January 2010
68 posts
Press This Button In Dire Situations →
“George, you can type this shit, but you sure as Hell can’t say it”
– Harrison Ford to George Lucas during the filming of Star Wars (via digitalbodycount) (via dbsw)
In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the... →
The door of a dry-cleaner-size storefront in an industrial park in Wareham, Massachusetts, an hour south of Boston, might not look like a portal to the future of American manufacturing, but it is. This is the headquarters of Local Motors, the first open source car company to reach production. Step inside and the office reveals itself as a mind-blowing example of the power of micro-factories.
“This should be on the sign as you enter Hendersonville: ‘Welcome to...”
– Wesleycakes
I Remain - Flash Escape The House Zombie Themed... →
I liked this quite a bit. Very good in a lot of small ways.
Auto-tune...
…May not be the very best thing that ever happened to music, but it sure is fun as hell to play with at home with my daughters (age 4 and 7).
“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury (via booklover) (via ultrafastx)
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Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets →
victrolacola:
…The most striking thing about these recordings is the synthetic-sounding descending tones caused by the phenomenon of the dispersion of sound waves. (Andreas Bick)
a holorime scheme
thefuzzydave:
ragbag:
Reine, reine gueux éveille. Gomme à gaine, en horreur, taie.
this french poem translates to something like, “queen, queen arouse the rabble/ who will use their girdles—horrors—as pillow slips.” though if you read it aloud slowly, it starts to mean something very different in english.
this poem is from an ingenious collection called: mots d’heures: gousses, rames. (get...
70 Cutie Baby Animals Bring You A Good Mood →
Cuteness is usually characterized by some combination of infant-like physical traits, especially small body size with a disproportionately large head, large eyes, and round and softer body features. Infantile personality traits, such as playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity, innocence, affectionate behavior, and a need to be nurtured are also generally considered cute.
To those who are...
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IT Support, Rule #2:
No list of instructions, no matter how detailed, is ever COMPLETE.
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IT Support, Rule #1:
The problem that the client tells you he has is NEVER the actual problem.
The Big Lebowski as [would have been] written by... →