http://mindtangle.net Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:17:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My friends and I have spent an embarrassing number of hours reliving our adolescent days, coming up with these groan-worthy puns. Occasionally, a few will touch upon the absurd and, very rarely, the sublime. After the jump I present to you the current, canonical list of Er-jokes. Add more in ... http://mindtangle.net/2008/07/20/liquor-i-barely-even-know-her/ Go with [low expectations](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hancock/) and be pleasantly surprised. I actually had a ton of fun watching this one. http://mindtangle.net/2008/07/14/re-hancock/ Devon likes to send me old emails when she's travelling. After the jump, I've pasted a dream I wrote her about, five years ago. Please hold your comments about how insane I must be to dream such a dream: > 5) A Dream > > Once upon a time, in ... http://mindtangle.net/2008/07/14/the-toad-king/ One of Amos' new efforts at DiscoverMagazine.com is a new "journalistic mashup" blog call [80beats](http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/), which reports on scientific topics of popular interest. Here's a screen snip of the text from an entry about new solar panels that use internal reflection to collect sunlight: As you can see, the body of ... http://mindtangle.net/2008/07/10/80beats/ I just came across a long-winded blog post from a friend I haven't seen since high school. He's now in Shanghai, being annoyed by the coarse manners of the locals. Something about his description of the place really resonated with me. It fully explains why I was so much more ... http://mindtangle.net/2008/07/08/the-asswipes-abroad/ Facebook has long lost its luster, so it's just sad to be reminded that Friendster still exists at all. Recently, I've even been getting spam messages from my friends' hacked accounts. Here's an example: > Date: 07/7/2008 3:08 pm > Subject: Hey > Message: ... http://mindtangle.net/2008/07/08/the-sad-decline-of-friendster/ So, this is some serious Web 2.0 action: Instructables user zachninme (and ex-intern) wanted to have a rating system for comments on the site (so far, we only allow users to rate the instructables themselves.) He built a Greasemonkey script that any Firefox user can install; this injects a rating ... http://mindtangle.net/2008/07/08/now-thats-diy/ I just got an email about this [new citizen journalism site](http://demotix.com). It looks pretty slick and already has some interesting content from around the world. Getting alternative viewpoints out of China, Iran, or even (at times) the United States is no easy feat, and these guys seem to recognize this. Check ... http://mindtangle.net/2008/07/07/demotix/ My plan will be unchanged, it seems. I'm not sure what will come of the merger, but at the moment I'm just waiting for my contract to run out so I can get an iPhone. The Helio Ocean is [not quite what it's cracked up to be](http://mindtangle.net/2007/07/18/more-notes-on-the-helio/). Press release after ... http://mindtangle.net/2008/06/27/virgin-acquires-helio/ [Wordle](http://wordle.net) is a Java Applet for creating word clouds, such as the tag cloud here on mindtangle.net. However, the words can be set to orient themselves every which way, nest, etc. I've seen this on a couple blogs, so I decided to make my own. Here's my delicious word cloud, ... http://mindtangle.net/2008/06/24/wordle/