Crazy stonehenge-like clock. Found on Boing boing gadgets.
Solzhenitsyn
The author of The Gulag Archipelago has died. He spent seven years in the Gulag, for criticizing Stalin in a letter to a friend. There he began to write, and he never stopped. For a long time, practically everything he wrote was illegal; he and his courageous friends had to hide his work and smuggle […]
Slippery When Wet
In the interest of boring the crap out of most readers, I present to you: Slipping. One of the problems of smooth concrete floors is that when they get wet, they become slippery. Think slightly melted ice over a lake of WD-40. My 15-month-old daughter has a knack for finding the little spills and puddles […]
More Cuil
So I looked up weeklyrob in Cuil. One of the interesting things about Cuil is that it can show pics next the results it finds. Except for one small problem: The pics are often wrong. Look above, for example, to find a correct result for a weeklyrob post, but with a picture of… well… Honestly, […]
Jug Confusion
The “Got Milk” ads are cute, and because milk is considered wholesome stuff, lots of big names are onboard to promote them. But watch out, ’cause the “Got Milk” people are no less evil than any other major conglomeration. In at least two cases of people printing “Got Breast milk?” on shirts, onesies, and such, […]
Cuil?
Nowhere do they say how to pronounce their stupid web site name, but it’s supposed to be the big Google-killer. I’ll believe it when I see it. It’s nice to look at (once you’ve searched for something, that is. I don’t really dig the black screen), but so far it hasn’t actually found what I’m […]
Rockin'
Last night I finally watched Air Guitar Nation, the documentary about the World Air Guitar championships. It was gooood. So funny, but also touching. I was laughing at the whole idea for a while (and the air guitarists were mainly laughing along), but then ended up really cheering for our guy to win. Good stuff.
Accusations of Baldness!
My retort.
Graph Jams
Wired magazine points us to graphjam.com, the best possible use of googledocs. Update: I submitted a graph, but apparently they’re very backed up. So rather than wait for mine to show up there, I’ll link to it RIGHT HERE.
A Kid is a Child
While titling my last post, I remembered a debate that seems to be important to some people about the word “kid.” Some people don’t like referring to human children as “kids.” They want “kid” only to refer to a goat (or possibly deer or antelope). For example, when someone asked a question on the kiplinger.com […]