Allen Lew’s Thoughts

My answer for “life, the universe, and everything”

Entries from December 2005

Facebook has a pulse

December 20th, 2005 · Comments Off

Facebook now does something with the interest data, aggregating it into a Pulse Feature. Fun facts:

33% of Berkeley students prefer The Beatles to Green Day.

18% of male students have moderate political views.
17% of male students are looking for whatever they can get.
57 people have birthdays tomorrow.
124 students poked each other today.
1.4% of Berkeley [...]

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JibJab.com presents 2-0-5

December 17th, 2005 · Comments Off

JibJab, makers of those funny election flash animations, like This Land and It’s Great to Be in DC, come out with a new one for 2-0-5. Not nearly as funny as the others, though.
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Building Websites with Blogging Software

December 14th, 2005 · Comments Off

Seed Magazine was rebuilt with Movable Type. Here’s how it was done.
(via Kottke)
Not that it hasn’t been done before, as Matt Haughey had an article on using Movable Type for all sorts of sites.
Of course, nice websites can be built with Wordpress as well, like California Connected. They even [...]

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Dead squirrel on toilet

December 8th, 2005 · Comments Off

Dead squirrel on toilet
Originally uploaded by enlewof.

Of all the things to end up next to the toilet…
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Great quote about hiring people

December 7th, 2005 · Comments Off

Your College is Not a Technical School-
“Never hire a human being who had a 4.0 in college. If they had a perfect GPA, it means they bought the act and never screwed around. Now a 2.0 is probably not so good. But the ones who had 3.0, yeah! Those are the freaks you want!” [...]

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The Life of Larry

December 6th, 2005 · Comments Off

The Life of Larry - Google Video- Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy) made an early concept show that eventually became Family Guy. If you like Family Guy, you’ll definetly recognize the voices and several of the gags. (via Metafilter)
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