shared items

• hlswatch.com: “Do I have the right to refuse this search?” (December 26, 2009)
• YouTube: Funniest fishing show blooper reel ever (December 26, 2009)
• Clusterstock: How To Make The World’s Easiest $1 Billion (December 10, 2009)
• YouTube: Japanese Addresses (December 26, 2009)
• mental_floss Blog: Portion Distortion: 10 Food Servings, Now Vs. Then (December 10, 2009)
• Scientific American: Crack Research: Good news about knuckle cracking (December 15, 2009)
• Sriram Krishnan: Stuff I’ve learned at Microsoft (December 12, 2009)
• Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers: 45 Breathtaking Examples of Slow Shutter Speed Photography (December 13, 2009)
• Design Swan: 8 Interesting Visual Confusion Photography (December 15, 2009)
• Lifehacker: Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus [Antivirus] (December 23, 2009)
• The Movie Blog: If Star Wars had Facebook (December 23, 2009)
• Gapingvoid: as long as your arm (December 24, 2009)
• Boing Boing: Psych professor wants to ban “nerd” and “geek” – Andrew also says, “Hey, we can’t all be as cool as me.” (December 24, 2009)
• The Seattle Times: Boeing news: Boeing cuts tuition subsidy for SPEEA members – Andrew also says, “Not cool” (December 24, 2009)
• Daring Fireball: Lehrer’s Rules (December 23, 2009)
• Gapingvoid: “fight like hell. this is it.” (December 23, 2009)
• Boing Boing: Sex, science and statistics (December 22, 2009)
• Daring Fireball: Blue Moon (December 21, 2009)
• Boing Boing: Why flies were chosen as urinal targets – Andrew also says, “Pull quote, “The ability to use one’s natural gifts and achieve victory over the foe while standing is the key”” (December 21, 2009)

* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.

• S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: WhatConsumesMe.com (December 21, 2009)
• S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: Obtained using a Freedom Of Information Act request (December 20, 2009)
• kottke.org: Why shoot a gun with a side grip? (December 17, 2009)
• kottke.org: The Known Universe (December 17, 2009)
• Boing Boing: Secular Christmas Carol (or, buy a goat, get an MP3!) (December 18, 2009)
• The Old New Thing: The economic inefficiency of gift-giving (December 18, 2009)
• Boing Boing: How would you win this game show? (December 18, 2009)
• Boing Boing: “A higher bandwidth than any internet connection that ever existed” (December 17, 2009)
• The Official Google Blog: Go thataway: Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local (December 18, 2009)
• S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: and this is just Awesome – Andrew also says, “…and Andrew.” (December 16, 2009)
• S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: This is an awesome man cave (December 16, 2009)
• Betanews: Satirical blog post may incite real AT&T protest on Friday – Andrew also says, “…or a poignant lesson for ATT&T that will result in them finally beefing up their network. (But we all know that will never happen)” (December 16, 2009)
• OnTakingPictures: Asset Management Essay 2 – One Year On (December 14, 2009)
• kottke.org: Imagining Earth with Saturn's rings (December 9, 2009)
• kottke.org: Ken Auletta's media maxims – Andrew also says, “Well, I like #6.” (December 16, 2009)
• Seth's Blog: Is it too late to catch up? (December 3, 2009)
• 1001 rules for my unborn son: REQUIRED LISTENING: Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Linus and… (December 16, 2009)
• OnTakingPictures: Even more Drabbles (December 16, 2009)
• xkcd.com: Abstraction (December 16, 2009)
• The Big Picture: 2009 in photos (part 2 of 3) (December 15, 2009)

* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.

• S p e a k L i k e A G e e k: Muppets Ring Xmas Bells (December 11, 2009)
• Boing Boing: Old photos of people grouped by gender (December 7, 2009)
• kottke.org: The year in ideas, 2009 (December 10, 2009)
• Wired: Threat Level: Lawmakers Want to Bar Sites From Posting Sensitive Government Docs – Andrew also says, “Security Theater at its finest.” (December 10, 2009)
• kottke.org: Do I really look like a guy with a plan? (December 9, 2009)
• kottke.org: Flexing of the Manhattan Bridge (December 9, 2009)
• kottke.org: Portraits of power (December 7, 2009)
• Galyn Bell: A Thought for Today… (December 8, 2009)
• xkcd.com: The Sun (December 8, 2009)
• Boing Boing: Airmile hackers use mileage credit-cards to buy $1 coins that they use to pay the CC bills (December 8, 2009)
• Gapingvoid: a man who has time – Andrew also says, “…or the man who has no time has need for God.” (December 8, 2009)
• kottke.org: Parallel universes (December 7, 2009)
• Iconic Photos: When Putin met Reagan (December 7, 2009)
• Boing Boing: First shots emerge of SpaceShipTwo (December 7, 2009)
• Boing Boing: Meet Gigi Gaston, the ye ye singer who never was (December 7, 2009)
• Boing Boing: FBI seeks “Point Break” bandit (December 7, 2009)
• Boing Boing: Major record labels rip off 300,000 songs for compilation CDs, may owe $60 billion in damages – Andrew also says, “Bazing!” (December 7, 2009)
• OnTakingPictures: Image Properties (Or how most people talk out of their ass) (December 6, 2009)
• Boing Boing: James Lipton in hilarious LG ad campaign: “Before You Text, Give it a Ponder” (December 4, 2009)
• A Party to the World: Programming Praxis (December 4, 2009)

* Q: Wha? A: Every week I go through about 1000 posts on my RSS feed. These are ones that I thought worth sharing. You can find previous Shared Items here.