do you have to pay to read any articles on the wsj online?
on a more pressing topic, two of my home movies DVDs got damaged on the way here. eep! any thoughts on how i can get more? pirate bay doesn't seem to cut it this time.
The Wall Street Journal cares about Ecodesigned products . . . as long as it looks pretty.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114436380231519372.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
well, teh 'mode doesn't appear to want me to upload pictures, but i'll tell you about this anyway...
yesterday I went to the museum, and I found this collection of bones with strange carvings kind of haphazardly placed all over them...apparently they were used by metal workers (this is around 400 BC, i think) to sketch out their ideas before trying them out on swords and stuff.
i thought of all of you designers and your endless thumbnail sketches. it was cool, because right next to them they had some finished products that were very similar to the sketches! old skool design process!
GameSetWatch has been awesome recently...
article about teh funny in games.
ALSO
crazy ass apartments.
hey, yeah, um, shouldn't my dot on the party mode locator show me about 200 yards south of partymode central? just thinkin...
PS: also, i am super excited that i have my own little dot on the partymod locator. i feel so welcome. thanks guys.
hey jon (and others)! Ok so this is really old news but our H.S. was mentioned in TIME magazine last march in an article about evils of Facebook. The principle (not Dr. Marco, guess the old guy finally retired, it is now Dr. Goodwin) says, ever so eloquently, that Facebook is "a huge distraction." Gosh doesn't that make you so proud of our alma mater? Back in our day it was "chat rooms" which caused the youngins to procrastinate instead of concentrating on shit load of homework which made you feel like smashing your head against the wall. *sigh* There are some things you can always count on, and dumbass excuses for reasons why american kids are not at the top of the intelligence scale against the world, is one of them.
And i will not be so corny post pink floyd lyrics, but please feel free to start humming The Wall in your head, cuz i know i am.
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1174704,00.html
From Onny's article on the linguistic road trip:
Julie Schoonover, the barkeeper from Corning, had described the dialect of the Steel City (a k a Pixburgh) more succinctly: "If you want to hear some freaky talk, go to Pittsburgh," she told me. "It's all 'yinz goin' dahntahn' down there."
I like how he got pulled over for driving in the bus lane downtown.
Good find!
Yann, that totally sounds like next summer's Hollywood adventure blockbuster. "*Timpani hit* Two teams of scientists. *Timpani hit* One common ancestor. *Timpani hit* In a race against time, these super-geniuses will track down... THE ONE-LEGGED FISH OF DESTINY.
*screechy violins fade in from silence*
BUT WILL THEY SURVIVE THE WRATH OF INTELLIGENT DESIGNERS EVERYWHERE?"
re: the new crazy fossil they discovered in northern Canada...
this is the funniest part of the article in the times:
The writers, Erik Ahlberg of Uppsala University in Sweden and Jennifer A. Clack of the University of Cambridge in England, are often viewed as rivals to Dr. Shubin's team in the search for intermediate species in the evolution from fish to the first animals to colonize land.