December 2010
24 posts
Commentary - Rant About Foil
mtgfan:
Seriously, what is up with foil? It’s dumb! Read More
Foils are stupid. I started Magic before foils, and thought they were stupid in those “other” games that tried the concept. However, I love getting foil rares, because I almost always can get more non-foil equivalents for the price of one foil. If the market demands silly gimmicks, I’m more than happy to exploit...
I wonder if this is Sarah Palin - Mdtwn Cncrte →
Willful ignorance. It must be nice to be so ignorant.
The Daily Patdown →
Spread the word. Stop the TSA.
“If one could be home, they’d be all ready there.”
– Merry Christmas everyone!
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You're a Comic Sans Criminal →
Read it, and learn it. And stop misusing font faces.
“No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it...”
– I like his message. It’s respectful towards people of faith, but is honest with its message of atheism.
A Holiday Message from Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist - Speakeasy - WSJ
TSA misses enormous, loaded .40 calibre handgun in... →
Another TSA success story!
Police Brutality in Frankfurt « Beyond the Iron... →
~All we are saying, is give peace a change…~
Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid | |... →
I thought being stupid was a prerequisite to watching Fox News.
Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV In 'Berlin Patient' →
Science is amazing.
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Making the Internet Beautiful
I wish I had done this years ago, but I recently became tired of looking at poorly rendered small-point fonts; specifically, Tahoma, Verdana, and Trebuchet. These three fonts do not anti-alias very cleanly at small point sizes, and many sites seem to enjoy rendering Tahoma at 8-point. As a result, the fonts look very blurry. I got tired of eye strain, so I went into Font Book and disabled them....
“Focus on status updates and team planning only, no technical discussion.”
– How to make meetings more ineffective and less productive
Cr48 - Pilot-Program - Chrome OS →
Google’s Notebook design looks just about like their homepage design. Almost blank, very minimalist, without any style whatsoever.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
Getaround →
This is really clever. Crowd-sourcing auto rentals.