December 2010
20 posts
Top 10 Tech Failures of 2010
marco: Something from Apple that everyone loves Something else from Apple that everyone loves Your favorite cellular telephone Something Facebook did Something Google launched A crappy tablet nobody has ever heard of Microsoft’s latest initiative Desktop Linux Michael Arrington Ping There. That should generate some pageviews.
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Quote of the Day: Yahoo!
Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the Internet, built a huge fucking lobster trap, absorbed as much of human history and creativity as they could, and destroyed all of it. Ouch. The truth hurts, though.
Dec 27th
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Runaway Black
Pretty sure this wouldn’t be published with the same title today, but I could be wrong.
Dec 26th
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Fuzz
Terrible movie, but very enjoyable book.
Dec 26th
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
Christmas eve
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Dec 24th
“Ivanhoe is the story of a Russian farmer and his tool.”
– I do like the AV Club.
Dec 22nd
“I know what it means to freeze to death To lose a little life with every breath...”
– I feel somewhat like James Taylor’s The Frozen Man, because it’s fucking COLD out!
Dec 21st
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Oslo: Botanical Garden at Night
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Dec 19th
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Oslo: 514
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Dec 18th
“You could go nuts trying to catalogue all the bands that sound like The Ramones,...”
– from In Defense of Gringo Star.
Dec 18th
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“During the “Death in the Family” storyline, Jason Todd, the second...”
– I love reading comic book summaries on Wikipedia. I know it possibly makes sense in the original context, but reducing most story arcs to a few sentences amps up the ludicrous to a pretty absurd degree.
Dec 17th
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a-ha: How Sweet it Was
(This is about a week late, but whatever.) I was nine when a-ha hit the coveted number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100. I had no idea what the Billboard Hot 100 was, but I assumed it had to be a big deal because it was on the evening news and in all the papers, just like the Treholt spy trial, and stayed there for what seemed like weeks before being (reluctantly, I suspect) bumped in favor of,...
Dec 12th
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Dec 7th
Dec 4th
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The Swing of Things
A few snaps from one of a-ha’s final shows. It’s been a fun ride. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from was it something i said? | Comment »
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