July 2011
1 post
Headphones
I recently decided that I needed to invest in a new pair of headphones. I really liked my pair of Shure SRH-840s, but had begun to find that I couldn’t really rely on them for mixing or critical listening work. The sub-bass extension was weak and unreliable and the highs sort of tapered off which, combined with the liquid smooth midrange, resulted in a pair of headphones that were very pleasing to...
January 2011
1 post
Q&A: Astronomer Mike Brown on How He Killed Pluto →
The rest of this interview is kind of fluffy, but the first two lines are brilliant:
How many planets are there? Just eight.
Because you killed Pluto. Yes.
September 2010
1 post
“That’s a little bit like these rules I have. The first rule is don’t...”
– Warren Buffet, in an interview with Steve Forbes and Jay-Z
August 2010
1 post
“As I have gotten older, songs tend to be more personal. But you have to be able...”
– Jed Whedon, being interviewed by his brother Joss
April 2010
1 post
“I don’t always like writing, but I very much like having written.”
– William Gibson
February 2010
1 post
'Sexy' Typewritter Robot →
January 2010
8 posts
“It’s a general rule of geek snobbery that crappiness can be forgiven, but...”
– Lore Sjöberg
“Captain, if you want sympathy look between ‘shit’ and...”
– McTetris
Puffin →
Article re:NASA’s new vehicle concept. This is like, 8 different kinds of WANT.
Anonymous Facebook Employee →
Rumpus: You’ve previously mentioned a master password, which you no longer use.
Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s user ID, and then the password. I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more...
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"Is 'synergasm' a word?" →
FACT
Wearing fireproof pants is equivocal to being incapable of lying. You can still lie with fire retardant pants, but you must do so VERY SLOWLY.