2008

“Booting Linux from an external drive with the applications...”
— Geek To Live: Taking Puppy...

“This week’s release of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution...”
— Linux On A Stick: Fedora 9...

“In a sign that they are likely to declare victory in the...”
— Obama Memo: 17 Pledged...

Test your Hillary Clinton IQ -- --...

“MEGAN MEIER UPDATE: A federal grand jury on Thursday...”
— MEGAN MEIER: Woman indicted in...

California is now the first state to allow...

Press Conference

jakoblodwick: You can ask me a question about any subject, and I will try to answer it on this...

“those who dance are called insane by those who don’t hear...”
— Eddie Vedder (via...

stokan: I really want to go talk to young people and tell them that if they ever feel outcast, or...

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is...”
— Buddhist saying My new mantra....

“Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of...”
— Douglas Adams (via travors)

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly...”
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild...

“The pomegranate (Punica granatum L.), is popular because it...”
— The Pomegranate: Super Food...

“On the upside, though, the pain of having to deal with...”
— Poor Children Of The World No...

“Facebook’s designers want to cut the clutter. The Palo...”
— Facebook’s Big Facelift

“I had an interesting discussion today about Firefox with...”
— The future of the Firefox...

“It is clear to me that the board of directors of Yahoo has...”
— Dear Yahoo: You’re Fired

“Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long...”
— The Social Network Wars Begin...

I can't decide which pull quote from the...

peterwknox: Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit...

“I cannot stress how important an independent mind in a...”
— Jayel Aheram (via triciaward)

“Riding that bike wasn’t easy. It was a really heavy bike,...”
— Shia LaBeouf on the toughest...

“I like a woman who wants to rule the world…but she has to be...”
— my co-worker on the “type” he...

Consider a Rain Barrel

squashed: A rain barrel is a relatively simple idea. Normally the water from your roof would run...

Things Rachael and I argue about

“I just loved notebooks so much I would often want a new one...”
— i do the same!via my open...

“TG Daily Exclusive – We previously published several details...”
— TG Daily - ATI Radeon 4800...

“The Kindle, Amazon’s ugly but useful ebook reader that...”
— Amazon May Sell $750 Million...

“Jaman, the San Mateo-based P2P Web movie service, is about...”
— Jaman Launches Free Streamed...

“Cindy McCain’s declaration that she would never...”
— Cindy McCain’s Tax...

“According to ZDNet.de, Intel Germany CEO Hannes Schwaderer...”
— Intel Confirms Atom-based...

Unintentionally funny headline

sharingtime: Here’s a headline from HuffPo today: “Tony Nominees Out” All of them?

Stuff White People Like: Grammar

Good Advice From a Grand Theft Auto Dating...

“Without the helplessness that makes kids cute, they’d be...”
— Paul Graham, Lies We Tell Kids...

“We have a No TV in our living room. Sometimes I think it’s...”
— My No TV | Oliver Steele I had...

“Personality begins where comparison ends.”
— Karl Lagerfeld (via simko)

“I think we should gradually transform a quarter of our...”
— Squashed. That’s a really good...

“A woman can’t switch her phone’s Bluetooth feature on in a...”
— Love on Girls’ Side of the...

“Add billionaire and activist shareholder Carl Icahn to the...”
— Uh Oh, Icahn May Jump Into The...

“The article (English translation) states that the iPhone...”
— Vodafone building TV service...

“BEIJING: Mothers wailing over the bodies of their children....”
— China’s response to...

“Black holes not black after all Monday 12 May 2008...”
— News and Events | University...

“Rep. Ron Paul is still in the GOP race and even drew 16% of...”
— The Raw Story | Fox...

Things younger than John McCain

Are you feeling it too?

squashed: It’s a rough day to be human.

“Everyone has this strange archiving addiction now. …To me, a...”
— Feist, in an article for the...

Bill Israel and Richard Dunlop-Walters

interviews: Who are you and what do you do? Bill: My name is Bill Israel. I’m a software...

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of...”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via...

