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I love meta humorThis is brilliant:
And so is this: Follow along with the lyrics here. Know of anything similar? Let me know in the comments! more |
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08:00PM
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The very real dangers of footballThis is why I can't in good conscious donate any money to educational institutions (like the University of Michigan, where I went for my undergrad education). Not only is semi-pro football detrimental to higher education, it is detrimental to the health of the players.more |
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11:00PM
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A new-found respect for GoogleGoogle has generally great products, although some I don't like as well as competitors (Gmail for example). I still use them as my primary search engine—after a 2½ year hiatus while I worked for Yahoo and ate our own dogfood. And Google Reader is by far the best RSS app out there. Even Google shopping is an essential tool when buying online. They are more comprehensive than Yahoo or Bing. But it seems where they are really shining is in public policy.I gave them props for bidding up wireless spectrum, and forcing it to be someone more open. I also love how Gmail finally lit a fire under a complacent online mail competition. My Yahoo Mail experience is vastly improved, and the root cause for that is Gmail. And now—with their strong stance against the crap that the Chinese government is doing—they have clearly put long term ethics over short term business gains. However this standoff turns out, they've done good by putting a global spotlight on the operation of the Chinese government. more |
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08:00PM
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Avatar is really Pocahontas?or maybe it's more like Dances with Wolves. You decide. |
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03:00PM
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Stackus game for iPhone free todayIf you're looking for a good physics game for the iPhone at a great price (free!), then download Stackus today. It's free. I picked it up the last time it was free, and I really enjoyed it. I played through all of the levels, which is more than I can say for 99% of the games I tried out. For more free games—especially paid games that are temporarily free—check out AppShopper. more |
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08:00PM
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2 letter scabble wordsI've been playing Words with Friends on my iPhone. It's a pretty good knock off of Scrabble. But if you're gonna win, you need to know your two letter words. I created this list that sorts them alphabetically both by first letter and last letter. Hope it helps! AAs ABs ADs AE AGs AHs AIs ALs AM AN ARs ASs AT AW AX AYs BAs BEs BIs BOs BYs DE DOs EDs EFs EH ELs EMs ENs ERs ESs ET EX FAs FEs GOs HAs HEs HIs HM HO IDs IFs INs IS ITs JO KAs KIs LAs LIs LO MAs ME MIs MM MOs MUs MY NA NE NOs NUs ODs OEs OF OHs OI OMs ONs OPs ORs OS OW OX OY PAs PEs PIs QIs REs SH SIs SOs TAs TIs TO UH UM UNs UPs US UTs WE WOs XIs XU YA YEs YO ZA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- AAs BAs FAs HAs KAs LAs MAs NA PAs TAs YA ZAs ABs ADs EDs IDs ODs AE BEs DE FEs HEs ME NE OEs PEs REs WE YEs EFs IFs OF AGs AHs EH OHs SH UH AIs BIs HIs KIs LIs MIs OI PI QI SIs TIs XI ALs ELs AM EMs HM MM OMs UM AN ENs INs UNs BOs DOs GOs HO JO LO MOs NOs SOs TO WOs YO OPs UPs ARs ERs ORs ASs ESs IS OS US AT ET ITs UTs MUs NUs XU AW OW AX EX OX AYs BYs MY OYmore |
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08:00PM
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Crazy stuff you can find on the interwebsA DVD rewinder? Seriously!? No one is stupid enough to buy one of these, are they? |
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02:00AM
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Fantastic cover of Use SomebodyKings of Leon had a great song this year called Use Somebody. My only problem with it is the lead singer can't hit the falsetto notes very well. So I started casting around for a cover that I might like better. And I found it in this version by Laura Jansen.
