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This Peterstein guy is brilliant, whoever he is. And what a devilishly handsome mustache.
(Source: timhackbarth)
“The Known Universe” — Takes you from the surface of the Earth to 13.7 billion light years away seeing everything from the Milky Way Galaxy to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Pretty amazing.
Watching Garbage Warrior really makes me want to live in an Earthship someday. On another note — here is the breakdown on what the US uses for our electrical infrastructure (2007 numbers).
If you are at all a fan of American-Chinese food, you should probably watch this. Very interesting TED talk.
A few choice tidbits:
- There are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, Wendys, and KFCs combined.
- Fortune cookies originated in Japan but were made famous by the Chinese because we locked up Japanese immigrants during World War II
- Chop Suey translates to Odds and Ends
- Broccoli is not a Chinese vegetable
Pretty cool idea, a website where you can view the political contributions of companies and which side of the political spectrum they tend to lean.
And yes, as you can see, Apple is more Democratic than Microsoft.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
Loving my new bike. This pretty much finishes up my transition to the good life of being free of expensive-non-exercise-enducing-earth-destroying automobiles.
(Excuse image quality, taken with iPhone)
Hilarious. Some choice quotes:
On Chrome OS initially targeting netbooks: “Frankly, if the entire netbook market caught fire, I wouldn’t piss on it to put it out. But that’s just me”
On competing directly with Microsoft: “…take it from someone who has spent the past 10 years selling a superior operating system and getting only 4 percent market share — as obsessions go, battling the Borg is waaay overrated”
On Google creating another product: “What the fuck is going on inside Google? How much more out of control and undisciplined can this place get? How many new goddamn operating systems are they going to create? […] Honestly, Google, is there anyone in charge over there? Is there anyone who knows how to criticize anything in that fucked up little Montessori preschool of yours?”
We’ve been making amends with a lot of the members and having some really good talks with them. And we’ve been trying to get our financial business in order because a lot of people have been ripping off that band really badly…as far as the business side goes. I wouldn’t mind it. You know, it might happen. We just have to iron out a lot of personal things. A lot of it we’ve dealt with already and I’ve apologized for a lot of things I’ve said and the way it ended…we’ll see what happens.
The Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala, teasing us all with the possibility of an At the Drive-In reunion (Drowned in Sound via Rolling Stone)
Oh my god!
Some guy found the phone numbers for the company doing the “Your car warranty is about to expire” calls. I’m not sure if any of you get these calls, but I get many every single week and know a lot of other people who do too. If you feel the need to return justice…
800-499-5711
I plan on harassing them all day. The reddit comments also detail how to get to the different employee’s voicemails and such.
I know this doesn’t actually make the situation any better but dammit I feel so much better.
