2011-12-07
Entry tags:
- achievement,
- advertising,
- advice,
- autocorrect,
- babies,
- bears,
- business,
- cgi,
- circumcision,
- comicsans,
- computergames,
- contracts,
- cooking,
- cute,
- font,
- food,
- free,
- funny,
- games,
- google,
- graphing,
- inheritance,
- internet,
- interview,
- lgbt,
- links,
- lords,
- marriage,
- math,
- microsoft,
- models,
- money,
- mutilation,
- passion,
- photoshop,
- politics,
- problems,
- process,
- productivity,
- recipe,
- redcross,
- rice,
- rights,
- ripe,
- success,
- technology,
- uk,
- usa,
- war,
- work
Interesting Links for 07-12-2011
- Why TechCrunch is boring, SAP is not, and the world has gone mad
- Google now graphs functions you search for.
- Infant male circumcision is genital mutilation
- An interview with Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans
- If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers
- On the impracticality of making a cheeseburger from scratch
- The 25 Funniest Autocorrects Of DYAC’s First Year- - #14 and #8 damn near killed me.
- Hillary Clinton declares 'gay rights are human rights'
- When you adopt a grizzly bear. Dammit. I want one now.
- A push to end male-succession for peers in the UK. (Or they could get rid of them entirely)
- RIPE trying to push retroactive contracts onto customers.
- Red Cross says violent videogames may violate Geneva conventions. (Completely lost the plot)
- H&M; Puts Real Model Heads On Fake Bodies.
- What to expect from the anti-gay marriage brigade (Anyone for bingo?)
- How To Cook Perfect Rice Without A Rice Cooker (and store it for months)
- The problem isn’t you. The problem is the problem.
- Don't Be A Free User
Poll: What's the best decade?
Approaching the end of the first decade of the third millennium*, let's have a quick recap** of the changing face of media since its inception***.
[Poll #1801326]
*Feel free to argue amongst yourselves in the comments as to when decades, centuries and millennia begin/end - for decades I'm going to go with "the second-least-significant digit changes".)
**I mean "Let's start an argument about how awesome/awful the 80s were."
***The novel, of course, goes back a lot further, but having havered**** over what point to pick for the start, I decided "fuck it" and went for 1900 to make it match movies and music. I could have started music in 1890 too, so feel free to complain about _that_ in the comments, along with complaining that it's not fair to not be able to vote for the decade including Mary Anne Evans*****.
****Dithered.
*****You can google****** her if you want to know.
******Assuming that I'm wilfully causing the loss of a trademark to Google Inc. by using the word "google" in a generic sense to mean "search", is it right to use it in lower case?
[Poll #1801326]
*Feel free to argue amongst yourselves in the comments as to when decades, centuries and millennia begin/end - for decades I'm going to go with "the second-least-significant digit changes".)
**I mean "Let's start an argument about how awesome/awful the 80s were."
***The novel, of course, goes back a lot further, but having havered**** over what point to pick for the start, I decided "fuck it" and went for 1900 to make it match movies and music. I could have started music in 1890 too, so feel free to complain about _that_ in the comments, along with complaining that it's not fair to not be able to vote for the decade including Mary Anne Evans*****.
****Dithered.
*****You can google****** her if you want to know.
******Assuming that I'm wilfully causing the loss of a trademark to Google Inc. by using the word "google" in a generic sense to mean "search", is it right to use it in lower case?
It's like watching an olympic gymnast, except on a pole
This isn't very impressive for the first minute, and then _damn_ she has impressive core body strength:
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