Global Nerdy (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
The latest xkcd comic is pretty amusing: xkcd’s artist Randall Munroe could’ve taken the MacBook Air metaphor a little further with some joke about the the online discussion about its battery life, but it’s probably for the best that he didn’t.
Queercents (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of the iTunes Store to finally meet up with the convenience of DRM free music. The XKCD comic by Randall Munroe pretty much says it all, when it comes to the problems of DRM. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, DRM stands for digital rights management and is an anti-piracy method that is embedded into all iTunes downloads with an .m4p extension. The problem with DRM is that it becomes...
Memoirs of a Skepchick (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
... at Pandagon for Best Very Large Blog Orac at Respectful Insolence for Best Medical/Health Blog Randall Munroe at XKCD and/or Jesus & Mo for Best Comic Strip For Best Food Blog, Bug_Girl likes Coffee & Conversation And for the category of Best Science Blog , well, you’re going to have to pick between Steve Novella at Neurologica , Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy , PZ Myers at Pharyngula...
Brainicane (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Only those three last bastions of freedom and the right to choose, the United States, Liberia, and Burma, still do not use the Metric System. Until now, one could justify this on the basis that the Imperial American system was human scaled, based on our body’s dimensions and things we naturally understood. (Like 0 is really cold and 100 is really hot, who cares about water boiling and freezing?) Randall...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... , by Francesco Marciuliano Dilbert , by Scott Adams Jesus and Mo , by Mohammed Jones xkcd , by Randall Munroe You can continue to vote for the finalists on the Weblog Awards web site. On another note, Sandman author Neil Gaiman’s Journal also was named a finalist for Best Literature Blog!
MT-Soft Website Development (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
Randall Munroe from xkcd imagines some correlations between Google searches and people that are unlikely to use them. The #1 US state for [men kissing] is indeed Utah, but the other correlations are made up. Tip: track the fastest rising queries from your region using the Insight for Search gadget. { Image licensed as Creative Commons [...] Related posts: IP Address Tools While trying...
Gerry Canavan (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Pascal's Wager came up in at least three different conversations today. That's how I know Randall Munroe is listening to everything I say and do .
