January 2009
20 posts
Cool Tools: Wobble Wedge →
Unsatisfied with wobbly coffee shop tables?
Bring your own shims!
(Duh!)
Does any other Japanese-reading-type-person see “hi” (ヒ) instead of a “t” every time you look at the twitter logo?
Olde English Comedy » I Hate Nature →
Hello Everybody →
Four years ago this site was very cathartic. I made a mosaic of the images of people saying sorry. There aren’t enough “Hello everybody” images yet, so let’s get cracking on that.
A great sousveillance idea
(From BoingBoing, http: //www.boingboing.net/2009/01/06/citizen-videos-sprea.html#comments)
#89 posted by zikzak , January 7, 2009 8: 05 AM Sure Tom, if you want to use your camera for other things as well, that's allowed. In fact, I find carrying a video recorder is useful in all kinds of ways. Rather than a shitty cellphone camera or an expensive DV cam, I use a hacked disposable digital camcorder: http://www.maushammer.com/systems/cvscamcorder/ That way if it gets lost or destroyed it's no big deal. In fact, if I end up shooting something important, I can pass the camera off to someone else without a second thought to avoid having it seized. Another interesting tactic is to put postage and your address on the camera, so that you can either drop it in a mailbox immediately (where it's safe from the cops), or slip it to another bystander and say "mail this".
“Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?”
– Opening line of Henry Carey’s farce Chrononhotonthologos (1743)
Nature methods - Method of the year 2008 is... →
“A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to...”
– Peter Medawar, Memoirs of a Thinking Radish
"New" day
From Overcoming Bias’s Eliezer, a suggestion to have a “New Day”: all day long, you must not do things you’ve done before. Go to a new restaurant, play a new game, watch a new movie, take a walk in a new part of town, etc.
