December 2009
10 posts
Obligatory Introspective End of Year Post
One year ago, I went to bed at about 5 in the afternoon, woke up around midnight and watched the Radiohead’s Scotch Mist. Twice. Edit: Wait a minute. That’s not when Scotch Mist came out. Now I’m confused.. Later this year, a couple months after Obama’s inauguration, I would go on to lose my taste for scotch. A couple weeks later I turned 21, further solidifying India Pale...
Is Google Evil?
benjaminstein:
I had my first total Google search failure today.
I googled for “bloomberg ventures” but the site wasn’t found anywhere in the first 30 results.
Maybe the venture fund doesn’t exist anymore? It’s the only possible explanation…
On a whim, I decided to google on Bing instead and voila! The first result was http://bloombergventures.com/
I wonder what would cause this? It would...
“The odds of being on given departure which is the subject of a terrorist...”
– FiveThirtyEight
“Give me a day or two, I’ll think of a killer app.”
– Dad
Another Reason Wikipedia is So Great
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D2:_The_Mighty_Ducks:
Charlie takes leadership as team captain and convinces Bombay to give the open spot on the roster to Russ, whose unique “knucklepuck” (which travels in a sine curve rather than a straight line) secures USA’s victory over Russia, advancing them to the championship for a rematch against Iceland.
Not only is this plot...
“The United States Senate this morning approved their health care legislation...”
– FiveThirtyEight
Europe! Look! We’re progressive too! Not only did we reform healthcare, coalitions are starting to play an important role in our legislature!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany_Murphy#Death →
I learned from multiple facebook statuses that Brittany Murphy died today. Not knowing who this was, I decided to look her up on wikipedia.. and found that someone had already added a section about how she died. A whole paragraph, with citations. Call me old-fashioned but I think that’s kind of spooky.
“Sunday night football just played “What’s My Age Again?” by...”