I would very much like to live at 92 Jane Street, please. “The building’s interior organization is driven by its unique south facing rear yard which is enclosed by blind 35 foot high walls, creating a condition of total privacy. This allows the rear façade to be completely transparent. It also makes a private outdoor room that serves as an extension of the living and dining spaces; entry to it is across a marble slab that bridges a reflecting pond.”
Ask MeFi: Hear that? Is my MacBook dying? The asker included an mp3 of the sound, which is exactly what I hear from my MacBook Pro—fortunately a) people say it’s a busted fan and b) I have AppleCare. Time to make a repair appointment!
Speed up Mail.App, in three easy steps: 1) quit Mail.app, 2) open Terminal and type “cd ~/Library/Mail; ls -lah E*; sqlite3 Envelope\ Index vacuum; ls -lah E*; cd ~”, 3) profit! Works amazingly well. [ via SVN ]
“Don’t you wish your girlfriend was…” Reasons why I adore Lore Sjöberg, #532.
Things I Desperately Wish Women Would Say to Me on First Dates, by Mike Drucker. (I’d like to point out that I’ve said variations of all but the second on both first dates and non-dates.) [ via Fimoculous ]
Rion, on camera mugging: “if you’ve got a camera and you’re not documenting your friends while they’re young (and silly), then you definitely need to get on that.” I’m doing my best!
The Economist, on North Korea and the internet: “Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s dictator, has interests in modern technology beyond his dabbling in nuclear weaponry. In 2000 he famously asked Madeleine Albright, then America’s secretary of state, for her e-mail address. Mr Kim believes there are three kinds of fool in the 21st century: smokers, the tone-deaf and the computer-illiterate.” Whatever, dude—he hasn’t updated his livejournal in, like, seven months!
Love 2.0: Anil Dash and Alaina Browne, from Geeksugar’s Geeks We Love series. I love them too!
NPR: Billiards Star Reyes Gets Everyone into the Pool: “The man many consider to be the best pool player in the world, Efren “Bata” Reyes, is a skinny, almost toothless, 52-year-old Filipino with a slight paunch, an infectious grin and a legion of fans both at home and abroad.” Last year, Bata was featured in Time’s 60 Years of Asian Heroes issue, in the august company of legends like Gandhi, Akira Kurosawa and Muhammad Yunus.
Photos of David Hasselhoff in drag. I was going to say something like “to be fair, he’s in costume for his character in The Producers” but then I read this: “His dressing room – filled with posters of himself from various shows, a Knight Rider lunchbox and a magazine with guess who on the cover – looks like an homage to yours truly. “I must be the most self-indulgent person to have this stuff,” he says, “But I’ve gotta market the Hoff.” He really does speak for himself. [ via The Superficial ]