Archive for 2008

Con­sider this lit­tle com­par­i­son: if the read/​write head were a Boe­ing 747, and the hard-​​disk plat­ter were the sur­face of the Earth:

• The head would fly at Mach 800
• At less than one cen­time­ter from the ground
• And count every blade of grass
• Mak­ing fewer than 10 unre­cov­er­able count­ing errors in an area equiv­a­lent to all of Ireland

~ Where Do Hard Drive Heads Come From?.

Surf­ing the wake of huge tankers is noth­ing new for wave-​​starved Tex­ans, but these are cer­tainly the best look­ing waves I’ve seen there *ever*. Bonus points for the dol­phin shots.

Made me laugh: the What hap­pened to you? Sling

New Vans shoes, appar­ently designed after vin­tage cycling ones. Yum.

Car­rol Shelby’s Black Hor­net, up for auction.

At the open­ing whis­tle of a 1970 World Cup finals match, Pelé stopped the ref­eree with a last-​​second request to tie his shoelaces and then knelt down to give mil­lions of tele­vi­sion view­ers a close-​​up of his Pumas.

Pelé was com­ply­ing with a request by Puma’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive, Hans Hen­ningsen, to raise the company’s pro­file after receiv­ing $120,000 to wear the shoes

~ Adi­das ver­sus Puma: Ori­gins of a rivalry between broth­ers.

App turns iPhone into ad-​​hoc Mac­Book num pad

If this keeps on I’ll prob­a­bly buy an iPod touch. Kind of like a PSP serves as a rearview mir­ror on a cou­ple of dri­ving games on the PS3.

(…) quem se entrega às ondas do mar, car­rega um duplo sinal: a alma
imersa na água, a pele repleta de sal.

~ Pedro Cezar Duarte Guimarães

Cora­line

Super good looking.

McSweeney’s Inter­net Ten­dency: Fifty Years of Pop­u­lar Songs Con­densed Into Sin­gle Sentences.

Heh.