In our Web 2.0 culture, a large percentage of American conversations with coworkers or friends are summaries of “really sweet” YouTube videos. This kind of interaction is lost in the cold, digital waters of the Internet, where bloggers can simply embed the actual video in their post. TextTube is a [...]
Entries from May 2007
May 30
DOCTOR RON: How Not to Get Tuberculosis
“A man’s mustache is his best defense”
Dear Blog,
“Tuberculosis.” The word strikes fear deep into the heart of the eight remaining Americans who were born during the 1800s, as well as the nearly three million Charles Dickens fans still alive today. Others might be wondering if this is name of the next big [...]
May 29
SUMMER GOAL: Time of Your Life
It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it sucks
Summer is a time of goals. Like one summer when I was 16 I had a goal to get laid. Well, it didn’t happen, but it was definitely a goal–and it kept me busy and out of trouble. Since then I’ve given up on [...]
May 29
CHALLENGE: 30 seconds to a minute
I like to challenge myself to keep my life fresh and keep myself on my toes. That’s why I’m writing this blog pots in “30 seconds to a minute.” See, this dude who’s crashing at my house just said he was driving to get Vietnamese sandwiches in “30 seconds to a minute.” I am now [...]
May 28
WORLD OF TOMORROW: Seattle’s Futuristic Library
Seattle’s improbable Central Library was designed by a Dutch man with an equally improbable name: Rem Koolhaas
I was in Seattle this weekend and was real excited to visit the famous Central Library, which was paid for by Bill Gates and Starbucks to make up for all those babies they killed or whatever. Aesthetically, [...]
May 25
CONFESSION: Blog enhancing drugs
1996 Tour de France-winner Bjarne Riis confessed to using performance enhancing drugs today after he could no longer conceal the drugs’ most unfortunate side-effect: Becoming a Woody Harrelson lookalike.
Isaac Newton once shrugged off his unprecedented contributions to science by writing “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulder of giants.” [...]
May 24
POLL: MiniMORE wage
The big question: How can we be sure that they’ll now work $2.10 harder per hour?
Oh, beneficent, Democrat-controlled U.S. congress. As a minimum wage-worker, I thank you for lavishing upon us the first federal minimum wage increase in a decade, bringing the the lowest-paid workers in America from the [...]
May 22
SEA AND SPACE: TRANSMISSION 2
Looks like another space-to-sea videochat (see previous post) popped up on NASA’s Website. Check it out below:
May 21
SEA AND SPACE: TRANSMISSION 1
Personally, I find space exploration way cooler than undersea exploration. A lot of people think the same way, especially NASA. NASA funds some sea exploration, but it’s primarily to prepare for outerspace stuff. For instance, NASA sent a crew of astronauts to the Aquarius undersea lab in 2005, but only to get [...]
May 18
WORLD OF YESTERDAY: Me and the crazies
A couple summers ago, I was a Newspaper Intern at a real newspaper, which still exist in some parts of the country. One of the cool things about being a Newspaper Intern, besides obvious perks like getting to make copies for prize-winning journalists and not having to deal with all the hassles that [...]
