New York’s Hudson River is a treasure trove of really weird stuff.
What lies beneath the surface of New York Harbor? For starters, a 350-foot steamship, 1,600 bars of silver, a freight train, and four-foot-long cement-eating worms.
Secrets Of The Deep
Your Life Is Officially Over
Your parents just joined Facebook, and the results are hilarious.
Can’t Keep The New iPhone Rumors Straight?
There’s likely to be a new iPhone announced this next week. If you’re having a hard time keeping track of all the various rumors (from all the various sources) concerning the new phone, The Green Room has it all in a nice, cited, graphical form.
And no, we still don’t have the iPhone here officially.
Time Killer For The Day
In Super Karoshi, you don’t try to save the little guy, you try to kill him.
Back To Business
Yesterday’s concert went well, despite me buggering up my elbow playing the bongos on a latin piece we were playing. It’s one thing to play the bongos in a jazz band, it’s another to try to play them over the top of a larger concert band — you need a lot more volume, and my elbow wasn’t handling the impact very well.
Just the same, back to business on the blog, and it’s time to clear out some links.
- So you’re in love with one of your friends, but she already has a boyfriend.
- Save time watching most of the crap that comes out of Hollywood — it’s all explosions and clevage anyway.
- CollegeHumor games the Amazon.com reviews.
- Turn of Windows Geniune Advantage with Microsoft’s help.
- I’m printing up some of these for my next meeting.
- Open Source Media Systems.
- Going back from XHTML to HTML.
- xkcd Gets A Book Deal.
- The infinite photo (possibly linked to before, but too lazy to look).
- I must be a criminal mastermind, since I use the command line all the time.
- Thank you Captain Obvious: Facebook makes you stupid.
- How cell towers work.
- Kiss the next 10 minutes goodbye fans of Diablo and Doom.
- Blue whales are big.
- How to create custom Twitter backgrounds (like I give a rip).
Concert Time
Like I’ve mentioned before, I have a concert tomorrow afternoon. It’ll be a good show, it’s free, and there will be munchies and drinks during intermission, so I’d encourage you all to come and scream and yell for your favorite local blogger. Or not, but do come and have a listen, tell all your friends, etc… .
Quote Of The Day
Appearing on CNN today, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was asked what has become a popular question, and a Democratic talking point, about his party: is Rush Limbaugh your leader?
Schwarzenegger, a former Mr. Universe and a moderate, responded thusly: “I think that they say that Rush Limbaugh is the 800 lb. gorilla in the Republican Party, but I think that’s mean spirited to say that because I think he’s down to 650 lbs., so I think one should be fair to him about this whole thing.”
Meme Scenery
What if you took all those popular videos and photos that have floated around the net over the years and removed their main subject? The remaining scenery would look like this. Can you guess which videos or photos they’re from?
Browsing The Web at 300 baud
Before everybody had high speed, we geeks connected to the ‘net with modems. Usually we connected with the 56kbps variety (my first modem was a 2400baud, but that was just for community BBSs). You could never try (nor would you want) to browse the modern web on a 300 baud modem — unless you’re this guy:
Hear That? That’s The Sound Of Nobody Giving A Rip
Aston Kutcher might stop twittering Everybody panic!!!1!1!!eleven!!!