I’m really blown away how even news appealing to a small niche can travel so fast and wide on Twitter. This screenshot shows the latest tweet occurred “half a minute ago” and within ~30sec forty-nine more tweets were posted — jeebus!

I’m really blown away how even news appealing to a small niche can travel so fast and wide on Twitter. This screenshot shows the latest tweet occurred “half a minute ago” and within ~30sec forty-nine more tweets were posted — jeebus!

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“On the corner of Powell and Francisco in SF w/ friends and the manhole erupted in the flash flood rain.”

Californians cannot handle anything resembling weather.

Dubbed undulatus asperatus (turbulent undulation), the atmospheric anomaly could be headed where only 80-odd clouds have gone before: into theInternational Cloud Atlas. If it makes the cut, asperatus will be the first new addition in more than 50 years.

Dubbed undulatus asperatus (turbulent undulation), the atmospheric anomaly could be headed where only 80-odd clouds have gone before: into theInternational Cloud Atlas. If it makes the cut, asperatus will be the first new addition in more than 50 years.

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It’s all fun and games until it becomes self-aware and attacks humankind.

The trifecta is complete!

The trifecta is complete!

Two down, one to go!

Two down, one to go!

“ I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreaters—but what was in front of our open door—was another door! Like, a full-on wooden door, that had a sign that said “Please knock.” So we did, and the door swung open to reveal a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers, curlers in their hair, etc, who proceeded to coo over our “costumes” and tell us we were “such cute trick or treaters!” One even pinched my cheek. Then THEY gave US candy, closed their door, picked it up and walked to the next house. ”
— (via rafer)
I’ve been behind this guy on the 101 before

I’ve been behind this guy on the 101 before

100 YouTube Hits in 4 Minutes

optimizelegibility (CSS)

Every time I see the text-rendering property set to “optimizelegibility” I laugh because, well… that’s not legible at all. I think that value is in need of some recursion.

The Internet in 1981

One down, one to go…

One down, one to go…