If you're an archeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a skull but just an old dried-out potato.
-Deep Thought of the day by Jack Handey
Posted: July 31st, 2008 | Author: Barry | Comments Off
Unnecessary Knowledge will feed you useless fun facts. Keep hitting refresh to make the awesomeness continue. “You lose 60 hairs a day.” “More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.” And on and on. This one is the most tragic: “Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.”
Posted: July 29th, 2008 | Author: Barry | Comments Off
We had a monster quake today. I was lucky to escape with my life.
Ok, not really. The building shook enough to make me jump under my desk for about 30 seconds out of fear of getting hit in the head by this stuff. A little excitement but nothing terrible.
And hey, there’s a little movie about it courtesy of CalTech.
Posted: July 13th, 2008 | Author: Barry | Comments Off
There’s a ridiculously nice Mandarin phrasebook for iPhone . I just downloaded it and immediately wished for a time machine to send it back to last year when I was in Beijing. Get it while it’s hot, apparently.
Posted: July 11th, 2008 | Author: Barry | Comments Off
In case you ever start to feel safe riding your bicycle in LA, I present the case of Dr. Christopher Thompson, an ER doctor who apparently tried to murder a cyclist in a fit of road rage [more]. (warning, that first link is kinda gruesome)
Yes, that’s right, an ER doctor decided to turn his vehicle into a weapon which he used to attack some innocent people on bicycles. LA is kinda fucked up.
Update: but not as fucked up as Manitoba!
Posted: July 8th, 2008 | Author: Barry | Comments Off
Looks like somebody didn’t waste any time having fun with the javascript webdev hack that was posted yesterday: zombie outbreak, via twitter.
