September 2007
42 posts
What has the world come to? Censorship and the... →
“All you have to do to turn the website on is put the little blinking line thing...”
– from The Onion’s Google Launches ‘The Google’ For Older Adults
The FULL list of America's 400 richest people →
Guess which one I’ve seen in real life.
Get Your Complaint Resolved By Posting It To The... →
I would imagine this works almost every time.
Bigger is better, right? Right? ... Right?
Chris Jordan has created visually stunning images that do a great job showing how much we as Americans use and consume. Check it out here.
Falling flat
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Is the world flat?
SHERRI SHEPHERD: Is the world flat? (laughter)
GOLDBERG: Yes.
SHEPHERD: ...I Don't know.
GOLDBERG: What do you think?
SHEPHERD: I... I never thought about it, Whoopi. Is the world flat? I never thought about it.
BARBARA WALTERS: You've never thought about whether the world was round or flat?
SHEPHERD: I tell you what I've thought about. How I'm going to feed my child-
WALTERS: Well you can do both.
SHEPERD: ...how I'm going to take care of my family. The world, is the world flat has never entered into, like that has not been an important thing to me.
ELIZABETH HASSELBECK: You'll teach your son, Jeffery, right?
SHEPHERD: If my son, Jeffery, asks me 'is the world flat,' I guess I would go...
JOY BEHAR: You know, didn't some person already work this question out? I mean, why are we doing this again? (laughter, applause)
I hope this blog post is as funny as that time you...
Writing English has a list of the 25 funniest analogies collected by high school English teachers. Most are so funny you’ll laugh out loud. Here are my three favorites:
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high...
At Duke we make it easy to stalk →
Our Office of Student Affairs has a webcam outside our Student Union that streams to this website all day. A little creepy? Let me know.
“Here’s the conundrum: if a service has better features than Twitter but your...”
– from Robert Scoble’s recent blog post. I agree with him and can’t believe new social networking services are still popping up all the time. The market, it seems to me, is saturated. Why not focus your startup’s time/energy/money on creating an awesome Facebook app? You can even ask...
WatchClick through to see a video that will show you two cool things: a local news station with a sense of humor and a great trend I actually want to buy into.
Blogger's latest major gaffe
Blogger, Google’s blogging service, has locked perhaps its most famous and popular blog. Frank Warren received a message last night that informed him that the PostSecret blog was flagged as spam. Check out the image below:
UPDATE: Less than a minute after I took this screenshot (at about 1:17 pm, Eastern time), PostSecret was back up.
WatchIf you can’t see the video in your feed reader, make sure to click through to my post on Tumblr.
“I’d rather be surrounded by people who are doing better than me in some fashion...”
– from Steve Pavlina’s recent post, Overcoming Jealousy. I don’t think I will ever feel this way. I’m way too competitive. It’s a problem.
Integration causes more problems
Hey Google - I found a mistake! I know, they are hard to find, but I found one! Looks like when a YouTube video is removed for copyright violation, it is still included in Google search results. I’m sure there is a process by which the videos are removed from Google’s index, but I think it should be instantaneous. It’s the same company…
I was searching for a Savage Garden...
Box it up: Shoeboxed.com, formed by Duke students,...
Duke University is home to a new internet startup company, Shoeboxed.com. The receipt-organizing website has been written up on LifeHacker and KillerStartups [update: and on TechCrunch]
Their most recent blog post reminds iPhone users that if they would have kept their receipts with Shoeboxed’s service, they’d have no problem with getting that $100 store credit.
Check out this...
What I (and others) temporarily miss about home -...
I’m at Duke right now giving it the old college try. I’m about 3 weeks in, and so far, here are the things I miss:
Family
Good food
Friends
Car
5-gallon water coolers
Air conditioning
More than one room to hang out in
Good tap water
HBO
Personal and study space
Quiet when I want to sleep
Here’s what I don’t miss:
Chicago’s rainy tendencies
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High School Mistake
Recently, a nude photo of Vanessa Hudgens, a star of the highly successful High School Musical franchise, was released to the public by an undisclosed source. In an astonishing act of honesty (or perhaps as a way to preempt the “is it her?” debates), she admitted it was indeed her in the picture.
Whatever. She’s 18. I have no problems with naked pictures of attractive people....
A collection of beautiful and unique Microsoft... →
Check this one out. It’s my favorite one so far.
New York Times "Most Blogged Articles of the Last... →
Updated daily (but with a static link that you can bookmark), this list of articles gives an idea of what the internet thinks is important.
Whitney is not a cheap girl
A very beautiful font, Whitney, costs up to $500! I knew fonts were expensive, but this seems a bit much, no?
You are going to thank me for this link, I know... →
Wikipedia almost to 'classic double' status
Everybody’s favorite research helper has almost reached 2,000,000 articles. Check this (and other interesting stats) out here.
200 bad comics, or: a great way to work out your...
You know how old people are supposed to mental exercises to prolong their lives? Well, when I’m old, I want to be like this guy. His friend challenged him to make 200 comics and he did it in about 4 days. Now that’s mental gymnastics! While he admits they are bad, I actually think there are some good ones in there. I rather like numbers 4 and 21.
The main landing page is here and...
The World Clock →
Click the link to visit a very cool website.
