Quote of the day
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” – Drew Carey
September 22, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Time's awesome archives
While Googling a quote from Aldus Huxley, I came across this article announcing a new painkiller called Soma. I noticed the date was 1959. It seems Time Mag has put their entire archive online dating back to 1929. How totally cool. Their search UI is horribly buggy, but I managed to dredge up this interesting […]
September 21, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
A Big Fish
The biggest freshwater fish caught by a woman record in the UK has been smashed. This old man was safely released after having his weight verified by the lake bailiff. Details on “A Welsh View”.
September 21, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe mass harvesting salmon out of Lake Sammamish
I rode my bike down to this little singletrack that leads to Issaquah creek mouth today on South Lake Sammamish and it’s nuts down there right now. The Muckleshoot tribe is doing their yearly salmon harvest. The whole south of Lake Sammamish is covered in gill nets they’re using to harvest the salmon – courtesy […]
September 19, 2007 | Fishing | 2 comments
Bring it!
This is taken about 50 miles from where I grew up in South Africa. It’s from one of my favorite documentaries of all time “Air Jaws”. We have big fish back home.
September 6, 2007 | Fishing | No comments
Feedjit on Techcrunch
Feedjit made Techcrunch this evening and Michael has installed both our widgets on the blog entry, complete with his own personal color scheme “Arring Town”. We also rolled out a new version that adds a pretty cool (if I say so myself) ajax widget customization interface. Now you can choose your own colors – a […]
September 2, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Otis Taylor – Blues God
I watched Shooter last night. Besides a few badly done slow-motion-macho-manly-walking scenes, it’s a pretty good flick. The titles at the end had this awesome blues song that I had to Google. It’s called ‘Nasty Letter’ by Otis Taylor. The man has an interesting history. He left music in the 70’s to become an antique […]
August 26, 2007 | Music | No comments
FEEDJIT New version released
I’ve released a new version of FEEDJIT with the following improvements: A real-time traffic feed updated every second on the home page We’ve upgraded to a 64 bit platform that is handling a lot of traffic. Watch the real-time feed to see some of the traffic we process. However, we are currently only at 2% […]
August 25, 2007 | FEEDJIT | 1 comment
Calling all Faith No More fans…
Here’s a clip my bro pointed me at from Mike Patton’s new project Peeping Tom. If you have a very wide range in musical tastes (from BeeGees to Tool) then you’re going to love this:
August 25, 2007 | Startups | No comments
"Man vs Wild" vs Les Stroud's Survivorman
Les Stroud Rocks. There’s no question about it. Survivorman is one of the best shows ever made. Les Stroud really went into the wild with his own camera gear and filmed himself for a week without any food or water – repeatedly. The reason it didn’t make it big is because it wasn’t fake enough. […]
August 24, 2007 | Startups | 1 comment