Do You Get Less Wet if You Run in the Rain?

Do you get less wet if you run in the rain?

Here comes the science.

The Best Links 2005 (kottke.org)

The Best Links 2005 (kottke.org)

Don’t think you’ll find a better compilation anywhere.

Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes

Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes

Fun stuff.

macosxhints - Scroll arrows at both ends of scroll bars [10.1]

macosxhints - Scroll arrows at both ends of scroll bars [10.1]

I’m constantly needing to look this up whenever I make a new user account on a Mac.

Becoming Mary Poppins

Becoming Mary Poppins

P. L. Travers, Walt Disney, and the making of a myth.

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist

Google Press Center: Zeitgeist

See what the world was searching for all year.

Docking a Blimp on the Empire State Building

Docking a Blimp on the Empire State Building

The original vision for the Empire State Building included the ability for a zeppelin to dock with it and unload passengers a hundred stories in the air.

Feed Icons - Help establish the new standard

Feed Icons - Help establish the new standard

Nice alternatives to the stock orange XML icon.

Lazy Sunday on iTunes for Free

Hurray for NBC for doing something really right. Last week, they aired an hilarious rap video called Lazy Sunday by a comedy group called The Lonely Island, which spread across the internet like wildfire within 48 hours of its original broadcast. Mid-week, a streaming copy appeared on the Saturday Night Live website. And now today you can download the video for free from iTunes. NBC could have easily had its lawyers throw around take-down notices to all the websites sharing the clip, but it wouldh’t have actually stopped the sharing, and it would have made the network look like a stupid bully. Instead, NBC did the right thing and gave it out for free. After all, people just share these sorts of things because they think they’re funny and want other people to enjoy them. It’s free advertising coming from your own fan base, at a time when the general impression about SNL for years has been that it’s not funny anymore. In other words, advertising their marketing department could never generate themselves, using the actual product to be sold to show how good it is. Bravo.

Public Domain Movie Torrents

Public Domain Movie Torrents

Lots of free movies you can download legally.