I’m a geek, and I might be a nerd, but I’m not a dork. If you’re not already hooked, this probably isn’t the book for you. Michael Lopp wrote this witty little handbook to help all us geeks overcome what he describes as”debilitating social skills” and “strange control issues.” I have no idea what he’s [...]
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If you’ve used the interwebs at any time in the last 500 years, then you are all too familiar with this frustration. You get to the bottom of a lengthy form or try to post a well thought out rebut to an asinine article someone wrote on why the web is dead, only to find [...]
Words
This is a great little film produced by Radiolab and NPR. “Words” is a great example of continuity editing, the stuff Hitchcock was so good.
Where Hitchcock used techniques in continuity editing to foreshadow events, build suspense and cast a certain mood over the scenes in his films, “Words” takes a much more whimsical approach. It’s clever and fun, if not a little sentimental.
The Pet Penguin
This family in japan owns a pet king penguin, and they’ve trained it so that it will walk all the way to the fish market with its little backpack to get fish everyday. it’s super cute… via @jina
Host Your Own Awful Party For Windows 7
“Clearly meant to have a lively, “fun” feel, the painful video is so over-the-top bad we thought it first it must be a hoax. But Microsoft’s in-house blogger has been touting these events, which are being organized by an apparently well-established marketing company that specializes in getting people to shill products to their friends at sketchy “house parties.” Said marketing company owns the YouTube channel where this video appeared.”
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