November 2011
1 post
“Iowa City’s economy depends on underage drinking.”
– My English professor. (via lucycampie)
Might well be true, but it would be nice to have (a) some concrete evidence from (2) someone who studies economies instead if literature (3) who has a name and not just a title.” — an anonymous person on the Internet.
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
1 post
Hurtling Toward the Void: There's no need to fear;... →
hurtling:
Fans of other playoff baseball teams are making a case for you to support their colors, so I’ll make mine. It’s quite simple, really:
Total payroll of 2011 MLB playoff teams New York Yankees $202,689,028 Philadelphia Phillies $172,976,379 Detroit Tigers $105,700,231 St. Louis Cardinals…
Look, I like the Rays. Hell, I’ll root for them over every team in the league...
August 2011
1 post
3 tags
Missing e {browser extension for tumblr}: The... →
missing-e:
Moments ago, I participated in surprise conference call with Tumblr staff members. They have indicated to me that they continue to take issue with Missing e even with the removal of usage of the Tumblr API. They interpret the Tumblr API License Agreement in such a way as it continues to apply…
tl;dr: Tumblr is cutting its nose off to spite its face by fighting a...
May 2011
2 posts
cuddlycolin asked: Your poster is on its way! I'm glad you got your postcard :D
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April 2011
4 posts
An incredibly long joke →
mrgan:
I know what you’re thinking: there’s no way that a joke this long is worth it. But hey, think of it as basically a very entertaining short story with a joke punchline. That last part isn’t bolted on either - you kind of need the whole setup for the punchline to work.
Read it!
I just Instapaper’d a joke, and it’s now the longest thing in my queue.
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Apple's TV →
mrgan:
A device you have on you all the time is by definition a bigger deal than a device you have in your living room
iPads are clearly a big deal, perhaps bigger than iPhones, but not, I would argue, something most people have on them all the time. In fact, most people probably keep them in their living rooms (or bed rooms).
A PlayBook To Take On Apple? →
parislemon:
My review of the BlackBerry PlayBook. It’s all in there, overall a valiant effort. But the key question: does it compare to the iPad?
No.
But I will say this — at least they have a goddamn way to take screenshots right on the device without having to install some SDK bullshit and hook your device to your machine.
You hear that, Android?
What Google misses with the inability to...
Looks like the New York Times finally started... →
donohoe:
soupsoup:
…but I think they’re missing a reblog button.
Was that intentional or is it a bug?
You can Reblog if you get through to the actual post like in this example. The default view is to show posts without leaving the page (watch the URL - its just the hash changing).
More hashbang breaking the Internet craziness!
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
6 posts
I don't go beyond 140 characters...or do I?
sparklesmcgee:
It was suggested to me to start a tumblr page. I said I’m not sure I could…I’m so used to shrinking my thoughts down to 140 characters I’m
I can’t help but keep encouraging you. Sorry.
An Olive and An Arrow: Iowa? →
anoliveandanarrow-:
Weather - I know it snows. And I know it has/had tornados. But how often? What are the spring and summer like? How often does it rain?
Tornadoes can be a big deal; but in the two decades I’ve lived in Iowa City, we’ve only had two really bad storms and while they affected a lot of people, I’ve never had significant property damage
We get what feels like...
“We know more people will be killed on Sunday because of alcohol consumption....”
– Jerry Luquire, the head of the Georgia Christian Coalition, Sunday Alcohol Sales Bill May Not Make Senate Floor - Atlanta News Story - WGCL Atlanta
I don’t know why you would follow this issue if you didn’t live in this state, but I’m following it for you!
Anywho, people spouting facts with no...
WFTDA Accepting Bids for 2011 Big 5 Tournament... →
derbygirl:
wftda:
The WFTDA is accepting bids from video production and broadcasting companies to cover the WFTDA 2011 “Big Five” Tournaments: five three-day weekends of women’s flat-track roller derby in September, October, and November, 2011.
The successful candidate(s) will be prepared to provide WFTDA-branded, high quality video production and live online broadcast, according to...
The Decemberists are playing in Iowa City.
dayninetyone:
I cannot even begin to comprehend this.
To hell with SXSW, Coachella, Bonnaroo, & Lolla - Iowa Fucking City is bringing it.
Amazing.
The last time they played in Iowa City it was at The Mill. Now people have a hard time believing they’d play Iowa City at all. They’ve come a long way.
