Author: thornet

Weezer captures the essence of the internets

How have I missed this video? Weezer’s music video Pork and Beans features, well, um, just about everybody. Everybody of YouTube fame, that is. It’s like a big ROFLCon reunion. I’ve been trying to keep track of the references. Spot any others? Diet Coke +…

Spread Firefox: Download Day!

Today’s the day to download the newest version of Mozilla Firefox, the fast and free browser. Firefox 3 has a number of cool features, which you can read about in this field guide. There is also the revamped ccSearch in the browser’s toolbar. This search…

PowerPoint Karaoke on Vacation

As the Boston Globe notes, “If you’ve never heard of PowerPoint Karaoke, that probably means you’re neither German nor a hardcore techie.” Well, I suppose I’m guilty on two counts. But at least that helps explain why I adore this über-g33k party game: PowerPoint Karaoke.…

HOWTO: make a nutellachino

Sometimes a screen name sticks. And sometimes it’s just sticky. For this post, I invite you to the sticky, chocolaty story behind one of my online aliases — nutellachino. A nutellachino is a sandwich that I dreamed up long ago, an invention born of necessity…