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The haircut makes the man.

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:11:11 +0000

The haircut makes the man.

Yeah. Pitchfork named this their song of the year. Here I...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:23:06 +0000

Yeah. Pitchfork named this their song of the year. Here I thought I was the only one who oddly loved this album and had a super-secret crush on MIss Boucher.

Grimes - Oblivion (by GrimesVEVO)

120pagemonster: tj: I would have ordered this in a...

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:34:31 +0000

120pagemonster:

tj:

I would have ordered this in a heartbeat.

Throw in the free Cane & False Teeth Accessory Pack, and you’ve got yourself a deal, my friend.

Now *this* I’d take printed on the inside

There is no way this video of a wind skating nerd can fail to...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:43:27 +0000

There is no way this video of a wind skating nerd can fail to disappoint. #skymall (Taken with Instagram)

What the hell are you smiling about? Have you seen what’s...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:40:07 +0000

What the hell are you smiling about? Have you seen what’s on your fucking head? (Taken with Instagram)

Oh. “Colts” with an “o”. Yeah, I got way...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:11:37 +0000

Oh. “Colts” with an “o”. Yeah, I got way too excited about that. (Taken with Instagram)

merlin: (via Photo | Mike Industries)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:04:32 +0000

merlin:

(via Photo | Mike Industries)

There are so many great images here, it was hard to choose just...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:11:46 +0000

There are so many great images here, it was hard to choose just one.

(via Vladimir Putin, Action Man - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic) (via kottke)

Serendipitous perfection.

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:17:17 +0000

Serendipitous perfection.

yourmonkeycalled: Fox News Discovers Nuclear Reactor In...

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:38:55 +0000

yourmonkeycalled:

Fox News Discovers Nuclear Reactor In Japanese Disco

A quick Googling of “shibuyaeggman” turned up no meaningful results. A Nexis search was also fruitless. However, further inquiries revealed that Eggman is the name of a dance club in a trendy neighborhood of Tokyo called… Shibuya. And, it just so happens, the Fox graphic appears to place the alleged reactor in Tokyo.

(via Japan Probe)

There is something really enthralling about Odd Future.

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:35:07 +0000

2011 mtvU Woodie Awards

There is something really enthralling about Odd Future.

iPhoto for iOS (by Neven Mrgan)

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:38:35 +0000

iPhoto for iOS (by Neven Mrgan):

Below, Neven ponders iPhoto making its way to iOS and how precisely that will happen.

I really hope this does come to be. I don’t use the Photos app very often on my iPad, but it is among the first things anyone else using my iPad wants to see in action.

The tactile interaction with images on the iPad really is the closest you can get to actual printed photos. I suppose that’s why I want more of a photo management tool than a photo album - which is essentially what is there now. Since I first loaded images on the iPad, I have wanted to use it to compare, sort and manage photos.

Like many parents, I snap lots of photos in succession just hoping to catch my son in some state of cuteness that is also suitably in focus (bonus points if the surrounding area doesn’t look like we reside in a landfill). That means that I have lots of photos that are almost good. Flipping from one image to the next, resizing, rotating all takes milliseconds in iOS. Add in the ability to view images side-by-side and a delete button (perhaps a few other simple manipulation and editing tools) whose effect transferred back to my master iPhoto library and it would be a perfect tool for managing said library and separating the almost good from the truly good.

Also noteworthy, if you don’t have the iPad Camera Connection Kit, it is worth seeing the photo import process that it employs. It serves as yet another demonstration of Apple’s attention to details.

mrgan:

This week’s release of iMovie and GarageBand for iPad may well turn out to be a very important moment in consumer software. GarageBand in particular is a simply phenomenal app, going well above and beyond most people’s expectations for a creative/consumer app on a tablet. It’s not perfect, but…

American Drink: Rules for My Born Son. And You.

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:52:42 +0000

American Drink: Rules for My Born Son. And You. :

1) Be polite and smile your brains out, but let the bartender flirt first. Always provide a number, never ask for one.
2) Decide what you will order on the drive to the bar. Eye contact is key, never wave money to get attention.
3) Vodka and Coke? That better be a joke.
4) If a song is longer…

As a rule, I dislike Internet lists. This list of rules trumps that rule. Wish I had this 10, 15, 20 years ago.

Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com Tragic.

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:57:13 +0000

Caught in the oil - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Tragic.

" See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today’s Big Thing."

Thu, 27 May 2010 22:14:16 +0000

“

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today’s Big Thing.

”

- Ninja Bear Spins Tree Branch is Today’s BIG Thing - MAY 27, 2010

Man it pisses me off when stupid animals can do badass shit that I cannot.

Best. Error Message. Ever. You’re kidding me, right? What...

Tue, 18 May 2010 16:08:00 +0000

Best. Error Message. Ever.

