July 2008
49 posts
Ted Stevens indicted, longest-serving GOP senator http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_6775/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=Wl8Vu4pQ
Facebook Disables Scrabulous in US and Canada →
Factions of Fiction: C'mon, Be Nice To Each Other. →
The Google Effect: How the company’s shuttle line affects San Francisco real estate http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_6717/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=p2VMZMhK
Urban Dictionary: screwvenir →
de marco - peopleware
In no time at all, we came up with lots of sure-fire ways to inhibit the formation of teams and disrupt project sociology. These measures, taken together, constitute a strategy we dubbed teamicide. Our short list of teamicide techniques is presented below:
defensive management
bureaucracy
physical separation
fragmentation of people’s time
quality reduction of the product
phony...
Urban Dict - foot in mouth disease
http://www.urbandictionary.com/iphone/search?term=foot+in+mouth+disease
UserVoice » Customer Feedback 2.0 →
Dolores Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Amazon’s S3 Web... →
Urban Dictionary: sortacide →
He could care less. He is committing sortacide.
Urban Dictionary: spot check →
“Good, you saved my seat as per the rules of spot check.”
Urban Dictionary: shit just got real →
An expression that explains how a joking or friendly conversation suddenly took a turn for the worse and is escalating towards a hostel situation and/or a physical scuffle.
Urban Dictionary: ask me out boots →
Dude, did you see Amy today? She has her ask me out boots on, I think I will.
"It's hard to understand these technology... →
Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page →
"bling-bling for the ring-ring" from Urban...
What’s up! apeckham@gmail.com sent you this definition: bling-bling for the ring-ring DSL internet through a phone line He just got his bling-bling for the ring-ring. — http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Live Chat Software for Business and Customer... →
Testing Software for Web Professionals - Litmus →
meebo is a family place
urbandictionary has a meebo chat room that gets a lot of traffic. Meebo does a great job of hosting the chat room and enabling people to talk to each other. But, they have a feature I’ve always wanted to turn off — “cuss words” are replaced by asterisks in the room.
I don’t know where the list of cuss words comes from, but that policy conflicts with how...
InfoQ: Engine Yard Closes $15 Million in Series B... →
Make your own iPhone ringtone (from TUAW) →
mrrrh :: Book of Moron (via craigslist) :: August... →
Attack of the Photoshopped Missiles (Updated) |...
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/07/attack-of-the-p.html
Urban Dictionary: slide to unlock →
A phrase used to describe a girl that is “easy”. They are just like the iPhone, as simple as slide to unlock.
Coding Horror: The Ten Commandments of Egoless...
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000584.html
Site report for www.barackobama.com - hosted on... →
sep →
Someone Else’s Problem
I thought we would have problems with that project, but it’s SEP now that the manager has been fired.
“If somebody is using it to convey a specific idea and that idea is successfully...”
– 100 new terms make the cut for Merriam-Webster dictionary - Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large for Merriam-Webster
beerboarding →
A controversial process of extracting otherwise-secret information from a friend or co-worker by getting them drunk and thereby loosening their control on their tongue.
The guys at work took me…
friend girl →
A woman with whom you are friendly but not in any way romantically linked.
My girlfriend is always jealous of Sandy, but Sandy’s just my friend girl. There’s never been anything else going on…
McCain Battles a Nemesis, the Teleprompter -... →
i olo'd →
Means “I only laughed once”.
Usually said when something isn’t really that funny.
Opposite of “i lol’d”.
PopularOnTheInternet: dude, check out this om nom webiste lol
NotEasilyAmused: i…
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fourth of july →
The day people light things on fire, and blame it on loving their country.
police officer: hey, you kids, that type of fireworks is illegal!
kid: dude, its the fourth of july. just showing some…
Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to... →
Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.
fakebook →
Adding friends to facebook who you don’t particularly like, socialize with or think you are friends with.
Go to her fakebook pages to see all of her friends he/she does not have.
Dress Flops →
When the new young preps have two pairs of Rainbows flip flops and one of which they concider new and clean enough for fomal occasions.
Dude, I can’t wear these to dinner. I’ll stop by my place…
Urban Dictionary vs. Wikipedia | RedEye | Chicago... →
carbon guilt →
The feeling of guilt for using too much carbon, e.g. too much air travel, driving to the corner shop in the car, etc
‘Man, I have to fly to Zurich for the second time this month’
‘Whoa, you must…