January 2011
December 2010
“The internet has become an arm of the advertising (propaganda) industry, and its...”
– Atom of Consumption
tumbledore:
Dead Gaze - “This Big World”
It...
Raid on the Cape →
Someone could make a movie out of this.
Taking Sides in the Boer War →
There were no medals, no flags or drums, no military formations; there was no saluting, and there was no pay. There was not much discipline, either. If a man took a dislike to the comrnando he was with, he simply left and joined another; if he tired of the war, he went home. They had, almost to a man, learned to ride and shoot in early boyhood and had spent most of their lives in the saddle ...
“Ingest Xanax in preparation for a podcast for The Rumpus, suddenly...”
– TL
“Journalist and author Naomi Alderman spoke about the difficulty of having to...”
– NPR Fresh Air: Boredom Enthusiasts Discover the Pleasures of Understimulation
All Tiny Creatures - Higgs Boson
until 5:20, too...
“The guitar player from PONYTAIL all solo-like, looping his guitar through damn...”
– True Endeavors
“It’s time for us to ease up on friending, rethink our downgrade of ex-lovers to...”
– Land of Loners?
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Various harvesting machines
Plum. Cucumber. Potato. Chicken. Green bean. Cherry. Asparagus. Tree.Sugarcane. Tomato. Coal. Carrot (another view.) Grape. Onion. Pecan. Watermelon. Chestnut.
via mefi
Current favorite is the Robert Miles Plum and Cherry music video
“Nash’s visionary floor game and Amar’e’s boundless skill and athleticism made...”
– Benjamin Polk
Style, Stats, and Savvy (?). Full homo.
Watchtonytrov:
The Snowman- my favorite Christmas time cartoon. Complete with intro by Mr. David Bowie.
“I first heard Kid A as an exchange student in Finland. I was 16 years old. I’d...”
– Brooklyn Copeland
Feel good story of the day.
What do you want to happen to your online presence...
nprfreshair:
On tomorrow’s show, we’re going to talk about what happens to your online self (Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, websites) when you die. What do you want to happen to your profiles when you die?
My goal in life is to delete my Tumblr et al.
Does anyone know what the first line of Das...
“chasing venture paper, like what twitter get”?
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realmacgruber:
Eminence Front—The Who
SECRET...
“Watching @ESPN Hannah Storm dressed up like a Pilgram & shit @ Halftime”
– Just Cool
Also, this video includes: the Flu game, A Skinny Charles, A Skinny Charles apologizing about saying women shouldn’t announce men’s sports, A Skinny Charles apologizing about saying women shouldn’t announce men’s sports to Hannah Storm, Hannah Storm, A Skinny...
one-sound:
THE GNASHING all of your foes are...
I had a dream that I was a really mediocre Jedi and I got beat by some Imperial boss who just had a normal battle axe. Also, Luke Skywalker was so distraught that he didn’t ‘get the girl’ that he had devoted his life to rock’n’roll. He showed up at my beheading as a fat 45 year old, with his band. They only played Them covers.
Screw. you. Scott. Walker.
dontmakelists:
#16 - J Dilla - Workinonit
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Somewhat astonished these two things were written by the same person:
Should “Fatties” Get a Room? (Even on TV?)
When I almost jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge
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goldenslumbers-:
Sheryl Crow- Strong Enough
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wag54:
Villa Nah - Ways to Be
Do you ever wish...
“And yet, since the advent of a holy trinity of groundbreaking movies in the 90s,...”
– The numbing ubiquity of computer graphics
I think the brain somehow dismisses computer graphics because there’s no wonder behind the scenes. How did they create it? They used some sfx software that has no boundaries. Whereas one really has to think about how they filmed the AT-ATs on Hoth,...
Mike Nichols: Wisconsinites may be fat and drunk,... →
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Things we like: A Humument
canvas:
A Humument is an art book first published in 1970, made by collaging and painting over the pages of an earlier novel to create a new story. It has hundreds of pages all illustrated in different ways, nice to browse around. It’s also published as an iPad app.
It is a piece of art created over W H Mallock’s 1892 novel A Human Document whose title results from the partial deletion...
Thank you, SEO for perversely making it 4x harder...
Or lyrics or legit product reviews or advice on getting stitches… Soon, search will only be used as a really fast wikipedia index.
WatchWah Do Dem
When Max is dumped by his girlfriend (Norah Jones) just days before setting out on a cruise, he decides to go alone. Now Max is thrust into a wild adventure on the high seas and into the exotic Jamaican culture.