Jun
15
15.00 beer in Portland ME
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Jun
12
Did we miss the entrepreneurial revolution? NO
“The most compelling statistic of all? Half of all new college graduates now believe that self-employment is more secure than a full-time job.”
Jun
7
HyperCard is back! This time as web apps!
HyperCard is back, as TileStack.
“What makes the app especially cool is that you can make edits to public stacks, or just the ones you’ve uploaded from the past. You can also make entirely new ones with a Web-based editor that’s a step up from the one in the old days.”
Jun
7
I love this park, this is baseball
Jun
7
At fenway today
Jun
6
My friends and I have been debating if this worker-freak-out caught on tape is the real deal. Could this be a fake?
Jun
5
RepRap - Open Source Machine ‘Prints’ 3-D Objects, Including Copies Of Itself
“Adrian Bowyer (left) and Vik Olliver (right) with a parent RepRap machine, made on a conventional rapid prototyper, and the first complete working child RepRap machine, made by the RepRap on the left. The child machine made its first successful grandchild part at 14:00 hours UTC on 29 May 2008 at Bath University in the UK, a few minutes after it was assembled.”
Jun
5
How 10 Bands Got Their Names
1. Modest Mouse comes from the Virginia Woolf story The Mark on the Wall. There’s a quote that says, “Even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people…”
2. a-ha got their name because it means the same thing in multiple languages.
3. Duran Duran took their name from the villain in the movie Barbarella – Dr. Durand-Durand.
4. R.E.M. was named when Michael Stipe opened the dictionary and randomly pointed to a word.
5. The Pogues were originally called Pogue Mahone, which is Gaelic for “kiss my arse.” It was shortened later.
6. The Bay City Rollers, are, as you might suspect, named after Bay City, Michigan. But none of the band members are actually from Bay City (They’re Scottish); the city was just plucked from the map.
7. The Killers took their name from a fictional band. The “band” was featured in the New Order music video for their song “Crystal”.
8. 10,000 Maniacs adapted their band name from the horror movie Two Thousand Maniacs.
9. Steely Dan is named after an… erm… adult toy… in the William S. Burroughs novel Naked Lunch.10. Flight of the Conchords came about when Bret, one of the band members, had a dream about flying guitars that looked like Concordes. He was telling the other band member about it and the name was invented.
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