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.

Tom’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 […]

I just got back from a brief and uneventful business trip to Chapel Hill, NC today. I don’t know what I expected but it wasn’t at all like I thought. I suppose my only knowledge of North Carolina is basketball and pulled pork. One of the two didn’t disappoint. School’s out and there is no […]

I should’na left you.

without strong design to step to.
 
Of course you can’t step to this event unless you’re going to be in Portland, but there’s some tangential design ephemera in this post that you could dig. 
The second of the Tokyo Design Symposium that John Jay and PNCA were involved in last year is underfoot at PNCA, […]

Joe Rybicki on 1up.com is reporting on a strangely funny event in the World of Warcraft universe. Recently, the guild of a gamer who had passed away (sudden stroke) in the real world organized a remembrance of their in-game acquaintance’s avatar. In a touching show of emotion, the guild gathered and patiently waited in line […]

Leave it to the Brits to prophesize a way to drink alcohol without fear of hangover or even cirrhosis of the liver. Straight outta Star Trek:
Professor Nutt suggests that if molecules that bind poorly to the bad subtypes like alpha-5 could be developed, it would be possible to retain the pleasant effects of alcohol without […]

Spring is in the air, and therefore that means people begin to idle time away at work following their fantasy baseball scores. I overheard a 10 minute conversation/investigation today regarding the best way two of my coworkers could watch the Yankees at work. When did watching TV on company time become OK? Even if it […]

I don’t know if this is so much “only in japan” as it is “never in america”

I don’t know why, but we thought if they ever needed to, our cats probably should know how to swim. Thinking the internet would certainly provide some kind of resource for this kind of thing, I performed a half-assed search through Google and Flickr. After about 2 minutes of searching (that’s about my attention span […]

what is it about having more money that translates to having less stuff? 40 Bond St. is a new development just south of my place. why do the fanciest places always have the least stuff? most concept imagery leads us to believe the super-wealthy live in a world free of clutter. i suppose all that […]

Tank Carter, brother of Pittsburg Steeler safety Tyrone Carter, is going to jail for 4.5 years (via profootballtalk) because he valued attending the Super Bowl, and partying with Snoop Dogg more than reporting for a 6 month jail sentence.
Undaunted, Carter told reporters, “Even knowing what I know now, I would do it again. It was […]

Recently, I’ve become acutely aware of queueing. Not queue theory; I’m not that smart. I’m talking about plain old waiting in line. I see it everywhere, and I can’t help but wonder what could be so valuable?

You know it, you’ve done it, and you probably spent some of your day in some kind of queue […]