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Billy Disney & Ryan DeNardo set world records on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Yesterday Ryan and I were invited to help URDB and Jimmy Fallon break/set some world records on a taping of Late Night. Fallon and all the people over there are extremely nice. Even the intimidating security guys seem like they’d be pretty nice about it if they had to bash my brain in with one of...
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Random 60: Is it the tools or the artist? Colin Devroe, Viddler’s Technology Evangelist, does a little 60-second interview show called Random 60. It’s like 60 minutes, except not for old farts. It’s for us young folk who don’t have time to watch someone be interviewed for an hour. If your to-do list includes at least one item, and that one item isn’t “get...
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Unsent Pretentious Emails, Part I
I was cleaning out some old stuff in my email’s drafts folder when I realized something: I’m about two ounces of confidence away from being a total asshole. Which is right around where you want to be as far as I’m concerned. I found this email that I wrote to an old professor of mine. I was assigned to write a ten page paper, which is normally nothing worth getting worked up...
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Viddler: MeToday 5/6/10: Graduating, Ranting, and Panting I’m slowly trying to revive the art of the MeToday over at Viddler. You should join in, it’s fun stuff. My iMac hiccuped twice towards the end of this recording. Don’t worry though, I’m sure you didn’t miss anything important. Or did you? I guess you’ll never know.
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Viddler: Proper Snow Running Technique With the horrible road conditions, this is how I got to my classes today.
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The Rhyme-As-Reason Effect
Drake Bennett on “cognitive fluency”: Matthew McGlone, a psychologist at the University of Texas, has found that auditory cues can shape people’s perception of truth. McGlone did a study in which he presented subjects with a series of unfamiliar aphorisms either in rhyming or nonrhyming form: “Woes unite foes,” for example, versus “Woes unite enemies.” He found that people tended to...
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Viddler: A Menace to Society This is a short monologue I had to write and perform for a class. A big thanks to Kenny Black who was in the audience and shoot this video on his iPhone. Despite the fact that I performed this 11 hours into a 12-hour school day after pulling an all-nighter, this was definitely one of the bright spots during the hell that is finals week. The whole thing is...
Dec 9th
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Dirty Projectors Performing in The Roots’ Dressing Room - @questlove Two months ago, following their performance of When the World Comes to an End on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon [video], Dirty Projectors wooed Questlove and The Roots by doing an acoustic version of the song backstage. The video ends with the two groups talking about the possibility of performing together at some point in...
Dec 2nd
Things I Couldn't Do Well in High School
1. Homework 2. Pull-ups 3. The Macarena 4. “It” 5. 9/11 jokes That said, I did do this in the course of two nights, which I recently rediscovered and am still kind of amused by (I’m the shirtless one who’s singing).
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10-Year-Old Refuses To Say Pledge Of Allegiance →
puffalump: Jay and Laura Phillips were shocked to hear their 10-year-old talked back to a teacher at West Fork Middle school Thursday - but were less surprised when they found out why. Their son told them last weekend he had decided to no longer stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at school because he didn’t believe there is liberty and justice for all, especially when it comes to gay...
Oct 12th
Important Update Regarding Simplenote Syncing
A few days ago I published a writeup on how to sync Simplenote and Notational Velocity. I made the mistake of recommending a setting that would sync to Simplenote every time a file is changed in a user’s local notes directory. This seems to be causing major problems that are putting unnecessary stress on Simplenote’s servers (by no fault of Simplenote or the SimplenoteSync script). It should...
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Simple Notes That Sync, Minus the Stink
Import Update: Simplenote has requested that users disable this until they work out some issues. I think I know what the problem is, but in the mean time go into Lingon and disable the lauchd item by unchecking the check box that says “Enabled.” Import Update 2: If you set this up before 10/9/09, it’s crucial that you make the changes outlined in the Lingon portion of Step 3. Update...
Oct 5th
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rymdreglage →
The website for the Swedish lads responsible for the spectacular 8-bit trip video. Their site is absolutely amazing. This is the first thing you see when you arrive there: Hello and welcome to this our sixth edition of perhaps not quite as legendary website. As you may know, we had an accident a while ago. This accident was not known as a “misery misery, now it has gone to pieces”...
Oct 3rd