March 2007
78 posts
The world in an A4 paper →
It's easy being green: Google goes solar →
Solar power is good.
“i checked with a friend and they said there definitely IS a rainbow effect in...”
Five Reasons Why Renting is Better Than Paying a... →
All good reasons, however everyone agrees that in the long term, owning is better than renting.
ColorJack: Sphere →
Great for doing color schemes. They also have a widget for you Mac users.
Video: Actor crashes $1 million Ferrari Enzo, only... →
“The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on...”
– — Theodore Roosevelt
Heat Invades Cool Heights Over Arizona Desert -...
“SUMMERHAVEN, Ariz. — High above the desert floor, this little alpine town has long served as a natural air-conditioned retreat for people in Tucson, one of the so-called sky islands of southern Arizona. When it is 105 degrees in the city, it is at least 20 degrees cooler up here near the 9,157-foot summit of Mount Lemmon.”
New York Times
One of us is happy
10 Strange Facts About Einstein. →
“As he was a late talker, his parents were worried. At last, at the supper table one night, he broke his silence to say, “The soup is too hot.” Greatly relieved, his parents asked why he had never said a word before. Albert replied, “Because up to now everything was in order.”
A Very Short Walk Around A Tokyo Apartment →
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
– Epictetus
Poor Behavior Is Linked to Time in Day Care - New... →
“A much-anticipated report from the largest and longest-running study of American child care has found that keeping a preschooler in a day care center for a year or more increased the likelihood that the child would become disruptive in class…On the positive side, they also found that time spent in high-quality day care centers was correlated with higher vocabulary scores through...
“Music is the pleasure that the human soul encoutners from counting without...”
– Daily Kos
butterfly
loac posted a photo:
Butterfly in AF Canyon (via loac’s Photos)
butterfly
loac posted a photo:
Butterfly in AF Canyon (via loac’s Photos)
butterfly
loac posted a photo:
Butterfly in AF Canyon (via loac’s Photos)
CARPE DIEM: 1040 Form and Instructions in 1913,... →
The income tax was started in 1913:
1. Taxes were only paid on income above $20,000, equivalent to $407,000 in today’s dollars, at the initial rate of only 1%.
2. The highest marginal tax rate in 1913 was 6%, which applied to income above $500,000, equivalent in today’s dollars to about $10 million.
The entire 1040 tax form in 1913, including all forms and instructions, was only 4...
Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human |... →
Not quite what it sounds like.
Apple Cult Becoming a Religion - New York Times →
Tell us something we don’t know
Monolingual →
Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space.
“Despite what you learned in typing class, stop using two spaces after a period....”
– Word Wise: Spaced Out
“There is nothing so horrible in nature as to see a beautiful theory murdered by...”
– Benjamin Franklin
Movie:3 Minutes of Hiccups 2, starring Anne →
To download, right click and save the file. It is 96 mb, which is pretty big. I have a smaller version if anyone wants it, just email me.
“Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people’s souls, when we...”
– Yisrael Salanter
“Three months after promising to curtail spending on pet legislative projects,...”
– USATODAY.com
DIY Softbox for Perfect Portraits →
If there’s one thing I know about photography, it’s this: It is all about the lighting. This is a great and cheap way to set up a “Softbox” for great lighting in controlled conditions.
foldschool - cardboard furniture →
Apple - Pro - Mac OS X Tips →
I got accepted to the University of Utah.
Now I just have to hear from the other four schools…