Fighting in a cage, messaging in a parlor and a dog in a park
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Monthly Archives: March 2006
New Download
Ron Sexsmith “All In Good Time” [MP3]
Random Bits
Metro-technical
n. Someone who’s willing to try ANY piece of software or hardware for at least a week until the shine wears off and they go sniffing for the next buzz. The metro-technical is to the far left of the tech scale, equidistant from the suspender-wearing sys admin and the nervous iPod upgrader. (Mule Design Studio’s Blog)
What If?
Zenu Is My Homeboy
Neurologism
a word created by prefixing “neuro” to almost any normal word [via Mind Hacks]
Honey, Did We Like That Movie?
Freelance
Muzak
Shaving Technology
Gymnastics, petitioning and meat packing
Robots Part Deux
Career Alert
Toys
Robo Teen
“Maybe I was the only one that saw Small Wonder and decided to get a PhD” – Daniel H. Wilson (“How to Survive a Robot Uprising” Reading | Google Video)
A holy face cloth, Sunday moose killing and death by piercing
German Word of the Day
Geisterfahrer: A person driving on the wrong side of the road. Literal translation: Ghost Driver.
Streaming
Quote
“Jon Stewart did a capable job, but I didn’t feel like he was embracing the movie business. Jon doesn’t have the basic understanding of show business that Johnny Carson had. Jon’s fresh and irreverent, but I don’t think it worked.” – Tim Allen Reviews Jon Stewart | Defamer
Fold This!
“We are thoroughly surprised at how accurately Microsoft and Intel have targeted a segment of the computing market completely barren of potential customers.” – Origami: Buzz Killer? | Gizmodo
Criticism
Stopped Holding My Breath
From William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers: We do not plan to publish FREAKONOMICS in paperback until September 2007.
Twin tower controversy in Halifax, two moose deaths in New Brunswick and heavy helmets
The State of Real Estate
“Thanks to various market pressures and especially some recent online innovations, the real-estate agent seems poised to join a list of endangered service-worker species that includes stockbrokers and travel agents.” Endangered Species by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | NY Times