December 2008
22 posts
Holiday Parade - Slam Crunk
This is one of those...
“I would like to commission an impressionist oil painting of Robocop arguing a...”
– via Craigslist: Wanted: Impressionist oil painting of Robocop in courtroom scene
I’d love to get a copy of this once they are done.
What was the biggest health care breakthrough in the last 40 years in the United States? Heart bypasses? CAT scans and M.R.I.’s? New cancer treatments?
No, it was the cigarette tax. Every 10 percent price increase on cigarettes reduced sales by about 3 percent over all, and 7 percent among teenagers, according to the 2005 book “Prescription for a Healthy Nation.” Just the 1983 increase in the...
WatchThrowback futuristic logo treatments
Behold the most rad thing on the internet right...
NINJAM - Novel Intervallic Network Jamming Architecture for Music
Translation, fucking awesome. They describe it as
“a program to allow people to make real music together via the Internet. Every participant can hear every other participant. Each user can also tweak their personal mix to his or her liking. NINJAM is cross-platform, with clients available for Mac OS X and Windows.”
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Free Public WiFi
Crazy. Perhaps the first successful viral thing Microsoft has ever done…
jstn:
Have you seen this wireless network? I see it *everywhere*, and it’s so suspicious because it’s always ad-hoc (meaning broadcasting from a computer rather than a regular access point). I imagined for a long time it was part of a virus; it waits for someone to connect, redirects to a page that exploits some...
WatchSo wrong on so many levels… but well edited!
streeter:
Here’s a reason to love the Internet. This never would have happened without it.