July 2008
“Virgin sales staff have revealed that customers can get the 8GB device for free...”
– Virgin to carry the iPhone > News > PC Authority
“nicepersonality @MarsPhoenix On Mars, the Fail Whale weighs less, but the lower...”
– Twitter
“Writing a song about self love isn’t as easy as it sounds, I imagine. How do you...”
– Top Nine Songs About Masturbation | The Frisky
“A TERRITORY man filmed himself speeding at 150km/h while masturbating at the...”
– Driver abuses speed limit and himself | NEWS.com.au
“Finally, then, I conclude that “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” is a...”
– myliblog: Uncle Bobby’s Wedding
“In a religious movement called Pray at the Pump, some drivers who didn’t...”
– ‘Pray At The Pump’ Congregants Give Thanks : NPR
“After a closer examination of the Antikythera Mechanism, a surviving marvel of...”
– Workings of Ancient ‘Computer’ Deciphered - NYTimes.com
“Reading through the site, I discovered that there is a whole world of esoteric...”
– How Hard Could It Be?: Good System, Bad System - Starbucks - company culture
“Participants drive up to the drive-through window at a fast-food restaurant and...”
– Teen prank known as ‘fire in the hole’ - On Deadline - USATODAY.com
“What’s the meaning of the number of feet the horse has off the ground in...”
– The Straight Dope: In statues, does the number of feet the horse has off the ground indicate the fate of the rider?
Orson Scott Card on Gay Marriage
No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman. This is a permanent fact of nature. Mormon Times - State job is not to redefine...
“The Lanterne Rouge is the competitor in last place in a cycling race such as the...”
– Wim Vansevenant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
i thikn on saturday i shall pay one last trip to starbucks and buy one of their shitty mugs, just for the irony
“NTERNATIONAL coffee chain Starbucks will close 61 Australian stores within days,...”
– Starbucks finally puts a lid on it | Business | News.com.au
“Federal Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson says he will urge the party room to...”
– Nelson pushes for ‘conditional’ emissions scheme - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
“MarketWeek reports that Urban Concepts, a group of “anti-knife”...”
– Facebook Criticized For Violent “Game”
“Capacity on X Series plans (designed for on-phone use with the option of using...”
– 3 increases allowances on wireless broadband plans | Lifehacker Australia
“In twenty years from now,
Maybe well both sit down and have a few beers,
And I...”
– Still Fighting It by Ben Folds
“Mormons counter that the dead are only offered the option of baptism, and are...”
– The Genealogical Revolution Will Be Digitized | MetaFilter
WatchShuttle Launch, Seen from an Air Canada flight
“The 18-year-old is accused of stealing at least three Miami-Dade Transist buses,...”
– Man stole buses, drove them on routes, returned them at night - Boing Boing
“On Sunday, we saw a large number of servers that were spending almost all of...”
– AWS Service Health Dashboard - Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008
“OK. The problem is Time Zones that go in a half hour increment from GMT....”
– Apple - Support - Discussions - [iPhone Beta 6] Problem with Interface …
“We’ve outgrown The X-Files. All of us. That includes the cast. David Duchovny...”
– Rant: 5 Reasons No One Cares About The New X-Files Movie
“We are definitely going to do Cha-Ching for iPhone. Juan and I are both iPhone...”
– Cha-Ching for iPhone? - Midnight Apps Community
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moved to plurk http://www.plurk.com/user/oliyoung
“Clearleft will donate 10% of all profits from Silverback to saving the gorillas.”
– Silverback — guerrilla usability testing
“Maybe if he had knuckled down and done some work instead of always writing up a...”
– Union says boss told apprentice “get haircut, no tomatoes, you’re a fag”| The Daily Telegraph
“I would never do this often, or for long periods, or without proper compensation...”
– Lucky to be a Programmer : Gustavo Duarte
“For all of the fan hullabaloo around its plotline, “The X-Files: I Want to...”
– The X-Files: I Want to Believe Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes