October 2009
20 posts
Cell Size and Scale →
From a coffee bean and Times regular, 12 point all the way down to a carbon atom on a sliding scale.
Oct 31st
The Best Time to Have Sex (and Do Other Things) →
Best time to have surgery: Morning (4x less likely to have complications in the morning than between 3-4PM) Best time to get a human being on the phone when calling a company’s customer service…
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Get a refund for your Microsoft Windows license
gwa: Updated with the happy ending! Hello, my name is Graeme Cobbett. Today, I donated $115 to a non-profit organisation which maintains and develops a free alternative to Microsoft’s Windows operating system. But I didn’t fund this myself: Microsoft did. Here’s how I did it. I bought a new notebook PC, replaced Windows and got a refund for the operating system I didn’t want. Not many people...
Oct 23rd
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the decadence - To Develop Your Writer's... →
Loving, knowing, doing. The secret behind becoming excellent at anything is loving one thing deep and hard enough to do it for a very long time. To continue to learn and know it. …
Oct 21st
“Mottainai (もったいない, 勿体無い) is a Japanese term meaning “a sense of regret...”
– Mottainai - Wikipedia
Oct 19th
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100 Hotels Under $150 - NYTimes.com →
100 excellent European hotels under $150/night. Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Dublin, Edinburgh, Florence, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Rome and Venice
Oct 12th
Manvotional: “Advice to My Son” by J. Peter Meinke →
Image from anniebee Advice to my Son by J. Peter Meinke The trick is, to live your days as if each one may be your last (for they go fast, and young men lose their lives in…
Oct 11th
Sagan Autotuned →
Sagan Autotuned I’ll just quote Kottke: Maybe you’re tired of un-pop-music-like things being run through Auto-Tune, but I’m not quite there yet. This Auto-Tuned Carl Sagan mix is very nearly…
Oct 10th
The no control cafe →
In Kashiwa, Japan, there was briefly an unusual cafe where you recieve whatever the person in front of you ordered…and you’re ordering for the person behind you. The Ogori cafe was an…
Oct 10th
Literary stocking stuffer →
One of the items in this year’s Christmas catalog from Neiman Marcus is a dinner for the buyer and a guest with “the brightest minds of modern literature, journalism, and the arts”. Among those…
Oct 10th
Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get…
Oct 9th
15 Best Buddy Movies →
The buddy movie represents an uniquely American genre of cinema. Instead of a male-female romantic couple being the focus of the story, buddy movies center on the relationship between…
Oct 9th
Sagan Autotuned →
Sagan Autotuned I’ll just quote Kottke: Maybe you’re tired of un-pop-music-like things being run through Auto-Tune, but I’m not quite there yet. This Auto-Tuned Carl Sagan mix is very nearly…
Oct 9th
Hurry →
Most interesting ideas come to me between 8am and 10am. This is sacred time. The day is young, I am rested, and the coffee is fresh. I spend most of this time in the car driving to work. The music…
Oct 2nd