April 2008
The Billy Letters →
In the late ’90s, pop-culture historian Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, for his own entertainment, the then-unemployed thirtysomething launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named Billy.
UW CSE and ICSI Web Integrity Checker →
Checks if your ISP (or other “party in the middle”) is modifying your pages.
M1 Broadband injects Javascript into your web... →
Rather disturbing trend in online advertising.
“See, this is a harrowing experience. I’m not choosing one flavor,...”
– Tycho
Intelligence And Rhythmic Accuracy Go Hand In Hand →
People who score high on intelligence tests are also good at keeping time, new Swedish research shows. The team that carried out the study also suspect that accuracy in timing is important to the brain processes responsible for problem solving and reasoning.
Is Mike Arrington a Dick? →
Perfect web app.
Watch Lip Dub - Need You Tonight by INXS “We did this one day during work hours, while drinking.”
Timeframe →
Sweet JS calendar that lets you select a date range easily.
Michael Arrington is a dick →
This is the first TechCrunch article I’ve read, and I suggest everyone make it their last. Quit feeding the troll with more pageviews. Seriously: ”And Jose, you’re banned from TechCrunch.”
William Wilkinson →
Like art, but more words
2 tags
I Love Typography →
“The gunshot echoed like a ghost with nobody to haunt.”
– Dan Kaufman
Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself and... →
Me like cookies. So what? Cookies delicious. Cookies do not make one monster. Everyone loves cookies.
Youngme / Nowme →
Love these two.
“Three minutes is where bloat starts to set in. Where the band thinks: Hey, let’s...”
– Joshua Allen, Two Minutes and 42 Seconds in Heaven
The Rather Difficult Font Game →
I only scored 30 :/
okay
Hi guys I cleaned up the old place in celebration of my 743th day-after-birth. I coded it on the way home from school today. It’s not much, but less is more, impossible is nothing, a living dog is better than a dead lion, etc. I’m still figuring that last one out. In any case writing goes there, and little bits of awesome go here.
A: HIHI
J: hi
A: hi
J: what up
A: duno
J: cool
A: same
“See what I mean? It paints a picture. You know everything you need to know about...”
– Tycho
“That’s not the sort of atmosphere I want to foster in my [Multi-User...”
– KaVir
The Quietest Place on Earth - Orfield Labs →
“I think if it’s quite painful and it takes a while it tends to be...”
– Colin Greenwood
