January 2012
QR Codes Are the Roller-Skating Horses of... →
Plenty of people call QR codes today’s CueCat — but a roller-skating horse is much funnier.
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Daily Kos: Scott Walker raises $4.5 million in... →
wilwheaton:
While volunteers were gathering signatures to recall him from office, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was allowed to receive campaign donations of unlimited size. Never one to shy away from talking to rich people, over the last five weeks Walker used this opportunity to raise$1,000,000 from just four donors, and over well $2,000,000 from 33 donors
During his time as governor, Scott...
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“The president interprets the Constitution as president. If the court makes a...”
– Newt Gingrich, who hopes to be the GOP nominee, and is also crazy. (via wilwheaton)
Apparently he wants to run for Dictator.
“Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it...”
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Playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar. His debut novel, American Dervish, tells the story of Hayat Shah, a Pakistani-American boy in Milwaukee coming to terms with his religion and identity. (via nprfreshair)
AFAIK, the first high school classmate of mine to publish a novel.
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who knows anything about vegas?
l3fan-o-rama:
i’m planning to do jessica’s next birthday in vegas and need some advice:
where should we stay? where have you stayed? favorite hotel where you didn’t stay?
where to eat? i suppose this is a dumb question, but anything we shouldn’t miss
we will see a cirque show - any particular show better than another?
any other thoughts are welcome as well. just brainstorming here - we...
themattsmith:
mercurypdx replied to your post: I need to get my hair cut this week, but I have no idea where to go
I go to SportClips.
Oh god, the whole “Haircuts for Men” concept creeps me out.
Aw, SportClips isn’t so bad. They seem to know how to deal with guy hair, which I’m told is actually harder than most girls’ cuts. And for an extra 3 bucks they shampoo out the...
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Sometimes I wear the albums I haven't heard/movies...
themattsmith:
and that’s a stupid way to go through life.
Okay. But that does remind me how, years ago, I would get a kick out of mentioning to girls that I had never seen “The Bodyguard” — because of the bug-eyed, unbelieving gasp this would always produce.
“These days a college grad is lucky getting an unpaid 60 hr a week internship...”
– Comment in a thread about job offers at How to Negotiate for a Lower Price on Anything
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E-mails 'hurt IQ more than pot' - CNN →
Multitasking makes you dumber than being stoned. Well this explains a lot.
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“Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources...”
– What’s an Entrepreneur? The Best Answer Ever | Inc.com
“There is a reason most people are depressed and I think it’s called the...”
– My friend Hank, explaining the decision to decline a “normal” job offer and continue working at home.
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rand0mflora:
turtlesinadishwasher:
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Achievement unlocked!
Just got a webcam working with Skype on a Linux machine. Racking up the geek points tonight.
scottfriday:
semiampersand replied to your post: i’m kinda proud of this one.
Have you tried any of the vector converters out there? I haven’t, but am curious how well they work. Inkscape is open source, but I can’t install anything at work or I’d try it myself.
we use vector magic online, but you can also buy the desktop application. it’s by far the best vector converter i’ve ever used.
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“I’m sure I’d be even more pissed about how awful G+ is if I actually used it,...”
– jwz (via azspot)
Agreed. The G+ concept is fine, but the design is so unpleasant that I’m just not interested in spending time there.
i'm kinda proud of this one.
scottfriday:
after trying to explain to countless clients over the years why they can’t just open up the JPG they sent me and save it as an EPS to make it work, i presented a client today with a metaphor that he immediately understood:
say you go to mcdonald’s and you order a cheeseburger, but instead they give you a fish sandwich. if they take it into the kitchen and put it into a cheeseburger...
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“It always surprises me how easy it is to wrap an existing product in a...”
– Uber and the cognitive zone of discomfort | Felix Salmon
Comment du jour.
(via felixsalmon)
BuhHAH!
“This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever...
It's 45 degrees. In January.
themattsmith:
This is bullshit.
BWAAAAHAHA… um… I mean, I respectfully disagree.
convincingindie:
littletinyfish replied to your post: littletinyfish replied to your photo: First below…
Wider plastic BMX platform pedals will suck less heat from your feet than metal, and will accommodate a wider shoe/boot. You can also wrap your feet in plastic (aka Sandwich Bag Socks) before putting them in the shoe. Holds in heat, keeps out wind.
Dude, the sandwich bag thing is genius!...
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Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage is lower... →
paxamericana:
mohandasgandhi:
Recall:
Since 1979, the income of the top 1% has increased by 275% even after taxes and income transfers.
Half of all workers in the United States make less than $26,364 a year.
Gee, I wonder why there are all these Occupy Wall Street protests. What could they possibly want?
Just when I’d gone 5 minutes without being depressed about the state of...
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“Why are so many of us intimidated by cooking? It may be that this...”
– A Recipe for Simplifying Life: Ditch All the Recipes - NYTimes.com
Putting this on my Amazon wishlist. I can “cook” in the sense that I can follow a recipe, but I have never gotten the hang of managing a cycle of shopping, preparation, cooking, eating, storing, reusing, and reheating.