Super Jellyfish

For all you mobile web-surfers (c’mon I know you’re out there), there’s a cool site called Wapedia.

Basically, its Wikipedia on WAP!

Isn’t it fun to read the encyclopedia?

• How to Finance a Blockbuster [Slate] via [Hacking Netflix]
  

  

  As paradoxical and absurd as it sounds, it’s cheaper for a Hollywood studio to make a big-budget action movie than to make a shoestring art film like Sideways.

  Aaah, use foreign tax loopholes to save money on flicks, brilliant!

• Deadly Train Crash in Tokyo [Gothamist]
  Oh no! Trains in Tokyo are the most efficient that I’ve ever seen… sounds like the pressure of perfection for the 23-year old conductor got to be too much!

Nobody minds your business like you do

– Charles Collin

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Roosevelt

They’ve done it - there’s a documentary out about the crooks at Enron. Does anyone want to watch it with me?

I think it looks fascinating!

Check out the NYT review here.

Very neat… you know how if you read an article on the NY Times, after a while, the article becomes an “archive” and you can no longer access it for free?

Well if you go to the website below and input the original link to the article, it will generate “permanent” links to articles in the Times. As in, you will always be able to get back to the original article. Very cool!

Check it out here:
http://nytimes.blogspace.com/genlink

Why does this work? Userland (which is the userid associated with the generated links) has a partnership with the NY Times whereby links generated by Userland will continue to work indefinitely.

… special coding tells the Times’s server that the link is coming from a weblog, and now and in the future, this link will work without a fee to access the archive… If you link in to the Times archive through a link generated by the Radio UserLand aggregator, or compatible software, the link will continue to work in the future, as long as there is no substantial abuse to this system.

Hmm, what would be considered “abuse”?

For more details, read the explanation.

Me, Angela and Kane stayed in tonight, ate takeout and watched Riding Giants on my projector.

I think I must’ve said, “That’s crazy” about 20 times.

The film is a documentary chronicling surfers in the 20th century and their quest to ride the biggest wave yet.

Its truly incredible though. Can you imagine a 100 foot wave? Given that the height of my ceilings are 12 feet — and I can’t even fathom falling from that height, what must it be like to soar at death-defying speeds on a water demon?

The film was highly entertaining… all the surfers seemed pretty humble, considering their achievements.

One thing that struck me was that the surfers get depressed if they don’t see good waves. Its as if they go into wave withdrawal or something.

It makes me think, they are always after the next bigger and better wave. Its this never-ending quest for more, more, more. Maybe I am being too jaded here, but why can’t they be satisfied with what they have?

I suppose it does get boring. Why surf Waimea Bay when you could surf Peahi?

And, I think something about surfing seems very pure. When you’re out there, maybe its when you really realize your insignificance.

Why do people climb Mount Everest? (Have you read this devastating account of a Mt. Everest expedition - Into Thin Air?)

Why does Bethany Hamilton continue to surf and compete, even after losing her arm to a shark while surfing? (Any relation to Laird?)

I don’t know… but Riding Giants was definitely riveting.

Oh and for a less intense surfing movie, check out Blue Crush.

Have you ever heard of Ju Network?

Kane went to Korea recently, and he brought these amazing lycra nylons from the Ju Network.

I guess the Ju Network is all the rage in Korea or something. I dunno.

They have these little rubbery things on the bottom that give me some traction when I’m walking around.. its sort of a weird sensation.

Anyway, so far these nylons have been super tough. They’ve been strong, yet supportive.

I would say I’d endorse them, however, they have not yet been put through many “laundry tests”, so I’ll have to report back after that.

Since the Ju website is in Korean, I’m having trouble understanding what exactly it is and why its so amazing.. it looks like just another corporation? Or a direct seller of private label merchandise?

Here’s a photo of the who appears to be the CEO of this enterprise.

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• Google Maps + NYC Subway Stops!
  Very useful.. especially if I ever venture out to Queens or Brooklyn.
  Now if someone would combine this with Craig’s List… it would be easy to reference housing listings relative to subway stops!

Neat UI interface that combines Craigs List housing lists (rental and sales) and Google Maps.

Check it out here:
http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/