July 2012
How We Get Old - Jim Guthrie
I know we in live...
The world’s first 3D-printed gun →
Man. The future is a somewhat terrifying place. Forget gun-control, wait until we need to start legislating 3d-printer access.
reallyreallyreallytrying:
Yo how come Goofy can talk but Pluto is just [A STRANGE & MALEVOLENT DRONE ENACTING THE WILL OF THE UNKNOWABLE DARKNESS]
unknownglitch:
Sometimes I like to imagine all the arms dealers who share the same address in Seychelles, just sitting there, bickering about the missing staplers, or whose turn it is to refill the ink in the office printer.
"How I hacked my brain with Adderall" by Trent... →
It is somewhat terrifying how attractive a state of easy, continuous focus sounds. (I think I probably need a holiday.)
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14 Users Found This Review Useful
My phone has been running slowly lately. It’s new and shiny and this slowness was disconcerting, so I tinkered and explored until I found the culprit - the Facebook app. I uninstalled it (I hardly ever use it) and was amazed by the difference:
My phone’s battery life increased dramatically.
The phone stopped lagging when I changed applications.
It deleted all my ex’s phone...
A single (semi-spoilerish) thought on 'Dark Knight...
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I have… feelings… about the way Anne Hathaway straddled the Bat-bike.
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Hey Tumblr,
Time for my semi-monthly complaint and/or suggestion. How about you change those advertisement GIFs you’re now using in the Radar box1 to cinemagraphs, rather than janky, annoying, broken loops? Your platform pretty much acted as the gestation point for their takeoff, so it actually seems quite appropriate.
It might actually be pretty and I’m sure that whoever’s...
This story was told at a barbecue I missed by a man named Craig Anderson. It was, thankfully, told to me by a man named Michal Grajewski. UPDATE: Seems like it been around a while.
A few years ago, when Arnold Schwarzenegger was either running for office, had just run for office, or was campaigning for a different office, there was a competition in which the prize was a round of golf with the...
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Idea: browser/email extension that automatically includes your initial misspellings of words as footnotes.
Example: I had this idea because I am apparently unable to write the word ‘HUDs’1 correctly the first time.
Purpose: Mostly amusement, with a small touch of forcibly teaching your brain to type correctly using embarrassment as a motivator.
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The State of the Funion
Hello. My name is Ryan Bateman. I am, as of quite recently, 30 years old. I write software for a living.
I currently live in Toronto, Canada. Prior to that, I was travelling, and prior to that I live in England. Prior to that I lived in South Africa, where I grew up. There is a chance my visa will expire in October and that I will be forced to leave Canada. I am not sure where I will go if that...
"A Wish In The Small Hours" by Brad Zellar
If dogs could stand as tall as humans,
and on their hind legs,
upright, in a manner of speaking,
and if they could negotiate
the complexities of a phone
booth and had change,
or pockets for change,
and if you could still find
a functioning phone booth
in this godforsaken city,
I’d wish a lost dog would dial
my number entirely by accident
at four o’clock in the morning
and beg me to...
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This is Where I Say Hello: My Internet →
Meanwhile, the hundred dwelled within their quiet, higher Internet under the leader’s cultivating hand. Our leader had only two rules, both brilliantly simple: no money, and no animals. The implications are enormous. Picture, if you will, your own Internet subject to those strictures; I doubt you can.
A short story by Jonathan Lethem about the creation of a private Internet of a hundred...
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Reports are starting to come in about the newest search thing for some phones. That it’s not really a search thing. Well, I mean, it is, but it does more.
It learns things, it seems - where you go, what you do - and warns you intelligently. “You’re going to be late for work!” it will beep at 8:15am, having discerned where your workplace is and what route you usually take1,...
“Make thim have no broo,pantes”
– The review rated most ‘helpful’ on the Android application “Touch Sexy Girl-Undress”, which its creator describes as:
Don’t touch me because I am a sexy girl. If you touch me, I will not stand and then scream. This is a very interesting casual game, you can feel the...
