January 2010
20 posts
2009 Data Set
feltron: Today is the last day of 2009. This is a particularly exciting and bittersweet time, as it marks the end of a curious life-tracking experiment I began on the first day of the year. In addition to the wallet, keys and phone, I made sure all year to always be stocked with numerous 2009 Annual Report cards. These individually numbered cards were handed to any person with whom I had a...
Jan 1st
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December 2009
7 posts
BBC News - Whisky hangover 'worse than vodka, a... →
samantham: rickwebb: Brown University should have called me. I could have told them this. Also. Whiskey is Brown. Brown University. Ha ha. Right? I have done extensive research on this topic. I don’t think I can say that I’ve come to this same conclusion based on experience.  Then again, I drink whiskey all the time, and vodka usually only when I’m drinking a lot....
Dec 21st
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“When Tumblr first came out I started an account and posted little things on the...”
– Garrett Murray, interviewed by Chris Bowler. This is why I switched completely to Tumblr, too, despite having run my own homebrew CMS for years prior. (via marco) We do this too, at TBG. We have a homebrew CMS, but a bunch of us now just use Tumblr, and import our entries into the TBG CMS via RSS....
Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Friendster To Be Sold By End Of Month For... →
sciencevsromance: rickwebb: How sad is this? Remember the first time you signed up? Remember the paradigm shift? Has anything felt that transformative since? Still, though. $100mil is no slouch. No kidding, all around. That price tag makes me wonder whether I should finally get around to deleting my account. It’s like the land that time forgot over there. What would they do with your...
Dec 7th
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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