2008

Mar

Tumblr considered harmful (to me,...

Tumblr’s utility to me (saving/sharing stuff I find while aimlessly dicking around on the...

Muxtape #1. Hullo, bandwagon.

How Dirty Is That Auden Poem That Was Too...

Married To The Sea

Finally somebody has the cojones to call out...

“Freedom of religion does not mean no one ever gets to tell...”
— Ed Brayton

Kim: i'm so bad at yping

An hour and a half with Barack Obama

“If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other one is...”
— Bill Clinton, Oct 2004 (via)

Feb

I’m not sure when iTunes started warning for this, but...

Nolan Haan – In Defense of Graffiti (text by Gilberte...

Single Serving Sites

The video to “Grounds for Divorce”, the new Elbow single. New album The Seldom-Seen Kid...

j: every time i show any girl a song i've written, i hear, "i wish someone would write a song about me. AHEM."
j: and i think, "no, you really don't. not if it were any good."

“Writing is work, sometimes you’re not doing it as well...”
— John Darnielle

Scrabble pillows!

barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com

Expletive infixation

Marco gets it exactly right

In response to a “what’s so great about Macs, anyway?” post: We don’t use Macs...

“Valentine’s Day is to lovers what New Year’s Eve...”
— Len Edgerly

Did Bill Sink Hill on Purpose?

If You Can’t Let Go, Twitter

Paris Hilton’s Masterpiece: $81/screen...

Kim reminds me that the greatest fucking album of all time,...

Bright Eyes, “First Day of My Life”, probably the cutest music video ever, ever, ever,...

Good advice—but if you can recognize that, then it...

williamedmonds.co.uk

“It’s 10.45pm on a Thursday night. Is there a better time to...”
— Travors

“The trouble with a cheap, specialized education is that you...”
— Marshall McLuhan

Kim: i just realize that i haven't used my little flash drive in FOREVER
Kim: like, since school
Kim: poor thing. so neglected and blinky.

twitter.com/it_happened

The Book of Embraces, Chapter Annie

NeXT Mouse: Now that’s what I call ergonomics!

Jan

The Mountain Goats - Sax Rohmer #1 (dir. Ace Norton)

The Mountain Goats playing “The Alphonse Mambo” at ZOOP, last year’s Farm...

pacman cupcakes (via tumbl.us)

Oh. My. GOD. (via corcarpemei by way of pica)

“Have you ever seen [Lotus] Notes? It’s not software...”
— Fake Steve

Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie (and...

Camino 1.6 Preview

“There’s a whole audience I want to introduce X-Files...”
— Chris Carter

“Ellen Page may be up for the lead in the Drew...”
— I Watch Stuff

“Web 2.0 was christened, so far as I am aware, by Tim...”
— Stephen Fry, whom I love with...

“Sax Rohmer #1”, the first single off the Mountain Goats’ forthcoming Heretic...

“Call me a cynic if you must, but Obama is a politician. I’m...”
— Brad R.

Too late, Mozilla… We hardly ever knew you…

Zozo: I have absolutely no interest in reading or writing poems about nature.
Zozo: Booze and vaginas, yes.
Zozo: The call of a loon across a frozen lake under the aurora borealis, no.

Local homicide detective blames murder...

2007

Dec

Amazing cover of Radiohead’s unreleased “Big Boots.”

“We’re not going to put … X-rated content in...”
— Greg Weisman

The true meaning of Christmas.

The Ultimate Hoodie: Microfleece, loops for iPod earbuds,...

The Gashlycrumb Tinies, LOLcats style

From: Steve Jobs <sjobs@apple.com> To: Simon Crowley <h_______ville@gmail.com> Date: Dec...

Smashing Pumpkins to release iTunes-exclusive...

Natalie Dee: poor cyclops

10.5.2 fixes Stacks! — The next version of Leopard will...

The following things have been accomplished...

“People love to talk about love. They love to misquote 1...”
— Mike Lee

Add more power to 10.5's screen sharing

Thom Yorke - Last Flowers (Basement session)

Leopard has icon previews for everything.

“Unfair Hairplay” T-Shirt

“Fox wouldn’t support a film about Brawndo, the energy drink...”
— SpoutBlog

"Nice Guys" = BLEAH!

“The first three years that Child’s Play was in...”
— Tycho Brahe

“Way to be weirdly antiquated, AOL. But I repeat myself.”
— Mattie

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood...”
— Henry David Thoreau (via...

“It’s a foolish thing for the teller of a story to...”
— Philip Pullman (via dailymeh)

If you set Firefox to remember the visited pages for more than the default 9 days, operations...

Time and again, I see this exact situation play out with my...

If all stories were written like science...

Germany's top security officials said Friday...

Keith Olbermann(!) delivers renewed hope in an Arrested Development movie(!!!). “Good night,...

Have you seen Jeff Mangum?

“You know, every time I watch this video (which is often), I have to wonder if my generation...

WTF, Leopard. It’s 00:12, not 24:12.

“The amount of money that Facebook can make is defined (and...”
— FSJ

I am part of the problem.

In Soviet Russia, LiveJournal overreacts to you!

Kim: i have to start thinking about the bee gees more often
Kim: maybe even daily

“I don’t play games for the challenge. I don’t...”
— Gabe

Nov

“[“Oceanographer’s Choice”] is a song off...”
— John Darnielle

The McDonald's Analogy: Why guys don't want...

Annoying Tumblr display bug in Firefox.

Alberta Health: An increasing number of mumps cases have...

Do not dunk your balls in Tiger Balm.

William Shatner advertising World of Warcraft. This is glorious.

Christopher Walken reading Poe’s “The Raven”

Magnetic poetry sonnet

“I was thinking of getting a couch or something for my...

“Look, all men, without exception, are shallow, priapic...”
— Charlie Brooker

Kim: hey pie
Zozo: ey
Zozo: Er, hey.
Zozo: I'm not the Fonz.
Kim: hahahaha
Kim: YOU'RE NOT?
Zozo: I know, it's hard to believe. But true.
Kim: uhm
Kim: well
Kim: this is really awkward
Kim: hm.
Kim: i think i'll have to re-evaluate our entire friendship

“I’m always writing songs about me. Songs about what is...”
— Tegan Quin

Atheists and Anger

I’m seeing an all new dimension to the most recent Questionable Content after watching Love...

"In Rainbows" to drop in '07 after all

“In keeping with our policy of invading any country filled...”
— Leonard

The Office’s writing team discusses the WGA strike.

Ashley: ok pants, here i come!

Richard Simmons makes Ryan Stiles lose his shit, reduces Drew Carey to tears, irreversibly...

Donald Duck in “Der Fuehrer’s Face” (1943)

54 Typography Resources Every Designer Should...

(via riotclitshave)

The apostrophe: Contrary to popular belief,...

Tumblr 3.0 is pretty sweet. Too bad I’ll be devoting most of my bloggous energy this month to...

Oct

The Steampunk Keyboard

Nethack on the iPhone

When Pigs Fly: A Brief History of Record...

BBC News: The Week in Pictures, 20-26 October (via aatw)

My Three-Year Old Could Shoot That: The Early...

konnakki: Leaves in Oslo—This picture makes my heart hurt in...

A pair o’ pathetic peripatetics.

“The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push...”
— jwz