I've been roaming around,
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always looking down and all I see Painted faces fill the places I can't reach You know that I could use somebody... |
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08:00PM
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What's wrong with Avatar I saw Avatar the weekend it came out. In 3D, of course. And it was good. Maybe even really good. Certainly the effects were amazing. As a UI designer, I was really impressed at his vision of 3D projected user interfaces. And the level of detail of everything on the alien planet was staggering. Sigourney Weaver was fantastic in her role. I loved her last line. Totally fitting of a research scientist.But. There were problems. He nailed the design. He created his own alien language, with grammar, writing, and accent. James Cameron is known for nailing all the details. Which makes it an immense travesty that he chose the Papyrus font for the subtitles. OK, maybe it's a custom version, but the overwhelming similarity makes the origin clear. This is the best he could do? I mean, papyrus is right down there with Comic Sans as an overused, inelegant font whose use says I am a lazy, unimaginative designer who slapped this together in 20 minutes." James Cameron, you wound me, and all of the other typophiles worldwide. The plot was a mess. Maybe not at the Star Wars prequel level, but certainly not even close to the quality of the original Star Wars movies. The bad guys are so one dimensional, that the irony of them appearing in a 3D movie did not escape me. The physics of the floating mountains was a bit too much for my suspension of disbelief. But the thing that just made me laugh out loud at the sheer lunacy was that a mechanized cyber-suit would have a proportionally sized knife attached for hand-to-hand combat. I could maybe see a blade attachment somewhere on the suit for cutting, but why require the suit to wield it in a hand just like a human? There are so many drawbacks to that design, I can't believe it made it into the movie. Sure, it was entertaining, but I'm not rushing out to see it again. more |
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01:42AM
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25 Years of Band-AidOK, it's trite and much criticized, but 25 years ago instead of just complaining about how things are, Bob Geldoff (and Midge Ure) got off their asses and actually did something to try to improve the world as they saw it.
Feed the world...
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Let them know it's Christmas time again... |
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05:00PM
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Last Christmas...
I gave you my heart,
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But the very next day you gave it away |
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08:00AM
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So this is Christmas...I hope you have fun...
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06:00AM
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Run Run ReindeerGotta love the 60s slang in the lyrics. Far out, man. But the music is great.
There's a real famous cat all dressed up in red...
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And when Santa hits the gas man just watch her peel... And he's cruisin' every pad with a little surprise... |
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10:00PM
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Arnold Palmer makes an Arnold PalmerYes, in fact that was awesome.more |
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06:00AM
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Buy a used CD from Amazon for $2.99 shippedBuying music is so 20th century, right? But hey, I still do it. There's a lot of good yet obscure alt rock and power pop out there, or compilations with the odd song from a favorite artist. And this music simply isn't available for digital distribution.Amazon is a great place to go to find deals on this sort of music. The used listings can offer some really great deals on these albums. High supply and low demand pushes the price of some of these albums down to 1¢. With shipping, it works out to be $2.99. It's a lot cheaper than a new one, and even cheaper than a digital download (if it's even available). And it's cheap enough to take a bit of a chance on. I'm also trying to clear out some of my old, unwanted albums. As I was listing them, I noticed something interesting about pricing. For all of the albums I listed, I priced it to be the cheapest one. But then if I checked back an hour later, I'd find someone had lowered their price to a penny below mine. If I lowered mine again, the same thing would happen. Repeat enough times, and it turns into a race to 1¢. Clearly they had an automated system doing the pricing. Even tying them for lowest price wasn't good enough. They wanted to be the cheapest, if only by a penny. Now that I know the game, let me play it to my advantage. I list my album as in horrible condition: massive scratches that skipped horribly, cracked case, no booklet, etc. Sure you can buy it for 1¢, but do you really want to? Compared to my offering, the other one for 1¢ is clearly the one to buy. So someone buys it. After that copy is gone, the competition for the low price is gone. I can raise my price back up to something reasonable, and yet still be the lowest priced one in the list. But of course I couldn't just stop there. I then realized that I could be that guy who gets the great deal on a used CD for only $2.99 shipped. All I needed to do was find a CD available by one of these shops that does automated pricing. I list my own copy of that CD for sale for 1¢ with the same unappealing comments, and wait. Sure enough, within half an hour the other seller's listing automatically drops to 1¢. I buy it, then close out my own listing. A couple of shops that I know do this are Doolicity and Mister Happy's. I'm sure there are others too. Hope you find some great deals out there on some great music. more |