April 2010
33 posts
Bungie explains Activision deal Interview |... →
Another good, — yet painfully paginated — interview from Eurogamer.
Textie.me →
Free Text messaging from good App developers. I just might become “TXTable”. Maybe. I’d still prefer an IM, or Twitter DM, or Email…
Jim Hill : There’s no stopping the Muppets now →
Walt Disney Studios revealed that it was developing a brand-new Muppets feature film which it hopes to put into production this fall and then release sometime in 2011?
FYI: This is a completely different project than the one that was announced back at September of 2009 at the D23 EXPO. The Mouse House no longer plans on making “The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made.” Mind you, the film that Mickey...
kung fu grippe · A new brown thing you'll... →
for years now, we’ve been testing you. Aggressively. Time and again. Through a mind-boggling series of product releases that call to mind Europe’s inexorable slide into the Second World War—with each new development bringing something more unfathomable, disturbing, and unspeakably inhumane.
Swipe File: South Park Vs The Killing Joke →
99 year-old loves her first computer -- an iPad →
To this technical-ninny it’s clear In my compromised 100th year, That to read and to write Are again within sight Of this Apple iPad pioneer.
“Do you want to sit around being wrong?”
WatchApollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 (by Mark Gray)
Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over... →
Are we about ready to leave this thing yet?
Alt Text: Ultimate iPad vs. Virtual Boy Showdown |... →
As one of the few people to own both devices, I have to ask: What if the naysayers are right? Should the fence-sitters who are still considering the iPad get a Virtual Boy instead? Would they be happier as early adopters or really, really extremely late adopters?
NCLR: issues & cases > case docket > greene v.... →
Because of the county’s actions, Clay missed the final months he should have had with his partner of 20 years. Compounding this tragedy, Clay has literally nothing left of the home he had shared with Harold or the life he was living up until the day that Harold fell, because he has been unable to recover any of his property
“As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents internet forums and...”
– Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
“You’d be surprised the number of people that just drive around I-285,” not...”
– Unsung HEROs keep
their eyes on roads
| ajc.com
NYTimes: Inventors Wanted. Cool Tools Provided. →
“I couldn’t help myself. I said, “So, you teach math to future civil...”
– (A terrifying) Comment on “When Less is More: The Case for Teaching Less Math in Schools” | Psychology Today
How Gut Bacteria Evolved To Feast On Sushi →
by Jon Hamilton NPR - April 7, 2010
When people in Japan began eating seaweed with their rice and fish, they also ingested some bacteria from the ocean. And as these ocean bacteria passed through the intestine, they exchanged bits of genetic code with the gut bacteria.
…Unsurprisingly, bacteria in North American guts don’t have the genes to break down seaweed, which means the body...
Compulsory link to a story about beekeepers. →
A treatise on tik tok, the beastie boys, single... →
Top Shelf Announces 'League of Extraordinary... →
When war-hero-turned-handyman Kesuke Miyagi is found drained of blood, it becomes clear that the occult gang known as the Lost Boys are targeting the only individuals that can stop them from complete domination of America. It’s the perfect case for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen—except that their government contact, Oscar Goldman, disbanded the team in 1979 after they defeated...
On this date Walt Disney World opened a ski park. Seriously. It was like a double April fools.
