2008

Jul

Coffee Bean gets free WiFi through RippleTV, a digital...

Real estate prices, adjusted for inflation, plotted as a rollercoaster via mhotel

The Getty Villa is incredible.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has...

“I could prove God statistically; take the human body alone;...”
— George Gallup (via...

Jun

“Trust me” government is government that asks that we...”
— Ronald Reagan, quoted by none...

Wait a second… What the hell is the rest of the...

Obama/Clark 2008

Is this going to happen? It came out this week that Obama was considering “former top military...

This is how I feel right now. Not From Concentrate - #273

“I want to open up transparency in government, so that you...”
— Extract from Barack Obama’s...

Front page again! Oh..oh no…is that a typo?! How...

Internet Explorer does not set a cookie for...

Rep. Kucinich introduces Articles of...

The size of Africa. As a reddit commenter points out, the...

“Both campaigns agree the town hall meetings will be open to...”
— Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for...

“They are still more frivolous, who say, that every effect...”
— David Hume, A Treatise of...

topherchris: This new design with all the happy colors...

Euro 2008’s here! Go watch the sport everyone else in the world watches.

Sun setting on Mars, from the Mars Rover.

The Big Picture

“Obama needs a VP who: Is successful at business interests...”
— jordanlund’s comment at...

“This is a long campaign and I will be making no decisions...”
— Sen. Hillary Clinton

Senator Clinton tries way too hard to be “cool.”

Searching for John McCain: googlebomb...

miss-r: somethingchanged: Searching for John McCain is a massive, online activism campaign...

Dean Kamen, creator of the Segway, has been working on an incredible prosthetic arm dubbed...

The Iraqi Upturn - Don't look now, but the...

“In the years to come, as I worked closely with President...”
— Scott McClellan, former Press...

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night...”
— Shakespeare, Hamlet

May

Tumblr PHP class

evanwalsh: I wrote a PHP class that integrates with Tumblr. It can fetch a user’s API feed, post...

“Sometimes people say I shouldn’t mind being searched...”
— Pete Guither, from Deep...

I’ve always loved this strip. WE THE ROBOTS »...

Next, please

squashed: A post back, I asked people to explain to me why they thought meeting with Iran (as...

The Myth of Voter Fraud - NY Times Editorial

Jon Stewart interviews former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, part two. Make sure you...

Jon Stewart interviews former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith regarding his new book about...

New group ("VoteBoth") with Clinton ties...

8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but...

Obama Would Consider Freestyle Meetings on...

“Rodney King has since been arrested eleven times on a...”
— Los Angeles riots of 1992...

For those of us who have found ourselves watching trick pool on ESPN at three in the afternoon via...

dihard: Recognize that scarf? If you don’t, take one stop...

Showtime’s back! Congrats to Kobe for winning the MVP award. From Forum Blue & Gold, the...

Typographic World Clock Screensaver for OS X This was going to be a reblog of topherchris but then...

Ahahahaha!! Someone needs to add Wolf Blitzer and some...

The Inverted Fountain at UCLA During your orientation tour...

Looks like news outlets are waiting on the Lake County...

Why are the presidential candidates—and so...

I’m going to go take a nap and when I wake up I want to find out that Obama won in both...

via reddit by this guy

Apr

Pentagon denies report of new Iran war...

“Stop land mines” advertisement from the UN’s StopLandmines.org WARNING: Graphic...

Buffalo 24 Hours after Being Killed By Lions More striking...

“And yes, Ford is now equal with Toyota in quality.”
— Ford commercial. Anyone else...

Spam tumblelog (nsfw text)

Olympic torch arrives in North Korea

Gamucci is an e-cigarette that looks, feels and tastes...

Private language argument - Wikipedia

tskaggs: hrrrthrrr: A new In-N-Out burger opened in Utah...

How to spot a Persian prostitute

Join (SQL) - Wikipedia

“If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s...”
— Bill Clinton, in 2004 (via...

Flobots - “Handlebars”

rubyonrails.org

From boutofcontext: Presenting His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI’s motorcade, passing along my...

These are pretty cool designs. Two great...

Did Obama just pivot on affirmative action?

“Foreign aid is necessary to enable underdeveloped countries...”
— P.T. Bauer found in The...

Well that sucks.

About the 2008 tax rebate: Who’s Not Eligible for the [Tax] Rebate: Dependents, or...

Ikea train in Japan (Monoscope) Way cool. More photos from...

Yes! (via zerrissenheit via milhouse)

Obama campaign gives away Dave Mathews...

