August 2011
2 posts
Awesome duct tape - ReflectionOf.Me →
want…
1 tag
Maternal Chimpanzee Feeds Baby Tiger -... →
Can’t we all just get along?….
July 2011
2 posts
Steampunk iMac makes use of 114 year old Remington... →
Want.
1 tag
May 2011
1 post
Artist makes high-priced sculptures from old books... →
Love the work of Brian Dettmer - CBS News did a piece on him last night.
March 2011
3 posts
3 tags
Redundancy
Pilgrimage
http://www.stephenmontagna.com/2010/03/pilgrimage/
(sorry for the repost, but there is a redundancy in mourning after all…
February 2011
4 posts
2 tags
Us
It occurs to me that if an alien race were looking for other life forms by scanning our solar system, and the first bits of data they encountered were Tumblr, they’d probably be closer to really understanding us as a species than if they picked up, say, CNN, or BBC, or the Tonight Show, or some such…
January 2011
4 posts
How to Make Trillions of Dollars | Raptitude.com →
spot on commentary on the psyche of a dollar-driven america…
odds are... odd...
Ever notice how when there’s a plane crash, news outlets run stories about how statistically safer flying is than driving; and when someone wins the lottery, they run stories about how such sudden economic windfall has wreaked havoc on past winner’s lives? Discuss…
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”
– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time. (via johnaugust)
The irony is that I went to H.S. with Lev, but I’m pretty sure I’m not his FB friend… ;)
3 tags
A real movie cliffhanger
This was even better than an in-camera effect: an in-computer effect.
And no, I don’t mean CGI; I’m talking about iTunes and its rather archane rental policy whereby you have 24 hrs to watch a movie from the time you start viewing it.
So, I managed to get through Inception once, but let’s face it - it’s film worthy of a second go-‘round (and perhaps third and...
December 2010
6 posts
November 2010
5 posts
“…I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I’ll say God seems to have a...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via jennifur85)
Another reminder that I need to clear a few days in my schedule and actually read IJ, seeing as it’s been sitting on my shelf for about a year now…
“The best way to complain is to make things.”
– James Murphy (via unicornology)
“I wonder which is preferable — to walk around all your life swollen up with your...”
– Margaret Atwood (via suzywire)
October 2010
10 posts
September 2010
8 posts
I just want...
…to be the cause of someone’s goose-bumps.
…and the cure.
Horoscope template
Something something friends something something dreams something. Something plans something something patience something something try not to something something. Something something dreams something something more than you expected.
Roo!
Downloaded Tumblroo for iPad; now I can actually use Tumblr… (seriously, really nice user experience; miles ahead of Tumblr’s own mobile app…
July 2010
4 posts
I don’t get it — can’t we get a Tumblr app for iPad/iPod which doesn’t suck?! Which doesn’t require one to constantly reload more pages to catch back up to where you we last surfing? Am I missing something here?
“[re:Thomas Jefferson] He was, as well, a relentless critic of the monopolizing...”
– John Nichols, Capitol Times
“I’ve never understood suicide. I’m a big believer that if things are so bad you’re willing to kill yourself off, you should consider what else you’d be willing to kill first—like a shitty job or a bad relationship or the part of yourself that you’ve been too afraid to change.”
- Lisa Rosman
June 2010
1 post
“We are all a little damaged. Some of us hide it better than others, but on some...”
– (via obliteratedheart) [and this thing has been reblogged dozens of times over the last three years; for goodness’ sake, will someone cite the source?]