You’re kidding me, right? What you’re saying is, this:

A) You saved my document
B) You can’t re-open the document
C) To fix this, I should close and re-open the document

I think this means that the solution to my problem is precisely the problem itself. This seems like a trap.

note: Just in case you can’t read the awkwardly stout dialog it says “The document was saved successfully, but Excel cannot re-open it because of a sharing violation. Please close the document and try to open it again.”

"Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact—we will have to pay them—but this fact is..."

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:02:29 +0000

“Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact—we will have to pay them—but this fact is not in fact a fact. Instead, it is a choice, one its proponents often decline to spell out in full, because, spelled out in full, it would read something like this: “Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, or else we will have to stop making content in the costly and complex way we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don’t know how to do that.””

- Clay Shirky

It’s like Clay gets in our heads, takes the stuff we know, but don’t know we know, and then turns around and makes us know it. Damn, that dude gets it.

Colorful India - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:41:12 +0000

Colorful India - The Big Picture - Boston.com

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. (via Open...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:00:31 +0000

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.

(via Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go)

The good people of OK Go explain the music industry and why you can’t embed their YouTube videos. Aside from making good music and - as stated above - being good people, this kind of stuff really makes me want to buy their album, but then I wind up giving more money to their label than to the band and perpetuating the industry belief that their current model doesn’t need to change or evolve. ..and the world goes ‘round.

"I actually joked about rotating the dishes because I didn’t want the dishes underneath, or in..."

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:42:43 +0000

“I actually joked about rotating the dishes because I didn’t want the dishes underneath, or in the back, to be lonely.”

- greg.org: the making of: On Rotating The Dishes (via Kottke)

This mindset - wherein items owned may feel lonely or neglected because of favoritism toward other items or out of mere convenience - is the bane of my existence. It affects many many parts of my life from the simple list that of albums that I maintain assuring that I don’t listen to an album twice without listening to a number of other albums as well (whether I like them or not). You can forget about listening to single songs altogether; It is album or nothing. Only recently have I allowed back catalog items to slip off the playlist (with significant internal justification and debate) and yet there is a dark almost dirty desire in the back of my mind to start at ‘a.k.a I-D-I-O-T’ and move all the way through to 'Zero’. This would of course mean that I couldn’t purchase any albums for the 52.2 days iTunes asserts that it would take me to listen to the almost 1800 albums in my collection. I also have no idea where albums that employ numerals at the beginning of their title would fall in this system. Do I put them at the beginning or the end? Or perhaps where they would appear if the name were spelled out as opposed to being numeric.

The music thing is on the mild side of the spectrum. At the other end of things, I have crafted a very complicated system of dressing and even purchasing clothes such that they rotate in an asynchronous fashion constantly getting assembled in what seems arbitrary and yet is very very intentional. The majority of my clothes are monochromatic and of fairly neutral tones. Shoes are black or brown as are belts. Socks are gray or brown. Everything rotates in rows or stacks of varying quantity such that the odds of any outfit recurring in short order is very low. In fact, I would guess that it is on the scale of maybe annually. Again, this doesn’t take into account items that get washed and any new purchases adding additional variation into the system. I suppose that to someone not in my head, this would seem to be very chaotic and disorderly. In fact it is all very well ordered and strictly regulated. This system of creating what is essentially the anti-outfit is all crafted with the ultimate goal of assuring that no item is neglected or ignored for too long and that no single article of clothing gets more than its fair share of attention or wear.

At the end of the day, friend, rest assured that I think this is crazy. I have sacrificed a little bit of my sanity to the point of obsession, in order to save the feelings of inanimate objects. I have no idea if this is some kind of innate thing within humans, as others clearly share this odd behavior to some degree or another, but it is certainly some kind of disability or evolutionary disorder, one that is deeply ingrained within the psyche and which overcoming is a significant struggle on the scale of conquering alcoholism or smoking.

Bukit, Snot Otter

nobody@flickr.com (cgkemper) — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:18:21 +0000

cgkemper posted a photo:

Something

The only cross stitch Chris will ever love.

nobody@flickr.com (cgkemper) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:58:52 +0000

cgkemper posted a photo:

Yates hates cross stitch. Suzy made him one that he could love, bitch.

Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:46:47 +0000

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Tim Burton to Debut Eerie Creation at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - TIME NewsFeed

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:16:27 +0000

Eric Lewis rocks the jazz world | Video on TED.com

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:25:42 +0000

Barrage of comets may create new life | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:42:02 +0000

Doggie-cam (Pug POV) - YouTube

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:43:58 +0000

LERA LYNN // IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA - YouTube

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:13:55 +0000

LERA LYNN // WOLF LIKE ME // TV ON THE RADIO - COVER - YouTube

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:14:54 +0000

10 awe-inspiring moon images: The magnificent moon | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:33:33 +0000

7 U.S. places every greenie should visit: Get packing | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:54:56 +0000

Chins and Sabby - YouTube

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:18:36 +0000

Nicki Minaj - Super Bass - YouTube

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:19:43 +0000