October 31st, 2015 3:05pm
posts from 2015 / 10 / 31
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If Nostradamus was alive today, he’d be over 511 years old. PS I called the fruit OS X secure erase trash SSD thing. https://t.co/wVHFeeqYN9
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RT @ryantate: lol — nailed it, Apple https://t.co/yQXnlhjeBu
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RT @missokistic: The collective noun for a group of libertarians is “an entitlement.”
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A well heard chopper, being necessary to the identity of tiresome men, the right of the people to keep and bear motors, shall not be abridg—
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Since it’s Halloween, here’s the “Horror Channel” theme that shipped with the Windows 98 Plus Pack.
October 31st, 2015 12:24pm
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Led Zeppelin. Houses Of The Holy. Original cover photo by Aubrey Powell. Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland, 1973.
October 31st, 2015 12:22pm
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RT @sixangryghosts: DEATH TO NOSTALGIA https://t.co/1pT9C4KsJw
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October 31st, 2015 9:46am
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October 31st, 2015 9:46am
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October 31st, 2015 9:45am
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Hell on Earth comes in different sizes… Who is more dangerous? Vote below! Own the Lumberjack Man and Chucky today.
October 31st, 2015 9:45am
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October 31st, 2015 9:44am
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Arkadiusz Podniesinski’s aerial photograph of cars abandoned in the exclusion zone around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (via inspirationals)
October 31st, 2015 9:43am
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RT @SenSanders: Happy Halloween from The Monster! https://t.co/uuau3avuTF
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RT @kidkoala: good morning east coast. a 1 minute remix of the Ghostbusters theme for ya. #happyhalloween #dontcrossthestreams
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Daily, 4:30-9AM
😹#1 cries at 30s intervals unless shut in kitchen.
😿#2 cries at 30m intervals to get in and out of kitchen.
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Boo.
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The Suck.com origin story
From 1996, a Wired article by Josh Quittner about Suck, Carl Steadman and Joey Anuff’s now-legendary website.
Who at HotWired noticed the look of dread and tension on the faces of Carl and Joey when Suck secretly launched like a torpedo on August 28, 1995? Carl tied his desktop machine at HotWired into his server, which was hidden in plain sight among the array of hardware, so he could watch as people logged in to Suck that first day. This is the coldly accurate terror of the new medium: Carl could tell at any second not only how many people were logged in to his server, but in some cases, who they were.
On that first day, a hundred people found Suck – not a bad turnout considering the Boys told only their friends. Naturally, their friends told their friends, and good news travels like a sweet breeze across the Web.
This was critical since Carl had set some ambitious goals: he wanted 1,000 hits by the end of the week, he wanted to be more successful than any HotWired channel by the end of two months, and he wanted to be the Cool Site of the Day within three months.
Suck made each benchmark.
Some notes: 1) Suck was one of the handful of sites that inspired me to start publishing online. Thank you, Carl & Joey. 2) I loved the site so much that I build a parody of it called Sock. They linked to it soon after it went up and I DIED. Can’t link to it because 0sil8, my site from that era, isn’t online right now. 3) I applied for an internship at Hotwired in early 1996. Never heard back. What an alternate timeline that would have been. 4) Reading this made me sad. I love the Web so much, like more than is probably sane and healthy for a non-human entity, but nearly every other good thing in my life has happened because of it. And that Web is going quickly, if not already gone. All good things… and all that, but it still fucking wrecks me.
October 30th, 2015 8:04pm
