…by running the application “…they [Navizon] “reward” users for the number of sites they find or even just confirm.
- You get more points for being “first to locate” and less for confirming locations.
- Even in my area which has already been fairly well covered, I’ve collected over $20 worth of points in less than a [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
say what you will about Metallica today
27-Mar-08but… Master of Puppets, And Justice For All, Metallica (black album), and Ride the Lightning will forever be absolute works of musical genius.
my generation’s Classical Music.
as a metafilter subscriber, I found this particularly enlightening and theory validating — metafilterer’s IQ > youtuber’s. metafilter’s commentation is intellectually-substance rich, and each subsquent participant generally brings something new to the table. where as youtube represents the opposite, relying completely on the video to provide substance. the comments are really an [...]
Mountain Goats – Deianara Crush
24-Mar-08that mad egg shaker is my friend Deo, a good man with some seriously untapped talent, no!?
…thus concludes “naraku’s youtube music video day”.
this guy is talented as hell: great voice, great guitar, great beard. in many ways, it is better than the original.
- download an mp3 version here (credit goes to… uwaterloo.ca)
- and/or check out that fella’s band on myspace here
just two painstakingly long months to go til the June 24th release.
[the new film is the]…most tentacle-packed Futurama epic, space itself rips open, revealing a gateway to another universe. What lies beyond is a mix of horror and love as the Planet Express crew encounters a repulsive, planet-sized monster with romantic intentions.
The second feature-length [...]
as observed in this Hate Rises – washingtonpost article
(technically, RI also has “none”, but that ruins my title, and honestly how accurate can this really be?)
blackberry pearl II (8130) review
18-Mar-08in short: it is awesome, even without the BB data plan – sprint has been unable to add to my account for me.
(note: sprint CS on the whole, sucks ass. however, once in awhile you will get through to some great people; really depends on the time of day.)
I have a pre-existing [...]
…They [Researchers from several Japanese Universities] asked drivers to cruise steadily at 30 kilometres per hour, and at first the traffic moved freely. But small fluctuations soon appeared in distances between cars, breaking down the free flow, until finally a cluster of several vehicles was forced to stop completely for a moment.
That cluster spread backwards [...]
downtime blows
10-Mar-08thanks to some fairly major electrical issues over at my host, the day I had actually planned on posting a bunchastuff was lost (and no, I didn’t feel like posting in some lame-ol’ word processor to post later on…) so no kittykat posts yet, that little photogenic brat isn’t very inspiring to write about.
One [...]
TGIF: 22 uses for BEER
07-Mar-0821 great uses for beer (via wisebread) by naterawer
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4 day work weeks – sign me up
05-Mar-08the guys over at 37 signals experimented with the 4 day work week, 3 day weekend last summer and have since made it the standard. I think this snippet sums up the logistics of their thinking:
Three-day weekends mean people come back extra refreshed on Monday. Three-day weekends mean people come back happier on Monday. [...]
IE8 to play nice with web standards
04-Mar-08in a blog update by the Internet Explorer 8 dev team, it has been stated that the microsoft standards “set” in IE7 will be abandoned in favor of more widely outside-MS standards set by those at w3 and the webstandards group.
In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, [...]
(pick your poision)
further separating himself from the music industry, trent reznor has released his new album, Ghosts, as such: first 9 tracks (ghosts I) are free, all 36 (ghosts I-IV) for $5, 2xCD set for $10, $75 for a “deluxe edition,” and finally $300 for the supremo fan “ultra-deluxe ltd. edition.”
available now via:
the offical [...]
