Archive for June, 2007
We’re So Spoiled
It’s funny to think that I used to collect MP3s, software and ROMs on a 56k modem. I’m the most impatient person on the planet; it’s very hard to believe that those collections started that way. Because of my obsessive-compulsive downloading habits, I was a relatively early adopter of cable internet, and it’s weird how [...]
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How Much Does the Internet Weigh?
Found this on The Guardian, thought it was interesting.
Just how much does the internet actually weigh?
Charles Arthur
Thursday June 7, 2007
Guardian
About two ounces (60 grams), or perhaps 0.2 millionths of an ounce (6 micrograms), depending which method you use to calculate the weight of the active electrons necessary to sustain the global network.
But whichever number you [...]
SiCKO
I have mixed feelings towards Michael Moore. It’s odd because I agree with him nearly 100%, and I think he makes very entertaining and thought-provoking books and films, but his approach irks me. His documentaries do not objectively “document” anything, and play out much more like persuasive essays or, well, propaganda. His mellow sob-story voiceover [...]
Read More..>>New Low
Okay, normally I’d think I was above reposting a Youtube video of a laughing baby, but this slayed me.
Read More..>>Energy Drink Review: Synergy
I’d really like to be able to tell you how Synergy: Organic & Raw tastes, but I just can’t bring myself to actually taste it. No joke. Yesterday a friend handed me a bottle out of his refrigerator and said “Review this.” I opened the bottle, brought it to my face, and the SMELL, Jesus [...]
Read More..>>Energy Drink Review: Stacker2 Stinger
Though she doesn’t fully understand it, Amanda is accepting of my fascination with horrible energy drinks and picks up off-brands for me whenever she comes across them. Today she brought me two flavors of Stinger, a drink manufactured by Stacker2. The flavors she picked out were Sinful Citrus and Enraged Raspberry.
Stinger calls itself “Extreme Energy [...]
Can MySpace Determine the Next President?
Here are the top four 2008 presidential candidates based on number of MySpace friends.
Barack Obama - 99095
Hillary Clinton - 49329
John Edwards - 39582
John McCain - 35906
Interestingly, Rudy Giuliani’s MySpace profile is set to private, which is getting a lot of attention online. Maybe he has embarrassing party photos up.
My First Fisheyes
Three months and two days after ordering it, my fisheye is in my hands. Fortunately everybody chose today to be “Don’t Go Skateboarding Day”, and everybody at the park sucked. I shot some random stuff around town to try and get a feel for the lens when my friend Nick called me to go skate [...]
Read More..>>The Great Ghost Photo Caper Starts to Get Interesting
Just received this mail a couple minutes ago. I’m at work, and I can’t stop laughing to myself.
Dear Bill,
My name is Deborah Goldberg and I work at TopSpin Creative, a Japanese television production company based in New York. Currently, we are working on a weekly program called ‘Unbelievable’ for Fuji Television, one of the major [...]
