Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Leap second.


The New Year will arrive one second late.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Monday, December 29, 2008

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Thank You Mask Man.

All voices by Lenny Bruce. (Thanks, Don!)

The death of Polaroid.


Michael Kimmelman on the end of an era.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Choose your own Apple CEO adventure.


Thanks to Jason Chen for doing this. Funny stuff.

Farting money.


New iPhone fart apps pull in $10K a day.

Oppressive type.


Andy Mangold's insomnia pillow.

Friday, December 26, 2008

Extraterrestrial.

Animation by Ivan Rusev. (Thanks, Don!)

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Color your world.


Trulee's Xmas gift from Larry.

Hamster on a piano.

(Thanks, Ti!)

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Monday, December 22, 2008

Sponsor an executive.

(Thanks, Bill!)

Fontcase.


Looks like the beta's good to go. Really impressive Mac OS X font manager, so long Apple Font Book. "Manage your fonts. The Apple way." Except Apple didn't make this. Another instance of why strong independent developers matter on this platform. Duh... I think Steve Jobs knows this and thinks it sucks.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Kanye West album generator.


I've given the punch line away by posting Michael Sippey's imagining of the GUI, but the comments illustrate the need for an iPhone app. Comic Sans for the "demo," well, yeah.

Origami hamburger set.


Via UniqueDaily.com.

My kind of marketing.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Friday, December 19, 2008

English Russia.


Giant compendium -- images of Russian life.

Burger King offers meat fragrance.


BK's hot new meat scent.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Apple's dick move.


John C. Welch has it right. Before any hate begins, I'm working on a Mac now.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008

The Agrippa Files.


An online archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead) by William Gibson and Dennis Ashbaugh.

Chris Mathews in a minute.



Via 23/6. (Thanks, Craig!)

Friday, December 12, 2008

Thursday, December 11, 2008

"It's all just one big lie."


Bernard Madoff arrested for $50 billion fraud.

The torture soundtrack.


I can't believe they didn't include "Futurist."

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

The bailout.


Via Sarah Lane and buffalobeast.com.

Way down there on the left.


Along with 1931.

Found: briefcase with odd items.


Date: 2008-11-27, 9:31AM PST


Large silver briefcase (metal). No locks. Odd items inside include a 14 inch length of plastic tube about one and a half inches in diameter, a solid rod of plastic about 20 inches long and a little under one and a half inches in diameter. Several tubes of KY jelly (don't ask me, I just found it). Here's the really odd thing: there were five Gerbils in a plastic container with breather holes in it. I put them in a mouse cage with some shredded wood chips, water, and food. Respond to this add so I can return your stuff. If no respone in a week, I'll give the Gerbils to the animal shelter and turn the rest of the stuff over to the Sheriff Dept. Thanks.

Via Best of Craigslist.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Monday, December 8, 2008

Shameless plug.

At the College Coffeehouse. Mobile post.

Private lives of your favorite toys.


Via WebUrbanist.

Start the day off right.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Hai, heil.


A big thanks to PsyWar.Org for providing me with much enjoyment tonight.

$10 can go a long way.


Charlie Kratzer's basement art project.

Facebook fake: 100 friends in four days.


What interests me about this and the author's point is that Facebook is designed to make the sharing of personal information easy. People use Facebook precisely because it allows them to relinquish privacy. The article fails to address Facebook as a privacy dynamic. More thorough analysis in this direction is over here.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Softwear by Microsoft.


Microsoft's new retro line of clothing. It's be great if it was all in blue.

Globular Cluster M13.


From The Hubble Heritage Project. (Thanks, Don!)

Friday, December 5, 2008

Thursday, December 4, 2008

The Alaska bar experience.


Welcome to Fairbanks. She has a boyfriend. (Thanks, Aurora!)

The new Depression.


Handy tips.

Shuriken refrigerator magnets.


Great gift idea.

The 2008 Ovatio Awards.


Via Ars Technica.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

White Christmas.

Sung by The Drifters, animation by Joshua Heid.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

A couple stars.


by Don Cole

Oblivion waits in the light up the road. My grandmother Witcher first showed me Orion as we waited for the paperwork to be finalized letting my mother out of a lunatic asylum. It was 1966 in a dead winter night and we stood outside of a Chinese restaurant in Denver, Colorado. Bare elms stared back at us from some random park across the street. Thin ice crackled under our feet, with little snow, but we were standing knee deep in family treachery. (The photo is from "Wunder" photos on the Underground weather service.)

The photography of Adrian Parfene.


Fashion and more.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Why?


One entire CD, via torrent, created as a single MP3 file. No metadata, no nothing. Just one big file.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Stop talking cards.


I bet I could give away a box of these a night.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

"We're all journalists now."


Forbes on Twitter and Mumbai.

Friday, November 28, 2008

The good shit.


Researchers unearth 2700-year-old stash of marijuana.

Wal-Mart worker trampled to death.


On Black Friday. My friend Don comments: "Well. the clean-up supplies were cheap and why bother with a pauper's grave when ya can plop him in a $12.95 container and heft the deal into a dumpster?"

Wednesday, November 26, 2008