July 2007
59 posts
Ryan Ruppe: Benefit mini golf Team name: Child Abuse really Tees us off (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Ryan Ruppe: Best movie of the year? Ratatouille. (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Merge Records →
Want to stream some good music? You can stream new albums from Spoon, the Clientele and Caribou on this page for free!
Ryan Ruppe: We’re going to Graceland… (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Learn star navigation in 15 mins
Learn to navigate using the stars in 15 minutes! OK, well maybe not navigate, but you’ll know exactly where Orion, Betelgeuse, Polaris (the North Star), Cassiopeia, and Jupiter are. (via Ryan’s shared items in Google Reader)
Rubber Souled - Bill Cosby Sings The Beatles
The author of the excellent (and previously mentioned) 60s/70s soul music blog Funky 16 Corners has put together an awesome compilation album available for free download, called Rubber Souled, featuring soul covers of Beatles classics; the results are intriguing, from Stevie Wonder’s funked out version of We Can Work It Out to a nightmare inducing Bill Cosby cover of Sgt Peppers. (via...
PURE EXCITEMENT!
As Image Comics prepares to resurrect Golden Age comics under the rubric of public domain, it may be worth revisiting heroes of yore, like Stardust (by Hank Fletcher), Fantomah and Titan. Even more can be found through the Pure Excitement reprint webzine, (unfortunately burdened with clumsy navigation— modify the final segment for all 36 issues).
Of course, a fair number of them do show up on...
My Mile Marker →
Track your car’s gas mileage. Cool!
Download Your Favorite YouTube Videos
YouTube lacks a lot of useful features that are available in other online video sites: a way to download videos, feeds for a user’s favorite videos or for the comments of a video. So you can’t download your favorite videos, or at least not directly from YouTube. First you need a feed for your favorite videos and you can obtain one from this site, which uses YouTube’s API....
Ryan Ruppe: My grandparents are awesome! (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Ryan Ruppe: En route to Arizona. (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Top Random Date Ideas →
Computer based on voting and a strange algorithm by the guy who draws xkcd. Awesome date ideas.
Update yr RSS Reader
I’ve changed the feed url of this blog.
It used to be ryanr.tumblr.com/rss
Now it is feeds.feedburner.com/ryanr
From Dinosaur Comics...
GOD: HEY T-REX YOU KNOW THERE'S ANOTHER WAY THE UNIVERSE COULD END
T-Rex: You wake up and it was all a crazy dream?? You know what ALL OF CREATION would say if that happened? "Weaaaaaaaaak"
Vote for your favorite 'Transformers' character -... →
Which character would you like to see most in the Transformers sequel? Obviously, the answer is Soundwave. Soundwave or Devastator. Or Grimlock.
“Vanilla Ice is holding a seminar on teamwork in Portugal! Guess what it’s...”
– Clango Robotron - Diesel Sweeties
Help me bbq better! | Ask MetaFilter →
Delicious recipe suggestions from the hivemind.
Google Reader as a Social News Aggregator
If you use Google Reader, you must know about its sharing feature. “Every Google Reader account comes with a public page which you can use to share items of interest with your friends and family. (…) Like any regular web page, your public page is viewable by anyone who knows its address.” Of course, the problem is that nobody knows that address and you need to email it to your...
Ryan Ruppe: In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room… (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Ryan Ruppe: We’re going to Disneyland! (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Ryan Ruppe: For a minute there, I lost myself. (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Ryan Ruppe: It’s easier to parallel park a car with which you are familiar. (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Ryan Ruppe: You’re gonna eat lightning and crap thunder! (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Ryan Ruppe: Do the DANCE 12345 Stick to the BEAT Get ready to ignite (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Ryan Ruppe: Judas Priest night in the genius room. (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
The Godfather vs. Arrested Development →
A blog post detailing a theory which states that Arrested Development may be the Godfather in sitcom form. Brilliant.
Simplify Media - Connect Your iTunes →
Looks like a good way to listen to your iTunes library while you’re at work.
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
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Night Beat
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The Cold Vein
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“War is stupid. And people are stupid.”
– Ryan Beckwith - Scary Go Round :: Monday-Friday Comic by John Allison
Ryan Ruppe: JUSTICE (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Ryan Ruppe: All-Star Superman is my favorite comic book right now. (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
“GEICO does not cover Autobot Matrix of Leaderships.”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A Letter to Optimus Prime From His GEICO Auto Insurance Agent.
WatchTED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video) [via Fred]
“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either...”
– George F. Will [via]
DJ Z-Trip / Downloads →
A lot of solid DJ mixes from a solid DJ.
Cell Phones: You're One Year Early →
A lot of people have been forwarding emails about a law that they say requires the use of hands-free kits on your cell phones while driving. While this law is coming into effect in California, it is doing so in July 2008, not 2007. So you’ve got a year to get one of those magic cyborg attachments. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.
Ryan Ruppe: Transformers movie = awesome (via Twitter / Ryan Ruppe)
Daedelus – Thanatopsis (featuring Hrishikesh... →
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 (Scherzo) →
Beastie Boys – Transitions →