can it be tomorrow yet?
How to Tell If Someone Studies a Lot →
Overheard in New York
College Student #1: Dude, how excited are you for Snakes on a Plane? College Student #2: Snakes on a Plane? What’s that about? —Columbia University Overheard by:…
Finished writing the last piece of Ruby on Rails code I ever plan and hope to write. If you like RoR, consider Python. Python is awesome.
Lusting after these libraries: http://tr.im/libraries. Wonder if any would notice if I camped out, a la From the Mixed-Up Files.
I wasn’t able to lucid dream last night for the first time in months.
...You'll Be Proud to Throw Them Over Your... →
Overheard in New York
Little girl to mother: Do your boobs hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow? Mother (under breath): You’re laughing…
Loving my new Dries Van Noten boots :3
I hope everyone is with people they love today.
Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas Tree →
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed
Fox Fur, a Unicorn, and a Christmas TreeClouds of glowing hydrogen gas fillthis
skyscape in the faint but fanciful constellationMonoceros,the…
Merry Christmas cupcakes →
Cupcakes Take The Cakefrom Flickr user weennee
Everyday Italian is an interesting study on all the different ways to produce a giant crease from a flat plane.
So I pretty much owe @allysin my life at this point.
I'm.... co-o-o-o-o-ld! →
Cute Overload
A reader writes: “I almost fainted when I saw this handful of preciousness. He was dropped off in an empty box without food or water at the door of the rescue where I volunteer. …
rm -f pity.txt →
I’ve forgotten how much Television Without Pity makes me smile, and I’ve needed to smile this week.
Some snippets from their Hated Movies of 2008 list:
The Hottie & the Nottie (Released…
How You Know Your Little Boy is Straight →
Overheard in New York
Employee: I like your pink shirt. Coworker’s 9-year-old nephew: It’s not pink; it’s white with pink and green stripes. Employee: So you like to wear pink? …
Modded Cell Phone Analyzes Blood to Detect HIV,... →
Gizmodo
Scientists at UCLA modded an ordinary phone into a portable blood analyzer that can detect diseases at a very low cost. The hack could save lives in poorer areas that can’t afford…
Pass Wine Through an Electric Field for Delicious,... →
Gizmodo
If you’re the kind of destitute scientist who drinks Franzia but has a couple of high-powered titanium electrodes lying around, you’re in luck, because a short blast of electricity…
Biting my nails for the first time in eighteen years is apparently how I deal with extreme stress.
Three cups of tea into the day and I still don’t feel awake.
Awww, VLC has a tiny Santa hat.
If you ever feel that you’re too smart, open YouTube, click on any video and read the comments. Your IQ drops with every “your retarded”.
enable ssh? →
enable ssh? This is why I already love mediatemple. No having to ask or beg support.
Playing around with mediatemple webhosting. I love it so far, especially the option to enable SSH via the control panel :3
La Superba →
Astronomy Picture of the Day RSS Feed
La SuperbaY Canum Venaticorum (Y CVn) is a very rare starin planet Earth’s night sky.It’s also very red, exhibiting such a remarkable spectrumof light,…
Orion Dawn Over Mount Nemrut →
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Orion Dawn Over Mount NemrutWhat’s that in front of Orion?Forty kilometers north of Kahta, Turkey, lies Mount Nemrut, a mountain adorned with the…
120 Feet of Video Art: Final Exams at NYU's Big... →
Gizmodo
Dan Shiffman isn’t like most professors. Instead of Scantron sheets and bluebooks, Shiffman prefers to give his final exams on a 120-foot video wall that’s the equivalent of six 16:9…
Making Exactly the Same Mistakes →
Overheard in New York
Girl: Did you hear about Barbara Walters and the affairs she had when she was younger? It shocked me. Guy: Why’d it shock you? A lot of these older people did a lot of…
No "Big Rip" in our Future: Chandra Provides... →
Universe Today
Galaxy cluster Abell 85, seen by Chandra, left, and a model of the growth of cosmic structure when the Universe was 0.9 billion, 3.2 billion and 13.7 billion years old…
Notebook of drug-influenced drawings →
Boing Boing
Illustrator Jeremy W. Eaton has kindly scanned and uploaded some of his notebook sketches drawn under the influence of drugs such as marijuana, psilocybin, LSD, and Diet Pepsi….
Thinking I need to implement Marshall and Lily’s pause/unpause fight rule into my life.
reading Kaddish for a Child Not Born, The Graveyard Book and Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. Simultaneously.
Time moves slowest when waiting for something to download.
Last night, I dreamt I was in the sixth grade. Today, I have an e-mail from my sixth grade teacher.
Yay, Hulu added a buffer meter to their videos.
I am way too amused by http://betamaxmas.com and http://emoticarolers.com
Time Magazine Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of... →
Universe Today
Direct observation of an exoplanet orbiting the star Fomalhaut - Number 6 in the top 10 (NASA/HST)
2008 has been an astounding year of scientific discovery. To celebrate…
Stand Clear Of the Closing Gryffindors, Please. →
Overheard in New York
Conductor: Hello, and welcome to the Hogwarts Express. This is platform 9 3/4, and we will be leaving shortly for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Preteen…
With "Name That Classical Composer" As a Close... →
Overheard in New York
Drunk guy, loudly: Let’s go! Let’s go and drink and play drinking games! Comparatively sober girlfriend: Shhhh, honey. Drunk guy, even more loudly: Oh, who’s in my…
The Seven Deadly Sins of Geekdom →
Dark Roasted Blend
“QUANTUM SHOT” #508 Link - by A. Abrams Geeks Rule! Absolute Geeks Rule Absolutely. Geek, as defined by Merriam-Webster’s dictionary: “a carnival performer…
Portrait of NGC 281 →
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Portrait of NGC 281Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged asNGC 281and it’s almost easy to miss stars of the open clusterIC 1590.But, formed within…
Obsessively Detailed Wall-E Bento Art Is Way Too... →
Gizmodo
Today we reviewed Wall-E’s various toy permutations and crowned a winner; to wrap things up today, here he is in staggeringly detailed bento lunch form. I love the quail egg Eva,…
Hubble's Early Festivities: Imaging the M13... →
Universe Today
The hundreds of thousands of stars orbiting inside the globular cluster M13 (HST/NASA)
This image is one of the latest views from the Hubble Space Telescope, closely…
The First Apple Tech Support Call Ever [Hi, Steve... →
Gizmodo
Stan Veit—the first editor of Computer Shopper—has a fascinating first-person account on the very early years of Apple, starting with what may be the very first Apple tech support…
Opened Google Reader to find that they now hide unread counts in the tab. Thank you, Google <3
Christmas List →
I don’t like when people ask what I want, since most of the things I desire are immaterial, and the ones that can be purchased are the kind of things I don’t expect anyone to buy me.
I want an…
The Dark Doodad Nebula →
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The Dark Doodad NebulaWhat is that strange dark ribbon on the sky?When observing the great globular cluster NGC 4372, observers frequently take note of…
Yeah? Just Keep Your Force to Yourself, Then. →
Overheard in New York
Girl: You have a rubber, right? Guy (in Darth Vader voice): I find your lack of faith disturbing… —Washington Square Park Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down…