Chatroulette Quadruples To 4 Million Visitors In February: Techcrunch (TechCrunch)

FINALLY: The Difference between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram: greatwhitesnark/yqzr (Great White Snark)

I wrote a sociology paper in college about the difference between nerds and geeks. I wish I had this diagram to use as a visual aid.

“Creature” is a collection of astonishing studio portraits of 175 wild creatures—from baby leopards to parrots, bears, mandrills, and many more—all stunningly foregrounded against white backgrounds…

Do this:

1) Make a tweet. Type in a totally random, giant string of meaningless characters, like the one above. Before you post the tweet, copy all the characters.

2) Upon posting the tweet, start a stopwatch

3) Immediately go to Twitter Search and paste in the characters, and hit “search”

4) Keep hitting refresh until your search results finally yield your tweet.

5) Stop the timer.

I’ve not gotten better than 20 or so seconds.

That is not real time. I mean, I’m cool with it. It’s super fast, it’s awesome, it’s pretty great, but it’s definitely not real time.

I’m gonna be real peevish if in like 2 years we start talking about “hyper real time” or some shit as the new must-have thing, because “real time” just isn’t real time enough.

Just sayin’.

Hey! Did you know if you command-click on the “accept” button, in iCal, for incoming invitations, you can assign them to a specific calendar? Pretty useful!

The last code I ever wrote, save for HTML and CSS. A zipcode validator, actionscript 2, circa 2001. Ha.