June 2008
Stop focusing on what you suck at →
This video made me feel a bit better about how unproductive today turned out. Thanks, Gary.
WatchThe dangers of smoking pot.
The Future of Digital Sensors - TWIP →
“A face without freckles is like a sky without stars.”
– (via vivia)
Freckles. One of my many weaknesses.
Adventures in Stock Photography →
The Website Is Down →
Anyone who has ever done tech support will understand how awesome this is.
CNN Shirts Beta →
Get a tshirt with a headline from cnn printed on it. Web 2.0 at its finest, and only $15.
WatchBig Ideas (don’t get any)
Radiohead played on hard drives, scanners, and things.
Things that make Men proud of themselves
testumblrone:
There are a lot of things that us men do that are just plain awesome. We are without doubt cool as fuck, and it’s things like these that reinforce this in our own heads.
HAVING A THIN BIT OF WOOD - in the shed, solely to stir paint with. If you don’t have one of these, get one asap. And some paint to stir. The piece of wood must always have paint to about halfway up it from...
How I Paid Off $35,000 in Debt, and How You Can... →
Feels pretty good that I accidentally did all of these things, except instead of cutting up my cards I just put them in my lockbox.
Now on to my student loans…
Smugmug launches SmugVault →
SmugVault is a new SmugMug product that lets you upload all the RAW, PSD, BMP, and TIFF files you’d like. And not just those - we’ll accept XMP sidecars, PDF files, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, video archives, and anything else you might want to store with your photos. What’s more, we’ll bundle your files together for easy, intuitive browsing and safe retrieval.
Gates without Microsoft - FORTUNE Magazine... →
Man, I’m starting to feel older every day.
And that sentence is pretty dumb, but you know what I mean.
Seems alot of these fancy tumblr themes leave out the RSS link. Not cool guys, not cool.
StyleShake →
Design and wear your own fashions. From the fabric to the cuts. Its all you, baby.
There is new Girl Talk, and it is good.
Not only is it a great album, but you can choose how much to pay for it. $5 gets you flac, $10 gets you the physical album when it comes out, and you get 320 mp3 for any amount of money.
Good music, no one raided my wallet, and I didn’t have to do anything illegal. It doesn’t get much better than this.
Get it here: Linky
WatchThe Two-Act Merlin Mann does whos on first.. or tries.. really hard.. with a toddler.
Firefox 3 Downloaded Eight Million Times [Firefox... →
danny:
In a 24-hour period, you and your peers downloaded Firefox 3 more than 8 million times, which—though as yet unverified by Guinness—should be more than enough to secure the download…
20 Things I Learned Using Twitter →
Excellent article. All very true. Follow me! twitter.com/rjdlc
WatchTumblr, The Documentary by David Seger
Adam Carolla gets in Top Gear →
Dammit.
feedly: a more social and magazine-like start page →
A snazzy RSS-page launched today. Not like netvibes, more appealing to the eye, and more social. Thumbs up.
15 year old sounds like Johnny Cash →
Singing starts about halfway into the video. Its so good its creepy.
A revelation I just sent to a band on virb...
Usually, when I get a friend request on myspace or virb or whatever service from a band, I’m initially irritated. The band in question is not my friend, nor do they know me at all, its simply an advertising ploy in hopes that I’ll like what I hear. And to that tune, I like to try to give a listen to these people who want to be my friend. You’re offering me a veritable candybar...
Something else I've noticed since switching to...
When I was running windows, I could only keep a handful of applications open at once before I noticed a signifigant lag in performance. The few applications in my taskbar, firefox, and photoshop or whatever I was working on. But if I needed to do something else, it meant another app had to go. It wasn’t a matter of not having the hardware, it was just that if an app was running it seemed...