today’s yosefquota

July 27, 2006 at 3:50 pm · Posted by yosef · Filed under junk

• this guy hates life: there is very little evidence of Mario’s skill as a plumber
• was Poe well-versed in the Talmud?
• breakup letters. so much fun to spread the joy.
• boy dreams about hydrogen scooter, making it to the big leagues. “It wasn’t possible to achieve [hydrogen power] during the time period of my graduation project.” That’s because you suck. Mike, get on this. You have two weeks. Thanks.
• cool pool trick. wasome.
• An F-15 flying with only one wing? couldn’t be.
• colbert responds to morning news attacks
• Some weirdo (?) made a 3D model of the Brady house

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10 things

July 26, 2006 at 12:27 pm · Posted by yosef · Filed under junk

10 Things You Actually Do Need

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just in case you’re not already….

July 26, 2006 at 10:32 am · Posted by yosef · Filed under junk

Be an Expert on Anything, by Stephen Colbert

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statues

July 25, 2006 at 1:21 pm · Posted by yosef · Filed under design

Strange statues around the world

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lot’s-o-lovin’

July 25, 2006 at 10:21 am · Posted by yosef · Filed under junk

sorry, the server crashed hard (in an attempt to thwart world jump day) and didn’t get back up. it’s now overstaying it’s welcome staying with some friends while supposedly looking for a permanent home. more downtime might be coming, so hold in there. here’s some collected goodness from the last week to keep that happy feeling alive:

• house with porch and garden in NY, on the roof
• The US used serial numbers on captured German tanks to win the war
• execs at Disney were terrified about Johnny Depp’s flamboyant pirate
• the future of the violin. aren’t all musical instruments going to die? (except the flugelhorn?)
• For our new apartment, I can’t decide whether to base my atomation setup on the home model or the MIT dorm-room model. Suggestions?

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seu nome brasileiro

July 12, 2006 at 9:16 am · Posted by yosef · Filed under Uncategorized

if you were a Brazilian footballer, what would your name be?

bassie’s is the coolest: “Kleimo”
dina’s is pretty good too: “Kleardo”

(note to dovid and dena: make sure to consult this page before deciding on a name for the baby!)

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chimp playing videogames

July 12, 2006 at 9:12 am · Posted by yosef · Filed under junk

check out this chimp playing pacman. I’m going to teach my chimps to xbox360 games like ping-pong, now that I just finished teaching them to do the zidane.

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MAZEL TOV

July 12, 2006 at 8:48 am · Posted by yosef · Filed under junk

mazel tov to dovid and dena on the birth of a baby girl! pictures are forthcoming.

I’m setting her up with an account now, and she should be yosefblogging by the end of the week.

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steel gold">zidane’s got balls of steel gold

July 10, 2006 at 5:00 pm · Posted by yosef · Filed under Uncategorized

Zidane wins Golden Ball award. And the intense headbutt to the chest of Materazzi certainly sealed his place as an all-time hero. (I wish we knew what Materazzi said)

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microsoft powerpoint crashes [the space shuttle]

July 10, 2006 at 4:28 pm · Posted by yosef · Filed under design, science

Z3-PO recommends: Edward Tufte on how PowerPoint brought down the space shuttle.

This is an amazing piece. Doesn’t everyone know that PowerPoint is only for communicating with people with no intellect? (and even for that it takes a virtuoso like Lawrence Lessig to pull it off with any style)

If you’re not familiar with Tufte, you’re stupid. He’s the world’s greatest mastermind of information visualization and a design genius (his first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information has been called “The Strunk & White of visual design”, and he was so picky about printing quality he started his own press to publish it). I would own all of his books, but I’m holding out to see him in person and get them all “free”. I’ve almost bought his Napoleon poster on several occasions.

Don’t come back to my blog until you’ve read his books. Scram!

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