February 2009
14 posts
“Left alone in a cage with a mountain of cocaine, a lab rat will gorge itself to...”
– The TV Watch - Media’s Big Names Can’t Resist Twitter - NYTimes.com
I particularly like the comparison, implicit though it is, between lab rats, bankers and media figures.
Oddly appropriate.
The Day the Saucers Came by Neil Gaiman & Jouni... →
Sometimes things hit a little too close to home, you know?
Still a great poem, and still a great illustration. Didn’t know there was a Flash version…
The "Holy Grail" of Beatles Outakes | MetaFilter →
I love finds like this – it’s listening to the greatest band in the history of Rock and Roll just screw around for almost 11:00, high as a bunch of goddamned kites.
This really is the bridge between Revolution 1 and Revolution 9, enough of the original track shines through, but the experimental crap from Revolution 9 isn’t there (for values of experimental that equal...
“Say a prayer. Wish him well. Honor the place where his soul and yours become...”
– Real Dan Lyons Web Site » Blog Archive Today is Dear Leader’s birthday «
Happy Birthday, Mr. Jobs.
Wishful Drinking T-Shirts | abe gurko public... →
Carrie Fisher’s shirts to support her new book, talking about her alcoholism and …
Yeah, I stopped paying attention when they had Slave Girl Leia with a martini. I mean, isn’t that the definition of super-geek fantasies right there?
Fresh →
Nifty little app that’s part of the current MacHeist promotion. I’ve fallen in love with it in about thirty seconds, and chances are it’ll solve one of my most recent workflow problems: “where the heck is that file in my Downloads folder?”
“If I was god I would make all the girls in the world wear no clothes.”
– Too cool for school
“Most everyone thinks that Citibank is toast.”
– FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Things I Think We Think We Know About the Banking Crisis…
Um, wow. Either I haven’t been paying attention to the news enough recently, or the banks are doing a really good job at hiding just how screwed they are right now.
“When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great...”
– DispatchPolitics : U.S. Rep. Austria blames Depression on Roosevelt Columbus Dispatch Politics
“Most historians date the beginning of the Great Depression at or shortly after the stock-market crash of 1929; Roosevelt took office in 1933.”
Via.
You know, things are just getting...
“When deadlines are tight, and there is more work to get done than there are...”
– DesignAday (via).
So damn true. I want to make a nice t-shirt of this, and bumper stickers, and posters to put all over the office, with letters six feet tall.
Paint it on the walls in giant, blood-red letters to serve as a warning to every developer, every DBA, every IT person around me to Do...
“Evidence from the federal government unsealed Wednesday in the Barry Bonds case...”
– Documents Cite Positive Drug Tests in Bonds Case - NYTimes.com
Well. DUH.