Myanmar

doree: Noticing that the NYT is going to great lengths to keep the identities of its correspondents...

Are cell phones ruining the concert...

“There’s an old story about the person who wished his...”
— Bjarne Stroustrup (via...

Fun Fact: You're paying more for text...

“CHENGDU, China (CNN) — Rainy weather and poor...”
— Nearly 10,000 reported killed...

Contemporary Classical Music Radio Station...

“Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard...”
— FT.com / World / US &...

CO-ED Magazine » COED Presents: Dancers of...

“Speculation of new products percolates whenever Apple does...”
— CO-ED Magazine »...

If Nintendo Made Halo 3

“I know I’m an acquired taste - I’m anchovies. And not...”
— Tori Amos (via awais)

“Let me be clear: though the Kindle has some advantages over...”
— The Future of Reading (via...

“The best drug is life.”
— Wise words from a hippy I met...

“The Wired nation knows all about tumblelogs, text-lite...”
— Joseph Arthur’s Tumblelog Is...

Episode 3: The Wreck of the Old '97

tuneagepodcast: A little earlier than usual, here’s episode 3. Our most reblogged this week was...

Umbrellas

samreich: I’m terrible about umbrellas. Somehow I’m unable to see them as an extension of my...

“Wow. Apparently, life really does become meaningless when...”
— CO-ED Magazine » Real...

“Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through...”
— Teenagers to take embarrassing...

“Saturday Night Live’s” Message From Hillary...”
— “Saturday Night...

“While I had time to find the Jason Voorhees Nike shoes, I...”
— Officially Cool: Freddy...

“The Saturday Box Office estimates are in over at Fantasy...”
— Saturday Box Office: Iron Man...

curious...

foodinmouth: earlier sarah posted about some woman having her 18th kid and how she thinks the...

Networks Quiet as a Mouse about Embedded...

PR Companies Who Spam Bloggers

skidder: Who are all the cab drivers talking to on the phone all the time? Other cab drivers?

Madness

doree: There’s an article about my old boss in tomorrow’s Style section. It’s all about how she...

Three Reasons To Use Disqus

San Francisco Chronicle: How much money do...

onemoretimewithfeeling: Tracy:You know what, I’m gonna make you a mix tape. You like Phil...

“1983. The year of the IBM PC XT, the Apple Lisa, Pioneer 10...”
— The 25 Year Old BSD Bug

“CRAWFORD, Texas (May 10) - Jenna Bush couldn’t see...”
— Jenna Bush, Crawford Prep for...

“The spot is one of 30 produced for U.S. Campaign for Burma,...”
— Trying to Put a Name to a Face...

“If you are ten years out of high school and you say, “damn,...”
— Stephen King on NPR’s Wait...

MDF: Racing to Save Lives

runwithmdf: Dearest Friends, Family, Collegues, and the world of Web 2.0,Not a day goes by that I...

“‘Chefs should be fined if they don’t have ingredients in...”
— Gordon Ramsay to BBC (via...

Pirate Music, Lose Your House

“Phone sex is the dumbest thing in the world. It’s not sex....”
— (via wwtdd.com) (via...

“It’s going to be absolute disaster, like a burrito before...”
— - jack Donaghy, 30 rock so...

An Average Consumer's Spending

“Sometimes I can’t believe how Californian California...”
— This bud’s for you, and...

“WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration stepped...”
— FDA Issues Updated Heparin...

“Facebook says that the “Pages” feature is meant for people...”
— Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends...

“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much...”
— Thomas Wolfe This is so...

How My Wife Ruined GTA IV

How 10 Well-Known Beverages Got Their...

didyouevernotice: Coca-Cola was named for two of the ingredients that made up the drink at the...

Things I Did Last Night

“Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded...”
— Bob Dylan - Standing in the...

Vegetarian myths, debunked

“How many times do you have to cycle through your very...”
— tremble.com : worst of...

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is...”
— Scott Adams (via...

