GameBoy, Sega Genesis, and Turbo Graphix 16 previewed on Nickelodeon’s “Total Panic” circa 1989. It’s hard for me to decide what I love the most about this - the nostalgia for all of those old game systems, the hilariously anachronistic terms (16 bits!), the vision of the three hosts tangled up in a coke orgy backstage (you know it happened) or the Bananaman promo
The continual disappearance of 50 Cent’s newspaper from the stoop of his $4.1 million Connecticut mansion
—and other unsolved hip-hop crimes
John Stewart proves once again why he’s America’s leading media critic with this bit on the media coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings
gSpell is an OS X service that uses the Google spell check algorithm
Wicked cool because it includes all kinds of statistical anomalies and colloquialisms that the average dictionary doesn’t know about. Smart!
Scarlett Johansson onstage with The Jesus and Mary Chain at Coachella
Using image concatenation to help with page load
Instead of making six different calls to load six different icon images, make one call (which gets cached!) to one big image and use CSS background position it. Clever, that.
Six basic truths about free APIs
“Free APIs are not a god-given right”
I’m sure you do, dude. I’m sure you do.
How a t-shirt goes from concept to on your back at SpreadShirt [via]
Death by “receiving oral sex?” Sure. Death by spending too much time playing World of Warcraft? No thanks.