Cecil Kleakins

This link is pretty old - maybe circa 2005 or so.
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
It’s Google - in leet. There’s something beautiful about a company that gives developers license to spend time producing projects like this. At first glance it might seem frivolous - but I wonder how many developers out there have seen this and said: […]

The Huygens probe landed on Titan on January 14, 2005. NASA funded a camera which recorded the descent onto the surface of Titan. They put together a time lapse video (11 MB, QT) which shows the 4 hour descent in 5 minutes.
The most oddly surreal thing about the video is its […]

It was just reported that Tribe.net laid off half its staff on Thursday [via FC]. No official announcement yet, so perhaps there is still hope for an upturn. Despite the recent disasterous UI redesign, the site was definitely my favorite among such social networking sites.

Some really smart and talented friends have started a really smart and talented company built around the idea of sharing collectively annotated maps (based on the Google Maps API). The implications of such a system are stunning It unlocks a whole layer of reality–the meta-narrative of human memory–and infuses it into the physical […]

One of the things I loved about living in NYC was being constantly surrounded by other people’s conversations on the subways, standing in line, etc. Now I have a place to get my fix.

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After:

My old backyard in Brooklyn underwent a little cosmetic surgery. Apparently in a few months time there will be a new highrise in place shadowing over the yard, blocking the afternoon sun and destroying the quiet privacy of that little alcove of backyards. Guess it’s nothing new.

Splogs have been around for awhile, but recent developments in splog technology have caused a splogsplosion of splog neologisms and catch phrases, adding to the growing list of related terms such as Spamalanche, Google Bombing, Spamdexing, Link Farming, Scraper Sites, Click Fraud, and Spim. These new terms can be refered to as WMDs (words […]

Jen (Who is positively a Wolcin sister)

We have absolutely no idea

We must live life

We ask meaningless questions

Life is a conjunction of words

We were not made to comprehend

Yet we have consciousness

What do we do?

We can’t answer our own questions

We guess.

Jess (who hates being referred to as a Wolcin sister, according to Amber, who is not […]

You’ve seen the fads, imitators, thinly veiled tributes, and laughed at their expense. But did you ever wonder who it was who really inspired a whole generation of pirate fans?

Last night I had a dream. I was in a remote village in Mali at the funeral of a beautiful woman. She was dressed in ornamental finery and her face was made up with paint. She was buried in the shifting sands of the Sahara and I helped cover her body in […]