More comments, more problems

amazingamanda: So I tried out Intense Debate.. but you guys didn’t likey and I found it had this...

“The Attorney General of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, is...”
— Scoop: Facebook To Announce...

“We believe the combination of Arby’s and Wendy’s will create...”
— Wendy’s International, Inc. -...

The Economics Party

“Whenever I’m caught between two evils, I take the one I’ve...”
— Mae West (via enquotations)

Best of CL: Dear person with a wooden leg...

“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish...”
— Earl Nightingale (via...

“If you are asking what license this software is released...”
— The Mu License in its...

“Never ask a man what computer he uses. If it’s a Mac, he’ll...”
— Tom Clancy (via azspot)

“You know you’ve made it as a communications medium when you...”
— Twitter Starts Blacklisting...

“Google wants to usher in the world of wireless broadband so...”
— Why Google Invested in...

“Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told the press in Tokyo...”
— Microsoft’s Corporate...

“In fact, if pressed for time, only 10 percent would stop to...”
— The Good Samaritan Experiment...

Super Powers

lovepuppy: Flight or Invisibility? What do you choose? EDIT: After you choose, listen to this.

Alia Shawkat/Maeby Bluth confirms that...

Or maybe I'm just extra surly today.

alexbalk: One of my oldest friends has an inexplicable aversion to people who peer down the subway...

Interview with Neil Young on Music Piracy,...

“Have the courage to fail big and stick around. Make them...”
— Elizabethtown (via marypark)

“A good rule of thumb is if you’ve made it to thirty-five and...”
— Dennis Miller (via...

“I wouldn’t call what they do as writing,” Brackett said....”
— Music blogs: The new wall of...

Adobe Submits the DNG Raw File Format to the...

“Here’s the latest Yahoo rumor that we’re chasing: The Yahoo...”
— Is Yang Still In Control At...

“Tokyo - As Hu Jintao begins only the second visit ever to...”
— Chinese President Hu’s...

“With Microsoft walking away from the Yahoo deal, there’s...”
— Could AOL Be Next on...

Chris Rock on Politics

peterwknox: On John McCain: “We don’t need a president with a bucket list. Who’s going to be his...

Sunburn and Selfhood

mills: When I spend hours outdoors with my dogs, they occasionally regress to their days as strays...

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass...”
— Zen Proverb (via...

Guilty

rockuboff: Sometimes I click on someone’s blog because they look hot in their avatar.

foodinmouth: If you are shooting a movie about your mom, which hollywood actress would you cast to...

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If...”
— Hobbes, Calvin and Hobbes (via...

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a...”
— Gloria Steinem (via...

“Beck is not human, he is a highly intelligent alien from a...”
— Beck – Last.fm (via...

“Petite Capucine has captured my heart and will own it...”
— A moving comment on “Too much...

“Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. to work on search safety Internet...”
— Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. to...

“Main Street Clinton “There is a big difference between...”
— ABC News: Clinton in a...

“Chinese President Hu Jintao’s high-profile visit to...”
— China Tries Smile Diplomacy...

“Not content to leave Tom Cruise alone in a self promotional...”
— Defending America’s Foreign...

“serious trip planning”
— am.

“Kiyomi “A Part of Me (EP)” Kiyomi can be...”
— M3 Radio - New Independent...

“MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — Hillary Clinton brought her...”
— Clinton: People ‘live in...

Preparation...

lfarm: Aaron: How close is your place to Central Park? I’ll try and find your building tonight and...

What are pork rinds anyway?

fatmanatee: I had never seen one in person. All I have known it as is a joke about slobs who just...

Found this today in GLAMOUR and love...

heidelweiss: 10 Commandements for Total Happiness: 1. Act Your Shoe Size. Whatever it was you...

“Strangely enough, rubbing each other the wrong way might be...”
— TheStar.com | living | Secret...

generation "?"

jackieheartsb: as i was driving on I-66 yesterday into northern virginia, a thought hit me out of...

“I use the library like a pirate uses a bar wench after six...”
— Carolyn, who now has 136 books...