Archive for the 'minipost' Category

SmartPop Popcorn: microwaving for 2.5 minutes yields 10 popped kernels.  microwaving for 3.5 minutes yields 12 popped kernels and a popcorn bag with severe burn marks.  However, people that buy popcorn on amazon.com seem to like it.

GUM Butler-Weave Floss: within 2 days it forced me to do an unsuccessful Google search for “how to remove a piece of stuck floss from molars“.  How embarassing… It is nothing more than mint-flavored string to me now.

read about it and see video here

here or here

overview and lesson one

cute animation/story and also winner of the 2007 Oscar for best short subjects animation.  watch it here

just finished reading Burmese Days ( read it online for free here ).  It’s a good book.  Not necessarily a happy book at any point but good nonetheless…

last.fm isn’t picking it up, but I’m listening to a lot of Conor Oberst and Bon Iver.

Garfield translated to Chinese and back to English

example of two different takes on the same data