March 2009
2 posts
MODAFINIL
I’m trusting you on this one, Doctor Wikipedia.
February 2009
10 posts
WatchPeoples’ dancing falls on a Bell curve: for every person like me, there’s a person like this.
Mike Nelson, the guy from Mystery Science Theater... →
“I noticed that over his left shoulder, on the credenza behind him, was an...”
– A (seriously) heartening pearl from Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker profile of Rahm Emanuel.
“For exactly two minutes on March 6th at 11.00am our consortium of psychics and...”
– TheFaithOfBritain.com, a site run by earnestly squinting cat ladies, on their proposed “Psychic Bailout” [via]
Scientists develop robot with evolving brain,... →
(via oliverfarrimond)
Oliver H.M.S Farrimond M.D. is in the Scottish Sun, and it’s not for rape-murdering one of his fares!
Gran Torino, Condensed
Clint Eastwood: YOU GOOKS SURE ARE BAD AT GETTING GIRLS
Everyone else: ???
Clint Eastwood: I DON'T EVEN BELIEVE IN GOD, YOU STUPID GOOK IRISH PRIEST
Everyone else: Oh, you!
January 2009
82 posts
useful contrivance: HEY, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT NOT DUMPING ENDLESS GIZMODO CONTENT ONTO YOUR TUMBLR, THEREFORE MAKING IT UNREADABLE
me: OK THANKS FOR THE SOUND SUGGESTION
My first, greatest Vice →
John Herrman wrote Meet Ken, The Amazing Dancing... →
There are the snobby, deluded audiophiles who troll internet forums all day arguing about the merits of acoustic cryocoolers and adaptive spectral perceptual entropy coding, and then there’s Ken….
John Herrman wrote Samsung Memory Breakthrough... →
There’s almost no way to describe this tech without boring you all to death, so before I do here’s the important part: basically, 32GB DDR3 consumer RAM sticks are now possible.
The breakthrough…
John Herrman wrote Microsoft Patents Shows... →
The Register stumbled across a patent for the “Smart Interface System for Mobile Communication Devices”, a smartphone extension dock that lets you easily plop your phone onto your home network and…
John Herrman wrote 'Top Secret' Zumba... →
In this video, the BBC takes us inside the top secret headquarters of IA Technology, where the former ejector seat company is working on the “world’s first fully accurate voice recognition phone,”…
John Herrman wrote Samsung Memory Breakthrough... →
There’s almost no way to describe this tech without boring you all to death, so before I do here’s the important part: basically, 32GB DDR3 consumer RAM sticks are now possible.
The breakthrough…
John Herrman wrote The Inevitable Rise of Internet... →
“Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer,” the narrator says with a hint of sarcasm, continuing, “but that’s a few years off.”…
John Herrman wrote Scientists Demo Living,... →
Berkeley University scientists demoed a remote-control Rhinoceros beetle at a conference this week, repeatedly flying the cyborgian creature into observers’ faces while screaming “WE ARE GODS! WE…
