qumbler: qumbles by ryan

qumbles posted by ryan

Navigation:

465 results. Showing 231 through 240.

Posts:

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Post 30114
- #
- Google Maps Mania: Google Maps adds live traffic for US cities
- Post properties:
  - HTML page
  - http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2007...oogle-maps-adds-live-traffic-for-us.html
  - - driving
    - google
    - maps
    - traffic
  - Posted by ryan
  - at about ten in the morning.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Post 30098
- #
- BBC NEWS | Europe | Paedophile freed for Dracula book
- Post properties:
  - HTML page
  - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6401647.stm
  - - dracula
    - jail
    - pedophilia
    - romania
    - wtf
  - Posted by ryan
  - at about one in the afternoon.
- “An American historian jailed in Romania for paedophile offences has been released more than two years early because he wrote a book about Dracula.”
- — BBC News
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Post 30096
- #
- Washington's $8 Billion Shadow: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
- Post properties:
  - HTML page
  - http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/featu...ncy200703?printable=true&currentPage=all
  - - creepy
    - government
    - halliburton
    - politics
    - saic
    - taxes
  - Posted by ryan
  - at quarter past seven in the evening.
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Post 30069
- #
- “After we got back to the hotel, we ended up in the lobby, where we determined that John Scalzi is the conversational equivalent of the grit in the oyster — to take his own theory of conversational accretion and turn it into metaphor.”
- — Kate Nepveu
- Post properties:
  - http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/221380.html
  - - conversations
    - john_scalzi
    - quotation
  - Posted by ryan
  - at quarter of two in the afternoon.
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Post 30051
- #
- Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Boycott the RIAA in March - Gizmodo
- Post properties:
  - HTML page
  - http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertai...are-boycott-the-riaa-in-march-239281.php
  - - boycott
    - drm
    - mp3
    - music
    - privacy
    - riaa
  - Posted by ryan
  - at quarter of four in the afternoon.
- “Without their millions of dollars to throw at lawyers, the RIAA is toothless. They get their money from us, the consumers, and if we don't like the way they're behaving, we can let them know with our wallets.”
- — Adam Frucci
Post 30050
- #
- Absinthe Manson
- Post properties:
  - HTML page
  - http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/Absinthe+Manson-23937.html
  - - absinthe
    - booze
    - marilyn_manson
  - Posted by ryan
  - at half past three in the afternoon.
- “We hope to have [the Absinthe] out in time for Christmas so parents can give it to their kids as a present.”
- — Marilyn Manson
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Post 30034
- #
- Wii Turns Elderly Into Addicts - Gizmodo
- Post properties:
  - HTML page
  - http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertai...ii-turns-elderly-into-addicts-238986.php
  - - awesome
    - elderly
    - funny
    - nintendo
    - videogames
    - wii
  - Posted by ryan
  - at quarter of seven in the evening.
Post 30032
- #
- mengwong - Software Engineering: The Jeopardy Rule
- Post properties:
  - HTML page
  - http://mengwong.livejournal.com/29117.html
  - - design
    - engineering
    - funny
    - non-newtonian_staircase
    - software
  - Posted by ryan
  - at half past two in the afternoon.
- “We're hearing a suggestion that we replace the staircase with a non-Newtonian fluid, that transparently supports the normal adult mode of stair-climbing operations, but in use cases involving a falling child, the staircase becomes a sort of cushioning gel.”
- — Meng Wong
Post 30029
- #
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Chimpanzees 'hunt using spears'
- Post properties:
  - HTML page
  - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6387611.stm
  - - chimps
    - evolution
    - hunting
    - i_for_one_welcome_etc
    - tools
  - Posted by ryan
  - at quarter of two in the afternoon.
- “Chimpanzees were observed jabbing the spears into hollow trunks or branches, over and over again. After the chimp removed the tool, it would frequently smell or lick it.”
- — BBC News
Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Post 30021
- #
- Shutdown Day
- Post properties:
  - HTML page
  - http://www.shutdownday.org/
  - - addiction
    - luddites
    - technology
  - Posted by ryan
  - at quarter past nine at night.