Archive for January, 2008

Subscribe to your Facebook notifications; free your inbox

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I just turned off my email notifications from Facebook and subscribed to my Facebook notifications via RSS feed instead. Why? So that my inbox stays clean and free of any Facebook bacn/junk.
I don’t know why I never thought of this before but I’m sure glad I did.
Just about everything mildly useful these days has an [...]

Western Digital My Passport Essential portable HDD

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

The sexy Passport hard-drives from Western Digital have just gotten a bit sexier with these new My Passport Essential USB-powered shiny black boxes. Like the regular WD Passports, the My Passport Essential is thin, fast, and looks superb. You honestly can’t store your stuff in anything better.

As you can see, the My Passport Essential is [...]

Why I think the Prologue theme for Wordpress is awesome

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I’ve had a Wordpress.com account for a while now but I never really used it until just the other day when word went out that a new theme called Prologue was released. Since then, I’ve activated the theme and have been playing around with my account over at Wordpress.com more and more. After just over [...]

F*ck Planet Earth

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

I seriously can’t stop laughing at this video by Max Goldberg.
For those who are not familiar, Planet Earth is the Emmy-award winning TV documentary from the BBC which features breathtaking views of Earth and its inhabitants.

Fugu: life or death at the dinner table

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Photo: National Geographic
Fugu is the Japanes word for pufferfish, and it is also one of the world’s deadliest foods. And yet, people from all over the world come [mostly] to Japan to try the delicacy.
The reason why fugu is so deadly is because the pufferfish contains a neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin.
A lethal dose for a full-grown [...]

Dog drags a shark to shore

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

What the hell is wrong with this dog? It just jumped into the water to drag a slightly incapacitated shark to shore! WHAT IF THE SHARK JUST SUDDENLY SNAPPED?! DEAD!

Meanwhile, back in Melbourne…

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

AIYEEEE!!!

Reed Space sale starts Thursday

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Beginning tomorrow, January 31st, Reed Space in NYC is having a store sale. Everything in the store will be marked down. The interesting part about this whole sale is the way it is being conducted by the store.
For every day that the sale goes on, the percentage of markdown at the store will also increase [...]

Cheeseburger in a can

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

This can’t possibly be true! A German food website is selling a cheeseburger in a can for about $6 USD.
WE LIVE IN EXCITING TIMES!

Leftovers

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

By now, most of you know that I own a pair of Reebok Ventilator UO sneakers. I love them and I think the sneaker itself is very comfortable (it’s excellent for running). Anyway the Reebok Ventilator Elements shown above are pretty.

Here’s a time lapse of a sunset coming over New York City. This is 6th [...]