Archive: June 3, 2008
weird-doobybrain

File this one under ‘weird’. For some reason, when you visit “doobybrain.com/herman“, you are redirected to the post above from November 2007. I swear I didn’t set this up. UPDATE: Ok, I just found out that if you type “doobybrain.com/[any_word_here]“, you are redirected to a page related to what you typed in that space. Hmm, [...]

sandwich-earth-other-side

My previous post about the time it would take to travel between two places on the globe got me wondering about what exactly would be on the other side of any given location on Earth. It turns out that zefrank has a Google Maps mashup that can answer this question. Sorry to break it to [...]

Hypothetically, if there was a way to travel through the Earth to other parts of the world, the effect of gravity on our traveling speed would allow us to get from one place to the other in exactly 42 minutes. [via] It wouldn’t matter where you are going or how far the physical land distance [...]

goosh

There’s a small percentage of you who read Doobybrain.com that would appreciate this. It’s Goosh.org, a command-line interface for searching Google. The interface is all text-based (excluding search results) and it works like a Unix shell. This certainly brings me back to my days on IRC chat rooms, downloading all sorts of music, games, and [...]

cg-gophers

If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know why this comic is funny. Seriously, what was the point of all of those CG gophers popping up out of nowhere? [via] George Lucas must be bored…

drunk-driver-bike

Photo: Jose Fidelino Vera Hernandez A drunk driver has killed one bicyclist and seriously injured 10 others when his car hit a group of cyclists during a race on the US-Mexico border. [via] The cyclists were competing in the third annual Matamoros-Bagdad Cycling Tour. I was hoping that this was Photoshop’d, but unfortunately, it isn’t. [...]