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Dec
16th

Tue

Ponzi Crawl

A pub crawl that adds a new person to buy a round at each location. Each new person is promised that they will get free drinks at all the future bars if they buy this round. Obviously, whoever…

Nov
17th

Mon

merlin:

Fischli/Weiss have a manifesto on “How to Work Better.”

via

Nov
11th

Tue

Why don’t you just put me on the _same goddamn server_ that runs your WWW?

— Yours truly to Dreamhost after discovering that all the sites on my server have been down for the last 3 days.

Nov
6th

Thu

Nov
5th

Wed

A good meme never dies.

via Hipster Runoff

Nov
4th

Tue

safeguy beat me to the punch. This ad was on MSNBC yesterday. Flawless.

I saw a commercial for the Snuggie today at lunch. I thought it had to be fake. Apparently not.

It’s worth noting that once I did a search for the Snuggie, turns out other people have already been making fun of this for months. Oh well, it’s still hilarious.

Oct
28th

Tue

Watchmen Trailer, Deconstructed from Trailers Without Pity

On a related note, check out some of Alan Moore’s early sketches of Dr. Manhattan, Rorshach, etc. at The Origins of Watchmen

Oct
24th

Fri

My stepfather introduced me to Johnny Cash and Hank Williams Sr. with a stack of old country-western records when I was 20. Live at Folsom Prison was by far my favorite. And that scene in Walk the Line made the movie for me. Anyway, check the newly-digitized boxset above.

Oct
22nd

Wed

Nothing tugs at your heartstrings like a stop-motion love story scored by Sigur Ros.

safeguy:

A short love story in stop motion by Carlos Lascano.

Oct
17th

Fri

“Thinking of a Dream I Had” - Hamilton Leithauser encore, backed by The Privates at the Basement. Rollum Haas = Percussion Beast. via Stereogum.

Oct
16th

Thu

In the words of John Gruber, Facts continue to hold a liberal bias.

Oct
15th

Wed

Movie Posters with brand integration

Oct
14th

Tue

Calling for a Marshall Plan, not a Manhattan Project

If we’re truly serious about tackling Climate Change today, we will let next year’s technology take care of itself, and spend our efforts implementing the very effective technologies we have today.

Oct
9th

Thu

Capitalism to the Rescue - Green Tech Rising - NYTimes.com

Can the venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins reduce our dependence on oil, help stop global warming and make a lot of money at the same time?