matthew rogers
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@comcastcares experiencing several recurring outages a day now and still no word on why it's not fixed. I expect more for $230 a month.
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@comcastcares serious connection dropouts in Modesto, ca today and for the past week. What gives? Both tv and internet affected.
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@ComcastWill @comcastcares yes they did, thanks :)
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@comcastcares actually it's finally crawling back up to normal speeds, so unless they're about to do something again just disregard :)
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@comcastcares something up in california? ping/upload are good, download is dialup speeds (tried everything)
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@ComcastWill ok what info do you need, will DM it
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@ComcastWill @comcastcares we also tried with two different modems.
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@ComcastWill @comcastcares no, just internet service
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@comcastcares anyone home? Modem suddenly can't connect and phone support wasn't able to reset the signal, says no outage. Modesto, ca
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@mrseb You should try anyway, who knows how loose the system is (it uses serials, so maybe your serial was in a qualified batch)
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If you just bought a Mac in the last month, don't forget to make your Lion update free. Go to http://bit.ly/pZ1Sae [Apple]
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My one real Spotify complaint: It's got Facebook all over it. Clean it off, please.
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@fluffydelusions Very nice, I'm diggin it :)
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@shawin Well, it happens :)
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@danlabute the owl part was a bit random but virgil was pretty awesome.
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@shawin You're right, I did mean cut. Thanks, I'll add it.
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@MaFt Yeah you're going deep into the wayback machine for that one! But, it was pretty good too.
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@jimmydevery I know right? haha :)
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Morning cartoons used to be a lot better... (on that note, who remembers Mighty Max?)
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It's sad when, out of boredom, you let something like Beyblade play on TV, only to later find yourself in a comatose daze because of it.
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Obi-Wan, Yoda and … Randy Savage.
Macho Man Randy Savage died today. As is tradition, I have immortalized him as a Jedi spirit. Now he can snap into Slim Jims with his mind.
Rest in Peace.
Nice.
This x That:
Know This:
- Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Washington “prepared for confrontation,” tells Obama Israel “cannot go back to 1967 lines.”
- Controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill passes Tennessee Senate.
- McDonald’s says Ronald “isn’t going anywhere.”
Read This:
- I have an End of the World I’d like to sell you: Monetizing the Rapture.
- Meet the people who truly believe tomorrow is Judgment Day.
- New Jersey teen threatened after challenging Rep. Michele Bachmann to a debate. (thanks david!)
- Newt Gingrich interrupted by his “Dancing Queen” ringtone.
- Sites claims Ricky Gervais dissed Office finale; Gervais responds: “I f*cking didn’t.”
- Diddy changes his name to “Swag” for a week.
- Where Are They Now: “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” kid.
Look At This:
- Monkey in a Dress steals show at Hangover 2 premiere.
The Other:
- NewsFeed: Second Grader’s Space Sketch Wins Doodle 4 Google Contest.
- Tea x Time List: The 12 Greatest End of the World Prophecy FAILs.
- Above: Duchamp-inspired Urinal Dress from Not Just A Label. (via/via.)
Hot.
Jesus should probably sign up for a YouTube channel.
And I laughed seriously hard at this one.
ICWUDT of the Day: Prepare for the imminent arrival of The Raptor with the San Francisco Chronicle’s end-of-the-world FAQ sheet:
Q: Will the Earth end on May 21?
A: No. The Earth will stick around for a few more months of “chaos and awful suffering” before being obliterated Oct. 21.Good, ‘cause there’ll be hell to pay if I don’t get to see Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
Had to.
Tweet of the Day: George Takei is a goddamn national treasure.
[@georgetakei.]
See Also: Patrick Schwarzenegger feels like sh*t, calls himself Patrick Shriver.
I love George Takei more with every tweet.
Memetic Accessory of the Day: Since you were already planning on going as Princess Beatrice to your local meme-themed Halloween party, why not skip the homemade knockoff and go after the real deal?
According to Duchess Fergie, her daughter will auction off the infamous Philip Treacy fascinator to benefit UNICEF and Children in Crisis, though no further details are available at this time.
[people.]
Anyone who watched the royal wedding has no choice but to laugh at this.
Street Art of the Day: After a collaborative wall piece in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown was visited by the buff man, an anonymous tagger offered the real estate company responsible for the paint job something that might be more to their liking.
[wooster / laughingsquid.]
For Great Justice of the Day: Twitter’s head of international strategy (and former Special Adviser to the Office of Innovation at the US Department of State) Katie Jacobs Stanton gets Donald Trump to autograph a copy of President Obama’s birth certificate at last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“[W]hat did he say when you asked him to sign it?,” asks @snowdeal. “[T]o be honest, he didn’t listen to a word I said,” Stanton responds.
And many lulz were had by all.
[@alecjross.]
Playing with Cinemagraphic GIFs - lou.pe/1207 (not bad for an hour’s fooling around).
Twitter Account of the Day: The Bronx Zoo’s escaped Egyptian cobra has a Twitter account because of course it does.
