Archive for July, 2006
Top things keeping me busy and away from the keyboard most days/nights:
Japanese - Learning a bit more, day by day, and I do mean “bit” literally. I absorb about a 0 or a 1 each week.
Work - I go to it about 5 times a week and lately it’s been busy for the right reasons […]
Crazy Canuck, Kyle Macdonald has reached his goal on One Red Paperclip. He’s successfully traded up 14 times from one red paperclip to a free-standing house. There are a few points at which the trades seem unbalanced, but clearly, b-list celebrities and municipalities can use the publicity.
Slashdot has brought up a few nuggets of pure fun over the past couple days…
Bacterial DVD holds 50TB - Back on the storage tip, these will be ready about in time for the unveiling of Sony proprietary, ultra-mega-compact-mini-disk storage, to be filled with super ultraman-go-ranger hi-definition movies that will be released 6 months before they hit your local cineplex. That is to say, perhaps never. However, the idea of storing approximately 7,000 of today’s DVDs on a single disc is inspiring.
Procedural Synthesis - About.com catches up to .kkrieger, which we reported on 2 years late. This makes About.com 2.5 years late. If you read the article, you’ll see the Spore hype machine marching on in full gear.
Cow Power - Ever driven by a cattle ranch? What thoughts run through your mind as you cruise by with the windows down on a hot, breezy day? If you’re like me, you’re thinking “How can we burn all this stink and power a state?”. Well darn it, someone in Vermont has gone and done it. You can buy 25%, 50% or 100% of your power from the system. Wake up call New York: We need to figure out a way to turn all the stink on the NYC streets into power for my PS3.
Even as allegations of Mac “phone home” sensibilities (via gizmodo) have surfaced (read: evil), wherein your sweet and homely Mac is forced to check in with the mothership every 8 hours, there is some good news to bring the universe back into alignment… CrossOver Mac promises to allow you to run Windows applications within Mac OS X. Planning to ship in early August, this app, while anticipated widely, arrived a bit sooner than expected. Based on Wine, an open source “compatibility layer” for *nix and Mac OS X, the package will retail for $59.99 and will draw a considerable huzzah from that annoying Mac guy (right) in the Apple commercials. Of course we all want CrossOver Mac, but nobody wants to be mr hoodie.
If he were born in the USA circa 1937, there is a good chance we would call him “Tak”, but he wasn’t, so we call him Takeru Kobayashi. For the 6th straight year, Kobayashi has taken the Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest, held annually at Coney Island on the Fourth of July. While the result […]
I don’t think I saw this on the OC… PoopButler.com will come to your house and scoop the poop right out of your cat’s litter box. They’ll even perform some unexplicably vague cleaning process on the litter box:
You receive your used litter boxes again only after being electronically treated through the use of an electrification […]
going perpedicular - schoolhouse rock steelo
0 Comments Published by ken July 2nd, 2006 in wakaranaiTom’s Hardware is running a piece on the latest 750GB Seagate drives using a new perpendicular storage technique. I’m always game for more storage. Ever since I was a wee pup with only 20MB, I’ve known you can never have enough storage. Now, if you’re Hitachi, you might publish a white paper and explain away […]
If you haven’t had the good fortune of checking Uniqlo’s temporary flagship store in Soho (they’re opening a permanent flagship store on Broadway shortly), you probably have missed out on the dope t-shirt designs that have dropped as part of their T-shirt festival. In case you haven’t tried a Uniqlo t-shirt, they’re about as soft and comfy as you can get in a T. The tag is placed in a more comfortable spot down on the lower left so you’ll never get that itch on the back of your neck. Most designs are on point… I picked up a Yamasa Soy Sauce T and they have a dope Kewpie Mayonnaise spot that is the bee’s knees. What can I say, I like my products. Anyway, best thing is, they’re running for only $10 a pop. In the high flying NYC t-shirt world, that’s a pittance.
summer in the city means motorcycles
0 Comments Published by ken July 2nd, 2006 in bones in ice creamIf there is one thing that annoys me more than the humidity here in NYC, it’s the constant threat of loud bikers rolling through my neighborhood on the weekend. I’ve never understood what kind of death wish you need to have to ride a bike. I can see how the breeze flowing through your hair […]
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