October 2009
37 posts
Twitter's Banned Passwords
From the source code of Twitter’s signup page. Standouts:
bigdaddy bitches cumshot muffin rush2112 thx1138 twitter
I’ve put the full list in my Dropbox for further reading. I have to wonder why some of these were banned. For security reasons? Because they’re too rude? Because they’re an awesome album by Rush?
Trivia: “pencil” wasn’t on the list.
Watchmerlin:
002: Interview: Jonathan Coulton | The Merlin Show
I still really love this interview.
Me too, though not for the same reasons. That would be a little creepy.
I miss The Merlin Show. The interviewing style was great. It had what I like to call the O’Brien-Richter factor — that way you felt when Conan O’Brien would interview Andy Richter in the later years of Late...
You never run into douchebags from high school when you go online shopping.
I ran into, like, 5 boxes in quick succession before realising I fucking suck at this game on my iPhone. http://canabalt.com
About The About Page
I secretly love writing About pages, and I think I’ve figured out why.
About pages are a way of defining who we are online. We’re usually defined by what other people think of our work or our personality, but we don’t really have control over what other people think. The About page gives us an opportunity to define a canonical version of ourselves for other people to base their...
Batman Lecturing Robin
High-larious quotes of Batman morally guiding Robin. My favourite:
Robin: “Boy! That was our closest call ever! I have to admit that I was pretty scared!” Batman: “I wasn’t scared in the least.” Robin: “Not at all?” Batman: “Haven’t you noticed how we always escape the vicious ensnarements of our enemies?” Robin: “Yeah, because...
One Out Of Five
The 5 iPhone Apps I Want People To Think I Spend The Most Time Using:
1. Instapaper Pro 2. Byline 3. Mail 4. Tumblr 5. Birdhouse
The 5 iPhone Apps I Actually Spend The Most Time Using:
1. Tweetie 2. Canabalt 3. Fieldrunners 4. Favrd (web bookmark, not an app) 5. Birdhouse
Well, one outta five ain’t bad. You’d think that spending a lot of time in Birdhouse (not to mention Favrd) would...
Things I've Learned Playing Canabalt
patrickrhone:
Obstacles are sometimes your friend…
Listen closely for small details…
Chase your own top score…
Know when to stop…
Fantastic post by Patrick. Seriously — I had thought these things with regard to playing the game, but hadn’t realised that they could be applied so well to real-life.
Now the things I’ve learned playing...
So I’m another year older today, and I still can’t grow a proper man-beard. I swear that once I can, I am going to grow a beard straight out of a fantasy novel. You are going to see some seriously Dumbledore-esque shit, friends. And then I will finally be able to see if the things on this list are true.
I love how some people in the mainstream media pronounce “Twitter.” They say it with the kind of authority that parents in the ’60s said “pop music” with.
I sometimes forget that there are people in the world that aren’t plugged in to everything, so it makes me a little mad when I see newspaper articles like I saw yesterday (yes, real ones — like, on...
After 3, say the first word that comes to mind when you describe country music.
1…
2…
3…
Twangy.
See? It’s the one everyone thinks of.
Using a multi-touch mouse is going to make my screenplay so much better, you guys.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/18/woody-al... →
Remember that animated scene in Annie Hall? It was based on the Woody Allen comics by this guy.
If I ever get married, the first dance at the wedding will be to the theme song from Mortal Kombat.
I guess the second part of that sentence kinda cancels out the first.
Bam! Ka-pow! Ca-caw!
Onomatopœia - Wikipedia:
Marvel Comics has trademarked two words of their own invention: “thwip!”, the sound of Spider-Man’s web shooter, and “snikt!” the switchblade-sound of Wolverine’s claws locking into place (which was replaced with the lesser-known “schlikt” during the period he was left without the adamantium covering on his bones).
I’m...
The only difference between half of the pictures on Tumblr and pornography is that I’m wearing pants as I type this.
Re: Lesser-Known Sequels
I already gave my answer to Mr. Lisagor’s Lesser-Known Sequels post (my answer was the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off sequel/spin-off TV show), but I think I just found one that’s even stranger.
The Jerk, Too
This is a made-for-TV movie remake of what I consider to be Steve Martin’s magnum opus, The Jerk. It stars Mark Blankfield in the title role, who I guess you might...
So, girls like a sense of humour in a guy. Well, I have big hands, and you know what they say about big hands, ladies…
That they’re good for throwing cream pies at people’s faces.
I bet these people could make a crap-ton of money... →
I recorded a podcast about minimalism. Check it...
http://minimalmac.com/post/211099969/shortcuts →
Hey, look! Those Shortcuts bookmarklets I wrote got featured on a Macintosh website that I really like! There’s only one word to describe this — BADA$$.
Yep, bad-ay-double-dollar-signs. You know it.
A Rough Onomatopoeia
After some very un-scientific testing on the bus ride home today, I’ve come up with a very rough vocalisation of the 2-bar bass solo in You Can Call Me Al:
Bow-boodily-boop-a-doop-bow-booda-booda-boop-booda-booda-booda-booda-booda-boodoop.
Yeah, I freaked the shit out of some people on the bus by coming up with that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieing →
Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at a person. This can be a political action when the target is an authority figure, politician, or celebrity and can be used as a means of protesting against the target’s political beliefs, or against a perceived flaw — arrogance, hubris — in the target’s character. … The political act of pieing has its origins in the “pie in the...
Non-social Network
So I just got another spam follower on Twitter. It was one of the ones that, without seeing their profile, was hard to diagnose as a bot, so I clicked through to check out their profile. Sure enough, there was a picture of a scantily-clad lady with zero tweets and a bio that mentioned buying clothes and looking at her “pics.” Another night at the office then. I was just about to report...
Scribblenauts, Pennsylvania
Scribblenauts is the game for the Nintendo DS where you conjure items to get your little guy to a star that’s somewhere in each level. There are almost 23,000 things you can conjure just by typing the name of what you want. Type “rope”, and your character will have a rope and be able to swing Indiana-Jones-style from stuff. “Chainsaw” lets you use a chainsaw to cut...
The Most Useless Percussionist Ever
Seriously, check him out. He’s the shirtless, ponytailed d’bag up the back running around the stage for most of the song playing that un-mic’d tambourine. Check out that action at 4:15 — yep, really adding to the song there, bud.
I’m about 80% sure those Simmons pads he’s supposed to be playing aren’t actually plugged in to anything. I think a guy...
Twitter Favorites
I don’t use Twitter’s Favorites feature very much because I can’t quite figure out why it exists.
Twitter:
Some twitter updates are just too good to be forgotten.
So it’s for your favourite tweets. But what does that mean? I mean, if you come at it by assuming that Twitter is for telling people What You’re Doing™, the Favorites feature doesn’t make any sense....
Why can’t writing the inspirational message in big Helvetica be the hard part and actually putting the thing into practice be the easy part?
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