February 2008
28 posts
State Street Barbers →
This is the sort of place that makes me want to let my beard grow for a week or four just to get that super close shave afterwards.
Video: A Guy from Boston's Guide to the Oscars →
Petter Bagge animation and Dana Gould narration. It’s gold people - GOLD!
Las Vegas man mistakes Madonna for Marilyn... →
Hey, it’s an easy mistake to make… I guess.
Wait, what do you do? →
“… BuzzLogic is an on-demand software company that drives performance within the social media channel by helping both businesses and bloggers harness online influence to improve their bottom lines.”
… wow that’s the best they could come up with?
Code Monkey Island →
What the coding half of the Ravelry duo is up to.
The 'unseemly side' of social media? →
The entire time I read this article I wanted to throw up in my mouth. Essentially a conversation starts between two people, there is some friction and one party walks away pissed off and calls the other lots of names to anyone who will listen.
Happens a million times and no one is the wiser or cares, right? Wrong! This time it happened on SOCIAL MEDIA like twitter and blogs! This makes it totally...
ectoplasmosis » The Guardian Employs A Titan →
Hard to describe fully, set aside five minutes and give it a read.
The Cut-and-Paste Personality →
I point this out not so much because it’s an interesting article about online dating and how people are creating “cut-and-paste personas.” I point it out because it’s an article about online dating IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
We’re through the looking glass here people…
Seek or Show: Two Design Paradigms for Lots of... →
A spiffy comparison of design options for searching.
8:50am At Cosi - Two guys waiting in line for...
Well-Dressed Douchebag: Man what a weekend!
Slick-haired Idiot: What'd you do?
Well-Dressed Douchebag: Hit a few clubs, got shitfaced and got felt up at a bar on Saturday.
Slick-haired Idiot: What?
Well-Dressed Douchebag: Yeah, I was getting drinks at the bar when some chick next to me slid in and grabbed my balls.
Slick-haired Idiot: You're kidding me.
Well-Dressed Douchebag: She was so trashed, I don't even know if she knew what she was doing. She just decided my balls were on the menu.
Slick-haired Idiot: We gotta go drinking more often.
Well-Dressed Douchebag: I don't know, she was hefty. It's not like anyone could see so I let her grab a little, got my drinks and went back to the table.
Slick-haired Idiot: Nice! wait, did you have to walk back to the table sporting wood?
Well-Dressed Douchebag: Nah, it was dark, no one could see. Besides, it went down pretty quick when I saw her face.
Slick-haired Idiot: What club was this?
Well-Dressed Douchebag: It doesn't matter, I'm not going back there again. Getting felt up by a fat chick isn't my idea of a raging Saturday night.
Prof's Las Vegas Blog →
An insider view of what’s happening in Vegas. Not quite the seamy underbelly blog I’m looking for but it’s got some interesting notes on upcoming events and the like.
About Blue Q →
“About Us” pages are usually trite and boring. This one is funny AND well designed. It might be one of the better uses for a site tree I’ve seen in years.
Yahoo’s oneConnect: One Mobile App to Rule Them... →
One app to integrate communication between your mobile, IM and social networking contacts? I like the idea in theory. I want to see it in operation and understand the layers of data it will serve up.
(I say this defensively because we all saw what happened when Google Reader decided to call everyone in your Gmail contacts ‘a friend’ and share info with them.)
Nicknames I have had in life so far...
Boston Brainiac Captain Blackout Chaucer El jefe Gordo Hyde Park Lucas Luka Snoop The Headbunny
Killing Joke’s back catalog has been given...
Home-made instant poka-yokes →
Poka-yoke (mistake-proofing) is becoming a focus for my work lately, but that doesn’t mean it can’t have some real-world applications as well.
A review of David Cross' "Closer Than Skin" →
“As violin music, this is outstanding. But it’s certainly not what I expected. Very, very unfunny.”
Outstanding.
This one is for Brock. Spoken word genius from...
del.icio.us →
I guess I must have found Peter Moroville’s search patterns entry on his blog moments before everyone else the other day. (Also moments before he announced it to the world.) For my dumb luck I got to add it to del.icio.us before everyone else and get the prize of having “First posted by boonerang” appear on the front page of del.icio.us.
Kinda cool in a geek-cred kind of way.
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“Happiness Boys,” by Aarktica from the...
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8:40am On The Red Line - Man & Woman
Man: So, did things work out OK last night?
Woman: Not really. She was really upset and it took her a while to calm down.
Man: She's making a lot of drama out of nothing.
Woman: I know! You guys were broken up for like a week. It's not like she owns you.
Man: Still, I shouldn't crash at your place for a while. She'll probably be a pain in the ass to deal with.
Woman: Screw that, I pay half the rent, I can have anyone over anytime I want!
Man: You're cute when you're pissed off.
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Start All Over Again
It’s been over 4 years since I closed my original personal site. (You know, back when having a vanity URL made you a big wheel at the cracker factory?) I found a set of bookmarks from those days and almost no one I was reading back then is still around either. Keeping a personal site and/or journal become a blog, then blogging became something so wickedly idiotic even I had to step away.
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Design View / Andy Rutledge - Objectivity Be... →
“Designing a website is like designing a sex chair.”
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“Wishful Thinking” by De Novo Dahl...
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Vir Unis →
I lucked into a Vir Unis disc about 5 years ago and got hooked. It’s hard to put a lot of the music into words. The best thing I can say is I’ve been falling asleep to various Vir Unis discs for years.
“Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given...”
– Edward Gorey