December 2008
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Adam Rainer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant
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embracing my inner info nerd: top 10 tech trends...
#3 Firefox 3
8 million unique downloads the day it was released in June (Guiness World Record)
uses separate themes for Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, and Microsoft Windows Vista
began earliest rounds of development in 2006
currently holds around 16% browser usage share
redesigned download manager with built-in search and the ability to resume downloads
#4 Hulu
#5 Gmail Voice /...
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love generation // bob sinclar
I totally could...
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speaking of molly ringwald,
I have to say there is something severely anticlimactic about the entire aging process when you have a celebrity lookalike (and an eponymous one at that) 19 years your senior through whom you can see how you will look when you grow up
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vh1's top 20 greatest teen stars
this has been a truly incredible way to spend the past hour
20. debbie gibson
19. lindsay lohan
18. scott baio
17. sarah michelle gellar
16. donny osmond
15. kirk cameron
14. brooke shields
13. michael j. fox
12. alicia silverstone
11. n’sync
10. matt dillon
9. river phoenix
8. corey haim
7. winona ryder
6. david cassidy
5. shannen doherty
4. anthony michael hall
3. britney...
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#4: Hulu
launched for public access in March 2008
website with ad-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies
is why you have really no excuse for having seen every episode of Arrested Development
comes from a Mandarin proverb in which it means holder of precious things
probably could use some more advertisers based on how none of the shows I watch recently have any commercials (rather...
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rock & roll // eric hutchinson
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“these are the keys to what america needs right now”
– awkwardly ironic line from a ford/lincoln/mercury commercial
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do not pass go. do not collect $200. go directly...
Kevin: when I was looking for a 3 prong plug adapter I found a floppy disk! it's been forever since I've seen one of those
Molly: oh damn yea. do you remember when they were bigger? and were legitimately floppy?
Kevin: haa yes. I only kinda remember those things
Molly: i remember we used them in like lower school. or maybe 5th grade. i remember playing this game in 5th grade called like "how the west was 1+4 X 3"
Kevin: 15?
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embracing my inner info nerd: top 10 tech trends...
#5: Gmail Video / Voice Chat
introduced in November
obviously I love this since it comes from Google
very easy to install
surprisingly high quality coming from a web app
seems slightly superfluous so far, given that iChat already exists (and is in my mind superior to Gchat video) for Mac users and very few PCs have built-in cameras / very few PC users carry around webcams, but maybe they...
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as I was writing a
thank-you note from Christmas to my paternal grandparents, it dawned on me that I am the end of the line, as they say, when it comes to their last name. My dad has two sisters, both of whom are married and therefore no longer use their maiden names. I myself am an only child and as such obviously have no brothers. Assuming I eventually marry (knock on wood), a day will eventually come when my...
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everyday people // sly and the family stone
go...
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embracing my inner info nerd: top 10 tech trends...
#6: iTunes 8’s Genius feature
described on Apple’s website as “a brilliant way to make new playlists”
not exactly rocket science if you ask me, but interesting nonetheless
I don’t have anything to say; I’m boring
Or, maybe this feature is just boring to describe
#7 Barack Obama & the Internet Presidency
#8 Wii Fit
#9 The Link
#10 The “New...
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normal songs again!
hiroshima (b-b-b-benny hits...
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3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late
thepursuit:
whatson:
expectoomuch:
1 // You may need more sleep than you think. Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were “well rested” actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person...
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davidmaddox:
“Do You Believe In Magic?” by The...
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family matters
Molly: did you have a good christmas
Julia : yeah! it's been interesting. my grandfather is in town
Molly: oh yeahhh
Julia: so he's always a hoot. hard of hearing so that when you ask a question, you get a totally different answer
Molly: never a dull moment I'm sure
Julia: exactly. we watch the weather channel all day. at night, we watch a movie on mute he's already seen a couple times so he knows the plot already.
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“i highly doubt that they would disqualify you or kick you out for wearing...”
– my friend natalie, on circumventing the no iPod rule at the Shamrock Marathon
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embracing my inner info nerd: top 10 tech trends...
#7: Barack Obama & the Internet Presidency
(thanks Sungho for the photograph)
Outlines his technology platform on TechCrunch
has an iPhone application dedicated to campaign
Twitters (although hasn’t updated since Nov 5…)
victim of a Crackberry addiction
Announced VP choice via text message
Revolutionized the way that America communicates politics
#8 Wii Fit
#9 The Link
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http://theorangesplat.com/index.html →
Full-Length Nickeloden Nostalgia (well, Nick Toons, that is…no live action)
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Watchsandboxwarrior:
A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa
my gift to you! (besides, what else are you going to do all day)
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december 25
double-shot again for you today (as...
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december 25
i saw three ships // sting
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Online Video Lectures and Course Materialsl →
learning ROCKS
thanks yale online courses!!
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Was Jesus a common name back when he was alive? -... →
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december 24
double-shot today, since it’s...
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rockafeller skank // fatboy slim
ummm invariably...
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embracing my inner info nerd: top 10 tech trends...
#8: Wii Fit
I hope you know what a wii fit is, so again, I’m not going to write a description (our friends at wikipedia or youtube can enlighten you if necessary)
released to the US market on May 21, 2008
new york times review here
abc news review here
I have somewhat of a personal vendetta against this game since (a) it calculated my Wii Fit Age as, like, 47 even though I had a...
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december 24
o holy night // weezer
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Would someone in America go to jail for tossing a... →
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o valencia // the decemberists
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i somehow
always write better when listening to death cab
I’m still not sure what it is about them
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“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”
– Oscar Wilde (via charleyrockfordkane)
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mental floss (dot com)!
(via thebrightsideoflife)
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why I am secretly sixty or seventy years old
I do crossword puzzles religiously
I could watch 1970s game shows all day (hypothetically, that is…)
I have neck pain
I have built a pandora station that regularly generates song sequences like the following (“sister golden hair” by America followed “Michelle,” FYI):
I express my not-so-secret interest in cross-stitching to friends
I can’t drive
I...
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embracing my inner info nerd: top 10 tech trends...
#9: The Link
vital information
undergraduates love (or hate, if too crowded to use) it
seems to channel the 1970s with that orange and magenta color scheme
I hope they don’t open something like this next year that I will wish I could have used while still in college
there are about 50 plasma tv screens adorning the entrance wall, which apparently (per the Link website) is an...
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