An instructables how to gives some fun hints about how to avoid eating insects and insect byproducts. The article uses simple candies to illustrate how insects are commonly disguised in the ingredients listing. This probably won’t effect which foods I choose to eat but it’s nice to know. An added bonus would be to freak [...]
At 8:15 tomorrow morning my summer will officially be over. My last days of freedom have been spent reading russian literature and Philip K. Dick. If you care, I have started a personal journal over at vox. It also has my current reading and listening habits on it. Technorati Tags: school
I seem to be in a headline-capping mood today… On Technorati, there is this headline stating, “Pluto demoted: BLOGOSPHERE AGHAST“. Quite funny, and spot on. I never realized Technorati had the ability to make emergency headlines but this feature is actually quite nifty. Technorati Tags: blogosphere, headline, pluto, technorati
I don’t get some journalists. I realize that it might be every journalists dream have their story read and passed around but some take it to pretty extreme ends. This morning, for example, I woke up to a headline that read “Hezbollah sinks Australian warship“. From the sound of it, I figured something horrible had happened [...]
I realized today that external weblog editors need a unified bookmarklet. What I mean by this is that there should be one link that will send a post title and permalink to your favorite blog editor, similar to the del.icio.us bookmarklets people have on their blogs. Ecto already has this but not everybody uses ecto. I [...]
I was reading my daily dose of RSS today when I stumbled upon an article with little social bookmarking links at the bottom of it. This, in itself, is nothing special since a lot of blogs have the small bookmarklets to various social bookmarking sites on their blog… even I do. However, I felt that [...]
In a stroke of satirical genius, somebody has suggested making t-shirts that say things like “Declare Jihad on Illiteracy” or “I Love America” in arabic. Technorati Tags: america, funny, iloveamerica, patriot, usa