August 2009
5 posts
I guess that's why they call it “dope”?
The word “literally” is usually misused, so when I say that browsing is “literally” an addiction, I have to clarify that I mean “literally” as in “not figuratively.” As in, loading blog after blog for hours on end in search of a little item of interest that will provide a jolt of — dopamine? Okay, dopamine.
Mammals stimulating the lateral...
one more hit
After six to eight hours of network deprivation — also known as sleep — people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging their legs to the floor and tending to more biologically urgent activities. “It used to be you woke up, went to the bathroom, maybe brushed your teeth and picked up the newspaper,” said Naomi S. Baron, a professor of...
new Futurama episodes to air mid-2010
Dear buddies at Box Fox Studios:
You’ve got four choices and a year to prepare:
1. Broadcast on Hulu. Same night as premiere.
2. Broadcast on your proprietary online — Mac and Linux -compatible — video player. Same night as premiere.
3. Available for a fee on iTunes. Yes, same night as premiere.
4. We’ll just bittorrent the damned episodes. Same night as premiere.
XOXO+luvs Eric J
“It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100...”
– What is the 1% rule? by Charles Arthur (via trmw)