Aaron Parecki

On the eve of the ssmesite cookie apocalypse. It's like y2k but for cookies.

With all these YouTube camera-gear channels popping up, somebody's got to perform quality control. Luckily @GeraldUndone travels from his Canadian lair to LA multiple times a week, armed with a clipboard, to evaluate YouTuber's home studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfBJUL0AfTI

My daughter just said “Shakira has a huge wedgie” and I think, in hindsight, 4K was a bad idea.

I used to wonder why the interfaces on Star Trek are so clunky given that it's centuries in the future, but I guess that's just Enterprise software for you

Happy international palindrome day!

It is:
- 02/02/2020 (US)
- 02/02/2020 (EU)
- 2020/02/02 (ISO)

I thought of making a comic for it but I couldn’t come up with suitable dialog. Oh well.

99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps. Through this activity, it is possible to turn a green street red which has an impact in the physical world by navigating cars on another route! #googlemapshacks http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html

12: Daddy what are you doing?
Me: Filling out expense reports and submitting receipts
12: But I thought you were important?

who named it untappd and not liverjournal

Anytime a rich person donates money, this is how you should report it. https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1222939292227592196?s=19

“The engineers who design and program them come from over a hundred countries. Thousands of people have the opportunity, acting alone, to slip a back door into the final product.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/09/supply-chain_se_1.html

Never enter credentials anywhere.

I purchased a new trash can today. Now I can't stop thinking about how the hell I'm supposed to throw away my old one? Where do I put it? It's too big to fit in the new one! Is this recursion?

* Old Fashioned: Uses steam or clockwork to make any cocktail other than an Old Fashioned

* Shot of the Long Now: Takes 10,000 years to make the drink. Jeff Bezos is not permitted to enter in this category

* Aviation: Any drone-based bartending device

2/N

Potential cocktail robotics competition categories:

* One-shot: A robot that only ever makes one cocktail, and destroys itself in the process of making it

* Cube Goldberg: A ludicrous chain reaction/Heath Robinson machine that probably won't work

1/N

https://twitter.com/emfcamp/status/1221839381062918144

We’ve published an explainer about an idea to harden SMS-delivered one-time passwords by allowing senders to associate the codes with a website. We’ve been talking about the idea with some folks at Google, and would like more feedback. https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/blob/master/sms-one-time-code-format/

All we do is talk about manipulating the DOM, but what about checking in and caring for the DOM?

Once private webmentions are more popular, it’s over for dating sites. 😛