February 2008
65 posts
Mac Questions
Anyone who has a macbook AIR and has run photoshop or illustrator on it can you tell me how well it runs?
Also
Anyone looking for a MacBook Pro?
email me: ben@bengold.tv
david:
What happens if you touch a MagSafe to your tongue?
I have done this more times that I’m willing to admit. You get a mild shock, but only if your tongue touches all 4 prongs in the magsafe. Other related things I have done: 9 volt battery to the tongue, and electric dog collar… on my hand.
Tumblr Mad Libs
Steve when to Jane’s house and they were _________ing all night.
My Favorite Science Term:
TATA box - totally not what you think.
Just Admit It
jakoblodwick:
Sometimes I’m doing email and I open one that was sent within the past minute. I then do “Mark as unread” because I don’t want to look like a loser who just sits there waiting for email. Anyway, I just decided I’m going to stop trying to act cool in this department.
That’s just weird. I normally do email by myself, thus I don’t give a crap if anyone sees me waiting...
Tumblr Radar is back and better than ever. →
After my lengthy rant about GUIs yesterday (which there will be more of) It is nice to see that someone actually knows how to design something usable and useful. Thank ye Tumblr Masters.
Think about it.
Small little note about this: I wrote this at 4am, now that I look at I have realized that I think I made it seem like current UIs are barbaric and unusable… which is certainly not true as if that were the case then you wouldn’t be reading this would you? Also, I was overly excited about touch technology. It’s great, and I do think it will make computer much easier to use for a...
New Apple Stuff
Ugh, New MacBook Pros dropped today. The only thing that I care about is that the new laptops have the multitouch stuff. I wonder if this is software or hardware. If it’s software at the very least I would hope that some clever hacker could get it to work on older macs (While writing this I emailed Apple about this). I’m looking into a MacBook Air as a alternative machine, so I may get...
Hi
I love you.
New Theme.
I’m writing this in anticipation for a new theme that will be here soon.
Tard-Blog →
the blog of a Special Education teacher about her “tards”
“We must all rainbow our puppy princess with butterfly hugs; when we do, all...”
– Merlin Mann, who is made out of chocolate and wants you to reelect for Clay Davis. (via merlin)
The Soul of The Sims, by Will Wright →
Will Wright has been one of my heroes for a long time. It’s crazy to me that anyone thinks like this.
I BOUGHT AN APPLE TV!
it totally rocks. Also they gave me the cable for free.
I think I broke my toe a few days ago.
Inbox Zero!
I just cleared out my inbox from 539 to 0! SWEET. When was the last time you cleaned your inbox?
SKYPE
I just discovered that skype doesn’t suck.
Single Serving Sites →
I sent him phrase per day, as it is most certainly a single serving site.
Does anyone Actually like any of the shit I post here?
nirvana the band the show the website →
I don’t know what this is but it’s well made and it’s funny.
david:
Can you still send a singing telegram?
Yes, however is now a specialized serviced. Usually agencies with Celebrity Impersonators with have Singing Telegramists
Hey you
nicolelee:
Yeah you. You right there. I love you. Just so you know.
awwww!
Hypocrite
Sometimes I hear Celebrity news and it brings me to near vomit. Who care about these people? Then I think, well If I had some way to tell a huge group of people about the new shit that I’m doing, I certainly would take advantage of it.
However I’d like to think that what I do is a hell of a lot cooler for other people besides myself, than say, squirting out another tater tot baby like...
NEW INTERVIEW IS UP! JUSTIN JOHNSON! →
YAY! some how I was able to get one up! It’s a good one too, probably one of the best ones ever (included no extraview ones). The writing style is a little different than usual (the questions) I think there will be more like this one for now on.
why can't I do anything :(
I’ve missed two weeks of extraview. This sucks. If anyone one out there has an interesting idea or company or product they wish to talk about hit me up in email ben@bengold.tv I’d be glad to ask you a few questions about.
I suppose it’s not really my fault as a few people promised to mail me responses and didn’t.
Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle →
I love sites that just have really large text and say random shit. Phraseperday.com is not alone!
NOTE TO SELF:
You’re a fucking idiot.
MIT
Some of the folks at MIT, especially the media lab, do some really awesome stuff, however they always seem to fuck up usability. No matter what you’ve made I should be able to understand what it is and what it does immediately, How to use it is less important, that comes later.
Data Portability
me: What is Data Portability anyway?
Ben Metcalfe: Fuck knows
Ben Metcalfe: Chris, What is Data Portability?
Chris Saad: It's portable Data