Banana Florist – Better Service, Lower Prices, and a Banana. These folks invented the Broquet, a way to send a man flowers. Current selections include a bowl of cacti, or a pot of venus flytraps. If I were in Atlanta I might order one for myself.
KARE 11 TV – Police release bomb videotape; suspect’s family says incident ‘blown out of proportion’ Brian Childs is not a terrorist. He didn’t harm anybody, he didn’t harm any property. He detonated an explosive, not a bomb. If the People’s Republic of Minnesota wants to put him in jail they need to ban Mythbusters, too. Fear-mongering Communists. Joyeur: Strongspace and Bingodisk: Update Real hatefest going on in the comments, regarding the ZFS problems at Joyent. Hacking Polish Trams This reminds me a lot of the strobe light system in use for emergency vehicles. violet blue – Steve Jobs calls blogger and podcaster Violet Blue rude Potentially NSFW if you click, she’s a sex blogger. At a conference I basically …
The Joyent Community / Further Strongspace and BingoDisk Update “We’ve been bit by a massive ZFS bug.” Yeah, ZFS isn’t as stable as it seems. Ouch. Good luck Joyent. AOH :: AOH Sounds :: SIT-VC.WAV The Vacant Circuit error tone. Add this to your answering machine and you will fool bots, at least for a little while (until they spend the extra two seconds to figure out you were just screwing with them). Japanese whalers take custody of Sea Shepherd crew | Eric Cheng’s Journal “Instead, three Japanese whalers attempted to throw Potts overboard while travelling at approximately 17 knots, then finally settled on tying him to the ship.” I’d do the same if someone boarded my ship. It’s called …
iPhone ‘WebClip’ Icons Sweet, custom webclip icons.
Davenetics* : The Sound Filters soundflavor.com added browsing by style, year recorded, tempo, mood, etc., which is pretty cool. The octopus who loves his Mr Potato Head | Metro.co.uk “The 1.8m-wide (6ft) creature is so attached to Mr Potato Head that he turns aggressive when aquarium staff try to remove it from his tank.” ThinkMac Blog : Scorched earth “Honestly I am a little bitter about this, what NewsGator has done is effectively anti-competitive…” OMFG. Um, sorry, but giving away the desktop software to win the enterprise sale is pretty common. Grow a set and step up. molly.com » Too Wired in a Wireless World? “The luggage I pack is sometimes filled with so many wires, cables, power supplies and …
How NOT to handle a layoff, via Tesla « FoundRead I agree completely: don’t give people a reason to take you down before you’ve even released a product. Sad Kermit – Official Website “Soon after the death of Jim Henson, Sad Kermit spiraled downward into a life full of addiction, romance, and pain.” The video on the web site of Kermit singing the Cash version of “Hurt” is awesome.
The Journal of Joe The Peacock. Yay.: How To Actually Win A Fist Fight This is the sort of content you don’t see much of. I like it. No idea why someone in del.icio.us tagged it with ‘funny.’ It isn’t — getting the crap kicked out of you sucks. 37 – Newyorkistan « strange maps Interesting blog, all about strange maps like this one. Everybody’s Free (to wear sunscreen), Baz Lurhman “Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry Architecture: A House Made from 110 Tons of Steel At least you can decorate with magnets. gapingvoid: beware of turning hobbies into jobs “When a man marries his mistress, he immediately creates a vacancy.” True — I turned my computer hobby into a career, and ended up needing to find a new hobby (lighting design for community theater).
Woot : Kodak EasyShare 5100 All in One Printer I love Woot’s product descriptions. My friend John described this one as “a printer’s take on Requiem for a Dream.” Blacklisted from Google Notebook “Your account was accidentally blacklisted by a blacklisting heuristic that looked at total size of notebook information.” Showing a 404 error page instead of a “you’ve been blacklisted” message is yet another example of n00bs running services. Do hardworking employees make their slacker colleagues more productive? – By Tim Harford – Slate Magazine “It turns out that facing toward a fast worker makes no difference, but having a fast worker face toward you encourages frenetic scanner-wielding.” Makes sense, if you know someone is watching your game improves. …
Frog Design brings WPF sexy to the enterprise masses – istartedsomething Lawson and sexy in the same sentence? Ugh. Lawson software is what was behind the huge failed payroll implementation for the University of Wisconsin. Just because the front end is sexy doesn’t say anything for the back end. Obama Quote | Jezebel “I know I’ve been campaigning too much because I was a rally and instead of saying ‘The time for change has come’ I said ‘The time for come has changed.’ And I have to admit, everybody clapped.” LOL, I like this guy. EA mobile prez: iPhone is hurting mobile game development – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) No kidding. I would love to play some games while …