April 2005 Entries
David Pescovitz: PostSecret is a mail art project where you're invited to send in an anonymous postcard with a "secret" written on it. The submissions are then shared on a blog. This is even more engaging than the old classic Not Proud! After just four months, the organizers have posted lots of heavy, funny, creepy, interesting, and real secrets. Directions to contribute are in the 1/1/2005 post. link
[via Boing Boing]
Reading these is hard — but in a really good way. Friday therapy.
[bonus: high quality RSS feed]
“The NYT fronts the case of a Japanese exec who was having trouble deciding whether to use Christie's or Sotheby's to sell his company's $20 million artwork stash. Finally he made a choice: The winner would be chosen via rock, paper, scissors. Before the match, Christie's Japan rep consulted experts, including her friend's 11-year-old daughter. ‘Everybody knows you always start with scissors,’ the girl said. ‘Rock is way too obvious, and scissors beats paper.’ Scissors won.”
I didn’t know they played Rock Paper Scissors in Japan. And I’m totally going to lead with scissors from now on. Except, I guess, with...
Photo courtesy Emily Wilson Photography But I did the Photoshopping! – There used to be a big no parking sign above them on the right.
Went and saw the Stars last night at Bowery Ballroom.
I was a little hesitant going in because their album, while very good, doesn’t scream out great-live-show material. Well, that turned out to be totally false. They were terrific live. Very high energy, tight technically, two guitars and a sax that didn’t step on each other’s toes (which is so rare), but the real key was the bass and drumming — kept everything moving swiftly. I’m going to listen to their album at twice...
Corey Henderson has invited you to an Upcoming.org event!
Event Details:Nada SurfSaturday, April 30, 2005 (7:30 PM)FREE SHOW!
Venue Details:South Street Seaport19 Fulton StNew York City, New York 10038
For more details about this event, including maps, comments, and other attendees, visit the event page at http://upcoming.org/event/18357/?invitation=c88ca44cbf
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I have a minor fascination with Spederline aka Mr. Britney Spears aka K-Fed aka Kevin Federline.
Class-Act.
via Cityrag – “and he's all yours...chug, puff, scratch, that's all he's got.”
I was just online trying to get my flight reservations for the F1 Grand Prix of Canada, but I needed to look up the dates. June 12, 2005
Check out the giant flash image you get when you go to the official site.
How French-Canadian of them to superimpose a Ferrari race car over two naked people?
There’s another version of the wallpaper with just the woman’s back if you really dig the genre: direct link
I cannot conjure the word superimpose without thinking of that Adam Sandler CD thing with the Goat playing football. I can’t find the transcript via Google,...
Two new bootleg RSS feeds today
McSweeney's Lists bootleg RSS feed via Kottke.org
Amazon free mp3 downloads as RSS feed via Boing Boing
These follow my Natalie Dee feed nicely. See previous post on subject.
Does anyone else read into the order in which names are listed in a to: line?
Was I last on purpose, just on the border of being left on/left off?
Do people massage their own to lists to send particular signals of importance?
And btw: Don’t buy Coors Beer apparently.
Sunday I traveled to McCarren Park in Greenpoint/Williamsburg Brooklyn to watch a game of Brooklyn bar-league softball. The men and women of Turkey’s Nest taking on the Pete’s Candy Store crew.
As I stood trying to stay warm during the cloudy sky breaks I overheard some player conversation behind me.
Softball guy #1: “____ has good traction and the wheels are super-sweet.”Softball guy #2: “yeah, but I think that ____ has a better turning radius” …. some time passesSoftball guy #3: “I wish the ___ wasn’t so expensive, because that piece is nice yo”Softball guy #1: “Stokke’s are really great, I’ve got a Techno XT.”
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I suspect I’m only a high-average when it comes to tray overload. I actively try to keep my tray svelte, but I mean, when is enough enough?
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Ryan Z says:America We Stand As One [Quicktime]Corey says:hehehe. I saw this the other day... it is my favorite songRyan Z says:it is quite remarkable
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I just wanted to make sure everyone has seen this. Sortof like a modern day Tommy Seebach’s Apache.
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I would love to start a business developing, marketing, reselling, and investing in analog devices for computers.
My brother Kevin had one of these and I had to go and copy him immediately and get my own.
Griffin Technology’s PowerMate. It is a programmable controller with rotate and click (or click and rotate) only.
It is sturdy, heavy and glows. How cool.
I’ve already touted the benefits of multiple monitors and the advantages of less task-switching and this is a great extension of that concept. If you are like me and listen to music at work, you are constantly pausing,...
As I noted in my downtime post, I’m running some seriously old hardware for serving up this site, as well as other sites and Exchange email. My friend Keith builds great machines and I’ve picked up a new workstation from him, ~6 months old. 3.4 Ghz P4 on an Intel mobo and super-quiet. This will allow me to bump my previous workstation — another Keith built box — down the line to run the server duties.
Step 1) Build up new machine for workstation duties, including software and settings.
Added RAM to total 2 GB PC 3200 from Kingston
Added two...
My sister forwarded me this solar backback with a “Worthy of citing on your blog”. The thing that makes it post-worthy is that they seem to have loads and loads of adapters for all kinds of cell phones & gadgets which signals that these kinds of things are really starting to crack into the meat of the bell curve and aren’t just for uber HUD-eyeglasses wearing geek types.
Engadget also had a writeup on solar lockers (looks like a dog-house) for electric bikes and whatnot. Gizmodo has the new Yamaha “Cheap Electric Motorcycle” to fit inside presumably.
Personally, I’d like...
I was replying to an email regarding my earlier Oregon Trail post just now in Outlook 2003 using Word 2003 as my editor, natch.
When you ask for the grammar check suggestion — the green squiggle — it tells you trail ought to be Trail. Are all classic video games in the proper noun database? What about Lode Runner? << some research done by me >> Ok, it appears that the actual Oregon Trail history sites use the capitalization as well. But still I really thought that Broderbund had entries in the dictionary for a minute or two there.
Although it takes way too much of my time than it should I read Talking Points Memo every day.
There’s a big hubbub about a senator that said something inappropriate on the floor of the senate — obliquely inferring that judges getting murdered had it coming. One of the follow up posts had this:
Sen. John Cornyn's hometown is San Antonio, Texas. And San Antonio is a city with some tragic experience with violence against judges.
On May 29th, 1979, a killer-for-hire, Charles Voyde Harrelson murdered Federal District Judge John Wood Jr.
In the words of a New York Times...