December 2010
48 posts
Why Butterfingers No Longer Uses The Simpsons In...
When the police must burn all of Springfield’s candy and other assorted sugar products, a stack of Butterfingers are thrown and is even referred to by name. The fire is unable to burn the candy bars and they bounce right back, with Chief Wiggum stating, “Even the fire doesn’t want them”. The Simpsons had appeared in Butterfinger commercials and print ads for more than a...
Chris Burden's latest project "a portrait of LA"
(via kottke)
“It includes 1,200 custom-designed cars and 18 lanes; 13 toy trains and tracks; and, dotting the landscape, buildings made of wood block, tiles, Legos and Lincoln Logs. The crew is still at work on the installation. In “Metropolis II,” by his calculation, “every hour 100,000 cars circulate through the city,” Mr. Burden said. “It has an audio...
“During World War II, some United States soldiers in the Pacific theater used the...”
– Shibboleth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via slavin)
Brilliant. Save a file to save a tree. -... →
“As Picciotto said, “You find the Elks Lodge, you find the guy who’s...”
– Quote from Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto on resourcefulness and doing whatever it takes to get it done.
Fugazi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DefaultCase - Enjoy $0.01 iPhone 4, 3G, 3GS Cases →
I bought two. $8.00 total w/ shipping/tax.
“To give the game some tension, I wanted the monsters to surround Pac Man at some...”
– GameInternals - Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior
Check out these awesome Facebook and Twitter... →
Nov. 29, 2010 - Geeks love their geeky sneakers. Ever since Back to the Future II introduced the world to Marty McFly’s futuristic, self-lacing Nikes to the world, geeks
what i learned today: the egg theory →
dihard:
When instant baking mixes were introduced in the 1940s, some did well (piecrusts, biscuits) and others did not (cake mixes). Marketers wondered why this was the case.
One theory was that the cake mixes simplified the process so much that women did not feel as though they had actually made anything. A piecrust or a biscuit were just a component of a larger meal, but a cake was its own...
November 2010
2 posts
