January 2008
73 posts
I just got Rick Rolled for the first time
DAMMIT.
Seems inevitable, though. This conversation with Nik that I posted a while back has somehow become an authoritative link on the topic, at least to the likes of Buzzfeed and Mahalo.
30 Boxes for iPhone →
It’s pretty sweet. I like 30 Boxes over Google Calendar, to be honest.
WatchThe preposition song. Thanks, 6th grade English teacher.
You like my laptop’s overactive fan? GO LITTLE SPINNER GO! Gee.
DIY - Create your own Bokeh | DIYPhotography.net →
This is so fucking cool. Basically you’re making a cut-out through which unfocused points of light take on shapes in your photographs. “Wicked” as the kids somewhere say.
Design By Grid →
I mean, god, not everything has to be designed on a grid, but if you were gonna go for it, best to read up on it.
ISO50 » I Got A Niiiikon Camera →
In which Scott from the last link talks about how he got his photos to look like that. (Short answer: Photoshop adjusting of D80-shot images.) I’d be interested in seeing what happens if I take my film scans and try the same things. This is how we learn.
ISO50 - The Visual Work of Scott Hansen » Travel →
Scott’s been posting amazing photos of his world travels lately. So amazingly beautiful, check ‘em out.
Cato Unbound > Print > Marriage and the Market →
A super-interesting essay, again that I found somewhere but can’t remember/find from where, so if I’m crimping your feed, mea culpa. Basically, the gist of the authors’ point is that the role of marriage has shifted as the economy shifted, and vice versa, so the argument that we can’t change the institution of marriage (in the sense of allowing same-sex marriages) is...
CJR: Blogonomics: is there potential for a... →
Yeah. Man. Geez, I don’t know. Instead, I’ll trot out the same old chesnut I always trot out whenever I’m feeling like I’ve been in weblogland for way too long, and have seen too much:
Back in maybe late 1999, early 2000, when there was one (count it: one) Yahoo! Groups mailing list for anyone who considered themselves a weblogger, someone (one of the Dans, I think) poised...
The Art of Propaganda: 7 Common Tactics Used to... →
illtemper:
Propaganda is created to influence the minds and actions of people, in order to generate a response that achieves the goal of the propagandist. Politicians and governments often use propaganda to obtain support/compliance for their policies. Propaganda is similar to marketing/advertising in many ways, particularly in the way messages are selectively formulated to emotionally engage...
Some haunting wide-angle shots of Edinburgh,... →
On Lomography’s weblog, making me want to spend my money again.
» Was in Chicago (#1) →
Will writes: “Was in Chicago last week. The bus lines are, let’s say, substantially reduced from the last time I was there” Crap. Good to know. I want to go back soon and don’t want to rent a car if I don’t have to.
Dirty busses and dustwriting are two things I don’t-miss/miss since I went west.
Diametric
Devin: what's the opposite of lol
Jason: Crying inside
Four years and three days ago
Jason: Oh, and I'm now at 86 sprites, still no volcano.
Sam: wow.
Jason: Yeah. I wonder if I have to complete the 8 tasks of so many levels first.
Jason: Because I've only gone totally through... four? I think? Out of seven?
Jason: And almost done with two, and just giving up on the harbor because of the blooper/red coin thing.
Sam: heh
Jason: Damn you volcano!
Jason: All I wish is to be cleansed in the purifying lava!
Jason: And like, get the chick and stuff.
Sam: Suprisingly out of character for you.
Jason: Well, you know, it's called method acting.
Sam: ooo
Jason: Like, "If I were a midget cartoon Italian plumber, what would my motives be?"
Sam: true.
Jason: Apparently it's to get the chick.
Sam: I don't get it.
Sam: She looks like an inflatable barbie doll. MOST. VAPID. EXPRESSION. EVER.
Jason: Midget cartoon Italian plumbers are apparently not all that big on feminism.
Sam: point.
Jason: I guess they have enough problems already.
Jason: Like "Where are the coins?"
Jason: And "Can I get to the coins?"
Sam: So, it's an economic game.
Sam: Coins == Chick Procurement
Jason: Right. Get enough coins and the girl is yours.
Jason: There's already a built-in reward for becoming a centurinaire.
Sam: Hmph.
Sam: Coins also equal health.
