July 07, 2008
What I Did Last Month - Last month I asked people on twitter whether they would allow me to take over their Facebook accounts for a week. Within a half hour I had to remove the request due to the volume of incoming username and passwords. I selected two people that were in the medium friend range and appeared to use Facebook in an active way, and asked for a one page "how-to" guide on how to be them before I started. Here is a description of that week in the words of one of the people I took over :: Lessons Learned from Ze Frank (Being Me) (shorter version) :: and x... gets the square - Ze Frank Wuzz Inside My Internetzz...! (same person, in more detail)
July 05, 2008
The Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases: Summer '08 - Welcome once again to the Pitchfork Guide to Upcoming Releases, our seasonal guide to upcoming releases! This installment covers a wide swath of the crucial cuts you'll be jamming on through the summer and into the fall, from LPs and EPs to singles and music-related DVDs of note. [more inside]
GORBACHOV - Think Proletarian Chicks with Hammer and Sickle fighting Zombie enemies of the people alongside our eponymous glasnoster, recast with sword&sandals, laser eyes, oiled chest and iconic birthmark - as an eyeliner emotel music vid. Stunningly bizarre. If your rig will handle the HD I recommend it. [via Panopticist -- one of my favorite blogs; posts only every few weeks but when he does it's solid gold]
July 04, 2008
FontStruct is a free font-building tool brought to you by the world’s leading retailer of digital type, FontShop. [via doncarlo]
June 29, 2008
Looking for the Mouse and Better than Free -- both obviously hit close to home for me but are, I think, generally interesting.
If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. ...
And television watching? Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year. ... In the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads.
June 20, 2008
And the record of Harbo and Samuelsen still stands. Though these guys tried , the 102 year old record is safe.
June 17, 2008
Hey, mrflip. Has Zillow contacted you directly yet?
June 05, 2008
Mexico Bike Crash - pic after jump. [more inside]
These kids make me feel like and idiot, but what they are doing is really cool. This is something I would be willing to donate to! Don't worry, APS is going to do some stuff for them too :)
June 04, 2008
CNN's front page today had what is possibly the most insanely boring "most exciting moment" I have ever heard. Habcous and I got to chatting about exactly how many exciting discoveries they could be making every month over there in Lighthouse Digest magazine which then turned into what kind of articles they exactly publish in Lighthouse Digest. And that led to me wasting a half hour:
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May 20, 2008
Most people know someone (often an older relative) who have poor e-mail etiquette with respect to things like e-mail forwards. For those of you who are aggressive enough to try to modify this behavior, but passive/lazy enough to not want to compose your viewpoint, Merlin Mann brings you Thanks. No. [more inside]
May 07, 2008
May 06, 2008
American Consumer Spending and Inflation - a beautiful visualization from the NYTimes (who consistently crank out the best infovis of any commodity source). More on the math behind this kind of map. [more inside]
April 18, 2008
April 15, 2008
Trapped - This week in the magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about the lives of elevators, and tells the story of Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator in New York City’s McGraw-Hill building for forty-one hours. Here is a condensed look at White’s ordeal, as captured by the building’s security cameras.
April 14, 2008
April 09, 2008
WFMU has a blog entry describing a completely amazing pool at the top of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. The thing that is so amazing about it is that the current is so slow you can hang out over the edge of the falls and look down (more pics).
April 01, 2008
Youtube top vids for April - (linked from its front page) have some really good selections, especially the first one ("Star Wars Rube Goldberg Machine") and the one with the baby. I don't think I'm ever gonna give up checking these out at the start of each month.
March 22, 2008
Hey cat nerds, here's a breed for the braver ones... I would so totally get one of these if I didn't have a bird and crazy cat allergies.
March 12, 2008
Would it Kill you to Smile? - musings on the state of being "Bershon":
The spirit of bershon is pretty much how you feel when you’re 13 and your parents make you wear a Christmas sweatshirt and then pose for a family picture, and you could not possibly summon one more ounce of disgust, but you’re also way too cool to really even DEAL with it, so you just make this face like you smelled something bad and sort of roll your eyes and seethe in a put-out manner.
March 11, 2008
Girls Are Yucky - This just reaffirms my suspicion originally made during the educational film shown at ExMFC...
March 04, 2008
February 27, 2008
An extinction timeline from a business-audience fortune teller. Sadly, retirement is scheduled to disappear before I hit it, but I'm delighted to note that in 6 years my dad should stop getting lost. Microsoft's demise is plotted for roughly 2035.
Also mildly entertaining from the same site: 335 cocktail-party phrases to make it sound like you're paying attention.