April 2009
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“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is...”
– Today I came to adore Henry Louis Mencken. He called the American middle class the Booboisie. And he just keeps popping up today.
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HAH, I should write romance novels
Guy: (on phone) Hey, do you want to do something tonight?
Girl: It depends. What did you have in mind?
Guy: You.
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WatchTrailer for an upcoming independent Sci-Fi film entitled Moon.
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davidkaneda:
Has anyone gotten a Default.png file to work on a full screen iPhone web app (either 2.2 or [REDACTED])? Was secretly hoping it’s possible.
As far as I can tell, that’s not doable. Sites running in the fauxapp mode from the home screen default to a screenshot of the last position the user visited prior to adding the icon to the springboard. In a way, this is kind of like the...
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Some Words on Commenting
dailymeh:
So you have a blog. You want people to be able to publically react to what you write. You want debate, or at the very least feedback. What are you going to do? If I were in a pompous mood, I’d call it the Commenting Problem… (Post clipped to conserve space. I suggest reading the whole entry on Simen’s site)
Why not have your like/vapid reblog cake and eat it too? I just...
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reinventing the brand (and other April Foolery)
thesixtyone:
it’s pretty simple. we’re tired of people forgetting our name, so we’ve chosen a new one: thesixtynine. it’s catchy, screams “7 deadly sins” (hello max levchin), and, face it, it’s way more memorable than the lowly, often-overlooked “61.” who the heck is bob dylan, anyway?
more importantly, the switch has put us at the top of the heap as far as search engines are concerned. ...