Archive for January, 2012
Link: Does alcohol burn off in cooking?.
Short answer: No.
Slightly-longer-answer: Eventually mostly yes, but probably still not as much as you were expecting.
Link: Focus on the User.
Engineers from Twitter, Facebook and MySpace (who?) team up to… get catty with Google on the Interblargs. Hah!
The Cupcake Man at work has struck again.
No cupcakes this time, but I ate like a three-inch stick of fudge and… urgh. Should not have done that.
(So delicious, though.)
Image: The nerdiest anti #sopa sign ever. #nytmsos | Flickr - Photo Sharing!.
Obviously they need to sudo first.
The takeaway from SOPA and the NDAA: Congress threatens us with indefinite detention without trial? We’ll grumble about it. Congress threatens to screw with our Internet? WE WILL SHUT THINGS DOWN.
Image: mpQA0.jpg (659×29999).
Ridic’ large image needs full-view, though you can probably get the idea pretty quickly.
The last image is just icing, really.
P.S. Sorry if I spam anyone in the next few days.
I’ve been trying to reconstruct some of my missing November-January data by hand; I can get most of the posts from my Dreamwidth crossposts (whew), but I’m not sure I can/want to reconstruct comments.
Either way, I’ve turned off most crossposters (I think?), but if lots of random old stuff pops up in feeds/Tumblr/DW… oops. Sorry ’bout that.
I hate Android for the same reason that Severus Snape hates Harry Potter — the very sight reminds me of something so beautiful, that was taken. Except it’s worse. It’s as if Harry Potter has grown up to become Voldemort.
parislemon • Why I Hate Android.
Interesting article anyway, but mostly lulzworthy for this final paragraph.
Link: NeuroLogica Blog » Why Stephen Hawking is Cool.
So apparently Stephen Hawking turned 70 earlier this year. Holy shit. Seventy, really? Man…