January 2011
3 posts
The Monkeys You Ordered: Literal Caption Contest:... →
themonkeysyouordered:
Hey Everyone — Thanks so much for all the votes cast over the last few days. All of the finalists received a bunch of support, but there was a clear winner. Congratulations to Nicholas Bailey of Chicago for his winning literal caption: ”Here”! Close on his tail were the runners-up: “I’m Groucho…
Perhaps the solution is to just start reblogging The New Yorker...
Marco.org: Too much hardware choice →
marco:
From my Verizon iPhone post: Even the gadget blogs have a hard time feigning enthusiasm for this week’s hot Android phone because they still haven’t taken the shrinkwrap off of last week’s.
Not enough Nick’s response: Wait, the stream of high-quality, constantly improving hardware with…
I guess this goes to show that if you ask a semi-snarky question, you get a thoughtful...
Who's Afraid of the Verizon iPhone? →
marco:
I was going to write about this angle of the Verizon iPhone, but Watts Martin already did a better job of communicating what I wanted to say, plus more, in this post:
But in the US market the great Google vs. Apple Fight Fight Fight! has been a lot less of a real competition than either the technology press or the cheering fans make it out to be. With Verizon getting the iPhone and...
November 2010
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
Marco.org: An open enhancement request to the... →
marco:
My iOS app, Instapaper, relies on the installation of a Javascript bookmarklet to be effective, because it needs a way for users to easily send URLs from Mobile Safari to Instapaper. Many other iOS apps have similar needs: Blogging and publishing apps can accept URLs that users want to…
Marco seems to want something similar to the implementation in Android which is, I think,...
September 2010
2 posts
“Oh my God, Arianna Huffington just Oprah’ed the buses! Everybody gets a bus, you...”
– Jon Stewart on Arianna Huffington’s offer to provide bus rides to anyone who wants to go to Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” (via soupsoup)
Let me know when she’s paying her writers and I’ll get excited.
Coderspiel: Exchange "remote wipe" is a terrible,... →
coderspiel:
Let’s say you know someone who works in a fairly small company. He handles a good amount of off-hours office email but was never offered a Blackberry as these were doled out not according to need but status, for which they quickly became an important symbol. And anyway, this employee didn’t want a…
Great, I have an IT contractor who is both sadistic AND inept. He’s...
August 2010
2 posts
lonelysandwich: Working with music →
Just what the title says. I’m simply training myself to be able to work while music plays, which I’ve never before been able to do.
For always, I’ve been one of those fidgety fuckers who requires total silence, even from the dog, in order to concentrate to where I can get any meaningful work…
I can’t do shit — write, read, code, make motion graphics, whatever — with music playing...
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
3 posts
Vadim: The Blog: Gawker/HRO/Tumblr →
nickdouglas:
My favorite line of this sloppily-written screed against sloppy writing is “Gawker is just a deeply cynical exercise in seeing how many hits one alleged photo of Britney Spears getting drunk can rack up,” because by then the reader has wasted all this time reading the piece and only now knows for sure that the writer is (a) just flat-out lying or (b) only read Gawker once, for an...
February 2010
1 post
“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to...”
– — John Updike (via jennydeluxe) (via thedeadline)
Yeah, fuck New Yorkers.
January 2010
1 post
December 2009
1 post
October 2009
5 posts
September 2009
3 posts
August 2009
1 post
Ongoing denial-of-service attack?
monkeyfrog:
twitterstatus:
We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.
What does this even mean?
It means that if I can’t tweet, the computer terrorists have won.
July 2009
4 posts
“We respect people’s time. That’s a core journalistic value.”
– Fargo Forum editor Matthew Von Pinnon, talking about why his forum turned away from unmoderated commenting.
MinnPost - Braublog: Newspapers take renewed aim at the comment cesspool
Respecting people’s time is not anything approaching a core journalistic value. What’s more, turning off comments has...
“We respect people’s time. That’s a core journalistic value.”
– Fargo Forum editor Matthew Von Pinnon, talking about why his forum turned away from unmoderated commenting.
MinnPost - Braublog: Newspapers take renewed aim at the comment cesspool
Respecting people’s time is not anything approaching a core journalistic value. What’s more, turning off comments has...
WTF IS THIS
hurtling:
srslainey:
squibble:
https://twitter.com/followermonitor
https://twitter.com/monkeybutler18
Apparently they watch and when you unfollow someone, they tweet to let you and everyone else know that specifically YOU stopped following someone else.
How fucking passive agressive is that? It’s like getting up to leave church/class/work and then some idiot loudmouth screams out HEY...
June 2009
9 posts
