April 2009
17 posts
“I personally hold the view that there are beings on other planets, but I believe...”
– Billy Graham
Stocking your kitchen with cheap herbs and spices →
Aleta Meadowlark of food blog Omnomicon gets ultimate bonus points. She doesn’t just explain how she keeps the top 20 herbs and spices on hand for way less than grocery store cost; she includes pictures and SPREADSHEETS!
She put a lot of hard work into this post so all our food can taste better. I’m taking my yuppie self over to IKEA to get a dozen new spice jars.
Dual tech... Bleccchhhh!
Don’t let anybody tell you that Anthony is stubborn. (Don’t let anybody tell you that Anthony is afraid of third person, either, apparently.)
In the early 2000s I hated the new trend of dual technology. Cramming two— sometimes more— devices into one. Ugh. I loathed it.
The functionality of both devices was sacrificed just so the new megadevice could claim more...
Web host The Planet under DDoS attack!
This is huge breaking news… and the story is already 28 hours old.
The Planet, which is the world’s largest host of dedicated web servers, has been undergoing a distributed denial of service attack that their employees claim is larger scale than anything they’ve ever experienced.
According to a January 27, 2009 Cisco company press release, The Planet is host to 25,000 customers...
Revisited: Ikea sad lamp commercial [video]
Directed by Spike Jonze. Effective use of satire on materialism to get people to buy more stuff.
As usual, funny Youtube comments ensue, from people all over the globe who can’t dissect context and layers and humor. Like this one:
“western societies will feel the burden of their reckless lifestyle soon”
Rally car driver rolls his car down a 500 foot... →
I love rally racing. I have a halfway rally car… it’s doesn’t have all wheel drive, but my next car will. This one is my tricycle until that point.
In this video driver Jari-Matti Latvala is racing in Portugal and goes slightly off road on the inside of a turn, up the side of a hill. His car rolls into the outside of the turn and over the guardrail. The car tumbles like a...
Choose Your Own Adventure meets Youtube
Last year Youtube started allowing deep links embedded in videos. A few people took advantage of the feature at the time, but the full potential is now being exploited, as seen in these two new videos:
“The Murder” by Chad, Matt & Rob is a truly interactive adventure. Three guys trying to film a schlocky superhero indie film get caught up in a real murder. Comics are my...
Revisited: Guinness "Dreamer" Commercial [video]
Directed by Jonathan Glazer (same guy who made “Virtual Insanity” video for Jamiroquai and “Rabbit in Your Headlights” for UNKLE)
