December 2007
56 posts
A prediction
2008: IT’LL HAPPEN. Just you wait!!
Hey, there’s a couple-three of you nifty readers I’ll be seeing tonight, but if you’re not one of them, have a happy new year! Be safe out there.
Me, I’m going to end up in the Mission, which is kind of idiotic given how crazy it gets every New Year’s, and I’m going without my car because I don’t want to risk...
Tanuki Costume →
Somehow I think I am doing you a favor by putting this picture behind a link, since you might be at work or something. I feel this lessens the impact of this bit of artistry but so be it.
WatchIncredible documentary about savants and synesthesia —via livejamie
WatchIn German, but you’ll get the idea anyway. —via laurahogan
The first conversation, from what I remember of German, is mostly just “Can you see me in the mirror?” “Yes, I can see you.” “I can’t see myself.” So on top of the weirdness, the plant is pretending nothing is wrong. Hee!
Seed Magazine: The Gay Animal Kingdom →
— via linna
My favorite line from article author Jonah Lehrer: “At last count, over 450 different vertebrate species could be beheaded in Saudi Arabia.” Ha!
The one resistance I’ve encountered in the LGBT community to having queerness be proven as having a genetic or otherwise biological basis comes from a fear that doing so will open potential doors to Nazi-esque pogroms based...
Hancock →
“Will Smith stars as a homeless and alcoholic superhero” — sunluvr
Wow, fantastic. This and Cloverfield are now the beginning of my to-see list for 2008.
“K: 12:54PM Meow, meow meow meow meow meow mew meow meowww / Meow, meow meow meow...”
– Songsoup, Day 182 — Coley, Kevin, I know I’ve always done the singing on “Maps” when the three of us are playing Rock Band, but let me assure you that this will always be the case because I’m not going to be in the same room and listen to that version. ;)
Flickr: Discussing Holga Eos H1 in LOMO →
This guy modified his Holga to accept Canon EF lenses. I gotta keep my eye on this one and see the results!
Cut Copy “So Cosmic” mix →
“nostrich again finds some excellent electronica, hurrar. Please send some more,
kthnxbye” — deplorableword
Yes. And DW, reblog it once you get it so I can hear too. Gracias.
getluky.net » New Phrase: Feature Fucking →
Yes! Yes! Yes! Seriously. Every time I’ve experienced being feature-fucked, a little part of me died. It sucks. (And I took the asterisk out of “f*cking” because fuck fuckity fuck fuck fuck it’s just a word.)
Design bookmarklet →
“Design is a suite of web-design and development assistive tools which can be utilised on any web-page. Encompassing utilities for grid layout, measurement and alignment, Design is a uniquely powerful JavaScript bookmarklet.” Thanks, Wilson, for the link!
“Peacock caught lookin’ in the mirror / Stop drinkin’ my beer!”
– The Amps, “Tipp City”
Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone →
“This is big news for extreme web geeks. Not that we intend to use IE8, but we look forward to its widespread availability and the day that we can stop designing CSS hacks for the noncompliant behavior in IE 5-7. (thanks, Dailymeh)” — marco
Cripes, it’s about time.
Xootr Swift Folding Bicycles →
Thinking about getting one of these from the dealer in Berkeley. They shut down some of the roads in Golden Gate Park on Sundays so you can walk/skate/bike on them. It’d be fun to go through the park down to the ocean!
WatchMy pal Fausto singing his heart out for votes in the Gay Bloggies. Sadly my pal Ernie got the boot; he’d have given the others a run for their money, too.
Watch“My name is Vern Troyer, I live in Hollywood, California, and I’M A MAAAAAAGE!” Ahahahahahaha! — originally discovered thanks to nicolelee
Bad career advice: Do what you love →
— via cygnoir. Wow, this really nailed and elaborated on something I’ve been thinking about/feeling for a month or two now.
It’s not that I don’t love web development, I really do. It’s just that ever since I moved to San Francisco, I seem to spend more and more energy on it, and less and less energy on the other things I love—most of which involved communities of friends,...
218 - Korea’s Dark Half →
—via illtemper. Huh. Suddenly remembering that Aeon Flux had a staff of Korean animators, and focused on the divide between Bregna and Monica. That’s a weird parallel to draw.
WatchBoing Boing TV: Jedi Bootcamp.
Here we go again
I’m starting to find tumblelogs vs. long-form weblogging arguments starting to crop up. I’m not going to link to any of it (inhibiting the power of this medium by not doing so, I know) because in Internet Years, I am getting on towards my old and crotchety phase, and honestly I’ve seen this all before. Anyone here remember Ben Brown’s essay on 3000 words? Yes? No? Okay, go...
“Your juvenile, homophobic comments bore me.”
– How my friend Min Jung silences the brutes when she’s PVPing in World of Warcraft. And it works. So excellent.
WatchTechno Viking With Captions
It’s like…. okay, there’s the Internet, and I go out on the Internet and sometimes I find weird shit because, you know, it’s the Internet and that’s what’s out there, and I come back here and I share it with you because criminy, someone thinks this is important information.
cameron i/o articles - Add your own post types in... →
Super-clever. I have to give props to Cameron for this one.
All's Well, the Twentieth Century Dies: David... →
An indepth deconstruction and contextualization of “Outside,” with some factoids I already knew, and some others I’m just learning now.
Ground and Sky review - David Bowie - Outside →
This album came up today at work.
Belatedly, following
People I follow because they are either compelling, I like what they have to say, they teach me stuff, or whatever: esquareda, davedunne, laurahogan (TOTALLY laurahogan), deplorableword, merlin (met him once but whatever, it’s SF), marco, gina, recreant, burn, kitta (known from weblogland for years but never met in realspace), bauldoff, david. The ones I follow because I know them in real...
Japan's Bloggers: Humble Giants of the Web -... →
via Cecily.
Journey Escape for the Atari 2600 →
I remember playing this.
Swedish boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft... →
A 12-year-old Swedish boy reportedly defended himself and his little sister from a moose attack by employing techniques he learned while attaining level 30 in World of Warcraft:
In the article he describes how he first yelled at the moose, distracting it so his sister got away, then when he got attacked and the animal stood over him he feigned death. “Just like you learn at level 30 in...
Humans Carry More Bacterial Cells than Human Ones:... →
…Daaaamn. I kind of like the implications of “we evolved because we drank the Kool-aid.” (That’s not what it says at all, I’m overextrapolating here.) (via illtemper)
Cut to the Chase →
You realize that bars and clubs play loud music because it makes sobriety intolerable, right?
“Jakob on the awful socializing environment of bars.” — marco Huh, I always thought the loud music was so that you had to talk louder, subsequently drying your throat out faster, making you want to drink more, which makes the place more money. This is why geeks don’t go to bars often,...
Gawker and the Rage of the Creative Underclass --... →
Article’s about six weeks old. Sounds like a charming outfit.
“The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking...”
– Edsger Dijkstra, as quoted on Michael’s post, Weblog Hoster/Software Comparison - IMHO