Is there a name for the point along a curve at which point it becomes more efficient to just suck it up and grind through some repetitive task, instead of trying to script and/or batch a solution, or can I name it after myself?
Archive for February, 2008
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To prepare for an onslaught of smoking bans around the world, PMI is testing Heatbar, also known as THS or the Tobacco Heating System, in Switzerland and Australia. Heatbar smokers insert specially designed cigarettes into the device…
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What started as a quirky idea to get around the statewide smoking ban appears to be spreading like wildfire.
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Apparently “it” is a pretty nasty case of obsessive-compulsive disorder
In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far far better thing than the superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one.
–Raoul Duke
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Includes such classics as Juicy Beans, Moon Babies, Electro Worms, Crystal Meth: Friend or Foe and Fat Man to Mars!
After hearing about the custom-printed M&Ms that Panic had at Macworld, I started searching around on the internet to find out where they got them. Of course, my first instinct was to check the official M&Ms website, but the only custom printing they seemed to have was 2 lines of tiny text, with lots of bizarre rules about what words you can and can’t use. Eventually I figured out that it’s the “Business” section that lets you print custom images, which stands to reason, considering that outputting a 1-bit bitmap image from Photoshop is clearly a task that requires a staff of at least 15 people.
But at any rate, before I figured out where they were hiding the cool M&Ms, I did a bit of googling and turned up tons of companies that offer custom-printed candy & mint tins in all shapes and sizes. Here’s a good example. There are some pretty great concepts in there, and it got me to thinking, “Damn! If I was some big-time Hollywood drug dealer, I would totally package my stuff in tins like this & print great slogans on there like ‘The World is Yours’ or ‘Choose Life’ and so on.” Unfortunately, I’m not currently a big-time Hollywood drug dealer, so I wasn’t able to get started on this plan right away.
Then today, I was reading this great blog about packaging design and I came across the following article about how Hershey’s IceBreakers brand was trying to market these awesome breath mint “pac” things that look like little bags of drugs, but then they had to recall them because they looked too much like little bags of drugs.
I certainly hope I don’t get shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth!
Published February 14th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 1 CommentAfter seeing these great sketches by Telltale forum user “Zombie Lincoln” I decided to do a Google search on Zombie Lincoln and I was amazed to find out just how prevalent the idea of Zombie Lincoln apparently is. Here are some of the more notable results:
- Zombie Lincoln Shirt
- A children’s story (flash)
- Another shirt
- Some insane clock (flash)
- In space
- Top 5 Zombie Presidents (this one is not *super* amazing, aside from the fact that it was posted by a guy who rides around Washington DC on a Segway and documents people’s reactions to it on Google Maps!)
- High School Newspaper (another loosely related result, this one is an article from a newspaper article about “Zombie Students” at Abraham Lincoln High School. I include it because the paper in question is called the “Lincoln Log” which is awesome!)
- Killing Zombies
Special Bonus Link: The guy from the very first link (“These great sketches”) has also seen fit to grace us with the most amazing Flash animation I’ve ever seen! Check out… Bill Murray Looms Large!
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nice tiling retro inspiration
I hooked up Google Webmaster Tools on my site the other day, and while I’ve been running Google Analytics for awhile now, there is some interesting data that seems to appear only in the former package. For instance, whereas Google Analytics can tell me about the (relatively small amount of) people who visit my site, and what Web searches led them there:
| Keyword | Visits |
| antinomian | 28 |
| arctic monkeys | 23 |
| female wrestling | 21 |
| entitilitus | 11 |
| cms police antinomian | 6 |
| convert qdf to qif | 5 |
| feels so unnatural peter gabriel | 4 |
| how to start an escort service | 4 |
| latte art youtube | 4 |
What it can’t fill me in on is exactly what position of Google Authority I hold on any of these pressing issues! Here’s where Google Webmaster Tools comes in… In this report I can see a similar list of keywords, but instead of being sorted by the number of hits they sent to my site, I can see (approximately) where in the Google index I appear for each query:
| Query | Position |
| entitilitus | 1 |
| antinomian | 3 |
| "why aren t you two ponies" | 3 |
| fuck | 3 |
| big slip daddy | 4 |
| giigke ca | 4 |
| james g watt us secretary of the interior "i have a black a woman two jews and a cripple and we have talent" | 5 |
| my duckets | 5 |
| fandango theatre | 5 |
| female wrestling | 70 |
This does a lot to explain why such a large percentage of my visitors seem to have arrived via such humorous and unexpected searches. For instance, I get so many (11, woo!) visitors interested in entitilitus because, I happen to be the #1 world authority on the disease! Other subjects on which I am a (theoretically) reputable source of information include: antinomian[ism] (Obviously…), Obscure Charlie Brown, Beach Boys, 70′s politician & Grand Theft Auto Quotes (Again… Obviously!) and certain specifics mis-typings of the word "Google." Now as for why so many people felt compelled to dig 70 pages into their search for "Female Wrestling" to find my site, I have no idea. I can only guess that perhaps for some brief moment, I was more well-noted for my views on Female Wrestling than I am today. I am also sad to note that my Top 5 authority on the word "Fuck" appears to be an overstatement. But anyway, who can truly comprehend the mysteries of Google? Certainly not I. Now if you’ll excuse me, I must go and watch a bit of Female Wrestling. Good night!
