March 2011
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Natalie Portman, Oscar Winner, Was Also a... →
Among the lesser-known but nonetheless depressingly impressive details in Ms. Portman’s altogether too precociously storied career is that as a student at Syosset High School on Long Island back in the late 1990s, Ms. Portman made it all the way to the semifinal rounds of the Intel competition.
Is it possible to be too perfect?
February 2011
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WatchTen Surprisingly Funny Saturday Night Live Hosts | Nerve.com
(couldn’t resist re-posting such a great clip)
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“About one percent of the queries on Google are for recipes.”
– Google Recipe Search Cooks Up Next Gen of Search | Wired.com (via interestingsnippets)
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AMAZON TAKES AIM AT NETFLIX: Instant Streaming Of... →
This is a massive shot at Netflix, which has been growing in popularity, partly based on its strong instant streaming library. Netflix’s streaming only subscription is $7.99 per month, which adds up to more than the Amazon Prime membership.
Yes, with Netflix you can get a bigger library of streaming content (estimated around 20,000 movies/tv shows). But what are the odds Amazon...
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How to Open Two Instances of an Application in OS... →
From the Lifehacker comments:
Out of curiousity, prior to browsers with tabbed browsing, how did you ever get things done? One browser windows with a single tab seems difficult.
Seriously. How did we get things done? I can’t remember.
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“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I...”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“I’d rather get almost any other type of message than voicemail — email,...”
– AJ Jacobs, Editor of Esquire | Is It Ever OK To Leave Voicemail Anymore?
“Sometimes it’s like working at McDonald’s, with better pay.”
– Confessions of an Apple Store Employee
Are Silicon Valley’s Engineers Underpaid? | Fast... →
He’s kidding, right? Just because a 22yo making $100k-150,000/year can’t simultaneously pay off college debt and purchase a home in overpriced San Francisco DOES NOT mean he’s underpaid. Absurd.
