Oh, goody, just what I was hoping for. I was less than pleased when this Gingrich mouthpiece used his first governorship for nothing besides spouting Republican revolution rhetoric. Now he has a fantastic plan for revitalizing the economy! Cutting the sales tax. That will help fill the budget deficit. Good luck, douche.
Wow, for an art school, I can’t imagine designing an uglier custom license plate than my alma mater did. Does the URL need to be in all caps? Really?
From the NYT: Line2 Allows iPhone Users to Sidestep AT&T. Genius. There was a product with about 80% of the featureset called TalkPlus five years ago, something I had a hand in working on (and very nearly joined the company).
Here’s my new favorite podcast: Stuff You Missed In History Class. Covered are such subjects as:
Why did Angkor Wat fall?
How did Meriwether Lewis die?
How the Boston Molasses Flood Worked
John Snow’s Ghost Map
How the Opium Wars Worked
What Happened to the Romanovs?
There’s hours of good listening there. Great for working to.
This is a simple story, really, but inspiring and full of awesome: How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers. The short version: Guy buys 20-year-old beater BMW, stuffs new motor inside, signs up for the WRC Rally Mexico and takes third place on guts, skill, and luck. You, Sir, are Full Of Win.
I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised: Building Used On ‘Homicide’ To Become Hotel. Apparently Baltimore city sold the Recreation Pier to developers for $2 million, and they will turn it into a $35 million, 132-room hotel. Because, you know, Baltimore doesn’t have enough hotels already.
Strangely enough, I was wondering about this earlier today when doing a search for toner numbers: an explanation for HP’s ridiculous ‘License Plate Domain’ URLs.
It appears, via a very interesting viral marketing campaign, that Valve will be releasing Steam, Half-Life, and Left 4 Dead on the Mac sometime in the immediate future. I’ve finished Half-Life 2 on the Xbox (one word: FANTASTIC), and they’ve only released the follow-up episodes on the 360. So I will be seriously considering a subscription.
Update: Confirmed.
“We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac and the Xbox 360,” Cook said.
I was really beginning to enjoy using Photoshop CS4, up until the point it started crashing randomly. This has been twice in one day. That’s twice more in one day than CS3 managed in the entire month of December.