January 2010
49 posts
Lab Rat: What Happens When You Unplug from Your Internet Addiction? http://bit.ly/5vjqv9 (via @the99percent)
It never rains in LA, it only pours.
Man survives Haitian quake with iPhone medical app: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/haiti-survivor-iphone/ Respect the app.
RT @sekimori We should take off and nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
RT @hiddenplace these moon conspiracy nuts really have a few screws loose http://bit.ly/5Fcf6S
RT @bldgblog: Stray dogs in Moscow are “evolving greater intelligence and wolf-like characteristics”—and an ability to use the subway! h …
The next Pirates movie is called On Stranger Tides? WTF is that? http://bit.ly/7265p9 (via @cinematical)
Holy cow, one of my clients had a MySQL meltdown. Not pretty.
I realize how awesome life is when you get a perfectly toasted bagel from the coffee shop.
After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP: http://bit.ly/4IpUgE (via @tweetmeme) Oh lovely lovely lovely!
Working with @dadalibrarian in @TheConservatory while it rains outside. It’s very lovely.
RT @CamMcCasland: “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great of a burden to bear…” - Martin Luther King Jr.
RT @keithcalder: Because you’ll love it: Werner Herzog Reads Curious George http://tr.im/KHVH
RT @thisrecording I would like to see a Michael Haneke vs. Werner Herzog severe-off Heneke by a mile. Herzog is too playful to win.
Is there anything worse than a client who designs his/her own site and have terrible taste in aesthetics?
jQuery 1.4 released. http://jquery14.com/day-01/jquery-14 Excellent.
RT @bubblegenius Woohoo! The LA Times blogged about our conversation heart soaps, and more! http://bit.ly/71R5j0 They have some cool soaps.
The Genealogy of Rock/Pop Music looks a lot like a topographical cutaway of a hillside: http://www.historyshots.com/Rockmusic/index.cfm
“I’ve used one for years. I find it convenient. I find the tax code complex so I use a preparer.” - IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman
Instant Bazinga! http://instantbazinga.com/
Designers who knowingly build their design to fail with upgrades to the foundational software suck.
A (maybe?) comprehensive photo page of the Haiti earthquake aftermath: http://bit.ly/5O7NVB
The trailer to Future X-Cops (Hong Kong film) is like seeing a never-seen MST3K—like the Space Prince’s sequel. http://bit.ly/6HQ9Jy
Unwritten, a supernatural graphic novel that examines the nature of literature and control: http://bit.ly/6QP30S
Reason 114 why I am marrying @dadalibrarian: Early to movie, she wants to look @ graphic novels in B&N.
Using an iPhone to communicate. Also at a free screening of up in the air.
Avatar review (part II): http://www.fringeblog.com/2010/01/avatar-review-part-ii/
Sam Mendes to direct Bond 23? After Marc Forster’s botch job on QoS, Sony’s decision was to hire a guy even less qualified to direct action?
RT @film_girl: RT @mashable “Glee” Returns For a Second Season With an Online Twist http://bit.ly/620N8h
Gitmo guard reunites with former inmates: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8452937.stm
A Shepard tone is an auditory illusion, in which a tone seems to continuously descend, without getting lower. http://bit.ly/1jsUnG
Chop Cup: http://vimeo.com/6782769 Do not adjust your mind. There is a fault in reality.
RT @linklog: Airnergy is a $40 device that harvests energy from ambient wifi and uses it to charge your devices: It seems amazin… http …
How did @ebertchicago not “get” Brazil after 2 viewings? Even assuming he saw the “Love Conquers All” version, it’s not that complicated.
Photos from Biosphere: http://www.noahsheldon.com/biosphere.html
RT @cinematical: ‘Spider-Man 4’ Is No More http://bit.ly/6MOF3E
New Spat on Cultural Imperialist — the debate between Micro- and Macroenterprises: http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/01/slight-money/
RT @HighlandFilms: http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html dumbest thing i’ve read. people depressed …
Cop Out trailer. Bruce Willis + Tracy Morgan. I can get behind that: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3977985/cop_out_movie_trailer/
“as an architectural premise, Die Hard becomes an exhilarating catalog of unorthodox movements through architectural space.” http://3.ly/YTt
RT @cinematical: John Malkovich Confirms Vulture in ‘Spider-Man 4’ http://bit.ly/6mtLyL
For the person who rang & left a message which I then accidentally deleted as I was attempting to turn the volume up, please call me back.
I’m eating M&M’s out of a Big M&M container. Meta-sweeeeet.
The Kennedy quotes in @Esquiremag made me feel nostalgic for a time when I was nowhere close to being born. I loved Ted’s sailing bit.
I’m so drinking a gin n tonic tonight.
LOST-inspired art: http://abduzeedo.com/phenomenal-lost-inspired-art? NB: not all of these should be classified as “art”
Lost fans! Can you find the clues to characters’ fates in this photo? http://bit.ly/7wKGow I can see three who are going to die.
I loved James Wood’s “How Fiction Works”. I didn’t take it as a novelistic excursion, but more a dissection of pieces of the written body.
Apparently people think I didn’t get #Avatar, suggested I take shrooms then watch. Really? So what was all the 3-D & blue aliens for?
December 2009
77 posts
Moving in for the landing. More exciting than beating a bunch of baby seals with wet noodles. See you on the runway…