April 2009
49 posts
Thoughts on Swine Flu
sampurtill:
The media is having a hayday with the swine flu panic. Must be a slow news week, here are some numbers to put this thing into perspective.
6,706,993,152: population of the world in July 2008 [source]
1,000,000: people killed from April 6 to mid July in the 1994 Rwandan genocide (given very little press) [source]
443,000: Number of people that die from...
The Sweethearts Band →
Not only are their covers solid, but their 2 original tracks are great, namely “Arizona” and “Existence”.
Give them a listen.
ranajune:
pop17:
youtellmetolive:
Jack’s...
WatchWatch This: Carousel
A History of "Modern Rock" →
marco:
An overview of recent mini-eras.
One-Album Wonders
Key bands: Bush, Live, Third Eye Blind, Candlebox, Soul Asylum
Era of dominance: 1994-1996
Defining hit: Live, “Lightning Crashes”
Vestigial reminder in a recent hit: Gavin Rossdale, “Love Remains The Same”
These are the bands that briefly joined the above described A-list, landing four or five huge hits off of one...
Kinnie Starr - La Le La La
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“Established truths are comforting, but it is the mysteries of science that make...”
– Brian Greene
“I hope that the kids, while they sing along to my songs or dance to it, feel...”
– Scatman John
“I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We...”
– Miss California, Carrie Prejean (via Perez Hilton on ‘Miss USA’: Our unlikely hero?)
Last I checked we don’t live in a land where “we can choose.”
FUCK YEAH FARADAY →
fuck yeah.
Want To Save Your Favorite TV Show?: Stop watching... →
As seen in this article, there are only 40,000 households that have Nielsen boxes. They use the data collected from those 40k boxes to extrapolate the actions of about, oh 120 million american households.. If you do the math, allegedly 0.03% is representative of 100%.
I just don’t get it. No one is that good at statistics, not to mention the fact that those who are sampled KNOW that they...
“Babies can smell money, everybody knows that!”
– Marshall
“I just realized how much the iPhone would make sh*ting more interesting”
– My Brother (who still refuses to accept that he needs an iPhone)
Get the UIColor you want!
I basically grew tired of not being able to specify the exact HEX code for a colour, instead having to resort to the defaults that UIColor offers.
So along with using Hex Color Picker, I came up with a nice little macro that you can slap into a header:
#define UIColorFromRGB(rgbValue) [UIColor \
colorWithRed:((float)((rgbValue & 0xFF0000) >> 16))/255.0 \
green:((float)((rgbValue...
“I have some trix up my sleeve”
– Liz Lemon
“They are wicked, wicked tight jeans… They would be so tight, you could see...”
– Matt Nathanson (at a concert)
Matt dedicated this to Miley Cyrus
“The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their...”
– Rorschach
“Girls don’t like beer, only tacky ones do. And they never have a favorite.”
– Girl I was talking to on Omegle
Dungeons and Omegles
Stranger: YOU ARE IN A DARK CAVE EXITS ARE NORTH AND WEST
You: lol
You: okay
Stranger: YOU LAUGH IN THE CAVE
You: what do you think about apple?
Stranger: A BEAR EATS YOUR FACE OFF
Stranger: YOU ARE DEAD
You: lol
Stranger: REVIVE Y/N?
You: ur awesome
You: can we be friends for life?
Stranger: DO YOU HAVE YOUNGER SIBLINGS?
Stranger:
You: i have 75
You: but i am a tortoise
Stranger: THATS BETTER THAN 72 VIRGINS
Stranger: FUCK