December 2011
74 posts
Best Images of 2011 - Imgur →
Ocean Marketting Jackass Earns $10 Discount for... →
bigweek:
Kotaku:
“I can’t worry about the fact that there isn’t a bus big enough for me to throw Paul Christoforo under” said,” Moisés Chiulian, the Austin, Texas-based consultant now retained by N-Control to oversee its sales and marketing. “The Internet did that for me. I think they set him on fire, too.”
Woooster: Family Apple. →
woooster:
In 2009 only my brother and I owned Apple products. A iPod classic and iPod Nano respectively. No iPhones, Mac’s or iPads were owned by anybody in our near family. My uncle had owned an Archos and a Dell Inspiron Laptop that weighed a metric ton. I also had a smaller Dell Inspiron Laptop as did…
Tests Cast Doubt on F.A.A. Restrictions on Kindle... →
Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? →
The short answer is: “No”
To walk through an airport with Bruce Schneier is to see how much change a trillion dollars can wreak. So much inconvenience for so little benefit at such a staggering cost. And directed against a threat that, by any objective standard, is quite modest. Since 9/11, Islamic terrorists have killed just 17 people on American soil, all but four of them victims...
How Computers Work →
I had no idea Scientologists were so involved in the inner workings of a computer.
Whitney Music Box →
Rather hypnotic. via
What the World’s Biggest Websites Looked Like at... →
The saddest thing I've ever heard on an airplane →
I’m so glad I don’t have to fly anywhere this holiday season.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: E-mail... →
Link: It Begins →
From Futility Closet:
Moscow’s stray dogs have begun using the city’s subway system. Zoologist Andrey Poyarkov of the Moscow Ecology and Evolution Institute, who has been studying the city’s 35,000 strays for 30 years, says some dogs scavenge downtown during the day and board trains in the evening to travel to industrial complexes in the suburbs, where they sleep.
Blockwick →
A new block-sliding puzzle game from the makers of Aqueduct.
http://yfrog.com/z/kjzd3fuj →
The Motorola Droid Goatse Xyboard
Portraits of Online Gamers Next to Their Alter... →
The last one is frightening.
WatchTebow (Saturday Night Live) (by NBC)
Louis CK's experiment worked
Louis CK’s experiment worked:
I really hope people keep buying it a lot, so I can have shitloads of money, but at this point I think we can safely say that the experiment really worked. If anybody stole it, it wasn’t many of you. Pretty much everybody bought it. And so now we all get to know that about people and stuff. I’m really glad I put this out here this way and...
Menu Trouble →
Have a GHEAUGHTEIGHPTOUGH with your GHOTI at dinner tonight.
Devastating Explosions, at the Touch of a Button →
Not sure what it has to do with Old Spice, but explosions ensue nonetheless.
So The Mythbusters Punched A Hole In A House With... →
NPR on the Mythbusters’ cannonball incident.
Download.Com Caught Adding Malware to Nmap & Other... →
Simply put: Don’t download software from cnet.com
King Kaufman: Are you more risk-averse than a 5th... →
kingkaufman:
The wife, the kids and I were watching the cute game show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” and all of a sudden some kind of game theory/philosophy seminar broke out.
The contestant, a woman named Stephanie, had reached the final question, worth $1 million. She had earned $500,000 by…
Link: Bandwidth Hogs Don’t Exist
Christian Sandvig at Social Media Collective:
As of this fall AT&T U-Verse has joined my cable Internet provider, Comcast, in imposing bandwidth caps of 250 GB per month on broadband Internet customers. Cox, Time Warner, Charter, and many more ISPs are now capping. Wireless or wired (and even on new fiber), the North American broadband landscape is now one where broadband internet...
Link: Don't Be a Free User
by Maciej Ceglowski:
Someone builds a cool, free product, it gets popular, and that popularity attracts a buyer. The new owner shuts the product down and the founders issue a glowing press release about how excited they are about synergies going forward. They are never heard from again.
I’d rather pay than see ads, and I’d prefer either over having a cool service get bought out...
