December 2005
9 posts
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A very Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah for those of you whom tonight marks a highlight of the season. Hope we’re all appropriately sick to our stomachs from the extra nibbles of green beans and apple pie. If you’ve found that you went a little under budget on your holiday shopping this year (as I blessedly did) or if you just know a couple of exceptional causes when you see them,...
Merlin & Madeleine
Congratulations are most certainly in order.
Data nerds, unite!
Truly the only reason that I’ve been allowing Google to snoop on my searching habits for the past six or so months is the quiet understanding with my brothers-and-sisters in information mongering that at some point they’d release a completely frivolous and utterly nifty compilation of my searches, clicks, and habits on the engine. Well, the Google Blog announced today that that is...
Friends in the news
I know I’ve been MIA for a while, but I’m home to California and will be back in action here quite soon - it’s my sole pursuit for the coming month. Anyone remember the duck murderer in San Jose over the summer? A very angry man in a red Acura viciously ran over and strangled most of the ducks at Campbell’s Classic Car Wash and, as you may imagine, there was a great deal of...
Snakes on A Plane
Thanks to roommate Mike for pointing me to next summer’s hottest blockbuster. Given what the fans are brewing, the future looks pretty bright as well. Glad to see that Hollywood hasn’t lost touch with what people really want: snakes on a plane.
Welcome, newcomers
Now that the Tufts Observer has run my Top 10 Albums of 2005, a list of dubious quality, and has seen fit to link to this very blog in that article’s byline, it seems like a good time to post-up with a bit of a reintroduction and reassessment. I’m Steve McFarland, I dabble in freelance [unpaid] web and graphic design under the auspices of Presta Cottage Industries, and I’m a new...
Coupla links as a "Hello"
The fine folks at Gawker Media (publishers of my daily addiction, Lifehacker) have launched a new blog today to rally a revolt against our consumer culture; apparently by showing us things to buy. It’s called Consumerist and they’ve started off by profiling - among other things - a deal with Wendy’s and Airtran for free airfare that seems straight out of Punch Drunk Love. Also,...
Bill, why do you hate Christmas?
Fresh off his invitation for a terrorist attack on San Francisco, Bill O’Reilly continues to wage his counterinsurgent effort to what he perceives to be a secular “war for Christmas.” God forbid (yes, I know I said ‘God’) that we make things open to other cultures - but Bill’s message isn’t why he’s being featured here. It seems that things took a...
News highlights
NPR: Paying Real Money to Win Online Games
“Low wage labor in southeast Asia and eastern Europe is being used exclusively to farm gold from these virtual worlds and then a handler, usually an ‘Anglo,’ takes the spread and gives the workers a dollar an hour.”
French, in First, Use Transplant to Repair a Face“The French committee did approve partial face transplants of...