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while this happens all the time I’d also like to add 1)...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:55:53 -0500

while this happens all the time I’d also like to add 1) get on subway 2) immediately start playing doodlejump or reading emails 3) realize you can hear the sounds of people around you because you forgot to put on music

nickdouglas:

by Caldwell Tanner

Evolution of Type Taste from Grade School to Present by Jessica...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:54:16 -0500

Evolution of Type Taste from Grade School to Present by Jessica Hische

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Can’t sleep and shopping for large-print wallpaper I found...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:34:03 -0500

Can’t sleep and shopping for large-print wallpaper I found myself at Anthropologie. Their e-commerce experience is pretty straight-forward but there is one thing different that I like:

Download this image.

I’ve never seen this before. It’s an interesting idea. The image that downloads is nothing fancy, just the one in the listing (it’s not even well named, mine was “960040_001_b.jpg”) but I could see the utility in this for sure.

"Audience members took turns, often in pairs, using the Chatroulette station on the stage. The..."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0500

“Audience members took turns, often in pairs, using the Chatroulette station on the stage. The conversations with strangers began as they normally seem to, with sarcastic banter getting tossed back and forth. But the interactions began to change as soon as the stranger became aware of the larger audience. A pretty blonde in Brazil, for example, began by playfully flirting with two redheads using the station. When she saw the crowd, she started biting her lips excitedly. The meeting climaxed with loud catcalls from the audience before she was “nexted,” which is website slang for moving on to a new stranger. For the countless nudists on the site, encountering a large crowd was also apparently an exciting treat. A drinking game was made of it: Whenever nudity appeared, the crowd took a drink.”

- We Went to a Chatroulette Party Last Night — Daily Intel http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/we_went_to_a_chatroutlette_par.html#ixzz0h3gG0S5b

I am absolutely fascinated by chatroulette. Sometimes technology makes something possible socially that is brand new, interesting, a little dangerous, and undefined. It’s in the infancy of these ideas that all the magic happens. The chaotic infant stage before someone figures out how to monetize it, or game its system. Enjoy it now before prochatroulette opens and publishes “All the Cherries: 10 Ways to Win Big at Chat Roulette”.

Check out all the miniatures from this Flickr user....

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:24:31 -0500

Check out all the miniatures from this Flickr user. They’re all full of anthropomorphic hope and empathy.

I’d love to see a stop motion series with these characters.

Squid on Stilts! (via Articulate Matter and @supersgp)

Review of NOW! That's What I Call Music Vol. 2

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Read this now.

This is a (admittedly long) fantastic critique of pop music in the late 90s written by The Onion’s AV Club. I highly recommend you fight through your “TL:DR” impulse and give this a chance. Load it up before you get on the subway and you’ll be done by the time you hit Brooklyn.

Pieces I like the most:

On Britney Spears in the …Baby, One More Time era:

Spears coos, pants, and purrs the song’s come-ons in a crazed libidinal frenzy. She embodies the aphorism I just made up that if you can’t sing well, sing sexy.

Regarding Semisonic, their lead singer Dan Wilson who I’m a huge fan of, and the meaning of the song Closing Time:

On the surface, the song finds the romance in barflies scrambling for a closing-time hookup, but according to So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star, the likeable memoir of Semisonic drummer Jacob Slichter, it was written about the birth of Wilson’s first child. The song’s key line is purloined from the Roman philosopher Seneca, who originally wrote, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” It’s a line with multiple meanings; there’s the end of life in the womb and the beginning of life outside, but also a father and mother forsaking the pleasures of youth for the responsibilities of parenthood.

The rest of the article is just as good. It’s an interesting take on such a memorable period of pop music when…holy shit I’m old enough to be nostalgic.

Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids – Quix

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:05:18 -0500

Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids – Quix:

This app is incredible. I just installed it and will report back in a couple weeks after I get used to it but right off the bat the list of things it does is staggering. It really is Quicksilver for the browser.

The State of the Internet Great infographic with some very...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:19:14 -0500

The State of the Internet

Great infographic with some very interesting usage data. (via @supersgp)

I WANT THIS via farm3.static.flickr.com and @supersgp

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:07:33 -0500

I WANT THIS

via farm3.static.flickr.com and @supersgp

Season 5, Episode 16: Hooked Discussion

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:08:44 -0500

Season 5, Episode 16: Hooked Discussion:

Just posted my recap for the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother. It’s long, but it was a good episode.

