Yostivanich

Shaq reminds Oprah to turn off the Caps Lock key.

Ok this is pretty funny.

“Remem­ber just because you build some­thing doesn’t mean that peo­ple are going to know its there.” Full Dis­clo­sure, I work here. It’s still brings forth of when to redesign your site.

“Today, Mr. Schmidt, who also served as a top Bush aide (in addi­tion to McCain), dis­cusses the sub­ject with the Log Cabin Repub­li­cans, a group that sup­ports gay rights. Accord­ing to CNN, he will call on con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­cans to drop their oppo­si­tion at a lunchtime speech in Washington.”

“A char­tered accoun­tant who admit­ted rap­ing a child has been jailed for an indef­i­nite term, despite the fact his vic­tim has never been found.”

That’s nice.

“gauge.js 1.2 allows you to add gauges (with shad­ing and reflec­tion) to your web­pages. It uses unob­tru­sive javascript to keep your code clean. ” Pretty cool.

“We don’t have clear data about the aver­age num­ber pages each mem­ber of that audi­ence looks at, but let’s make an edu­cated guess: 24. That trans­lates to about 87.1 bil­lion printed page views per month*. As a check on our assump­tion of 24 pages: based on annual newsprint con­sump­tion of 9 mil­lion met­ric tons, the indus­try prints about 190 bil­lion pages (a mix of tabloid and broad­sheet sizes). So we’re assum­ing the aver­age reader looks at about half the pages pub­lished, which seems rea­son­able.” Total BS, I know tons of peo­ple who may get the paper but barely look at 5 pages much less half.

“Gov. David A. Pater­son intro­duced a bill on Thurs­day to legal­ize same-sex mar­riage, vow­ing to per­son­ally involve him­self in the leg­isla­tive debate at a level that is rare for a chief exec­u­tive in New York.”

Very cool.

It’s funny people.

“Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has reported a 90% fall in prof­its for the first quar­ter of 2009.” Wow, still made a profit, but a 90% fall. Won­der how much is from Apple.

“Stand­ing for some­thing isn’t just about writ­ing it down. It’s about believ­ing it and liv­ing it.” Some­thing a lot of com­pa­nies need to do more of.

Good job Ning.

“The Wall Street Jour­nal, one of the few news­pa­pers that charges for con­tent online, released an app for the iPhone Wednes­day which sets their con­tent free, pok­ing another hole in one of the internet’s old­est pay walls.” Woot, WSJ.

“Sum­mary: The Fox Nation and the Drudge Report advanced a CNSNews.com arti­cle claim­ing the White House requested that George­town Uni­ver­sity “hide[] ‘Jesus’ ” dur­ing a speech there by Pres­i­dent Obama. How­ever, as the CNS arti­cle noted, the White House requested “all signs and sym­bols” on the stage — not solely the name of Jesus — be cov­ered. ..and that this request was “con­sis­tent with what they’ve [the White House] done for other pol­icy speeches.”” Just say­ing, no freak­ing out.

“Cuban Pres­i­dent Raul Cas­tro has said he is will­ing to talk to Wash­ing­ton about every­thing, includ­ing human rights, polit­i­cal pris­on­ers and press free­dom.” Pretty cool.

“The United States and Japan have each pledged $1bn (£671m) to Pak­istan so far at an inter­na­tional donors con­fer­ence. The meet­ing, in Tokyo, is to help Pak­istan sta­bilise its econ­omy amid fears that finan­cial woes could lead to increased sup­port for mil­i­tant groups. Ana­lysts have sug­gested that a total of up to $6bn might be pledged at the meet­ing. ” Wow!

“It was flash­ing and everything.”

“Just fix your cam­era to a tri­pod and you too can make an image of grace­ful trails traced by the stars as planet Earth rotates on its axis. Mak­ing a time lapse video like that shown above may require more effort, though. Made on 2006 Octo­ber 13 from Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA, this video nicely cap­tured what you might see of the night sky if you could keep your brain from chang­ing your per­ceived visual image about every hun­dredth of a sec­ond. The above remark­able time-lapse video was con­structed from about 1,000 con­sec­u­tive frames taken with a dig­i­tal cam­era over nearly nine hours.”

It may look cool, but can you build it.

“Jesus is fuck­ing metal.”

It only took them a decade.

“China is plan­ning to boost the size and sophis­ti­ca­tion of its naval power, the head of the Chi­nese navy told state news agency Xinhua.”

How do you nail an interview.

“Eight police offi­cers serv­ing with Scotland’s largest force listed their offi­cial reli­gion as Jedi in vol­un­tary diver­sity forms, it has emerged.” Awesome.

What’s a pig’s life like?

“When two Domino’s Pizza employ­ees filmed a prank in the restaurant’s kitchen, they decided to post it online. In a few days, thanks to the power of social media, they ended up with felony charges, more than a mil­lion dis­gusted view­ers, and a major com­pany fac­ing a pub­lic rela­tions crisis.”

“Read­ing Damn Cool Pics, one of my more favorite non-science/skeptic blogs, I found out that the the Win­dows XP back­ground of the too-green hill — the one called Bliss — is a real place, and it’s in Sonoma County, Cal­i­for­nia not far from where I used to live.” That’s cool.

Tomor­row awaits the fate of Pirate Bay.