כ״ח בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Saturday 20 June 2009)

i can haz iphone?

כ״ח בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Saturday 20 June 2009)

Since my father, after wavering for about a year while he didn’t really want one, has gotten an iPhone, all four members of my family now have smartphones. Let the terror commence.

Free internet lesson!

כ״ה בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Wednesday 17 June 2009)

If you are reading these words right now, there’s a very high chance that you’re doing it in something called a browser. If you searched for something to reach this website – possibly “american gangster,” a search term that accounts for a disturbingly high amount of the traffic – you did so in something else [...]

Making yourself dumb

כ״ד בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Tuesday 16 June 2009)

Very much in line with my belief that everything in life looks cooler when graphed, which led me to Graph Jam, here are two of the coolest little websites I’ve seen in a long while: Books That Make You Dumb and, for people who don’t like to read, Music That Makes You Dumb. The idea [...]

More Facebook suckitude

כ״א בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Saturday 13 June 2009)

Has anyone noticed that the Facebook friend suggestion tool sucks? I don’t normally check it, but the other day I noticed that it was recommending someone as a friend for me who was already my friend. Of course, when I checked to confirm that, I learned that he was not my friend anymore, which means [...]

Little Prince movie

י״ח בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Wednesday 10 June 2009)

Did you know that there’s a film adaptation of The Little Prince? Neither did I, until I randomly downloaded it and watched it today. Here is my judgment on it: everything about it is splendidly perfect except for the kid’s hair. His hair is really, really bad. It is 80s rock star bad. Even worse, [...]

Beatboxing

י״ז בסיון ה׳תשס״ט (Tuesday 9 June 2009)

I will always admire MC Squared for showing me some amazing beatboxing: But in all the years that I’ve been occasionally telling people to check out the video of him at the Apollo, I never realized even what other kinds of beatboxing were out there. Did you know that there are people who beatbox and [...]

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