April 2010
Nicknames I want to use but haven't found...
Snickerdoodle
Buttermuffin
Big Kahuna
The Princess Bride
Medium Dave
The Thriller from Manilla
Hot Stuff
Sprinklenuts
“If there’s an ecosystem where things are free (such as, say, the internet) your...”
– Ideas: Frank Chimero
The rest are worth a read.
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“In a 2006 rape trial, he conceded having had unprotected sex with his...”
– South Africa’s President Zuma reveals he is HIV-negative during a campaign to promote AIDs testing and awareness. He revealed during the rape trial in 2006 that he had taken a hot shower after the ‘sex’. See, it’s the hotness that makes all the difference. Also, this was the...
Tinysong →
Tinysong seems to be the easiest and simplest way to share music on Twitter I’ve found. Nice.
I’m in the mood to drink and drink and drink and then hit a bar and I black out and I come to dancing in a fountain and I realise no-one speaks English and I drink from a green bottle someone passes and I black out and I come to tokyo-drifting around a corner, champagne in one hand, deranged twins in the other, Chopin’s “Raindrop Prelude” blasting out of the stolen...
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Perfect Stillness →
rawnsley:
The earth is spinning on its axis, and around the sun, and around the center of the galaxy, but Alex Ignatiev calculated that at two particular places on the earth, twice a year, and for a fraction of a second, all these accelerations cancel out.
I propose an expedition to these locations to find out what it feels like to stand completely still.
via penllawen
@TheOnion Unfollows 485,000 People On Twitter →
Run Jesus Run →
Or, The Ten Second Gospel.
God, I love what I do.
aimee-b-loved:
[Other Other] Song of the Day: ...
New job is taking up all my time. Apologies if I owe you email. I owe everyone email. So tired. Is there a machine for un-tireding people? I need one of those. I need an Untireder™. Maybe even the industrial version - the Untireder™ Pro™.
Apple delays International iPads by a Month →
kurafire:
Disappointing for non-US customers, to say the least. I can attest, however, that it’s worth the wait.
Short URL: http://farukat.es/p429
I has a sad.
I really liked the accoustic cover of Aphex Twin’s “Rhubarb” from the previous video, and a little digging brought up that it was played by a YouTuber who then stuck both the tabs and an mp3 of it online. So you can get that too, if you liked it as much as I did.
“Mocha Dick was a notorious male Sperm Whale that lived in the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, usually encountered in the waters near the island of Mocha, off southern Chile. Unlike most sperm whales, Mocha Dick was white, and was the inspiration for Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick.”
- Mocha Dick, Wikipedia
“During a conversation about demise of pay phones:
Editor: “Where would...”
– via Overheard In The Newsroom
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My favourite part of the first podcast of Selected...
