Screwtop Winebottle

One bonus to my new one-room habitation, it came furnished with these two chairs.

Tagged: #yen and yang #rockerer and moderner

4 Notes. Permalink. Wednesday, September 1st 2010 , at 10:31 PM (∞).

thebronzemedal:

There are no words for how much i need these pencils. No words.

Tagged: #Woody #Even mightier

Found via thebronzemedal. 38 Notes. Permalink. Wednesday, September 1st 2010 , at 10:21 AM (∞).

abbyjean:

Underline the important of Place | Design

It looks like a training wheel but I still want it.

Found via abbyjean. 48 Notes. Permalink. Tuesday, August 31st 2010 , at 5:04 PM (∞).

“You have to decide who you trust before you decide what to believe”

Author Simon Singh Puts Up a Fight in the War on Science | Magazine (via madething)

Great story. Love this lead-in, “Wired spoke with Singh about his case and the struggle against the forces of irrationality.”

Found via madething. 2 Notes. Permalink. Tuesday, August 31st 2010 , at 9:39 AM (∞).

My job was to game Digg using infographics, voting networks, and bait-and-switch. It was the company's core business, and it was sleazy as hell.

caterpillarcowboy:

tedr:

If you don’t know that using infogrpahics to game digg and google was a highly employed technique, then this whole thread will be fascinating to you. (Scout’s honor, we’ve never done this, but have mapped out doing it. Where the whole infographic-strategy got whacky is when sites would make entirely unrelated graphic topics that still linked to their site, such as the history of the candy bad that links to a cash-for-gold site)

We’ve been approached a number of times to publish a infogrpahic that someone would get on digg for us. It been a cottage industry since the beginning of the year.

Also fascinating the read is the raking-over-the-coals the reddit community thinks they are doing. The ‘facts’ they think they are pulling out, when this stuff happens all the time in their community as well. But it’s nice to see earnestness none the less.

Found via caterpillarcowboy. 29 Notes. Permalink. Tuesday, August 31st 2010 , at 9:29 AM (∞).

evangotlib:

The internet is where I earn a living. How I met my wife. Where I get my groceries.

But this video is really why the internet was made. Thank you internet.

(via thedailywhat)

Ok, so, this is feels weird to watch yet I can’t look away. I certainly hope no dog was harmed or abused in the making of this.

Found via evangotlib. 198 Notes. Permalink. Monday, August 30th 2010 , at 4:01 PM (∞).

Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, & Pomplamoose VideoSong!!!!

Wow. New favorite thing.

Tagged: #exclamation marks

1 Notes. Permalink. Monday, August 30th 2010 , at 11:18 AM (∞).

Fraggle Rock Theme Tune (Ukulele Cover) - Woodshed1

This is going right on the learn.toplay list.

Tagged: #nostalgia #ukulele

3 Notes. Permalink. Monday, August 30th 2010 , at 11:15 AM (∞).

“The idea that doubt can be heroic if it is locked into a structure as grande as the paintings of Cézanne’s old age, that is one of the keys of our century and a touchstone of modernism itself.”

1 Notes. Permalink. Sunday, August 29th 2010 , at 11:25 PM (∞).

Ode to my new kitchenette

I’m about to spend 6 months in a very small one-room space with no real kitchen. I’m embracing it, aesthetically, ascetically. Have purchased a rice cooker(best $30 I’ve ever spent, ever) and a surprisingly modern hot plate. Out of doors nearby will be a grill, in a cupboard, a toaster oven. I may (or not) end up cooking the best meals of my life in this makeshift haunt. But I’ll be trying to live smaller and minimize possessions. The reward, a new life next year in Edinburgh, Scotland.

3 Notes. Permalink. Friday, August 27th 2010 , at 2:09 PM (∞).

Him(My company's lawyer): I opened a pdf the other day and it was in color. Can pdfs be in color?

Me(IT): Legal pdfs can only be in black and white.

Him: Oh, ok.

Notes. Permalink. Friday, August 27th 2010 , at 1:59 PM (∞).

from Tennyson’s Ulysses

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

5 Notes. Permalink. Friday, August 27th 2010 , at 1:57 PM (∞).

Winter is coming.

Hand-Knit Mexican Sweater from my amazing friend Christina’s shop, mexchic.

Our 100% Virgin Wool ‘Cozy Sweater’ is hand-knit in the highlands of central Mexico in a town where herders and their sheep roam cobblestone streets, families weave traditional wool sarapes on centuries old pedal looms handed down through generations and also expertly knit these classic mexican high-neck sweaters. Marilyn Monroe in the 60’s and Starsky & Hutch in the 70’s made these sweaters famous in the United States, but they’ve always been a staple in Mexico.

2 Notes. Permalink. Thursday, August 26th 2010 , at 4:01 PM (∞).

katespencer:

This is the trailer for a documentary about education in the US called Waiting for Superman. I only watched it because I had to for work and it ended up making me cry. I will see this movie.

If all the “activists” who protest against gay marriage and a community center in a city in which most of them do not even live channeled their energy toward protesting and rehabilitating the state of our education system, our country could actually turn into a decent place. That makes me sad. (I guess I could do something about it too, but I’ve got a lot of Twilight fan fiction to read and True Blood to watch.)

+1

Found via katespencer. 24 Notes. Permalink. Thursday, August 26th 2010 , at 1:22 PM (∞).

I should be doing more of the things about which I post. First to do: Memorize more poetry.

Tagged: #The internet wants to be your memory

4 Notes. Permalink. Wednesday, August 25th 2010 , at 4:13 PM (∞).