Costco - Funeral

Beg The Question // Get it right.

“You are educated when you have the ability to listen to...”
— Robert Frost (via birdgirl...

Friend living in Connecticut: did you know you cant buy beer in CT on sundays?!?!
Friend living in Connecticut: i had to drive to massachusetts to buy booze
Friend living in Connecticut: i felt like a bootlegger

In a New Generation of College Students, Many...

Mar

Random Album Applescript for iTunes

This comes from a post at Daily Kos by nitpicker, who has caught Senator Clinton lying on the...

Follow up from the girl, now 17 years old, that was in stock video footage used in Sen....

Reason Magazine - Another Drug Raid...

FBI posts fake hyperlinks to snare child-porn...

Gorgeous replacement icons for Adobe CS3 by Louie Mantia

Wikipeda is down!!

Pi Day - Wikipedia

“I can’t has cheezburger”

Keyboard Cleaner - OS X App

Tumblr, I want keyboard shortcuts

Facebook has them. Gmail has them. It’s time for Tumblr to get some keyboard...

This may be a bit juvenile for my tumblelog but it is too funny not to post. 420 Stoner Parachute...

“A beer bottle cap is a really fantastic impromptu parmesan...”
— Jason Kottke

quick question

Tumblr has such an East coast bias! LA needs its own list of top tumblrs. Most of the people I...

anomaly: You know I have never noticed that you can...

“If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog...”
— Phil Pastoret

“Who Needs a Movie?” Something inside me doesn’t want to believe this is real....

Keywurl creator on Keywurl vs. Sogudi

Keywurl is a new (open source) Safari plugin written by Alexander Staubo. After installing, one can...

Daily Kos: 3am girl prefers Obama answering...

The Infernal Affairs Injustice

Seems like everywhere I look, I see my friend watching The Departed. The 2006 film received four...

Grammar Girl :: Top Ten Grammar Myths

Disloyal Democrat 2: Clinton puts McCain above Obama…again If I had supported Clinton before...

“If I’d have asked my customers what they wanted, they...”
— Henry Ford, from Steve Jobs in...

Rainbow flip book Utrecht seen at Reddit

An hour and a half with Barack Obama

Vermont Exit Poll - CNN

Feb

Interview with Sampras' personal stringer,...

The St. Vincent Story - Sampras' Special...

The tennis "racket"

david: What happens if you touch a MagSafe to your tongue? It appears your tongue will just get a...

Choice review: I was a little disappointed when I first...

GMail Plus - A Smart Trick to Find & Block...

Google Gives All SF Homeless Free Voicemail

Kansas City: Two States, Two Cities, Much...

Easy plugin for TextMate that replaces the Panther-esque...

The Man Behind DC v. Heller - Bloomberg

This video showcases a clever idea called PlayPumps, a system that uses energy from children playing...

Vaccinating [from HPV] Boys for Girls’ Sake?...

ESPN - Indiana, Kelvin Sampson reach $750,000...

Sadr declares new Iraq ceasefire

Hillary on Obama: “Change you can Xerox” When was the last time a major presidential...

CNN’s got their shit together. Live debate streamed...

I wish the candidates would stand during the Democratic debates. And they should put some space...

Lance Armstrong an atheist

Turns out the seven-time Tour de France winner is an atheist. This took me by surprise because I...

Hillary Clinton's Wisconsin Smear Ad (pdf)

Reason Magazine on why activist judges are a...

Chairman Silvestre Reyes of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence replies elegantly...

Superscript Line-spacing fix for Wikipedia

In honor of Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish cartoonists...

"Obamicans"

Def.: Republicans that support Barack Obama. Usage: “Sometimes they whisper to me when I’m shaking...

“In youth hockey, players are required to wear a neck guard,...”
— The most colorful commentator...

Naming computers

I used to name all my computers and gadgets with a “silver” theme. …. I’m...

Slate on Clinton’s inner Tracy Flick

Reason Magazine - Who's Still Afraid of...

Clark Coming to UCLA

General Wesley Clark is visiting UCLA on Monday, and lecturing to my National Security Policy course...

“We had [a chicken breast in china] tested and it was so full...”
— US Olympic Committee Caterer,...

What Hillary's Doing in Washington...

She’s lowering expectations for tomorrow’s caucus, and then campaigning hard. Any...

Reason Magazine - Hiding From REAL ID

Will Ferrell as G.W. Bush. Thanks to Franklin Avenue for reminding me of this gem.