September 2009
“In the long term I want to be healthy, but nobody ever wakes up and thinks that...”
– Dan Ariely
“They feel like sketches of OS X applications, drawn from memory.”
– kung fu grippe, on the “Macness” of Adobe’s flagship suite.
Save for Web & Devices... ⎇⇧⌘S
langer:
All the requisite manual dexterity of a game of Twister but none of the fun sexual tension.
It’s not so bad… Fat thumb the ⌥ and ⌘. Pick up the ⇧ with your pinkie or ring finger, and you have an index finger free for the S.
I thought of the best tweet ever while on the brink of sleep the other night, but I didn’t get out of bed to send it. So this will have to do.
*Note that this is not the best tweet ever, it is merely a tribute to the best tweet ever.
“Chaos in man, although hopeful, could also be… a little tiresome.”
– Matthew Lillard, SLC Punk
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“The [rich] wear t-shirts printed with the names of famous designers, because...”
– An aside from Neal Stephenson’s In the Beginning was the Command Line
“‘Twas billing, and the smithy toes
Did gyre and gamble in the wage:
All...”
– Jabberwocky Spell-Checked, Futility Closet
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“I heard the title Vampire Weekend and I thought, ‘Oh, man, that’s...”
– Alice Cooper, via Pitchfork
“User: Remove file “My-most-important-work.”
Computer: Are you...”
– Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
“gar·ru·lous \ˈger-ə-ləs, ˈga-rə- also ˈger-yə-\ — adjective. Latin...”
Pearls Before Breakfast →
The Washington Post article @donchiefnerd was talking about. Take a couple minutes to read it.
“Mandel, and the Western we’re on his less than 40 the last time we did was...”
– An excerpt from what is possibly the worst Google Voice transcription I’ve seen yet.
“Somewhere on the TV Tropes Wiki is a theory that Bill and Ted are Time Lords,...”
– Get Medieval (via TV Tropes)
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“It’s a blindfold kick back type of a game / Called the Kansas City Shuffle...”
– Bennie Moten, “The Kansas City Shuffle” (via TV Tropes)
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In one fell swoop
for i in {2008..2009}; do for j in {1..12}; do wget \
-O - "http://bobthecow.tumblr.com/archive/${i}/${j}"; \
done; done | grep -oE "\.tumblr\.com/post/([0-9]+)"| \
grep -oE "([0-9]+)" > tumblr_ids.txt
Weekly Last.fm love: 2009-8-30 →
Beastie Boys
Radiohead
Daniel Johnston
Queen
Modest Mouse