November 2008
89 posts
Is Pownce the Zune of tumbling?
(I’m a Tumblr bigot. I’m biased. I am NOT objective.)
Srsly? I just want to check out the Calacanis link below, but get hit with a login screen, complete with ugly brown header. So as I was writing this snark, I thought… well… just do the darn process so that I can see the darn link.
Registered.
And… nothing. Taken to a page to post something of my own. Fail....
How to sell an iPhone app for $9.99 - The... →
Hey Marco! You’re at the top of the TUAW article list right now.
Comprehending the numbers.
It’s time for a new unit, the Cluster-Fudge-$ or CF$. CF$1 is == the cost of WWII. So in these units, we’re talking about lending CF$2.05 to rescue the financial system. This is on top of the CF$0.19 (or CF¢19) that’s being used to recapitalize the banks. According to the IMF, the 2007 world GDP was CF$18.02.
I encourage everyone (Economist, take note) to adopt the CF$ unit...
is it wrong to dislike someone because they are...
I’ll skip the right vs. wrong argument and give you a conclusion; it’s wrong and since you know enough to ask the question, I’ll give you credit for being able to imagine some arguments as to why that’s my conclusion.
Instead I’ll give you a benefit analysis:
If a person’s piety doesn’t cause you harm, then you’re probably doing yourself a...
“Citigroup (C) Soars To Levels Not Seen Since Thursday”
– Citi Up 50% After Rescue
Not since Thursday? More than 90 hours ago! Now that’s some long-term investment perspective.
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Bash hostname completion in OS X
If you use Darwin Ports to get various open source utilities on your Mac, make sure to add bash-completion to your must-have list. It configures programmable command-line parameter completion in much the same way tab-file-completion works.
It’s useful immediately out of the box in many ways, the most significant of which for me is the ssh/scp/etc hostname completion. Any hostname...
“Couldn’t you all have downgraded to first class or jet-pooled or something to...”
– Rep. Gary Ackerman, to the CEOs of the Big Three automakers, who each took a separate private jet to Washington to ask for bailout money. (via spiegelman) (via karion)
Ooh! Jet-pool! That’s what I need to get down to Seattle for Thanksgiving!
(via cvxn)
Bounce Rate
mikehudack:
soupsoup:
A bounce occurs when a web site visitor leaves a page or a site without visiting any other pages before a specified session-timeout occurs. There is no industry-standard minimum or maximum time by which a visitor must leave in order for a bounce to occur. Rather, this is determined by the session timeout of the analytics tracking software.
Bounces are one of the...
YouTube: And Now For Something Completely... →
“Claiming to be tired of seeing poor-quality “rip-offs” of their ridiculously acclaimed TV series and films, the Monty Python troupe has created anofficial YouTube channel to post free, high-quality clips from their vaults, with only Amazon merchandise links for advertising. Their official, tongue-in-cheek video proclamation is below.” -Life Hacker (found via @jrsheafer).
“An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a...”
– Ty, I swear you’re the bartender. And, you’d be mumbling something about the heat death of the universe while pouring that second beer.
(via hot soup) (via ledenes) (via mikehudack)
On Shannon's Cooking
Marc: is it wrong to be this excited for dinner?
Shannon: absolutely not; I'm a good cook fool!
“when you keep getting pelted with shit balls, you gotta get a shit bat.”
– lahey (via superdoofus-stratodrive)
“[Senator] Lieberman’s committee is the senate investigations and oversight...”
– Talking Points Memo | Another Reason to Can Joe
FINALLY, a reasoned argument for the Dems to kick Lieberman to the curb (as opposed to the emotional argument I’ve read/heard so many times).
“…after drawing periodic criticism and creating indelible moments for two...”
– For NCAA Men’s Basketball and Its Three-Point Line, Change Is a Foot - washingtonpost.com
It was 19’9”. Now it’s 20’9”.
where DOES dubai get all this money?!
Dude, it’s in the UAE. Every time we fill’er’up at the ‘76, we’re making artificial powder for the desert slopes.
superdoofus-stratodrive:
i mean, handmaking islands and indoor ski slopes in the middle of the desert and the world’s tallest buildings and such, that must cost a fortune to these corporation’s headquarter relocation budgets.
just asking.
hell, the...
“…it’s not like they put it there just so the waiters can tell the...”
– superdoof (on why there’s always a lemon in the diet coke).
“unpupaeted junebug.” Genius. I’m slipping that into my repertoire.
“How long do you sit shiva at Fox News?”
– Jon Stewart to Chris Wallace just now. (via soupsoup)
GUEST POST: Leg Model
I love craigslisting pranks:
Good job, Andrew!
“Rosa had to sit so Martin could walk, Martin had to walk so Barack could run,...”
– The Washington Note (via azspot)