Jason: Supporting the privatized health sector.
Sam: Basically meaning, that money, vitality, and getting it on with a plastic princess are equal concepts in the eyes of the writers.
Jason: Not only concepts, but worthwhile goals.
Sam: True. Without these things, Mario would still be in the Bronx, only making subsistence living.
Jason: But he fell down the right pipe and is now living large with his MAP (Mushroom-American Princess).
Sam: Wow.
Jason: Yeah. Lucky break, maybe.
Sam: Video Game Colloquium: Mario as PimpMaster
Jason: Royalty for his bitch.
woxy.com →
Radio station in Ohio. Found it from Chris’ site from yesterday. I like it. Not what I’d listen to every day, but lots of bands I’d not heard of before that I’m enjoying.
American Music Club - All The Lost Souls Welcome... →
With lyrics (on one of those crappy lyric sites, I’m sorry).
I had a really good discussion last night with a few folks. All of us have fallen out of love with the San Francisco web (or dare I say, Web 2.0) scene, and we all have our issues with it, as well as our scars.
Unfortunately for me, this had been the majority chunk of my relationship with this city. But I can’t say...
Chris Glass →
I’ve been thinking about what the hell I’m going to do with my main domain (after switching home base domains, like, what, three or four times now?), wanting to put a catch-all site together, and serendipitously I somehow came across Chris’ site. I really like the idea of how it’s put together; part weblog, part personal wiki-like, part photo gallery. You know, one of those...
de Young Calendar: Friday Nights at the de Young →
HEY SF PEEPS Let’s go to this sometime!
Amusing Myself To Death : on Cloverfield →
My friend Pk’s take on Cloverfield, which I agree 100% with. A couple spoilers, in that he mentions a couple characters who die. But it’s a horror film so you knew that was going to happen, right?
It's still unfortunate, but I was hazy on the...
But I didn't know they were dating
I thought maybe he was hanging out
See what happens when you date an Olsen twin?
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im thinking that's why the police guy said that
but yeah
I thought maybe, for example, his place was being fumigated. And he's all like "Hey Mary-Kate Olson, can I come stay at your place? My place is being fumigated," and M-KO's all like "Sure, Heath Ledger, you can crash on the sofa, s'cool."
M-KO ?
really?
Fucked if I know how celebrities roll
AO and M-KO ?
M-KaAO
A and M-KO
A M-KO
lol
Yeah careful or we're gonna end up in acronym hell
IDK
“Who in the ’60s,” [Los Angeles Times obituary editor Jon] Thurber...”
– Debate rages over prewritten obituaries for young, living stars
The Escapist : The Life Nomadic With Nintendo DS →
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and...”
– William Henry Channing, via maddux I kind of feel like shouting this at San Francisco, but not out of objectivity. Regardless, thanks for the reminder, David.
Great Lakes Initiative →
“The group consists of self-styled superheroes who possess bizarre powers and a naive insistence on being superheroes.” Thanks Laurie!
SF Craigslist: Pink Upholstered Vagina Couch →
This is gonna end up in an open arts space, I’m sure of it. Or someone’s home. Hard to say in this town.
HENRY VIII's WIVES - iconic moments →
Folks performing tableaux. via Your Daily Awesome, via coworker Laura.
Mac{ga|i}sm
I guess I should just accept the fact that part of my /following list is gonna be goobing over the Macbook Air today. Okay. I’ll hang tight while you get it out of your systems.
I got a concept
I came up with a Tumblr theme idea that I think will be pretty sweet. I know conceptually how the html/css can be written, have a general idea of the color scheme. The problem is that it’s gonna take some skill in Photoshop that I’m not sure I have just yet.
So the next step, I guess, is looking up photoshop tutorials and seeing if I can make it work. Until then I’m blowing...
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes →
(from Smashing Magazine) —via desaturated
(No I’m not leaving Tumblr. I just still like WordPress too for some ideas and there are sooooo many BAD themes out there, but the ones on this list seem nice.)
ThinkGeek :: Touchscreen Cell Phone/PDA Wristwatch →
Which is like, okay, until they point out, “…there’s something irresistible about talking Dick Tracy style into your watch” and hey, retro-tech is fun!
17 Sensational, Free and Downloadable Graphic... →
—via illtemper