February 2009
30 posts
WatchAre Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? (the Onion, of course. via kevnull via IM)
Watchfrothyparadise:
Well-done, clear animation outlining how we got into the credit mess.
“You’re at a good point in your life to buy real estate,” a friend told me about a year before I moved from Chicago. After watching this animation, I’m once again feeling pretty good about not doing so.
Hellanonagon
hél⋅la⋅nòn⋅a⋅gon
-noun
A polygon with a significantly large quantity of sides.
Origin: 2009; part of the set of numbers and other members of the imaginary math I use as descriptors in casual speech (eg. twenty-eleven, thirty-eleven, kajillion).
This word popped in my head after a job interview yesterday involving a Google Maps API question. Walking downtown I was reviewing what was...
A Touch of Class
misterjt:
To my tumblr friends,
Let’s keep it classy and not post or reblog that awful (and awfully private) alleged police photo of Rihanna. We know TMZ is wack. We don’t have to follow suit.
Please and thank you,
Jason aka misterjt.
Jason, I don’t even know what you’re referring to in this, but I love this as a polite example of “Hey Internet, we don’t have to be...
“[…] Is someone conflating the infringement of basic First Amendment rights...”
– moffs. Agreed. Or as my friend Irina once told me, censorship is when her parents lived in Russia and they had to be very careful trading certain books around with the other folks in town, lest they get arrested.
SF Punk 77 →
Internet radio station on Live365, continuing my musical education. SF Punk 77 plays “…the diverse and complex music from San Francisco from 1977 and on, as well as bands from elsewhere that played in San Francisco at the Mabuhay Gardens, and some music that has been influenced by the San Francisco punk, new wave, post punk era. Listen to this amazing history.”
Watchs4xton:
100 days, 100 songs, 100 locations, 100 dances.
I thought I couldn’t stand watching this video to about 15-20… but then I got hooked.
[via Solace in IM]
I had the same reaction. Also, I want to trade mix tapes with this guy. I mean, it sounded like he busted out Asha Bhosle in the library at 87.
The Queerist →
A queer venue/event catalog you can post to. Slightly social but more about the listings.
Watch“Fidelity”: Don’t Divorce… on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Facebook: 25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About... →
elea:
Below are 25 facts I wish people hadn’t told me about themselves. They come from friends, friends-of-friends, friends-of-friends-of-friends and coworkers. They are all real, though I wish some of them were not.
1. I eat tacos with a fork. 2. I was fat in middle school. The wake of that horror has yet to subside. 3. I keep forgetting that Barack Obama is our President. 4. I have been pooped...
“Joe the Plumber, on black velvet.
Yes, that’s right, folks — the apocalypse has...”
– Frothy Paradise
I’m not gonna post the pic of the painting because I don’t want that on my tumblelog. But I WILL say how fun it is to find out people I know know about the 2012 end-of-the-world bit from the Mayan calendar. Immanentize the eschaton!*
*a fun, awkward phrase I found on...
“About 6 months ago, I was making a purchase with my credit card and when I went...”
– When Your Credit Card Signature Fun Backfires: Kinda the 2008/09 version of the old Zug credit card prank. (via datn)
Read the whole thing, seriously.
