KuraFire
Exploring the new Virb
27 years old
San Francisco
Male
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20 hours ago
TIME's 50 Best Inventions of 2009
My personal favorites: The $10 million lightbulb, Smart Thermostat, Teleportation, AIDS Vaccine and the Personal Carbon Footprint.
Short URL: http://farukat.es/p345
Yesterday
An Early Look At IE9 for Developers
Notable: significant increases in JavaScript performance (the chart shows it lagging only slightly behind Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5), border-radius support (but no mention for almost anything else on the Modernizr list), CSS3 selectors and diverting the graphics …
3 days ago
Statistical significance & other A/B test pitfalls
Cennydd Bowles with words of caution about A/B test results. Great intro:
Last week I tossed a coin a hundred times. 49 heads. Then I changed into a red t-shirt and tossed the same coin another hundred times. 51 heads. From this, I conclude that wearing a red shirt …
Movies are the love of my life
Rain man, Star Wars 1-6, Serenity, Lucky Number Slevin, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Clerks 2, 10 Things I Hate About You, V for Vendetta, The Breakfast Club, Love Actually, Moulin Rouge, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Emperor's New Groove, Bruce Almighty, Collateral, The Island, Memento, Batman Begins, Finding Neverland, Mean Machine, Boondock Saints, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Equilibrium, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Stargate, The Matrix Trilogy, Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick, Cars, Sin City
Music fills my every waking moment
Ayreon, System of a Down, Garnet Crow, Muse, Evanescence, Sister Hazel, Panic at the Disco, The Offspring, Disturbed, Juno Reactor, The Black Mages, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stabbing Westward, Daft Punk, Enigma, Stream of Passion, Ambeon, Sting, The Fratellis, Nobuo Uematsu, John Williams, Hans Zimmerman, Randy Newman, Yoko Kanno, Tanake Koho, Talvin Singh, Linkin Park, Tabla Beat Science, Star 1, Gwen Stefani, Ronan Hardiman, Weird Al Yankovic, No Doubt, Maroon 5, Motoi Sakuraba, Jeff Wayne, Yasunori Mitsuda
Television
Lost, Heroes, Scrubs, Angelic Layer, Escaflowne, Daily Show, Firefly
Books
Activities
photography, movies, music, writing, improving the web, design, philosophy, evangelism
Interests
Apple, being creative, games, fantasy, technology, gadgets, the web, cats, photography, movies, music, writing, the web, design, philosophy
Games
Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XII, Wii Sports, Donkey Konga, Donkey Konga 2, Jungle Beat, Star Ocean 2, Star Ocean 3, Metal Gear Solid, Jagged Alliance 2, Spore, Knights of the Old Republic, Transport Tycoon, Sam & Max HIt the Road, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Grand Theft Auto III, Command & Conquer, The Settlers II, Anno 1602, Lords of Lunar
RESTIFORM BODIES, Mar 5, 2009:
Tonight 10pm: Show @ Holy Thursday - Underground SF
das-kollektiv.net, Sep 7, 2008:
Laurent C. a.k.a Sh0GUN, Jun 16, 2008:
Very nice layout man. Great work.
Waketoday, Apr 25, 2008:
Thanks for adding us!
jtfmulder, Mar 2, 2008:
I'm in your Virbz, stealing your soul
You're capturing it through camera lens, aren't you? :)
Balm, Feb 3, 2008:
Be sure to visit the blog too:
inkblot, Oct 9, 2007:
serial flirt.... ;)
Lisa Bettany, Oct 7, 2007:
just listening to your lastfm... uber kewl! Peace Orchestra is totally taking me somewhere right now.. some where dreamy and somewhat erotic and i'm lovin it...
Lisa Bettany, Oct 6, 2007:
sexy camera. yum.
Black_Michael, Oct 2, 2007:
came through. hope life is treating you well.
-Mike