February 2011
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F1 in HD... in 1991?!
From the Wikipedia article about LaserDisc:
In 1991, several manufacturers announced specifications for what would become known as MUSE Laserdisc, representing a span of almost 15 years until the feats of this HD analog optical disc system would finally be duplicated digitally by HD DVD and Blu-ray. Encoded using NHK’s MUSE “Hi-Vision” analogue TV system, MUSE discs would...
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“GRETA: Governor, last night there was a lot of discussion about the Sputnik...”
– Sarah Palin misunderstanding and ranting on the “Sputnik Moment” line
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"Robots, man. They're nothing but heartbreak." →
cbowns:
Anthropomorphize your Roomba.
Cry when this happens:
… it was all the worse when he’d die in the middle of vacuuming, because it was like, wow, he loved us so much that he gave his life for our carpet.
(I love Metafilter, sometimes just because of comments like this one.)
Another good one: “Sometimes I creep myself out by imagining that the power cord to my laptop is an IV...
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“You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life...”
– Gandhi
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With Force India’s line-up finally confirmed on Wednesday afternoon, just a single vacant race seat now remains in the 2011 Formula 1 field, with returnee Narain Karthikeyan awaiting an announcement for his Hispania Racing team-mate.
The current F1 2011 driver line-up is as follows:
Red Bull
1 Sebastian VETTEL
2 Mark WEBBER
McLaren
3 Lewis HAMILTON
4 Jenson BUTTON
Ferrari
5...
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“If you’re planning on checking into Starbucks using Facebook Places, your...”
– Your face will soon be in Facebook ads
Remind me again… Who are Facebook’s customers, and what is their product?
Advertisers are their customers, and you are their product.
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“This is very important — to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
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“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat it, and when...”
– William Saroya
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Hit and Run 2k11 Update
I just got off the phone with the driver. She was sooo apologetic, I can’t be mad.
She didn’t realize she had hit me, and was scared when I hit the window, even more so when I ran after her car to take the plate pictures. Turns out, she’s works at a bank. In fact, she was so scared, after she got home and talked to her husband, she was about to call the cops about the guy who...
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Hit and Run
If you follow me on twitter, you’d have seen me post a little while ago that someone hit me while I was crossing the street, then drove away. I was crossing the street, and they didn’t want to wait, and tried to accelerate in front of me, and glanced off my left hand which was extended forward in mid-stride. I rapped once on he drivers’ side window with my knuckles, and held my...
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