October 2009
List of self-sufficient webcomics →
xkcd is hosted by GeoCities today. Check it out.... →
Neal Stephenson, re: Linux
Hacker with bullhorn: "Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred miles to the gallon!"
Prospective station wagon buyer: "I know what you say is true...but...er...I don't know how to maintain a tank!"
Bullhorn: "You don't know how to maintain a station wagon either!"
Buyer: But this dealership has mechanics on staff. If something goes wrong with my station wagon, I can take a day off work, bring it here, and pay them to work on it while I sit in the waiting room for hours, listening to elevator music.
Bullhorn: But if you accept one of our free tanks we will send volunteers to your house to fix it for free while you sleep!
Buyer: Stay away from my house, you freak!
Bullhorn: But...
Buyer: Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
jeffrock:
Front right: keys.
Front left: iPhone.
Back right: wallet.
Back left: empty.
You?
Front right: credit card case + cash.
Front left: iPhone.
Back right: nothing.
Back left: gum, if anything.
Back right belt loop: keys.
"This photo has people in it." →
Fav’d for the footnote.
Google Wave for iPhone is HOT. →
I think The Life Pursuit is our most soulful record. And soul music is...
– Belle and Sebastian
Online Poll Fail →
I see no problem with this conclusion.
Sometimes you miss things that weren’t particularly good for you.
– Bill Withers’ Ain’t No Sunshine, via Fun Size Bytes. Go watch, listen, read.
There are no mustaches anymore because there are no real men!
– The sad and curious exile of the American mustache - The Boston Globe (via @drfindley)
Old media could only get 3,050 people to answer a poll about Obama. And it was...
– OkTrends, the OkCupid blog, has a really intriguing collection of statistics. Ok, so maybe I’m a nerd.
…Apple has “fixed” creator codes in the same sense that one “fixes” a dog.
– Daring Fireball on Snow Leopard creator codes
Weekly Last.fm love: 2009-10-4 →
Belle and Sebastian
The Magnetic Fields
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Mountain Goats
Harlem Shakes
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