January 2008
66 posts
“After revitalizing myself, getting out of the Rails business (or trying),...”
– ZSFA — Rails Is A Ghetto
“The CDI system was marketed as an educational device, and in many ways it was....”
– Seanbaby.com - EGM’s Crapstravaganza: The 20 Worst Games of All Time
“This is a lot like what it would be like if the Mario Brothers randomly exploded...”
– Seanbaby.com - EGM’s Crapstravaganza: The 20 Worst Games of All Time
“Even Carrot Top can control what his name endorses.”
– Seanbaby.com - EGM’s Crapstravaganza: The 20 Worst Games of All Time
“All of them contain the exact same amount of extreme— a teddy bear slowly...”
– Seanbaby.com - EGM’s Crapstravaganza: The 20 Worst Games of All Time
December 2007
65 posts
“They just flat-out said, ‘If you don’t sell out to us, we’re...”
– Why Starbucks actually helps mom and pop coffeehouses. - By Taylor Clark - Slate Magazine
“After about 15 minutes of struggling I got the bright idea to press some...”
– Ninjabread Man Review - GamersMark
“Enderle has written an entire column premised on a Fake Steve joke being...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: December 2007
“All I can assume at this point is that Marc Fiszman is not only a jackhole, but...”
– furbo.org · Don’t feed the raccoons
“It’s so narrow in scope, and so streamlined to the specific interests of...”
– undefined
“We want to be held to a higher standard, we are in the community every day and...”
– blog.pmarca.com: Innovation in law enforcement, topless woman edition
“Dick Cheney and his big man-sized safe of evil secrets love Paris Hilton.”
– Can we please, as a culture, just move on?
“Jesus wears a wrist band that says ‘What Would Ron Paul Do?’”
– Ron Paul Facts — The Beginning
“Maybe taking the money out of music is the only way to get money back into it.”
– WHEN PIGS FLY: THE DEATH OF OINK, THE BIRTH OF DISSENT, AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF RECORD INDUSTRY SUICIDE (yes this is a really fucking good article)
“Oink was not only an absolute paradise for music fans, but it was unquestionably...”
– WHEN PIGS FLY: THE DEATH OF OINK, THE BIRTH OF DISSENT, AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF RECORD INDUSTRY SUICIDE
“Trying to innovate with a major label is like trying to teach your Grandmother...”
– WHEN PIGS FLY: THE DEATH OF OINK, THE BIRTH OF DISSENT, AND A BRIEF HISTORY OF RECORD INDUSTRY SUICIDE
top 12 albums (by playcount) added to my itunes in...
code used `itunes-popular 12 52` The script adjusts for length of album and number of plays for how long it’s been in your library. 1: In Rainbows by Radiohead 2: The Reminder by Feist 3: My Favourite Letters by Alice Russell 4: Curse Your Little Heart by DeVotchKa 5: Amputechture by The Mars Volta 6: The Foley Room by Amon Tobin 7: Elephant by The White Stripes 8: Myth Takes...
“for me it was interesting because I wasn’t working with the marketing...”
– Trent Reznor on Year Zero, Planting Clues, and What’s Ludicrous About Being a Musician Today
“Two spikes of interest. And that would be when the record leaks, and when the...”
– Trent Reznor on Year Zero, Planting Clues, and What’s Ludicrous About Being a Musician Today
“Instead of making songs about the military-industrial complex or how air...”
– Shelly Reviews the top 20 albums of 2007
“Was Google jealous of all that publicity Facebook got with the Beacon fiasco or...”
– Journal of Felipe Hoffa
“So… send Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp over to my pad, and I’ll...”
– blog.pmarca.com: Memo to Hollywood PR people: I’m available!
“She does her best to fool us all though, playing some rudimentary instruments...”
– Shelly reviews the top 20 albums of 2007
“[The Writers’ Strike] is killing the comics, too. They’ve been awful...”
– Get Fuzzy
“1994 is calling and wants its metaphors back”
– blog.pmarca.com: When non-technologists write about technology
“I, for one, don’t want to read Bonobo and Juliet.”
– Get Fuzzy
“It’s set in the same world, and it has some of the elements I like. But I...”
– Trent Reznor on Year Zero, Planting Clues, and What’s Ludicrous About Being a Musician Today
1206 mattly: ...holy shit when did it get to be noon?
1206 court3nay: about 6 minutes ago
1206 mattly: apparently :)
“the belle of the ball now is Mods, and can we make them run on consoles, and who...”
– Penny Arcade! - The Next-Gen
“you HAVE to question all the basic assumptions that led you to where you are, or...”
– Call Me Fishmeal.: Transitions and Epiphanies.
“Consequences… are just a harmless by-product of having a good time, all...”
– Scary Go Round by John Allison
“If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers...”
– ‘Daily Show,’ ‘Colbert’ set for return
“In it, you had a group of men who worked their asses off until they all ended up...”
– Top 5 Cartoons We Need to Put Back on the Air - Violent Acres
“A good rule of thumb, by the way, is that the more a writer attributes the...”
– Daring Fireball: Yet Another in the Ongoing Series Wherein I Examine a Piece of Supposedly Serious Apple Analysis From a Major Media Outlet and Dissect Its Inaccuracies, Fabrications, and Exaggerations Point-by-Point, Despite the Fact That No Matter How Egregious the Inaccuracies / Fabrications /...
“50% of everything I shoot with it is not in real tack focus, 50% has too much...”
– Leica M8 Revisited
“The thing about an identity is that it’s supposed to be unique, so allowing one...”
– Humanized > Weblog: The Case of the Mysterious Vanishing Amazon Kindle
“In the 18th century, punctuation marks were as common as medicinal leeches and...”
– Clause and Effect - New York Times
“Most people don’t really seem to know how they finally come up with their...”
– blog | analogindustries.com
“Friendship is a little like the Navy. Either you’re in or you’re...”
– Seth’s Blog: Facebook’s generational challenge
“It’s not so much that the iPhone isn’t ready for the enterprise,...”
– I’ve got nothing against the iPhone. I just wouldn’t want my daughter to marry one. | The Macalope: An Apple blog - CNET Blogs
“why not just invite the pennies? Or do you have a problem with coins of color?”
– best of craigslist : Rage Against The Vending Machine
“[Language note: Bukkake comes from the Japanese verb bukkakeru, which means to...”
– Coffee Bukkake Man Arrested : Japan Probe
“what was missing is the lowest level of hell, reserved as a special place for...”
– best of craigslist : The local ten o’clock news
“the fact that they’re bragging that the next version of their full PC OS is...”
– Daring Fireball Linked List: December 2007
“Are you feeling lucky? Google Android is fully functional.”
– The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support.
“The man sitting in the stroller was wearing a diaper… Come on, no one...”
– best of craigslist : Superstars of San Francisco
“You’re wearing a tie. Let’s drop the illusion that you went to...”
– best of craigslist : To Olympia Employers
“Take more than ten minutes explaining how you really don’t expect anyone...”
– best of craigslist : To Olympia Employers
“I encounter your encampment on a near-daily basis. I see your slogans chalked on...”
– best of craigslist : Open letter to Berkeley tree-sitters