March 2007
36 posts
“I give you the buddy jesus and you give me the finger?”
– some dude at a bar
Slacker is the shit →
SLACKER Debuts: Customizable Online Radio Station...
Very high quality - very easy to use - thousands of artists (via News dugg by indiekid)
Cancer cured! yet no one paid attention...
Amazing what we don’t here about because a huge pharmaceutical name isn’t on it. (via News dugg by indiekid)
New Halo Wars picture and lead designer details
“Known more readily as just ‘Hawk’ the Sparrowhawk is a formidable air to ground armor busting support aerodyne. The Hawk is still being assessed by command before full production starts while engineers are still working on an experimental propulsion system that has led to failures in the field making the future of this vehicle uncertain.” (via News dugg by indiekid)
NEW Spider-Man 3 Photo: Spidey vs. Venom!!
The first solid proof of a Spider-Man / Venom confrontation. (via News dugg by indiekid)
Bush wanted to fire all 93 federal prosecutors
They’re calling the firing of the 8 prosecutors unprecedented, but imagine if the White House had gotten its original wish. (via News dugg by indiekid)
9/11, Iraq: Cheney again claims tie
Vice President Dick Cheney, lashing out at Democrats for the first time since the felony conviction of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, his former top deputy, resumed his controversial claims Monday that the war in Iraq is the central front in the worldwide U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks. (via News dugg by indiekid)
Evangelical Christians attack use of torture by US
The uncoupling of American evangelism from the administration of George Bush gathered pace yesterday when one of the largest national umbrella groups of socially conservative Christians issued a statement critical of US policy towards detainees and repudiating torture as a tactic in the war on terror. (via News dugg by indiekid)
The New Captain America?
[WARNING: possible spoilers] Without preamble, Marvel has posted the following cover on its website with the question: “Is this the new Captain America?” (via News dugg by indiekid)
"Transformers" movie was initially rated R,...
Shia LaBeouf, who stars in Michael Bay’s upcoming Transformers movie, told SCI FI Wire that executive producer Steven Spielberg had to appeal a decision by the Motion Picture Association of America to give the film a dreaded R rating. “Spielberg fought back and got the PG-13,” LaBeouf said in an interview. (via News dugg by indiekid)
PICTURE: The Unabomber's Handmade Pistol
Looks like somthing the steampunk Han Solo would use. (via News dugg by indiekid)
What’s the Difference between Shia vs. Sunni
A quick overview of some of the differences between Shias and Sunnis as well as a map showing their respective territories. Really interesting overview for those of us who are less-politically savvy. (via News dugg by indiekid)
How Liquid Body Armor Works
The basic idea behind body armor hasn’t changed very much in the past few thousand years. First, armor stops weapons or projectiles from reaching a person’s body. Second, it diffuses the weapon’s energy so that the final impact causes less damage. (via News dugg by indiekid)
Trick Out Your Faucet for 20 Bucks With This...
For just $19.99, you get a LED faucet light that streams blue water normally, but turns red as soon as it hits 89 degrees. Gimmicky, sure, but at that price how could you say no? (via News dugg by indiekid)
OpenID: Too many providers, not enough consumers
There have been a spate of announcements recently with a number of companies both large and small announcing that their products will ’support’ OpenID. Each of these announcements was met with a rousing standing ovation by the bloggers over at Techmeme. First Microsoft (with Hypercard), then AOL, Digg, Wordpress, SmugMug and many more. (via News dugg by indiekid)
The Top 10 Worst Game Covers of all Time
As the old adage goes, “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” But video games aren’t books, because books are printed on paper and video games are spawned from magical fairy polygons which are carefully arranged onto hand-woven compact discs by men with long hair and spectacles. These are some of the worst game covers of all time. (via News dugg by indiekid)
The Top Ten Most Practical Superpowers
So you think having superpowers would rock balls, huh? Okay, lets give some of the most popular ones a little reality treatment and see how they stack up in everyday life. (via News dugg by indiekid)
Oops! Huge Distant Galaxy Actually Small and Close
Astronomers are rubbing their eyes after discovering that a galaxy assumed to have been a giant for the past 23 years is in fact a dwarf, according to new observations. (via News dugg by indiekid)
Think you write efficient JS? How about a...
A pretty cool example of efficient code, showing what’s possible with just 256 bytes. Consider the following for an idea of scale:1) Many Digg story descriptions (this one included) and user comments are longer than the code used for the effect.2) It’s unlikely that this page can be Dugg out of service, or will suffer a large bandwidth bill. ;) (via News dugg by indiekid)
Free Software Foundation to Jobs: Be First to Drop...
The Free Software Foundation petitions Apple to sell non-DRM products in the iTunes Music Store. CEO Steve Jobs called to be the first to set the “ethical example”. (via News dugg by indiekid)
2007 Paley Festival Recap: HEROES (a very detailed...
theTVaddict.com give a very detailed account from last night’s HEROES panel at the Paley Festival. Needless to say, the panel was awesome, Greg Grunberg is the funniest man alive, and I can’t wait for the show to retur (via News dugg by indiekid)
Branding
Currently I’m trying to integrate all of my social sites to reflect a similar design. My blog, twitter and tumblr are the first to get the makeover…
Twitterish
I think i’m going to stop importing my twitter feeds into my tumblr. This basically means you’ll need to go to twitter.com/indiekid to get my twitter updates.
Matt: playing with my twitter settings (via Twitter / Matt)
Matt: woooork. fuck yes it’s friday (via Twitter / Matt)
Matt: getting through everything (via Twitter / Matt)
Matt: Listening to The Graduate (via Twitter / Matt)
Matt: Taking Back Sunday… (via Twitter / Matt)
http://www.gigoit.com →
Matt: gigoit.com - do it (via Twitter / Matt)
One man's junk, is YOUR (free) treasure
Gigoit is a completely free resource for people to give their unwanted but usable items to neighbors in their communities who can use them. It’s a win-win situation! (via News dugg by indiekid)
Matt: eric got me onto tumblr.com - check it out (via Twitter / Matt)
I think I like it
Right, so Eric Rice has gotten me into tumblr…it’s ridiculously easy, so I think so that it keeps me blogging, I’m going to stick with it…
It’s funny how I used to be all about power tools, but now I’m sticking with the simple shit…
“haha i think i’ve killed your productivity yet again”
– Eric Rice