December 2007
“Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has...”
– Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use
video: pilot has mid-air crash, is saved by... →
Amazing footage showing the collision of a small aircraft with a towed glider, and the cripled plane’s safe descent under a rocket-deployed emergency parachute attached to the airframe.
The Death of High Fidelity →
“Why Does Today’s Music Sound Like Shit?” …a revolution in recording technology has changed the way albums are produced, mixed and mastered — almost always for the worse. “They make it loud to get [listeners’] attention,” Bendeth says. Engineers do that by applying dynamic range compression, which reduces the difference between the loudest and softest...
“We used to joke that our friendship is based on our mutual unwillingness to go...”
– I hung out at Liz Brooks’s apartment
“I was talking to Sam and Maia from Spock during the lunch about the trouble I...”
– Lunch2.0 at Meeb
Office Christmas loot
After holiday antics at the new office, I’ve received: Starbucks gift certificate Movie gift certificates w/popcorn Eelskin wallet Nerf pellet pistol Instant hand sanitizer Giant Toblerone chocolate bar Skydiving book Science reference book Photo-novelization of a 1979 horror movie about vampire bats Frozen turkey An AARP-labeled electronic pedometer I think I like these people.
“So you need an email address to sign up for Pownce. And Pownce lets you send...”
– uncov / Pownce Is Still Alive (pownce)
“[Mitt] Romney made 250 million by helping China and India get US know-how and US...”
– Old Atlantic Lighthouse
“‘what is your beef with ASP.NET?’
It is page dispatched instead of...”
– Mike Schinkel
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Honey is more effective than antibiotics →
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in... →
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“It’s me! Every girl ever.”
– best of craigslist
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“If freedom and religion go hand in hand then the Islamic world ought to be the...”
– Romney wants it both ways
Wishlist for Google Apps Enterprise →
This would rock so hard.
WatchSuper cool. (via annie) — david
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids →
Thanks, dailymeh. A brilliant student, Jonathan sailed through grade school. He completed his assignments easily and routinely earned As. Jonathan puzzled over why some of his classmates struggled, and his parents told him he had a special gift. In the seventh grade, however, Jonathan suddenly lost interest in school, refusing to do homework or study for tests. As a consequence, his grades...