One of my favorite new artists from the past year is Casiotone...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:01:00 -0500

One of my favorite new artists from the past year is Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. While he’s not new to the world, he’s new to me. He’s all at once sad, hopeful, wistful, cynical, fragile, damaged, unaffected. If Bon Iver lived in Brooklyn instead of in a cabin in the middle of nowhere and had a penchant for low-fi production he’d sound something like Casiotone.

This is the first of three or four songs I’ll post this week. All of his songs are biographic in content. This might be my favorite and is definitely the one that I most emphasize with and am moved by. Maybe it’s the country music I grew up listening to with my grandparents but I love a story in a song with bonus points for unrequited or lost love.

This song is lyrically heartbreaking. It’s incredible how the first verse establishes these characters and creates immediate empathy. The hope of the protagonist is palpable and makes the chorus even more heartbreaking.

“Elle’s the only one besides my dad who’s ever said ‘I love you, Creedence’.” is the most emotionally loaded line of the song. Within it lies the implication of a broken man who’s grown up mother-less and desperate to hang onto the one woman in his life for whom he’s ever felt—and had reciprocated—love. Such a rich story full of loss and heartbreak in such a small package.

Manhattan gets a taste of Brooklyn Pizza

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:46:29 -0500

Manhattan gets a taste of Brooklyn Pizza:

Via GrubStreet: Grimaldi’s Will Open 24/7 Chelsea Location.

Maybe this will cut down on the lines outside the original DUMBO location.

JAF Zalamander free download

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:47:41 -0500

JAF Zalamander free download:

Great free typeface - Zalamander Caps.

"In a paper due out this year in the journal Emotion, Mr. Kraus and his co-authors, Cassy Huang and..."

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:04:18 -0500

“In a paper due out this year in the journal Emotion, Mr. Kraus and his co-authors, Cassy Huang and Dr. Keltner, report that with a few exceptions, good teams tended to be touchier than bad ones. The most touch-bonded teams were the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, currently two of the league’s top teams; at the bottom were the mediocre Sacramento Kings and Charlotte Bobcats. The same was true, more or less, for players. The touchiest player was Kevin Garnett, the Celtics’ star big man, followed by star forwards Chris Bosh of the Toronto Raptors and Carlos Boozer of the Utah Jazz. “Within 600 milliseconds of shooting a free throw, Garnett has reached out and touched four guys,” Dr. Keltner said.”

- This just in: touching is good

Mind - New Research Focuses on the Power of Physical Contact - NYTimes.com

Buy stuff from my house (or at least give your friends the opportunity to do so)

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:41:34 -0500

I’m selling a bunch of stuff from my apartment and you should buy it. If you don’t want to buy it retweet so someone else might have the opportunity to do so.

Kitchen table and chairs (Very nice)

Old CRT TV (old, but still works. great 2nd tv for bedroom!)

TV stand (old, nothing fancy, good storage for DVDs/DVD player/DVR)

Thanks ladies and gentlemen!

This is pretty much the sexiest thing ever. House Industries -...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:05:22 -0500

This is pretty much the sexiest thing ever.

House Industries - Blog

The morning after Snowpocalypse NYC ‘10.

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:15:16 -0500

The Morning After

A Buried Car

Brownstone Stair-Sleding

Waist-high

Windows of IAC building

The morning after Snowpocalypse NYC ‘10.

I LOL’d groovemonkey: brilliant

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:34:31 -0500

I LOL’d

groovemonkey:

brilliant

Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:45:28 -0500

Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment:

This is a fantastic project. Readability, by Arc90, isolates the content on a web page allowing easy readability on poorly designed sites. You can even customize the “new” appearance of content.

I found this via Zeldman and he covers the reasons why this is so useful not only for desktop browsing but for mobile as well.

Great to see things of quality such as this being released.

I too am excited! Maybe after BR Guest was sold the new owners...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:02:04 -0500

I too am excited! Maybe after BR Guest was sold the new owners will go down a better path (zing!)

deesix:

Very excited to get a Dos Caminos in the West Village. They are opening in April according to the signs in the windows.