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Up by the tennis courts on Berry. I only find a TV show called "Flight of the Conchords" which is also the name of a BBC radio show.
The Flight of the Conchords are filming their new HBO show in North Williamsburg, by the tennis courts on Berry and 13th all day tomorrow.
Wish I could stop by and check it out, but I’ll be burning the midnight oil at work again. C’est la vie.
I’ve taken that final step into complete nerdom: I’m installing Ubuntu 6.10 on my other computer right now.
It’s a crappy P4 with 128MB RAM that came with Windows ME. It can barely handle XP and its only good for doing crossword puzzles.
I finally made the decision after reading this great post about the inherent differences between Windows and Linux, and why “will Linux ever be ready for the desktop” is a non-issue.
I’ll let you know how it works out, and I’ll extol its virtues and/or rake it over the coals.
P.S. My installation (the 6.10 alternate) was hanging at one point, and I thought it froze. During the “Select and install software” portion - a misnomer because you don’t do any selecting - it hangs at 6% and says “please wait” for a long, long time. As the guy says in this great walkthrough, you will have time to go and boil the kettle.
Back in my PCM days, I wrote ranted about the Special K “challenge” where they promised you would lose weight simply by eating nothing but Special K.
I just came across a Consumerist post where an intern was brave enough to try it. Apparently, she fainted on the last day. Guess I wasn’t that far off when I surmised it worked by malnourishing through hyper-regularity.
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"Beat it, kid! You may think you want my life, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be."
(from a trip to Philly back in September)
From Earth & Sky Press Releases
EARTH & SKY FEATURED AT INSIDERADIO.COM
January 29, 2007 — Earth & Sky’s executive producer Deborah Byrd was featured by personality editor Mike Kinosian today in an interview in the online version of the trade publication Inside Radio.
Kinosian asked Byrd to recall what prompted her to create and syndicate the Earth & Sky science radio series – which Byrd hosts along with radio veteran Joel Block – 15 years ago.
“It came into my mind all in one piece that it might be a neat radio show,” Byrd recalled in the Inside Radio interview titled This Byrd Soars In Boundless Sky. “It was a concept of wholeness that the earth and sky are part of one thing, and men and women are part of one thing.”
You can view the entire interview here.
About Earth & Sky. Earth & Sky is a clear voice for science for over six million people daily around the world. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, the Earth & Sky science radio show and website are a joint project of EarthSky Communications, Inc. and Earth & Sky, Inc.
The Earth & Sky promise “We take seriously our responsibility for bringing the ideas, strategies, and research results of scientists to people around the world, with the goal of illuminating pathways to a hopeful and sustainable future.”
More room for pennies under those lids.
Why don’t George Foreman grills have off switches? I don’t have an outlet above my countertop, so i have to bend down and reach behind it to plug and unplug the grill.
The lid itself should be the on/off switch. It simply shouldn’t get hot if it’s open. You could burn yourself.
The bun warmer was a clever addition, but an on/off switch is just common sense.
Only the iPod can get away without having one.
I toured a Barnes and Noble recently, and came across their selection of board games.
This is a chess variant where instead of “thinking ahead” and “trying to outwit your opponent,” you draw cards which tell you which piece to move. This is a great way to learn one of the oldest and greatest games of strategy and cunning. By not deciding which pieces to move, you conserve precious brain power, enabling you concentrate on ways to distract your opponent and fix the deck. No one plays fair anyhow, so this game helps you develop ruthless ways cheating you’ll need to succeed in life since you never learned to think critically.
Who was this made for? Are there people out there that refuse to play monopoly because it hasn’t been adopted to their particular hobby?
“I like monopoly, but it really could stand to reference macramé more.”
This should be a limited edition, because there’s only one crazy aunt in Minnesota, who wears brown everyday, has a dog named Hershey, and suffers from type II diabetes, that would actually benefit from this game.
Because Scattergories: Genus Edition was too broad, and religious nuts like coopting things, this got made.
This graph shows the total number of photos uploaded to Flickr over time. This logarithmic chart shows Flickr has grown exponentially, the amount of images increasing tenfold every year or so.
Flickr generates photo page URLs from your username (or gibberish user id number if you haven’t selected one) and the its ordinal number, 35,692nd uploaded photo, for example. It also keeps track, to the second, of when it was uploaded to their servers. This means anyone can generate this graph from their own private data.
I joined Flickr pretty close to its inception in Early 2004, after I got tipped off about it on Metafilter. The first photo I uploaded was number 10189 on March 12, 2004.
As of today there are over 355 million photos on Flickr.
GustavoG, a pretty prominent Flickr’r, had been updating this list of round millionth photos.
