Monthly Archives: September 2007

DIGG: New Digg Profiles Launch

From the Digg Blog. “Hey everyone, The Digg team is excited to launch new Digg user profiles later tonight, the first of many cool new features rolling out this year. We’ve completely revamped our profiles from the ground up – making it easy for you to share your favorite stories and discover new interesting content [...]

I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?

A quick plug for the “I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?” team “Lolwhut? Some people call pictures of cats with funny/weird or many other derived types of captions — lolcats or cat macros. The practice of captioning, specifically, cats started many years ago on anonymous forums, most prominently called the *chans. Supposedly, the practice of posting and [...]

It Is Pitch Dark by MC Frontalot, A Song About Zork

“It Is Pitch Dark” is the latest music video from nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot. It’s about the classic text adventure computer game Zork. The video was produced by Jason Scott (the guy who runs Textfiles), who shot it in HD. The song and video will be included in Get Lamp, Jason’s documentary about text adventure [...]

Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action

A1c0r demos and discusses Quicksilver at the Google, including a good overview of why he chose to build the app in the way he did. Alas, the jig is up for poor Nicholas. Now you all know that he does not, in fact, have flippers, and that he is actually astonishingly good-looking.

The abandoned monkey who has found love with a pigeon

They’re an odd couple in every sense but a monkey and a pigeon have become inseparable at an animal sanctuary in China. The 12-week-old macaque – who was abandoned by his mother – was close to death when it was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province. After being taken to an animal hospital his [...]

Proof that they eat children in Europe

with chips, even!