June 2008
42 posts
Amazon MP3 Special Deals Twitter Feed →
John Gruber: Some great deals — entire albums for $1.99. (Thanks to Patrick Barry.)
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut →
I just got done reading my latest Vonnegut and it is easily my favorite. I’ve read a lot of his books, but this one was different, and will be hard to top. If you like desert islands, evolution, or dolphins, then you will like this book.
“That’s what I wanna do: Just make sandwiches and sell ‘em on the...”
– Megan on her true calling.
Martian soil good enough for asparagus: NASA →
nwsppr:
Martian dirt is apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said Thursday, as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander.
“There is nothing about the soil that would preclude life. In fact it seems very friendly,” said Samuel Kounaves, the project’s lead chemist at the University of Arizona in a telephone press conference.
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The RZA's muxtape →
jstn: Yes, that RZA.
Version numbers
It is pretty clear that version numbers are important to Apple. We have seen them step over iTunes 5, I believe it was, to move on to iTunes 6 just a week or so later. Which makes me wonder why they are holding off from iTunes 8, instead calling it iTunes 7.7 when it comes out on July 11th. With the advent of an App Store, MobileMe support and whatnot, it seems to be a pretty huge step. Perhaps...
The law and economics of surfing →
Via Marginal Revolution, the last place I would have ever thought to find something about surfing.
Plainview, a low-frills, full-screen web browser →
WebKit FTW!
“Ma luna a‘e o no lahui a pau ke ola o ke kanaka.”
– Translated from Hawaiian, this means, “Above all nations is humanity.” It is the motto of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, where I went to school, and something I think about every day.
Jay-Z - A Billi Freestyle →
Jigga the shit even when he rhyme in third-person.
Newsblah by Joe Lazarus
newsblah:
“On Saturday, I will extend my congratulations to Senator Obama and my support for his candidacy”
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton [Source: MTV.com]
I don’t like to check a lot of news sites. But I do like checking Newsblah, a quote-aggregating Tumblr built by Joe Lazarus. It shows me a few quotes in my Dashboard and I can check them out if I want. Joe is always busy making cool web...
“No matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.”
– Alan Cooper
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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BMW’s Hydrogen Car Cleans The Air as You Drive →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-1) →
Death Cab for Cutie
Jack Johnson
Coconut Records
The Abyssinians
Aswad
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Kinetic
karmcity:
Someone needs to figure out how to harness the energy that people exert at the gym. 100 people moving elliptical machines all day long and you’re telling me they can’t at least power the lights in the building?
Thinking about it more, a setup like this would actually make me exercise harder. If I could see a graph that says “You’ve generated enough energy to power the building...