December 2011
“One groundbreaking episode of Sex And The City made the Manolo Blahnik...”
– The New Full-Frontal: Has Pubic Hair in America Gone Extinct? - Ashley Fetters
Watchheller:
As a culmination of past projects I wanted to share with you my latest video. It’s a mixtape collection of clips from the past two years that I shot in MacBook’s Photo Booth.
Now I know that sounds like it might be challenging, but i assure you that I’ve conscientiously edited this to together to showcase my best humor, music, and insight.
This video probably won’t go viral. It’s three...
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“On Jan. 3 she’ll take her case to Small Claims Court in Torrance, where...”
– Car owner takes legal fight away from lawyers - latimes.com
This. Is. So. Awesome. (via jaybushman)
This is the future.
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Focused dabbling →
mrgan:
Dan Benjamin on Back to Work:
“I don’t believe it’s possible to have a side business. I don’t think you can have a business on the side. I don’t think you can go to work and have a job and then come home and run a business. I believe that both the job and the side business… you will never…
Terrific advise heading into the resolutions time of year.
“One lesson to be drawn from those monastic stories is that persistent, alluring...”
– Their Noonday Demons, and Ours - NYTimes.com (via jaybushman)
Woodcuts were the original memes.
The unintentional but rapid spread of the “95 Theses” alerted Luther to the way in which media passed from one person to another could quickly reach a wide audience. “They are printed and circulated far beyond my expectation,” he wrote in March 1518 to a publisher in Nuremberg who had published a German translation of the theses. But writing in scholarly Latin and then translating it into German...
“The boarding-pass problem is hardly the only problem with the checkpoints....”
– Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
“Security theater” rings true.
Disabled Chicago cop denied pit bull service dog... →
For 32 years, nearly half as a tactical officer, Jim Sak was a cop chasing down bad guys on the streets of Chicago.
Now that he’s retired and living in tiny Aurelia, Ia., the townsfolk are chasing him — to get rid of “Snickers,” a five-year-old Pit bull-mix service dog he needs after suffering a debilitating stroke that left him with no feeling on the right side of his body.
On orders from...
“friendship is the greatest good which can happen to any city”
– Aristotle, Politics (via factsarenothing)
OR THE INTERNET.
“The fact that there was any debate over whether to call in experts on such a...”
– Joshua Kopstein, Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works (via drinkyourjuice) This friends, is the most important article you’ll read today. (via shortformblog)
“Since the coalition page launched one month ago, 709,000 people have shared it...”
– SOPA Mark-up Delayed as Support Continues to Crumble - Blog - OpenCongress
Watchcuriositycounts:
“You don’t see the Milky Way down in the cities anymore, it’s gone.” The First 70 – wonderful film about people banding together to prevent the closing of 70 California state parks
A gorgeous video about a change that shouldn’t even be considered.
“If these kits can get little girls interested in building and making, for crying...”
– Cut Lego Friends a Break - Deus Ex Machinatio - Andrea Phillips
Watchvulgarians:
A VERY SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM GARY OLDMAN TO HIS FANS ON TUMBLR.
Oh god he’s magnificent.
✭✭✭✭✭ →
“Fresh oranges are cultish compared to frozen orange juice because I have to eat the bitter outside to get to the sweet inside.” No, you don’t. You are doing it wrong.
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“Let me give you a hint that will save you countless hours and millions of...”
– Occupied Washington | Mother Jones (via jaybushman)
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin | Wired →
spytap:
A fascinating Sunday morning read.
(Hat tip to Eric Mortensen for posting the link a while back.)
This reads like the first act of a William Gibson novel.
“What happens when — and this is inevitable — a generation completely comfortable...”
– No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org (via emptyage)
What happens when we grow up but don’t, y’know, grow up?
Known Unknowns #1. The Hall of Dinosaurs | Matt... →
slackmistress:
I am by no means cured. A funny thing about writing is that I find I have to not only trick myself again and again in order to produce certain results (I’ll get into some of these tricks in future posts), but I also have a kind of amnesia when it comes to remembering, Oh, yes, this is how it works. I’m forever a two-year-old, locked in horror and grief at the front entry to...
BRYCE DOT VC: Capturing More Value Than You Create →
rickwebb:
brycedotvc:
IImagine them using the ad dollars they spent blasting the coach section of the plane to do something that created value for me as a potential customer. What could they have done with those dollars?
How about paying for or subsiding a portion of the cost of our wifi. How about giving every child in coach a Matchbox sized version of the Lincoln model car that was in the...
“Neighbors said “MythBusters” often tries its experiments in the...”
– ‘MythBusters’ misfire sends cannonball through neighborhood
NBD, cannonball.
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“My friend Carpenter says we no longer need Chicken Little to tell us the sky is...”
– Annie Lamott, Bird by Bird (108)
