technical difficulties at justin.tv today, but the alien visits israel

Instead of a talk from Pierre Francois, we ended up playing a LAN game of StarCraft. Yes, I got pwnd. I really need to work on my mid-game Zerg strategy.

Hopefully Pierre will get another chance for a tech talk, but in the meantime, here are some photos of Inkling's Adam Siegel rocking his reddit gear in the Middle East.

Here he is in Israel, representin' in a state park after some cliff climbing.
And here's another reddit alien in front of a ruined Jordanian tank. Our mascot had nothing to do with that.Aside from being the co-founder of a fellow Y Combinator company, Adam's a pretty cool dude. He even let team reddit crash at his place once.

alien mascots are making a huge comeback, sockpuppets still not getting any love

Somebody acquire this startup already.

I learned about definr a few days ago from reddit. I can't put my finger on it, but I really like something about this website. It didn't take more than a minute to realize it.

It could be the super-fast real-time dictionary results (reminiscent of the joy that is Instant Domain Search), but a slash of Occam's razor reveals a simpler reason: the mascot.Wtg, definr. +500 points for the brilliant blushing mascot.