May 2013
Neighbours “can see the colonel’s face looking at them from every...
– BBC News - KFC ‘giant’ chicken sign angers Cambridgeshire villagers
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Caves: Last Signal
Petition Adobe to Open Source Fireworks →
adobegripes:
Very disappointed in todays news, anyone feeling the same should go and sign this petition so thousands of signatures can be completely ignored by Adobe just like they were with Freehand, just like they will be the next time the monopoly kills part of your workflow.
Vote with your wallets next time:
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kottke.org: Tender moments caught on Russian dash... →
jkottke:
Many Russian cars are outfitted with dashboard cameras to protect drivers against insurance fraud. These cameras have caught all sorts of crazy happenings — car accidents, low-flying jets, insurance scam attempts, meteors, and plane crashes
— leading many to believe that Russia is a…
April 2013
Margaret Thatcher “took a dim view of football
– BBC News - Mellor: Thatcher football silence ‘wouldn’t be observed’
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Introverts need a lot of recharging time to gain energy. Being out-and-about,...
– The Pastry Box Project | 3 April 2013, baked by Chris Coyier
Perhaps the best description of anything ever written in the history of writing.
(via soxiam)
I didn’t really begin to understand myself as an introvert until very recently. Now that I know that this is how people like me “work,” I feel...
March 2013
kottke.org: Graphene super-toys last all summer... →
jkottke:
Well, this is interesting. Graphene is a substance discovered relatively recently that has a number of unusual properties. In 2004, physicists at the University of Manchester and the Institute for Microelectronics Technology in Russia used ordinary scotch tape to isolate single-layer sheets of…
I can’t stress this enough: Do what you love…in between work commitments, and...
– Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life (via zachklein)