May 2010
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April 2010
3 posts
Coke Talk on graduate school (and just life): →
Even assholes should follow their dreams.
Love it.
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
3 posts
WONDER-TONIC: Hot On The Heels Of Apple iPad... →
Just a day after Apple captured the attention of tech world with its groundbreaking new iPad, a high-powered mobile device similar to the iPhone but larger, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a new rival product called “Just A Huge Fucking Zune.”
“You know what, fuck you guys,”…
Not sure there’s anything I can say that won’t make this less awesome. Seriously: love it.
January 2010
5 posts
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski →
mrgan:
Adam Bertocci imagines my generation’s defining movie, The Big Lebowski, as written by Shakespeare:
WALTER Indeed, a rug of value; an estimable rug, an honour’d rug; O unhappy rug, that should live to cover such days! DONALD Of what dost thou speak, that tied the room together, Knave? Take pains, for I would well hear of that which tied the room together. WALTER Didst thou attend the...
December 2009
9 posts
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WatchDon’t get me wrong — I recognize that the amount of work and pixel-by-pixel, frame-by-frame attention to detail required to make this sort of video means countless tedious hours scrubbing and polishing by hand. But, damn, guys. The Mill sure does make it look like magic.
n.b.: link is from some random Vimeo user rather than the original site because it’s easier to embed. See...
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merlin:
Hypothetically, anyway, I’ll bet any of my pals who hypothetically wanted to hear these hypothetical songs — and can guess who this hypothetical troubadour boyfriend is — could find said 19 wonderful songs by going to the popular tiny url web site and looking at a subdirectory named after the first letters of the troubadour’s first and last names plus Mr. Thompson’s full last name plus...
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Holidays, Karate, and the Great Equalizer
Late December. Getting into the Christmas spirit is virtually court-mandated, an expensive ankle bracelet that sings off-key. As the years have passed and my childhood recedes, that Santa-and-soft-snow magic has faded, leaving a lot of hustle and bustle without, for me, a whole lot of attached meaning. Seeing friends and family is wonderful and worth every awful supermarket rendition of White...
November 2009
5 posts
This is my job. →
a choose your own adventure book, only thicker.
and all the decision points are irreversable.
many of them self-eliminate, and every day someone asks how many pages until the end. and they always want you to shoot low.
this book has bad endings, too. it’s one of those.
and when I think that hard about it I just want to jump in my car and drive.
“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned...”
– Carl Sagan (via livejamie)
Though, to be fair, I don’t know of anywhere that dolphins raise humans in captivity, either.
“I have never just gone looking for trouble as a way of gathering material. I...”
– John Roderick
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Perfect Pitch →
According to President Obama, you should post advertisements on Facebook encouraging dads to go back to school. (That I see these ads, by the way, is a reassuring failure of market targeting.)
Less well-known is that Mr. Obama, along with three puppies, a blacksmith, Google, and a pet rock, have partnered to encourage young mothers to study Perfect Pitch. So, for those of you who’re...
October 2009
6 posts
My email and Twitter feeds are in a fight.
So I’m kind of a little bit of a Merlin Mann fanboy. And yeah, that’s hypocritical by definition, because that means I should either instead spend the time that I’ve spent reading his stuff making things or communicating in a real way with humans.
But whatever. I’m allowed to suck at things.
Still, all that exposure to Stop Eating Sugary Internet Fluff makes some...
KERA Think interview with Captain Chesley "Sully"... →
mrgan:
I was tearing up on the bus today listening to this. Sully and his story are heartbreaking reminders of how we people and the world around us oughta function. Also check out his well-reviewed book Highest Duty (Amazon affiliate link, hope you’re cool with that).
I have memories of my father pulling into the driveway after work and staying in his car, the engine cut, for minutes at a...
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CUNNILINGUS IN NORTH KOREA →
September 2009
3 posts
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Mindfulness in Plain English →
From Chapter 1:
Go to a party. Listen to the laughter, that brittle-tongued voice that says fun on the surface and fear underneath. Feel the tension, feel the pressure. Nobody really relaxes. They are faking it. Go to a ball game. Watch the fan in the stand. Watch the irrational fit of anger. Watch the uncontrolled frustration bubbling forth from people that masquerades under the guise of...
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Deb Talan — Rocks and Water →
From the days before The Weepies. I could (and have) listen to this track on repeat for hours.
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
4 posts
"**** Me Up" The Rolling Stones v. St. Sanders →
lonelysandwich:
The video is still caching. I’ve seen only about 18 seconds of it, following a link from Peter Serafinowicz (“Funniest video of the year so far”) and I can already say it’s imperative you watch it.
UPDATE: Okay, I finished it just now. It broke my mind. No one else make anything. Go home, everybody.
This might just be the best thing made by anybody. Ever.
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Linux [Installfest] Against Poverty →
Nerdy and a heavy dose of volunteerism? I’m in.
June 2009
1 post
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Infinite Summer →
~1000 pages. 92 days. Infinite Summer.
I’m in. Are you?
May 2009
3 posts
“Sure. I’m in the mood to punch a girl.”
– Aaron Young, on whether we should kick Sallie Mae’s arse
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WatchImpossibly gorgeous.
April 2009
12 posts
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WatchOh. Em. Gee.
Very reminiscent of Neg’s Urban Sports. Only, y’know, unbelievably off-the-hook nerdtastic.
dpstyles:
Another PacManhattan-esque stunt… tho these guys cause much more trouble than we ever did. It’s long, but don’t stop watching till you see (a) supermarket security, (b) golf course. DO IT!
ps: originally from here.
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WatchI’m about a year less hip than most folks in the know on Fleet Foxes, but having used Mykonos as my go-to track for ending the night for over a week, it’s time I made my utter addiction public knowledge.