February 2010
83 posts
The Pudding Guy →
In 1999, UC-Davis civil engineer David Phillips was grocery shopping when he noticed something peculiar. Healthy Choice Foods was offering frequent-flyer miles to customers who bought its products. But a 25-cent pudding would bring 100 miles — the reward was worth more than the product itself.”
Right now, somewhere in the world, someone is...
cakeisbetter:
Please put your problems into perspective. That is all.
and yet, why should the suffering of others diminish my suffering?
anonymous Internet filter protest
anonymous is protesting the internet filter today in Melbourne at midday at Flinders st station, in case anyone from Melbourne is interested and didn’t already know
“It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack, only we weren’t even sure...”
– David Shippy and Mickie Phipps, describing the debugging process for a performance bug in the Cell processor in “The Race for a New Game Machine”. (via drealmer)
e just linked me pasta boobs
sooshi:
cakeisbetter:
food and boobs. Does it get any better?
Yes it does. Penis pasta, gets bigger when cooked! After pussy mints? And the unmentionables.
….. Ok… I’m done. Going back to work.
“If a key opens many doors it is a master key, but if a lock can be opened by...”
– the interweb’s uncle (via knightsofidledays)
A conversation I have every month or so
terminally-incoherent:
dwineman:
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring you. Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to...
Alice in Wonderland syndrome →
Some times I feel really small, some times I feel really big. But that’s probably not the same as this.
“Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion”
– Tina Fey (via kapi)
“Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is...”
– Chris Sacca (via cat-v.org)
This is Australia →
First they came for the paedophiles and they were sick bastards so I didn’t give a shit.
Then they came for the interspecies erotica kinksters and I didn’t mind because I wasn’t really in to…
“The scope of RC is simply too broad and can raise genuine questions about...”
– Google baulks at Conroy’s call to censor YouTube
