September 2008
30 posts
Matchmaker - Pair The Ten Bells’s $1.25 oysters... →
$1.25 oysters with wine? If you ever need to find me between 5 and 7, this is a good place to look.
Election 2008 | powered by Twitter →
Very nice organization of election-specific Twitter content. Now can I turn off all the talk in my main feed and just read it all here?
Muxtape founder discusses what happened with the... →
And so I made one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever faced: I walked away from the licensing deals. They had become too complex for a site founded on simplicity, too restrictive and hostile to continue to innovate the way I wanted to. They’d already taken so much attention away from development that I started to question my own motivations. I didn’t get into this to build a big company as fast...
“Historians noted that the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II...”
– Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
Watchnickdouglas:
Portal - Still Alive, typography edition
“Fiction, [Wallace] once said, is “one of the few experiences where loneliness...”
– David Foster Wallace → A belief in fiction. via Big Contrarian
I post this mostly for myself, to archive this somewhere where I might read it often or quickly find it.
YouTube - experiencewii →
Check this out. Must watch at least half.
WatchWeb 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Lan
Say what you will about Gary V but he’s passionate and understands what’s going on. “Stop watching fucking Lost”…awesome.
Big Contrarian → Tacky. →
Lately I’ve been thinking alot about the backswing of the blogging pendulum. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one to see this happening.
After reading this today I instantly became a loyal Big Contrarian reader. These words he speaks are true.
A while back, I think I was in middle school, I...
“I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago. That’s...”
– Matt Damon, regarding Sarah Palin possibly becoming President (via maniacalrage)
Why I love Twitter, the Internet
It’s no secret I’m a big twitter user. I love the humor and what seems to be a bottomless pit of creativity. It’s all unedited, impulsive ID talking and I wouldn’t have it any other way. No sooner does someone launch a t-shirt site where any tweet you fancy can be yours to wear does another prominent user immediately strike out against said service:
If you’re...
“Stop voting for people you want to have a beer with. Stop voting for folksy....”
– Sarah Palin Naked by Michael Seitzman at Huffington Post (via zackgilbert)
glossy →
Great spot for the Getty Museum. Very nicely done.
“Y’know those idiot teenagers who show up late on Halloween with no costume...”
– Twitter / Merlin Mann: Y’know those idiot teenager…
“Don’t put this note by your face on the pillow
Don’t put this...”
– Elbow - I’ve Got Your Number (note: clicking will Phobos you)
“Indian food wasn’t popular in New York until the mid-90’s when banks starting...”
– Indian-American entrepreneur Kay Kalawar explained this to me while lamenting that she entered the market too soon with her Indian food distribution company in the late 80’s.
Either way, thank god for chicken tikka masala.
(via zachklein)
“1: Take all your hopes and dreams and put them in a pile. 2: Stir in 1 pt...”
– Jeff’s recipe for a successful, or at least gratifying career as an independent whatever.
via DM on his Twitter/fedge
(via lonelysandwich)
Obama is RESTful » Idol Hands: Days in the Life of... →
WatchMagnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
New music visualization for iTunes 8.0. This will look slick on my big TV during dinner parties.
In Which We Give Names to That Which We Hold Dear
Don’t worry about what Western Monarchy is, not just yet. Google it if you must, but that’s for later. More important is the following excerpt from an conversation I had with a friend, we’ll call him T, about the importance of careful naming. This was a good year ago but I just found this kicking around my drafts folder:
Anyhow, I have been thinking more and more about your...
Watch[A 24 Hour Trip to New York] on Vimeo (via Vimeo)