The Nook has been rooted
What does that mean in non-geek speak? Well, root or superuser access essentially means that you can change any settings in the OS. This is significant because the Nook runs Android 1.5, Google’s mobile operating system, which means that it could essentially do everything a rooted Android phone could do. (Lifehacker lists a few benefits of rooting the Android phone, if that doesn’t mean anything to you.)
The Nook rooting tutorial will most almost definitely void your warranty and, if you don’t know what you are doing, could possible brick your machine. (Psst. It looks easy to do, but you didn’t hear that from me). The NookDevs also have a breakdown of the hardware.
Hat tip to Matthew Battles for this find.
Une Very Stylish Fille
I am a very stylish girl. Not me, obviously!
For Mary
(thanks for the tip, Brian)
synchronicity
Kottke, today, posted a video he found on the making of an Eames fiberglass chair. What’s odd, to me, is that I literally just learned about the significance of such a chair yesterday as a friend was bragging about finding one of those chairs in a dumpster (it was in fantastic condition).
For some reason, all this is seriously blowing my mind.
how does he feel about what’s coming out of his ass?
CO2 is odorless, colorless, tasteless — it’s not a threat to human health in terms of being exposed to it. We create it as we talk back and forth. So, and if you go beyond that, on a net basis, there’s ample evidence that warming generically — however it is caused — is a net benefit to mankind.
cutting off your balls — is it better for fucking?
I hate real boats
Donald Sutherland on Fellini in I’m a Born Liar:
I love sets. I love plastic oceans. I hate locations. I hate real boats. It was perfect for me. And — to be a mannequin. To be a puppet. To be a — and my heart also is a mannequin. My mind. My brain. My voice. Is a mannequin. It isn’t — it becomes a cut out piece of cloth. It becomes something quite magical. And it is Fellini that is the catalyst for that. And in that sense he’s the medium.
A Tandem Unicycle
Myers Motors EV Plug-in
Now taking orders.
Apple as cable provider
Suddenly, it seems that Apple would make a formidable de facto cable television network. The company is poised to unleash the same business model earthquake in television that it did in music.
After all, Apple transformed the music industry by providing only distribution, not content, eliminating the record labels’ traditional role as publishers. Will Apple reinvent the role of television studios as well? What does this mean for the Comcast-NBC deal?
Abu Dhabi to the rescue
Dubai got a $10 billion loan from Abu Dhabi to keep its commercial development company, Dubai World, from going Dubai cruel world bankrupt.
Bankers said the last-minute cash injection signaled a national approach to tackling Dubai’s problems rather than leaving the struggling emirate to fend for itself.
“This is a very significant development,” said Marios Maratheftis, head of regional research at Standard Chartered Bank. “It shows once again there is a one-country approach in dealing with the crisis, which is positive.”
bionic fingers
“I didn’t want to wait even one more day before I could start using it,” Jones says. “ProDigits offers me functionality that I can’t get anywhere else; it offers me the ability to grasp… I can pick something up and walk out to the car with it, rather than have to put it in a bag. Most importantly, I’m able to take care of my kids–play games with my kids, take them to school, make dinner.”
Found him!
http://twitter.com/Jesus_Christ
Where I Am Today…
dear clusterflock
I’m looking for a leather messenger bag that, with third party inserts, can double as a camera bag.
octopus caps
Sometime after Christmas I’ll be ordering my own custom cycling cap from Octopus Caps.
from an article on particle physics and death
Consider an experiment that was recently published in the journal Science showing that scientists could retroactively change something that had happened in the past. Particles had to decide how to behave when they hit a beam splitter. Later on, the experimenter could turn a second switch on or off. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined what the particle did in the past.
For Aaron
Chalk Hill Road
I don’t know either
Still, this fan, who knew all about cats, was allowed to select a seal-point Siamese kitten for Pat, and he and his aunt sometimes looked after Pat’s cats on her trips away. One night — the circumstances were complicated and involved a fight with current lover, Jacqui — Pat ended up sleeping in the aunt’s bed, where, for once, Pat herself was on the receiving end of an unwelcome sexual advance.
The CHRIST-mas Tree
Rome rubBEing off on me
wants for sale
Each painting shows one thing we want, and sells for the price of the real item. So you can buy A Slice of Pepperoni for $3.00 or Dinner at Nobu for $152.00. When the painting sells we use the money to go out and buy that thing.
via It’s Nice That (hat tip to Autumn)
My Favorite Pit Toilet
Ever. (Tapley Woods. Jo Daviess County, Illinois. US of A.)
Tim Duncan’s Shoes
