Archive for the ‘web’ Category

Changing the rules

I’m not a fan of football — or rather, of the meathead sport that stole football’s name and forced football to call itself soccer — but I am a fan of innovation and sneak attacks of all kinds. That’s why I love this clip. Outstanding.

As a side note, who named these teams? And who named [...]

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Kitchen Myths

As a cooking nut, I found this list of Kitchen Myths interesting and useful. You might like it, too. The design? Not so much.
As an aside, I found it using a cool little Firefox plugin called StumbleUpon. Just add it to your toolbar, tell it what sort of stuff you’re interested in seeing, and click [...]

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What we’ve all dreamed about…

…this guy actually did.

WATCH

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Lime Wire = Live Wire

This just in from the “somebody’s got something as big as an elephant” bureau: file sharing giant Lime Wire is contersuing the major labels that recently sued them. Lime Wire alleges — I think quite convincingly — that in their zeal to curb piracy of their product, they’re actually retarding the legitimate growth of numerous [...]

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It’s 1999 all over again!

Apparently Yahoo! has offered Facebook about $900,000,000 to aquire the company which is, like MySpace, a virtual kegger party that all the grownups are trying to crash.
Nine. Hundred. Million. Fucking. Dollars. And it still might not be enough for Mark Zuckerburg, the 22-year-old wizard behind Facebook’s curtain — not because he’s greedy, it seems, but [...]

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popurls

If you haven’t seen it yet, Popurls is a pretty decent way to get a snapshot of what’s bubbling up around the Internet’s water cooler. The site functions as an aggregator of top hits from del.icio.us, digg, reddit, metafilter, youtube, flickr and about a dozen other sites.
It’s no replacement for your daily news, but trawling [...]

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