August 2008
72 posts
“I think [Obama’s] going to make an intensely political choice, not a...”
– Karl Rove on selecting a Vice Presidential Candidate
Del the Funky Homosapien vs. Justice - The Hood...
ObamaTaxCut.com →
Find out how much your tax cut would be if Obama is elected as compared to McCain. I’d save $613.76 under Obama vs. $400 under McCain.
life works like this
geneplain:
1. You are single and skinny
2. You date someone and slowly get fatter
3. You break up and become skinny once again
4. You date someone and slowly get fatter
5. You get married and get even fatter
6. Your wife has a kid and she stays huge after
7. You stop caring and become obese until the day you die
8. Heart attack
Repeat steps 3 and 4 depending on how many tries it takes...
“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me...”
– Franz Kafka, Letter to Oskar Pollak
via mills and bunnynico
WatchThis is pretty damn exciting. Ubiquity is a Mozilla Labs project for creating your own mashups on the fly. It uses plain english commands to pull together different web services on the fly. It reminds me of Quicksilver in the way you use a command key to pull up the interface and then you type in commands, except it’s in your browser and you type things like “email this selection to...
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Charleston in... →
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Charleston in October.
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Philadelphia in... →
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Philadelphia in September.
Real-Life Applications of Nanotechnology →
This one is for Jeremy.
“Red wine, chocolate, blood… more than just the ingredients of a very wild weekend, the three can permanently stain natural fabrics such as silk and wool, making that expensive linen or rug practically unusable after a spill. Unless, of course, the clothing, sheets and so on have been treated previously with anatase titanium dioxide nanoparticles. When catalyzed by...
Silverliner V (120 cars) - Septa →
New train cars for Philly public transportation coming soon. I don’t know when it happened, but I’ve become a total fag for public transportation.
There is a fake plant in the middle of the floor of the men’s bathroom. I like it.
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Philadelphia in... →
Joshua Tuscan added a trip to Philadelphia in August.
“The race by food-importing countries to secure farmland overseas to improve...”
– UN warns of food ‘neo-colonialism’
A.P. Typo
His top contenders are said to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Less traditional choices mentioned include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, an abortion-rights supporter, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential prick in 2000 who now is an independent.
the original is still online here. Lieberman is such a dickhead, I...
Apple iPhone: Five best iPhone tricks - Telegraph →
Helpful stuff.
Apples Vs. Dim-Witted No-Talent Hacks
perpetua:
Radiohead are a band of men with an extraordinary gift for writing intense, moving songs full of interesting textures and sophisticated rhythms, melodies and harmonies. They have written six consecutive classic albums, each different from the last, and a number of iconic songs, a few of which can be considered something akin to contemporary standards.
The most charitable description...
Telescopic Text © Joe Davis 2008 →
I loved this little programmatic bit of fun.
“I won’t miss this apartment, or this city. I’m taking everything with me that...”
– Jack Shedd
Big Contrarian → Nomad.
(This seems all too relevant right now)
Yum! A celebratory dinner.
Minorities set to be US majority | BBC →
White people of European descent will no longer make up a majority of the US population by the year 2042 - eight years sooner than previous estimates.
Marathon
Alright, so two weeks ago I was sitting down to breakfast with two of my friends who just happen to be those kind of intense athletes who do things that when you hear about it, you don’t even flinch because you are sure they are lying. The one races bicycles like every other weekend and squeezes in a few marathons here and there, and the other most recently ran 100 miles in 24 hours. They...
Peter’s wallet was stolen in Switzerland. Three days later, he received an e-mail from a local postmaster. The Post Office found his wallet in an official yellow Swiss mailbox. All the cash was gone, obviously. But his ID cards, credit cards and even old receipts were still there, completely untouched. “Thieves do this very often”, the postmaster told him. “They take the money and throw the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-10) →
Ricky Gervais
Snowden
The Strokes
Editors
Loney, Dear
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The Geopolitics Of China - John Mauldin's Outside... →
If you’d like to understand China better, read this. Probably the most enlightening thing I’ve ever read on the subject.