Five Cereals That Rip Apart Your Mouth – Honeycomb is a glaring oversight here. Sightseeing In Liberty City – New York photos placed side-by-side with the hyper-realistic depictions of the same scene in Grand Theft Auto 4. Ready-made Sound Effects – Instant Rimshot and Sad Trombone are unitasking websites dedicated to fulfilling your anecdote punctuation… Continue reading The Friday Heh
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Two Good Recipes for Custom Topic Tracking
Many companies I’ve worked with have wanted my help in developing something beyond Google Alerts to help them track news around particular topics. One of my hallway conversations with Marshall Kirkpatrick at SXSW this year confirmed that custom RSS tracking development work is one of the things he’s called upon to do quite often as… Continue reading Two Good Recipes for Custom Topic Tracking
The Occasional Friday Heh List
8th Grader Shows More Class Than City Councilwoman Conyers – Credit Ms. Conyers with the willingness to debate a group of short-pants-wearin students on the impact of her tirades against the City Council President, but pity her inability to own up to her bad behavior and make good. [via Craxy] Barbarian Group Nigerian Scammer-baiting –… Continue reading The Occasional Friday Heh List
Props For The HAPO Study And Dr. Don Coustan
My dad had a nice mention in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about a 10 year Gestational Diabetes study he’s been working on that just published some of its results. It’s great to see the fruits of the HAPO study reach the popular press. I’ll leave it to WaPo author Serena Gordon to provide the… Continue reading Props For The HAPO Study And Dr. Don Coustan
A Hero To Small Plants Everywhere
I had the pleasure of meeting and hanging out with Pete Hottelet of Brawndo fame while at ROFLCon. He was giving away cans of the electrolyte-packed, thirst mutilating soft drink made famous by the Mike Judge movie Idiocracy. Here’s a clip of a small contribution I made to the Brawndo table. I know a plant… Continue reading A Hero To Small Plants Everywhere
ROFLCon. Wow.
Heh/Meh signs by Extraface When asked about what started his first “Andre The Giant Has A Posse” sticker campaign, Shepard Fairey tells the story that it was for an assignment that asked him to “affect the quality of the day.” I think that’s what motivates the parts of my work I’m most proud of. For… Continue reading ROFLCon. Wow.
ROFLCon Are Go
ROFLCon starts in just a few short hours. Last night, Scott Beale of Laughing Squid kicked it off by hosting a truly memorable Drinkup pre-party at Asgard in Cambridge. It was great to be among so many people who appreciate a good piece of internet culture and love what they do. Everywhere you turned there… Continue reading ROFLCon Are Go
Your Daily Dose Of Yahoo! Web Speak, Circa 2002
Building on these previous entries, here’s another challenge from Yahoo’s 2002 board game, sure to make you LOL: Yahoo’s answers here.
Yahoo Web Speak Challenge For Tuesday
“TOS” — the kids love to throw that one around Click to reveal the answers. [Featuring a new Yahoo Web Speak game card each day this week in honor of Roflcon. Slightly more background here.]
Artifacts From Yahoo! Past
I’m in Rhode Island all this week, enjoying a change of scenery as I work remotely from here and then attend ROFLCon in Cambridge, MA at the end of the week. One of my favorite things to do here is hit up Savers, a thrift superstore with locations throughout the country(except in Atlanta). I always… Continue reading Artifacts From Yahoo! Past