[context / thanks christopher!]
And this is why I love the Internet.
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So, it seems that “cinemagraphs” are the new in-thing, and I don’t really have a problem with that. Moving photographs are pretty awesome any way you slice it, right? Anyhow, I spent an hour or so this afternoon fooling around with this to see if I could make a somewhat “cinemagraphic” GIF. I don’t think [...]
I laughed so hard when I saw this in my neighborhood, because you can plainly see the (very) short story behind it. It’s obvious that there was some sort of graffiti painted on the wall, which had been mostly scrubbed away by city workers. The would-be artist then returned, only to find that his late-night [...]
Kristin and I have said our goodbyes to Seattle, and made our way down to California (from whence I came). We’re not yet in San Francisco, but we’ll get there. In the meantime, it’s actually quite nice here in the Valley. Full size image available here.
Simply amazing. Taken just a week ago in Florence by ContemplatingJazz, at deviantART.
Sorry about the recent downtime, if you happened by to notice. I tend to opt for developer builds on my systems, and unfortunately the latest dev build of nginx was a little too dev, and there were some issues that didn’t show up until I rebooted the server. Unfortunately, I didn’t bother to check any [...]
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One of my favorite things about Twitter is the chance to see truly angry people sum up their angst in concise bursts of text. These were a couple of my favorites from today: (The tweet) Yep, Del.icio.us is dead, and Yahoo! is in a death spiral. I have a feeling Warren’s not the only user [...]
Earlier this year, I wrote about my departure from AT&T and the cult of iPhone, in which I extolled the virtues of simpler technologies like those found in Blackberry devices. It was nice to leave the App Store and its countless fart-apps. It was nice to have an indicator light to tell me when I [...]
Yesterday, I made the fixed-width version of LEFT5 available for download, but today is a day for would-be photobloggers. The flexible-width version is now available at the LEFT5 download page, in all its image-centric glory. The flexible-width version has all the same goodies as its fixed-width counterpart, but has the added feature of being built [...]
It’s been a little over 3 months since I released version 1.2 of my LEFT5 WordPress theme for anyone who wanted it, but it’s come a long way since then. Version 1.5 is, in every essential way, the same great theme that the initial release was — now it’s just sexier. The main reasons you [...]
I don’t really use Textpattern at the moment, but I had been curious about it so I thought I’d give it a shot. Having recently ditched Apache for an LNMP-stacked VPS, I wanted to see if the spry little CMS would be compatible with Nginx without going through a gauntlet of issues. It’s especially important [...]
I’ve been using Media Temple for well over a year now, specifically the Grid Service. While it’s a great service for people looking to get hosted on a budget, it’s a bit lacking on the control side of things, and I really felt the need to move out of the cloud and into a VPS. [...]
The very theme this site is now using, which was originally created for and implemented over at Loupe, is now publicly available. The theme is not for the kind of WordPress bloggers out there who use widgets or masses of plugins for their sites. I personally detest those things, and I know there are many [...]
So I know I haven’t been around much lately, but I can explain that in a bit. EndofWeb has a brand spankin’ new redesign! I’ve given it the very same WordPress theme that Loupe has been using successfully for a few months now — Left5. It’s gone through loads of tweaking and shaving since the [...]
Oddly enough, this isn’t purely sarcasm. First thing’s first, you’ve got to get your hands on one of the newest iterations of the Pokémon game franchise — either Soulsilver or Heartgold. They’re basically revved-up, remixed and rebuilt DS-platform releases of the now ancient Gold and Silver versions of the game from about a decade ago. [...]
Updates
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If I were to say Klaatu Barada, what would be your immediate response?Posted 9 months ago
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Any Android users that see this: Do yourself a favor and uninstall that crapstain of an app that Facebook put out, and just make a homescreen shortcut for a browser bookmark to m.facebook.com instead. Thank me later.Posted 9 months ago
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David Frost (think Frost vs. Nixon) interviews Julian Assange - http://goo.gl/pUsCpPosted 13 months ago
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Old "gadgets" from Google Wave resurface as Google Shared Spaces - http://goo.gl/pZ6ngPosted 13 months ago
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H.R. Giger's return to the Alien franchise confirmed - http://goo.gl/O3Hym [oh hell yes]Posted 13 months ago
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Keep it classy, SyFy: the Stargate Universe cast found out they were canceled via Twitter. http://goo.gl/3MoesPosted 13 months ago
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My favorite 'righteously angry' tweets of the day - http://goo.gl/40ky1Posted 13 months ago
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First you cancel Caprica, and now SG Universe. SyFy I'm quickly losing faith in you. You're turning into FOX.Posted 13 months ago
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If Zuckerberg is Man of the Year, Sarah Palin should be given a Nobel Peace Prize.Posted 14 months ago
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As we celebrate Awareness Month, please copy this status if you know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone.Posted 14 months ago
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Have you seen the new 2010 penny? Are we living in Chuck E. Cheese now?Posted 16 months ago
