December 2008
28 posts
November 2008
25 posts
The Quiz - Hello Saferide
uShip is Bringing the Cute
Zoey my ChiPin Puppy
Disabled cat needs ride to new adoptive home! →
Super cute.
This is going to be a great week.
Just one of the reasons:
Tender care sends butterfly trucking →
A monarch butterfly has a chance at completing its species’ famed migration to central Mexico thanks to some tiny cardboard splints, a bit of contact cement and a trucker from Alabama.
streeter:
Dear Taxpayers, Since the government-approved $700 billion bailout of institutions like the one that employs me as CEO, there has been a debate about whether such institutions can be trusted to use this capital in a responsible way. More specifically, some members of Congress are calling for an investigation into what portion of that $700 billion will go to pay executive bonuses. I...
“I dreamed you were a cosmonaut
Of the space between our chairs
And I was a...”
– Andrew Bird (via apatonerd) (via capucha)
The End of Wall Street's Boom →
Their first stop was a speech given by the C.E.O. of Option One, the mortgage originator owned by H&R Block. When the guy got to the part of his speech about Option One’s subprime-loan portfolio, he claimed to be expecting a modest default rate of 5 percent. Eisman raised his hand. Moses and Daniel sank into their chairs. “It wasn’t a Q&A,” says Moses. “The guy was giving a speech. He...
Watchcakeface:
Tilly & the Wall on SESAME STREET on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
from http://blog.mcjawn.com/2008/11/tilly-wall-on-sesame-st.html
Three Days Later
And I’m finally recovered from my excursion to Las Vegas. And I’m getting cupcakes tomorrow. I love being back in this city.
Sizing Up The Long Tail of Search →
In fact, the top terms don’t account for much traffic:
• Top 100 terms: 5.7% of the all search traffic • Top 500 terms: 8.9% of the all search traffic • Top 1,000 terms: 10.6% of the all search traffic • Top 10,000 terms: 18.5% of the all search traffic
In which my friends give me dating advice
Dustin: (Link to a tumblr post)
Caitlin: havent you showed me hers before?
Caitlin: ask her out.
Caitlin: do it.
Caitlin: do it.
Caitlin: now.
Caitlin: she has a tumblr! and is nothipster hipster
Truck Firm Bid Wins To Name Plant →
T. Wayne Hill Trucking Inc., of Bartow, is the winning bidder in the eBay auction to name Webber International University’s soon-to-be-completed sewage treatment plant. For its top bid of $6,100, the company will name the plant the T. Wayne Hill Trucking Inc. “Bio-Solids Management” Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The thing about letters
rach:
I stole a friend’s New Yorker this weekend (or he came to my door, bearing a pound of saltwater taffy and a refrigerator magnet emblazoned with my name and a Cape Cod scene; gifts out of a 1940s photobooth stuffed with buttered popcorn and sticky treacle—and the magazine he left behind was a bonus round) and found my eyes glued to Dan Chiasson’s gorgeous piece about the long and tumultuous...
Making Sure the Shoe Fits at Zappos.com →
Mr. Hsieh said he learned that lesson at LinkExchange, an advertising network he co-founded and sold to Microsoft for $265 million in 1998. The company was fun when it was just 10 people, he said. By the time it reached 100, “it was a place I personally didn’t want to go to work at anymore, and that was a weird feeling because this was a company I had co-founded. At Zappos, I didn’t want to make...
Facebook Status Updates as Journal
Looking through my activity feed on facebook today, I noticed something had changed recently that I’ve been hoping for: facebook now shows you status updates all the way back to September of 2006.
Going through these is exactly like reading an old journal. It’s both frightening and a little comforting how much of my life is chronicled on that site.