Monthly Archives: March 2008

WebKit passes Acid 3, world rejoices

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As of tonight’s nightly build, WebKit (Safari’s Open Source rendering engine) gets a perfect score on the Acid 3 web standards test, making it the first publicly available web browser to achieve 100/100. This means it’s fully standards compliant, or at least as far as the Acid 1, Acid 2 and Acid 3 [...]

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Photo of the day #17

Technically, not a photo. If you don’t think this is funny then you’re not old enough to read this blog. Found on Tumblr.

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Soccer at The Domain

While looking for something in Google Maps (a heliport on top of my building, if you must know) I noticed that as of the time of this writing, the satellite imagery does not yet have the new and fancy The Domain shopping center accross the street.
Instead, right where Starbucks and the Apple Store now stand, [...]

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Purim: Hatikva 6 vs. The Ugly Nun

On Purim’s eve (Thursday night) the Ugly Nun resurfaced at the big party down at the Hillel building thrown this year. The surprisingly excellent Israeli reggae band Hatikva 6 played live. A fun night. Chag sameach! (album)

Blue really brings out Moi’s eyes, and covers the rest of his face! Nice.

Shelly, Hatikva 6’s ultra-hot keyboard [...]

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From my iPhone

First post ever in this blog from an iPhone.
Total pain in the butt, but cool nonetheless.

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Cerati + Waters

No, my dear reader, your eyes are not deceiving you.
According to the Argentinian edition of Rolling Stone magazine, musical genius Gustavo Cerati recently recorded a song with Pink Floyd’s former bassist (and also musical genius) Roger Waters for the non-profit Fundación Alas.
Read the original articles here and here, and express yor feeling in the comments. [...]

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It’s gonna be one of those days

It’s not even 9:00 AM yet and I already spilled a big mug full of coffee all over my office and myself. Damage was mostly contained and all equipment was spared. The only thing that worries me is the smell that may be left behind. Will it stay or will it go?
This has brought me [...]

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New category: Life of Marcos

I did a little bit of reorganization in the site. There were a good amount of posts mostly under Keep Austin Weird and Austin Nights that didn’t really fit in so well.So I created Life of Marcos and moved a bunch of old posts there.In case you care, which you don’t. 

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South by Southwest 2008

It’s been a rough week. The SXSW Music festival started on Wednesday and for four days in a row I endured the trip downtown and the concerts and the partying. I know, it’s a tough job but somebody has to do it. Nathan came over from Dallas for the whole thing. A bunch of the [...]

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Top Yelper

Recently, at a dinner party, I learned about Yelp. Yelp is a website where people review all sorts of things. I’m particularly interested in restaurants because I like to eat. So I started making bookmarks of restaurants I want to try and I started reviewing restaurants I know. You can see my Yelp profile [...]

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