July 2010
24 posts
popfop:
You Just Got Hitch Slapped!
I can only...
“Already someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most...”
– Paul Graham (via tumbledore) (via annicka)
I disagree with this Paul Gram stranger. What about my folks (for instance)? Calling them weird would be stretching the word to the point of meaninglessness, but both of them are solid champs. Whenever I hear people equate breaking convention with...
Next time you see a computer running IE6 throw... →
Excellent Interview with Andrew Potter about "The... →
Lots of good stuff! Some good nuggets:
According to the theory I offer in the book, the quest for the authentic is largely a reaction to four aspects of the modern world: secularism, liberalism, technology, and the market economy.
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We have a deep cultural aversion to buying things on the open market. We think we live in a consumer society, but we don’t. We live in an anti-consumer...
CEO = HOT JAMZ
annicka:
bnf:
I’m finding it super hard to find out if they’re touring any time soon. CEO brings up just about everything on Google. And a bunch of weird, local bands are called “CEO Band.”
the bro behind ceo, eric berglund, is on modular in the us so if he tours here the dates will be on there (and sincerely yours in sweden, which i think is their own label), but everything i’ve read...
WatchHear “The Angry Video Game Nerd” read “Worlds of Power: Mega Man 2” cover to cover
Note: This is a novelization of the game “Mega Man 2” for NES
Note: Chapter 1 includes the phrase “Mega Man would have blushed if his circuits were programmed for that activity”
The Filthy Critic Reviews "Sex in the City 2" →
My favorite boat scene here was when, in desperation, the girls catch and eat rats to stay alive. Nothing makes me happier than watching these four women on all fours, filthy and tired, grasping for rodents in the hay.
and:
I don’t want to spoil the movie for the big Sex and the City fans, but they die. They die gruesome, bloody deaths, one at a time. I won’t reveal the details,...
The Onion: Obama's Weekly Video Addresses Becoming... →
ProTip: Autocomplete Everything
Maybe everyone already knows this, but OSX has autocomplete built into (nearly) all Cocoa based applications, which, at this point is (nearly) all recent apps (with the big exception of Word).
Start typing a word and hit the esc, and you’ll be presented with a list of suggested words. Its like typing on iPhone. Especially for folks who spend a lot of time in the terminal / BASH land,...
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Links dying silently in a UIWebView
I just spent the last hour or so trying to figure out why clicking on a particular external link in HTML in a UIWebView wasn’t causing the link to load. Watching for calls on
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType;
made the link look totally normal, so I really couldn’t figure it...
