At a yearly talent show held at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, students “re-enact a complete level of Super Mario Brothers”:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2139555376132383479 — live. (via Waxy)
UNO 1.3 is out! Hooray! Finally we users of Intel Macs can escape the awful ugliness of “brushed metal”.
UC Berkeley has made their iTunes webcasts publically available, and the selection of free audio lectures is awesome. Check it out! Stanford is also offering similar amounts of content. Harvard? Not so much.
Time for some wanderings in Londn’s sewer system, where the creepiest thing to be found is blocks of congealed fat dumped by fast food restaurants. Huh. I find this sort of infrastructure fascinating, and London so much more so as the bulk of its sewers were built 150 years ago. This story seems to be the first in a series. Awesome.
Dahlia Lithwick writes about how we fool ourselves into believing we are dispassionate about the Duke case. Which is all well and good, but I *am* dispassionate about the Duke case. Probably because I don’t watch TV news.
jwz points to pictures of the spacejunk-littered countryside of Russia and Kazakhstan.
Which era would you nominate as New York’s Golden Age? Bill T. Jones says right after 9/11.
Non-Marsies are from Mars
Remember back when I promised to write a review of _Veronica Mars_ season 1? No? Perhaps you recall my four other posts gushing about the series. Or maybe you’re one of the people to whom I gave a copy of the season 1 episodes, either as files or as a DVD set? Or perhaps you’re *that one guy who I thought was my friend* who *STILL HASN’T WATCHED THE DVDS I BOUGHT HIM*. But no, you wouldn’t be *that guy*, would you?
Anyway, _VM_ rocks, if you don’t know this by now, and you aren’t interested in watching it, then nothing more I can say here is going to convince you, so, rather than obsessing over a review before finally, finally, finally starting into season 2, I’ve been convinced by Kevin to just get started already. So on the train tomorrow, I’m watching 2×01. And finding out who was at the door.
*Tell me nothing. NOTHING.*
I now discover that a good cross-section of the Mac-using “elite” have the same setup that I (now) have. Namely, they’ve standardized on one super-powered laptop, a nice stand, and a 23″ Cinema Display for heavy lifting in the office. Not to mention a very similar set of software and utilities. Now if only I’d read a few of these entries first, instead of having to figure everything out for myself and reach the same conclusions!
Berkmanite Rebecca Mackinnon, writing in the _Washington Post_: “As an American who lived and worked in China for more than a decade, I continue to believe that peaceful engagement between the United States and China is in the best interest of both nations’ people. But we have a serious problem that won’t go away: How can Americans respect or trust a regime that kidnaps our friends?“
Apparently, my bluff has been called
| From: | Matthew Travis |
|---|---|
| To: | Danny Silverman |
| Message: | I’m not sure if we can be friends until we go beach camping and you run screaming into the ocean at midnight carrying a burning brand of wood over your head. But i’ll ponder it until then. |
| From: | Danny Silverman |
|---|---|
| To: | Matthew Travis |
| Message: | Give me a date, time, and place, and I’ll be there! |
And I just got an invite to this…
Name: Dusk to Dawn Danny Beach Burning Tagline: This is a ‘going in’ party. Start Time: Friday, April 28, 2006 at 1:00am Venue: Wingaersheek Beach (or thereabouts) Description: Danny Silverman will run screaming into the ocean brandishing a burning piece of wood
I’m so very afraid…
Fluxiom, an awesome-looking new digital asset management tool, has been released, which is great. It is a hosted app, and they charge based on strorage space, and it maxes out at 8GB, which is nowhere near great. So much for storing 100GB or more of digital content in a highly useful system. Who the hell sells a *hosted app* for asset management?
It’s spring
Its only after lying in bed for almost two hours, mostly on the verge of sleep but never quite able to get there, that I realize, all at once, that it is spring now, that my room temperature is above 68 degrees, and that, therefore, I’m just not going to fall asleep, not until I’m so drop-dead tired tht the heat no longer bothers me.
On goes the air conditioner, and already I feel the darkness descending. To hell with electricity bills.
“Beyond embiggens and cromulent,” a listing of tons of Simpsons-related lingustic goodness, has managed to keep me awake and laughing for a full hour. Splendiforous!
Greg Knauss, who sat in for Jason Kottke for two weeks, analyzes his (perceived) failure. He postulates that there are two kinds of bloggers, referential and experiental, editors and writers. I’ve always considered myself a far better editor than writer, which perhaps explains why I have so many link posts and so few long-form posts, which always end up being so much longer than intended.
Five suggested Flickr tags: 3. “My Defenseless Child In A Funny Shirt I Made Him Wear�
How Mike Davidson created the great live-updated Puget Sound picture in his blog header. About what you’d expect, except with Flash.
With some blood, some sweat, and a good dose of tears, it is possible to make a MySpace profile page that does not suck. Incredible. I didn’t believe it could be done.