YA RLY! NO WAI!
O HAI! This is some of the random ramblings of Jiayong Ou, a generic geek and web developer. Most of his ramblings are on twitter as @jiayongou. More on his other online activities are on his other page. His old blog is still available if anybody cares.
This week Bell Labs plans to roll out the Telephone, the first viable Telegraph alternative, but reports indicate they may not be ready. Many of the rollers are said to be jammed and the Telephone might have to be carried out instead. For agreeing to help lift the contraption, we have been given exclusive access to what experts are already calling “a device which emits sound and is not filled with bees.”
(via kottke.org)
Me: “I wasn’t. I was using the Maori name for scissors.”
Mother: “No, you said cutty cutty. That’s not Maori. I’m Maori, and I think I know Maori when I hear it.”
(The child interrupts. She grabs her mom by the hand and drags her off to a poster on the wall which has a few art objects and their Maori names under them.)
Child: “Mom, why do you always have to pick fights with people? I’m very disappointed in you!”
That child is awesome.
When Headington man Michael Raphel parked his car in a London side street, the worse he feared was a parking ticket.
But when the businessman returned to his red Honda Civic Type R he found it had been blown up by anti-terrorist police.
Mr Raphel, 28, had made the mistake of abandoning his vehicle yards from Downing Street hours before a Remembrance Sunday Parade was due to start.
Yes, towing is much more complicated. And not nearly as cool.
(via Fefes Blog)
In Zusammenarbeit mit Microsoft haben wir einen speziell auf annabelle-Leserinnen zugeschnittenen Internet Explorer entwickelt – mit diesen Highlights:
(via loveallthis)
Toothbrushing. The MANLY way. (via thedailywhat)
(via thedailywhat)