➠ February 28, 2009
Bob Mould at the Swedish American Hall
Part of the Noise Pop '09 festival.
➠ February 27, 2009
Bizkit the Sleep Walking Dog
Funniest video I’ve seen on YouTube in a while — poor dog looks so confused at the end. Makes our pups look positively intelligent!
WordFu
Quick and fun iPhone word game from ngmoco. Somewhere between Dice Poker and Boggle. $0.99 from the App Store.
Sad that the @seoulonwheels Korean BBQ truck is never coming back. I’ll miss its tasty tasty noodles.
Posted to Twitter at 8:18 p.m.
Had lunch at “Crossroads Café”. Played the fun game of “Guess if this employee is an ex-con, or a junkie-in-rehab”.
Posted to Twitter at 1:56 p.m.
➠ February 26, 2009
The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist
Good Economist article about how “the Dunbar number” relates to online social networks, with some interesting stats about friend groups on Facebook.
➠ February 25, 2009
cufón: fonts for the people
Now this is lovely — convert fonts into VML, then seamlessly replace text on webpages. Like sIFR, but without the horrendous hassle of needing to do things with Flash.
Found out that the creator of the “Fucking Poncho” ad (http://rdbgb.us/6oI) that’s doing the meme rounds today is @shaunlandry! Yay Shaun!
Posted to Twitter at 7:53 p.m.
Loving watching the SuperPoke Pets forums become a real community. You know you’ve made it when you have a Bacon thread! http://rdbgb.us/tmc
Posted to Twitter at 1:52 p.m.
Update on first day with Kindle2: Love it, love it, love it. Faster screen refresh and reduced-accidentally-hittable buttons FTMFW!
Posted to Twitter at 12:17 p.m.
➠ February 24, 2009
Kindle feature request: “Demo mode” where my friends and co-workers can gladhand it, *without* buying me books with one click.
Posted to Twitter at 6:58 p.m.
Playing the waiting game with FedEx. I know there’s a Kindle on a truck with my name on it. I WANT IT IN MY HANDS DAMMIT!
Posted to Twitter at 12:26 p.m.
RT @cyantist I want to go to Penn & Teller @pennjillette I am *determined* to work out how they do that damned magic bullet trick!
Posted to Twitter at 12:24 p.m.
➠ February 23, 2009
My goal: Grow a Fu-Man-Youk (http://tinyurl.com/d7tnlv by the time the Sox hit Oakland.
Posted to Twitter at 5:53 p.m.
"Techcrunch are full of shit"
Last.fm follow up to the unsubstantiated rumour published as fact by TechCrunch on Friday.
Suspect it’ll be hard to remain unspoilered to today’s University Challenge final. Come on The Trimble!
Posted to Twitter at 12:34 p.m.
Another great Onion headline. http://tinyurl.com/c9hnvx (No need to read the article, natch)
Posted to Twitter at 12:21 p.m.
Weekend of oversleep naturally leads to Sunday night of insomnia. Tsk, bah and, indeed, grrr.
Posted to Twitter at 2:15 a.m.
➠ February 22, 2009
Amused by Joy sitting in bed wearing one of my t-shirts and PJ bottoms, eating a meatball sub, and shouting fashion advice at the red carper
Posted to Twitter at 4:55 p.m.
I’ve had a crush on @mrskutcher since I was like 15. It feels *so* bizarre to see her in the same Twitterstream as my geeky friends.
Posted to Twitter at 12:06 a.m.
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