January 2012
December 2011
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“The dude should be rock-climbing radiators as this point.”
– My worsening hearing
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“You know how when you eat poison the body’s natural reaction is to throw...”
– Megan on cilantro
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“Mario, his most famous creation, owes his appearance to the technological...”
– Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s man behind Mario
“If an idea comes in a flash and Tezuka makes a new character, he will always see...”
– Stars of Famicom Games: How Video Games are Made
Interesting that Nintendo’s ideal state for their art was the television. This makes sense of course, but it’s much different from the fetishized pixel-perfection we now associate with classic games, something that probably came from...
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“History recognizes two great eras of brotherhood: war-time sailoring and...”
– David Cole is selling tattoos
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WatchI know it sucks when we have scheduled maintenance, but this was pretty cool.
Top Gear:
Benz’s lifelong determination to think of new stuff before the others means the SL is the only car in its class to feature FrontBass (which uses the aluminium structure as a bass woofer). And there’s more ‘magic’ involved in ‘MVC’, or Magic Vision Control, which is basically a very sophisticated wiper systems that delivers warm water when required directly to the wiper blade. There’s...
“We believe in publishing good ideas and polished prose. We edit everything. We...”
– The Bygone Bureau
Air France 447 Flight-Data Recorder Transcript -... →
At the same time both fascinating and terrifying.
smcdermott:
My alias when not using my real name is, “Tim Faketon”
Peter: derek
Peter: glad I sent that to the chat
Peter: that was supposed to go to google circles, I'm making a hit list
Adam: can you kill people through google now?
Adam: what will they come up with next‽
Evan: google minus one
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“is it true that there’s a 30 drink max per person?”
– Mackenzie
Peter V. : if you ever see a movie made before 1992 with a cat in it, that cat is now most likely dead.
