January 2008
Prologue: Twitter-like Wordpress Theme →
simple wordpress theme that turns your blog into a Twitter clone. much more hacking is required to get it to something more than just a functioning look-a-like, but it’s all there. available for download and as a wordpress.com blog. I started one here: group.crrrg.com
Dr at Melbourne Uni Develops Technology To Make... →
Yacht Rock #11 →
How Kenny Loggins wrote Footloose. Jason Lee as Kevin Bacon is friggin classic!
Sexy Balls - Sex with Fitness Balls →
Tom Cruise the Scientologist - Indoctrination... →
ha, it’s scary.
Scientology In Victoria - The Anderson Report →
No acceptable or recognized standards are prescribed for its practitioners, whose ignorance of orthodox medicine and psychology make them each a menace to the health of the community. They are the more dangerous because of their spurious air of competence and the tremendous amount of mis-directed energy which has gone into promoting the organization and devising techniques, the mentally crippling...
“Murder, murder, murder. There’s gonna be murder!”
– M.O.P.
“Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble,...”
– Do It Now by Steve Pavlina
A da Vinci code broken as Mona Lisa identity... →
In the margin of one page is a note from October 1503 which, the researcher claims, confirms the identity of the Mona Lisa as the Mona (for Madonna) Lisa del Giocondo, the third wife of a Florentine businessman Francesco del Giocondo. In Italian, this painting is called La Giocondo; and a resounding ‘duh’ is heard from researchers. via travors
WatchCorey just went up a notch in my book. He’s at notch one. via livejamie
A simpler mobile OpenID workflow? →
Using twitter for OpenID authentication — danw
PETA killed 97% of their Rescue Animals in 06 →
“Pet lovers should be outraged,” said CCF Director of Research David Martosko. “There are thousands of worthwhile animal shelters that deserve Americans’ support. PETA is not one of them.” via livejamie
Create personal mailing lists through contact... →
Official Gmail Blog — roamin
Freelance Blog Expert Wanted
New York Times Best selling author needs someone who can search the web identifying blogs and other unconventional information disseminators who would be interested in a news story of how a government consumer protection agency is hurting consumers - http://www.lesko.com/truth/
Japanese Bug Fights (dot com) →
Bugs. Fighting. Nathan Lovejoy from Limewire showed me. Make it popular so I can put it on Gawker. — nickdouglas
NetNewsWire for Mac is now free →
Yes it is Marco, but not only NNW, but the entire NewsGator RSS suite, including my beloved FeedDemon for Windows.. my favorite RSS reader. — livejamie
“Computer people love computers — so when computer people tell you “don’t use...”
– John Gruber on computer voting machines
Goodbye, cable TV
Any of those would benefit me. TV wouldn’t. Decision made. — marco Best decision you’ll ever make. We have no form of television [aside from YouTube etc] and only a movie projector for the odd film night. It’s fantastic in so many ways, particularly socially.
'Mozzies killed off dinosaurs' →
It wasn’t an ice age or a massive meteor but tiny pests that brought down the mighty dinosaurs, according to a new thoery. Scientists are debating the idea that diseases spread by ancient mosquitoes, mites and ticks finished off the reptiles. — redwolf That, or the flu.
How To Play Strip Ping Pong
In the ever growing foray of games crossed with stripping, I offer my [current] rules for Strip Ping Pong or ‘Strip Pong’: 1. Doubles or singles. 2. The person who causes a lost point will remove an article of clothing. If it’s unclear who lost the point, the half of the side where the ball last fell corresponds with the losing player. 3. All spectators must be divided into...
Absolut Drinks →
A great drinksmixer-type site to promote the brand. They also do blog-style posts really well with some good writers.
3 of the Most Bizarre Micronations in the World →
Redonda was first claimed by Christopher Columbus in 1493, though many have claimed to be the king of this strange uninhabited rock ever since. With steep cliffs and just one square mile of land, Redonda is essentially empty save for some feral goats. Redonda’s biggest natural resource has historically been bird excrement, which was mined at a rate of 7,000 tons per year around the turn of the...
Are You Not Devo? You Are Mutato [LA Weekly] →
How Mark Mothersbaugh, an Agent of De-Evolution, wormed his way into America’s subconscious — roamin
100 things we didn't know last year →
The BBC’s annual list. — nostrich The most interesting list for 2007 yet: Tony Blair does not keep a personal diary.
December 2007
Headline News
Fark finally came out with it’s best headlines of the year, and there’s a couple of really good ones. :) Bear attack victim had ‘tender heart,’ according to friends, family, bear Bingo hall worker B-10 and robbed Blind man reunited with missing seeing eye dog (as far as he knows) Popping vitamin pills could increase your chance of dying by five percent. Great, now I have a...