December 2007
39 posts
iPhone 1.1.3 firmware feature gallery →
Updates from Your Gmail Contacts →
One of the reasons why the chat box can no longer be disabled in the new version of Gmail is that it will include some new features: updates from your contacts. Yes, they are the same contacts you barely know, but these updates will help you learn more about them.
OSX Leopard Breaks Second Life →
Second Life inhabitants running Mac OSX are being cautioned that the latest version of Apple’s Leopard operating system breaks compatibility with the virtual world title.
Study: Young adults are heavy users of public... →
Young adults are the heaviest users of public libraries despite the ease with which they can access a wealth of information over the Internet from the comforts of their homes, according to a new study.
Merriam-Webster's Word of '07: 'W00t' →
best of craigslist : Why Must You Bother the Nice... →
“Before you mail your application for a faculty post in First Amendment law at Columbia, consider this: Her being attractive does not provide you with a license to harass and humiliate her. Every time a woman hesitates before walking outside wearing something flattering, people like you are the cause.”
A hunger for books →
Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize for Literature speech. Utterly inspiring, it moved me to tears. It also moved me never to read TechCrunch — who misinterpreted and subsequently lambasted the speech — again.
CompUSA to close all of its 103 stores after... →
The consumer electronics store will run store-closing sales during the holidays to get rid of inventory.
Commodore 64 still loved after all these years →
I still miss mine.
moleskinerie: Why do we read diaries? →
Louis Menand has a nice piece on the New Yorker about diary-keeping: “The impulse to keep a diary is to actual diaries as the impulse to go on a diet is to actual slimness. Most of us do wish that we were slim diarists. It’s not that we imagine that we would be happier if we kept a diary; we imagine that we would be better—that diarizing is a natural, healthy thing, a sign of vigor and...
Swedish boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft... →
A 12-year-old Swedish boy reportedly defended himself and his little sister from a moose attack by employing techniques he learned while attaining level 30 in World of Warcraft: In the article he describes how he first yelled at the moose, distracting it so his sister got away, then when he got attacked and the animal stood over him he feigned death. “Just like you learn at level 30 in World...
“On the same day that the Mayor said that his own ballot initiative to make MUNI...”
– The N-Judah Chronicles: Double Decker Muni Bus!
IGN: Dell Premiers World of Warcraft XPS M1730 →
Dell today premiered the XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition gaming laptop. Sure to be an object of lust for committed players of the game anxious to advertise their devotion, the special edition lappy is emblazoned with either Alliance or Horde Warcraft imagery on pretty much every available surface.
Post office to go Sinatra's 'Way' →
Ol’ Blue Eyes will get his own postage stamp next spring.
