August 23 2010
How to undo a sent Gmail
Tech site Mashable has shown a handy-dandy way to extend the time you get to unsend an email you sent on Gmail. Check it out!
And now for something completely different. The late and great Luciano Pavarotti joins Simon Le Bon in the Duran Duran classic “Ordinary World,” an operatic tune in its own right. Enjoy!
It’s 2010, son, and if you still haven’t figured it out, overpriced CDs are going the way of the dodo bird. But the dinosaurs remain. Rolling Stone fires off one more shot to bring the record labels into the real world in this scathing, awesome letter.
You Can't Stop the Music, try as you might.
A Big Fat Thanks To Record Execs (via Icanhasinternets.com)
You MUST check out this wild website, which we found through Stumble Upon. Starship Dimensions has a series of amazing illustrations comparing the sizes of spaceships and aliens from a wide range of sci-fi television shows and movies. You can see how Serenity from Firefly stacks up sizewise against a Imperial Shuttle or AT-AT Walker, a Nebari Pod, a Drazi Sun Hawk, and even a Boeing 747! Starship Dimensions is aeronautical engineering at its coolest.
In this very provocative essay, literary icon Kurt Vonnegut explains why people have such a need for drama in their life. It’s all very scientific with charts and everything. Featured on CD Baby founder Derek Sivers’s website.
Kurt Vonnegut explains drama (Sivers.org).