Squandering bits since 2003

“I don’t know about you, but to me the scarf aesthetically is not worth $300. I mean, come on, for $200 more I could get an iPad.”

– Google Is Now Selling Signature $300 Designer Scarves

“Google Guys:
You know you have a lot to offer, but the Silicon Valley social scene is just not working for you. Well, you’re in luck, because we’ve built a dating community just for you. Here you’ll find women looking for Googlers, women who value brains and accomplishment, and they’re here in a high female/male ratio.”

– Date A Googler(TM) Beta

Emily the Strange Comics labels on a Jones Soda Limited Jones: myJones: Customize and personalize your Jones Soda for weddings, graduations, parties, events, birthdays. Party ideas. Make it memorable, make it myjones

“It’s not generally realized that geeks (male and female) are the best catches. Americans focus on the glamour of the good-looking, the male jock and the statuesque female, and tend to make fun of second banana characters like Urkel. Yet, geeks (a.k.a. nerds, etc.) provide the opportunity to have much longer, more stable, and happy relationships.”

– Geek 2 Geek – Why Geeks Make the Best Lovers

“All hybrids are not created equal. Going from a conventional Toyota Matrix to a Prius reduces global warming emissions a whopping 44 percent. That’s like trading in a Hummer H3 for a Mini Cooper. By contrast, going from a Saturn Aura to an Aura Hybrid only reduces emissions 10 percent, the equivalent of trading in the Hummer H3 for a 3.7-liter Jeep Grand Cherokee.”

– Hybrid Scorecard — Findings: Advice for Consumers, Lessons for Automakers

““Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.” — Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey”

– Slaughterhouse 90210 – “Now he discovered that secret from which one…

“At very least, add “do nothing” and “go insane” as choices.”

– There are always more than two options | Derek Sivers

“without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link”

– Letters of Note: You’re an idiot of the 33rd degree

“Estamos HARTOS del anti-arte. Partiendo de una idea jocosa de Duchamp en determinado momento histórico, el anti-arte ha llegado a ser el nuevo academicismo, el nuevo arte oficial. Justo el enemigo contra el que se acuñó el término. El propio Duchamp rechazaba que sus Ready-Made se tomasen como arte… nosotros preferimos creer a Duchamp que a sus exégetas.”

– Manifiesto Hartista

“All those moments will be lost in time; like tears in rain. Time to die.”

– Blade Runner – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“Creditors are checking out what you post to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. They’re checking out who your friends are and who the people are in your networks”

– Creditworthy? Lenders delve into your social networks – wtop.com

Internet 2009 in numbers | Royal Pingdom

“Re-use of server heat: A portion of the excess heat created by the computer servers will be captured and used to heat office space in the facility during the colder months.”

– Facebook | Breaking Ground on Our First Custom Data Center

Diesel Be Stupid

“1.) you send an old sweater to my mom
2.) she unravels & reknits it into something new.
3.) a brand new, hand-made, one of a kind item is sent back to you.”

– Reknit – January: Sweater = Scarf

Redesigning the Boarding Pass – Journal – Boarding Pass / Fail

“Chore Wars lets you claim experience points for household chores. By getting other people in your house or workplace to sign up to the site, you can assign experience point rewards to individual tasks and chores, and see how quickly each of you levels up.”

– Chore Wars :: Help

“The Illegal Flower Tribute just might be the perfect framework through which to view the whole sorry episode. The battle lines can fairly be described as those who believe in the need for vigilant regulation of floral tributes versus those who do not.”

– China and Google: “Illegal Flower Tribute”: Letter from China : The New Yorker

volcano, “Breaking Point”, made out of tile grout, cotton, phosphorous ink. this model volcano was illuminated from within by 6-60 watt light bulbs. (via Strange Worlds :: Photography Served

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““When you make a decision to be with a person in cyberspace you are making a commitment to their network of friends and acquaintances,” said Liz Perle, a co-founder of Common Sense Media, a nonprofit watchdog group that studies families and media. “People have so many online strings that bind them that cutting one does not sever the relationship. There are always more.””

– Breaking Up in a Digital Fishbowl – NYTimes.com

“Since her prior experience includes putting positive spin on Sarah Palin and convincing New York that Mayor Bloomberg’s third term was not the beginning of autocracy, repping Google should be a walk in the park for Jill”

– Lady Who Oversaw McCain’s Fall from Grace Now Represents Google – Google – Gawker

“Retroviruses make up about 8 percent of the human genome. When these viruses insert into the genome, the result is usually bad for the host. But not always: Some retrovirus proteins can help fight off infection with other retroviruses. And at least twice in primate evolution retrovirus insertions have added genes to the host genome that aid in making the placenta.”

– Human Genome Is Part Bornavirus | Wired Science | Wired.com

“A case of serious suicidal attempt in a stroke patient by piercing a chopstick through the nostril, resulting in cerebral injury, is reported. The choice of the chopstick as a suicide tool is discussed in a clinical and cultural perspective. The potential of using chopsticks as an offensive weapon in suicidal patients is emphasised.”

– Chopsticks and suicide. [Singapore Med J. 1995] – PubMed result

“One may be strong intellectually and socially idiotic, as distinctly represented by this head and face.” (via Hilobrow | Middlebrow is not the solution

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“4.0-4.9 Light Noticeable shaking of indoor items, rattling noises. Significant damage unlikely.”

– Richter magnitude scale – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia