The Day the World Exploded April 24th, 2006 @ 9:08 pm PDT
Wow. I (finally) just finished reading Krakatoa — The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, by Simon Winchester. Crazy stuff. I liked it. It’s a smidge on the textbook-side, but he’s an entertaining enough writer — and the topic is so incredible — that you don’t ever get bored during its 380-ish pages. The […]
White House Easter April 15th, 2006 @ 12:26 am PDT
A trip to DC
Answerbag – Answer Hunt April 13th, 2006 @ 2:06 pm PDT
Check it out: The guys at Answerbag are having an Answer Hunt! You can win up to $2000 for answering the questions asked by the elusive “answer rabbit”. (Note: This would be an excellent place to post the classic “TheBrad with Bugs Bunny on Head” photo, but the damn fool has gone and lost all […]
WaMu Snafu April 11th, 2006 @ 9:10 am PDT
How’s this for retarded? I recently moved. Yesterday I went to Washington Mutual’s website to change my address for my checking account. Today I realized that I am out of checks. That’s okay. I can order checks on-line and they get delivered in like three days. But when I went to the website to order […]
Hewlett-Packard Printers: Tools of Satan April 10th, 2006 @ 7:48 am PDT
For Christmas ’04 I got my girlfriend a shiny new HP Photosmart 7960. She loves it. It prints fabulous, high-quality images and it comes with some great photo-printing software. Sure you have to mortgage your house to keep the ink flowing, but you knew that was going to be the case when you bought the […]
MySpace v. Friendster April 5th, 2006 @ 4:35 pm PDT
There’s a very well-written article at danah.com comparing and contrasting Friendster and MySpace. This should be required reading for any corporate execs looking to make money in the social blogging universe. What’s at stake here is what is called “subcultural capital” by academics. It is the kind of capital that anyone can get, if you […]
