July 2010
10 posts
loving Community (and boxee) to death. Day 3 and... →
loved Community - s1 | e1 - Pilot on Boxee →
Bakery Nouveau: Flour types, further information →
So, we have another new flour, this time being an organic, type-65 flour. I’ve mentioned type-85 before (ours has some malted barley added to it), and briefly discussed ash content. Recently though, I came across an article in Baking Buyer magazine discussing this very topic, and I wanted to…
Taking food blogs to the next level.
““Have been genteely treated and am now going to be drunk. This is the first...”
– From the journals of Nicholas Cresswell, a British traveler in the North American colonies quoted in And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
“I thought it might make a great 4th of July post for American Drink since it takes place in 1776, demonstrates America’s extremely...
Gallagher Is a Paranoid, Right-Wing,... →
thelindywest: Gallagher Is a Paranoid, Right-Wing, Watermelon-Smashing Maniac. My review of last week’s show: http://strn.gr/4357855
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“The Dutch know how to handle maritime emergencies. In the event of an oil spill,...”
– Avertible catastrophe
The Dutch (and several other European governments) offered to help out with the BP spill, very early on, with much more expertise than we have, and for free. The government refused, because their system was only 99% effective. I’m not usually a blame-the-government-first...
June 2010
20 posts
“You’ve said that you’re beyond atheism. What does that mean?
I have trouble...”
– Penn Jillette Is Willing to Be a Guest on Adolf Hitler’s Talk Show | Little Gold Men | Vanity Fair (via Instapaper)
Valve releases Team Fortress 2 for the Mac →
What a great comic. What a great company. I plan on getting my ass shot up by grizzled veterans in my namby-pamby white earbuds this afternoon.
etinarcadia:
Guys it’s okay to call football soccer. We’re not the only country that doesn’t call it football. Just call it what you call it and don’t make that big a deal about it.
I like Mexico and RSA so much I want them both to get three points but a draw is fine.
We call it what we call it. More people in this world call them lifts and lorries and petrol and boots and biscuits and so...
Bros Ponying Bros →
1. When the song ‘Pony’ by Ginuwine is played for you, you must stop what you’re doing and dance. 2. If you have a phone or mp3 player with the song ‘Pony’ by Ginuwine on it on your person, you can block the ponying, and the original pony-er must then dance.
This is so much more awesome than bros icing bros.
Longform.org's World Cup crib sheet →
Great single page of text breakdown of all the teams in the Cup, and their schedules.
My favorite part might be the team slogans. They include the slightly incomprehensible but exuberant: “Greece is everywhere!” and Nigeria’s “Super Eagles super fan united we stand”. North Korea keeps expectations reasonable with “1966 again! Victory for DPR of Korea!”,...
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Red Dead Redemption
I’ve been playing Red Dead Redemption on my Xbox here and there when I get a bit of free time, and it has grabbed my imagination more than I had expected. It was an iffy buy for me, as I haven’t really liked Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto series, and early previews just screamed “GTA on horses!”.
What’s suprising is that it’s really the other way around. GTA is really RDR with buildings, traffic...
“We’ve become spoiled and lazy here in the States. Instead of crafting cocktails...”
– American Drink
“For all its power and majesty, the river in Twain’s work was often a source of...”
– A RIVER RUNS THROUGH HIM | More Intelligent Life
This article on Mark Twain’s relationship with the Mississippi just lost my serious attention when the author describes Huck and Jim heading north on the raft. North? Really?
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“For every man who ticks me off for being an overdressed popinjay there is some...”
– No More Excuses (via thisfits) (via putthison)
Vacation rentals, private rooms, sublets by the... →
This could come in handy for the honeymoon.
“If I knew more about the actual characters of Sex and the City, I would be able...”
– Tim Siedell: A Review of Sex and the City 2 by Someone Who Doesn’t Know Anything About It
Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days →
I had absolutely no interest in the movie that made Morgan Spurlock’s name, Supersize Me, because it seemed like another part of the Michael Moore school of sensational documentaries. I heard positive things about this series somewhere though, and it showed up on Netflix Instant, so I decided to check it out. It’s really really good. There’s a mix of “big issue”...
WatchIan showed this to Matinay secretly the other day, and all I heard was “And that’s why I don’t vote!”. So the plan is: don’t vote, hide in mountains, kidnap children, rebel army.
May 2010
14 posts
“SATC2 takes everything that I hold dear as a woman and as a human—working hard,...”
– Burkas and Birkins by Lindy West - Film - The Stranger, Seattle’s Only Newspaper
Lindy West is a national treasure. I’m glad she writes for the Stranger.
(via Instapaper)
Instant Watcher →
Nice, simple website with one purpose: make browsing the Netflix Instant selection that much easier. It’s barely more than clear, well-organized text. You can easily see what’s new, what’s popular, what the critics liked. It’s so simple and slick that the Netflix site feels so bloated it’s nearly unusable, which is the direction it’s been headed anyway. At some...
Divvy - Window management at its finest. →
This is one of the cleverest concepts for window management I’ve ever seen. Takes that neat Windows 7 “smack the window into the side and it maximizes” trick and really turns it into something amazing.
WatchPretty! Looks like CGI at first, very tricky on the eyes.
“As late as 1878, the British Medical Journal was able to run a spirited and...”
– Bill Bryson: The secret life of your home | Books | The Guardian (via Instapaper)
banksimple →
Alex Payne, a heavy hitter on the engineering side of Twitter, just left that company to co-found this startup. While I like BECU, my current bank, I’m intrigued by this. I’ll be watching this project closely. Even if it fails, if it gives the current banks some good competition to push them in the right direction this will be good for us bank customers.
“At some recent point, bacon became a meme. Bacon. The cured pork product that...”
– Spring cleaning — 12 things the world should toss out (washingtonpost.com)
From the editor of the Onion. I agree with his point in general, and this example specifically. Bacon is a great food, and it does make lots of things better. At this point though, I feel like people put it in things...
Tomorrow, Item #1 →
Look at this map. I know I have a lot to do tomorrow, Matinay’s birthday party, helping her parents move to their new apartment, Mothers’ Day planning, but this is NUTS. I’ve happened to wander around in the years before, just by coincidence, but this is going to be my first time really diving in. Call me if you want to get out there and look for stuff.
April 2010
17 posts
For the love of education
John: My main goal in my computer class has been to get my students to the point where they can sit down in front of a new program, new website, whatever, something that'
s new to them, and figure it out quickly
So TODAY
They were signing up for facebook accounts
and within like 20 minutes, were using it to try and pick up chicks.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
“Petraeus’s call sign in Iraq was “Lion Six.” There was still a trace of Squad...”
– [The Professor of War longform.org
General David Petraeus: Inbox Zero warrior.
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“If you sit in the library after school, text-messaging to people across the room...”
– I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor - 2txt? Or Nt2txt? - NYTimes.com
Garrison Keillor, again weighing in on The Kids These Days, and how his crucial insights will save a generation. To quote The Who, a band I’m sure Keillor views with similar disdain, the kids are alright. Keillor, on the other hand,...
THINK BEFORE YOU COSPLAY →
Steampunk: Leading source of global warming?
