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January 28, 2011

I recently got a 500GB Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive for my MacBook since the original 160GB was a little short on storage. Since the Momentus XT sports a 4GB SSD for a read cache, it supposedly makes everything work a lot faster—better than any 7200 rpm drive, that is. It has received good […]

When Life Throws You Lemons

January 27, 2011

The other weekend, my mom awakened me because some stupid trailer truck driver hit a bunch of telephone and cable TV wires just outside our house, and managed to take down the whole electric post with it. Look at the image, it’s actually more stupid than it looks.

# IBM 100 X 100
100 years of IBM. You’d be surprised to know about the great things they’ve made in the past century.
# Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic – Smooth Criminal
Perhaps the rockiest way to do a cover of Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal without using electric guitars and crazy distortion.
# No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome
No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be. Because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new.
# RIP Bill Zeller
It’s sad enough to hear of people passing away, but it’s even harder when those who could’ve helped never found out that there was a need for it.
# Ricky Gervais’ Golden Globes Monologue
If you dig Ricky Gervais’ crazy humor, surely you’ll be laughing at this.

Onsite Slideshow: Jeff & Abe

January 15, 2011

Just sharing with you Hana’s first ever onsite slideshow, from Jeff & Abe’s wedding last January 11. Yes, that’s 1.11.11, which is 31 in binary, and this sentence perfectly makes no sense. Right? 😀 More details on our Markku & Hana blog.

# Vivian Maier, Street Photographer
What would you do if you stumbled upon someone’s astounding yet unpublished body of work?
# Make it better
Creative use of typography—it just makes it better.
# Unobtaniums
A bunch of fictional elements and chemical substances with unbelievable properties and effects.
# An Illustrated History of the Batmobile
All the batmobiles you’d even want to know about.
# Shepard tone
Listen carefully.
# For everything we take, someone else must give
The fact is that this world operates on the principle of give and take. Yet so few of us look at it this way. I think we should. I think we would feel a much greater connection to all that we have if we did. We also would have a greater consciousness about the effect of everything we consume and create. Definitely something to think about not only in the context of technology and the web, but life.
# Trouble In the House of Google
Anyway, we’ve been perfectly happy with Google as our de–facto traffic sugar daddy since the beginning. But last year, something strange happened: the content syndicators began to regularly outrank us in Google for our own content. It’s been happening for so long, especially to smaller sites with good content but with little age or popularity.
# Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts
If you’re hooked on Facebook, here’s the list of keyboard shortcuts to fuel your addiction.
# Unexpected Luggage
It would’ve been cool if Cebu Pacific or PAL did something like this.
# PowerBalance Admits Their Wristbands Are a Scam
Why can’t I find this even just slightly surprising?

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