I would not have expected antique Swiss military bicycles to be a popular enough niche to support a specialty reseller. Interesting if you’re curious about utilitarian bike design.
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Posts from January, 2009
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January 11th, 2009
January 9th, 2009
Is radium steampunk?
If your jewelry’s made of antique watch parts, which I hear the kids like these days, it may be contaminated with radium. Janer’s got more info on what to do and who to call if you don’t want to go out like Marie Curie did.
January 8th, 2009
Songsmith promo video
“Microsoft, huh? So… it’s pretty easy to use?” Apparently the research prospectus required finding a karaoke game to glue to one of Apple’s iLife products. Update: Songsmith freestyling over David Lee Roth’s vocals in “Runnin’ With the Devil“.
How to promote yourself through Twitter
Lately there’s been an increase in randoms following me on Twitter. While blocking people I don’t recognize I’ve learned that a surprising number of their accounts are friends-locked, safely neutralizing any lingering possibility of successful self-promotion.
January 5th, 2009
Neko Rahmen
A cat with the personality of a cranky old man runs a ramen shop whose only customer is a loser salaryman. A series of animations based on the hit comic strip I haven’t heard of, with English subtitles. Soon to be a live-action feature film. Entirely unlike Garfield.
Don’t shout into a rack full of hard drives
‘Brendan Gregg from Sun’s Fishworks team makes an interesting discovery about inducing disk latency.’