August 2009
33 posts
Wood Is the New Bone [Medical] →
Don’t let the hippies hear that wood may make a better artificial bone than titanium. We’ll never live it down. Italian scientists have developed a new “wood-derived bone substitute” that…
Airline Food Is So Bad… →
How bad is it? This bad. We all know this and yet still we will get on a plane and ingest stale pretzels and microwave dinners that probably came off the factory line in 1973. But one brave man…
URL Shortener tr.im to Discontinue Service →
They plan to keep redirecting existing tr.im URLs through the end of the year, but after that, they’re all dead. And people ask me why I wrote my own URL shortener for DF’s Twitter account.
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Howard Dietz →
“I don’t like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.”
Apple's next iMacs rumored with compelling new... →
A couple of new features rumored to be in the cards for Apple’s forthcoming iMac refresh will up the value proposition for prospective buyers in the market for an all-in-one desktop system,…
Google plans to bypass Apple's App Store on the... →
With its native Google Voice application rejected from the iPhone App Store, the software maker is planning a full-featured Web application in its place.
Twitter not so popular with the young people →
Twitter has a reputation as that “new Internet trend” that’s all the rage among kids, but recent data suggests that an older crowd is what’s really driving Twitter’s growth. Sparked by a…
Google's chief accepted gear but no pay as Apple... →
Before he resigned from the company’s board of directors this week, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt was essentially a volunteer during his tenure with Apple, accepting only products.
This G.I. Joe T-Shirt Far More Exciting Than Any... →
The internet is full of “Hey remember this thing from our childhood?” t-shirts (it’s actually the only thing on the internet, besides “Chocolate Rain” and Ask.com) but the following G.I. Joe-themed…
Google Taketh Away →
This morning Google announced it was spending $106 million in stock to buy On2, a maker of audio and video compression software. The very logical question I don’t hear being asked, though, is…
Video: How To Send Food Back At a Restaurant →
Stop-motion animation + an upbeat dinkly tune = fun educational video on restaurant etiquette! If you’re not sure how to send food back at a restaurant, this video will give you some tips….
Massacre Gmail Ads with These Two Sentences (and... →
Those “Sponsored Ads” in e-mails are an annoyance to both sender and recipient and they seem to escape blocking. Until now. These two (so far) fail-proof sentences at the end of an email will…
Styrofoam Coffee Cup + Sharpie = Art →
Foam cup artist Cheeming Boey of Newport Beach, California, creates intricate designs using the underexplored medium of Sharpie pens. His Flickr set includes images of noodle shops,…
Pagehand 1.0.4 →
“An elegant little word processor” is the perfect slogan for this new app by Ross Carter — a $40 writing app for Mac OS X with a thoughtful UI designed to stay out of your way, with a focus on…
NeXTStep Icons Still in Mac OS X Leopard →
The NeXT screenshot camera icon is still in Snow Leopard, too. Are there any others?
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First Looks: Griffin Elan Form Etch for iPhone 3GS... →
The latest evolution of Griffin’s Elan Form cases for iPhones is actually an interesting one: Elan Form Etch ($35) for the iPhone 3GS and 3G uses etched, legitimately nice looking leather with a…
What’s Your Douchebag Name? →
Uncannily accurate.
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Devil Worship And Christmas Lights →
I’ve always hated the idea of Home Owner’s Associations, so this exchange of letters sent glee through my little, vindictive heart.
Christopher and Heather XXXX
XXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXX
Boone, NC…
Seattle, 35 Hot Dogs Have a Bone to Pick with You →
Shared by Juicyjones
Shawn, look they used your picture of the little dog. Mine was WAAAAAY better tho! :P http://www.flickr.com/photos/elijuicyjones/3693778256/in/set-72157620892713895/
Zinester Dirty & Nerdy →
they were sitting in a tree
and
reading zines
this is highlights of 2009
Portland Zine Symposium
Rachel Lee-Carmen Show and Tell
is many…
Writing Retreat Part 1: Ode to Amateurs →
INTERN is back, misty-eyed and kumbaya-ish, from a weekend spent prancing around in nature with pen and journal in hand at an authentic Writer’s Retreat. Everyone in the office is peering up over…
Tool kit dropped from space station is orbital... →
A tool bag lost by a spacewalking astronaut in November appears to have met its end after more than eight months in orbit. The chief scientist at NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office says the tool…
How to get paid iPhone apps for free, legitimately →
Filed under: iPhone
Sometimes paid iPhone apps become free for a period of time as a promotion, but who’s promoting the promotion? If you don’t know an app exists, and you have no way of…
CNBC: Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple's board →
Filed under: Apple Corporate
CNBC has reported this morning that Google CEO Eric Schmidt, right, has resigned from Apple’s board of directors after three years. This comes a week after …
Microsoft Word, RIP: 1983 - 2009 →
I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we’d all used in office jobs.
“You know, I’ve been using Word for over 20 years,” I…
Kinetic Phone Charger Concept Generates Juice With... →
The premise behind Lola Mensa’s Cargador De Celular is pretty simple: By the time you get back from a morning run, you’ll have enough power stored up to keep your cellphone charged for the…