Archive for April, 2009

Fail Whale Fever

Visit this link: 
http://www.whatisfailwhale.info/ 

For anyone that just can’t get enough of Twitter’s Fail Whale, this website collects all kinds of examples of the greatness and insanity that the Fail Whale has inspired.

Practice your racial profiling skills

Visit this link:
http://picktheperp.com/

This addictive game forces you to pick the photograph of the individual that you believe was most likely to have committed the crime in question. It’s not as easy as it looks. Hint: Racial profiling actually leads to success in this instance.

Sleeping with Adobe

Some cool pillows made from the designs of the Adobe Creative Suite icons. I’m sure there’s a “crashing” joke in here somewhere, but I’m at a loss.

Delivering on Change

The White House has created a Flickr profile and posted some photos of President Obama, his family and his staff during their daily activities. Hopefully this will be the first of many sets uploaded to that profile.

Wired.com joins the WordPress collective

As an avid reader of Wired Magazine and Wired.com, as well as a WordPress advocate and developer, it gave me great joy to hear that the two were joining forces.

Today Matt Mullenweg announced on his blog that the migration of Wired.com’s network of 12 blogs from TypePad to WordPress has been completed.

On behalf of the rest of the WordPress community, I’d like to say to Wired… Welcome. Now can you stop requiring users to sign up before they can comment? It really does discourage discussion.

A new definition of talent

Talent is the desire to practice.

- Malcolm Gladwell,  the author of the book Outliers

Creepy, like whoa

Visit this link: 
http://www.isthisyourluggage.com

As if having your luggage manhandled by a stranger, it’s contents photographed and then put on display on the  internet, the individual that runs this gem of the web has this to say, “I… BUY THE CASES SO I CAN PHOTOGRAPH THEM FOR MY WEIRD VOYEURISTIC PASSION.” The all caps just make it worse.

Twitshirts for Twats

CNN headline t-shirts have infiltrated Twitter. I love Airbag Industries, but I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Twitshirts for Twats

CNN headline t-shirts have infiltrated Twitter. I love Airbag Industries, but I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Your business card sucks

The most hilarious business card critique in the history of business card critiques.

See that card? It’s the most impressive business card I’ve ever seen. It’s mine.

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