11.6
10.29
Angel Air?
It’s a pre-boarding miracle!
10.16
Factually Biased
Facts continue to hold a liberal bias.
– John Gruber, “Bulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants”
10.14
#9
9. Turn TV to wherever Law & Order is playing (somewhere, Law & Order is always playing)
– Merlin Mann
From Merlin Mann’s somewhat sad “HOWTO process your new hotel room”
9.17
More of the Same
Sarah Palin knows a little something about God’s will, knowing God quite well, from their work together on that natural-gas pipeline, [...]
More of the same, indeed, for, Palin, like Bush, not only has the gift of talking to the regular folk — Not down to them but straight at ‘em, you know — but she also has that kind of special, close relationship with the G-O-D that one is going to need if they expect to secure a win in The Great Terror War of the Millennia.
8.20
Michael Phelps: Prenatal Champion
Michael Phelps was a winner before he was even a zygote.
6.26
That Bastyr…
That Bastyr changed my life! That Bastyr … it’ll change yours too.
I saw these damn Bastyr ads all over Seattle. I’m sure it’s an excellent education.
6.21
6.3
Don’t Talk to Him Before He’s Had His Coffee
How does he drink it?. Hmmm … maybe he just tilts his head back and pours it through his mesh mouth-piece. It could act as an additional filter. (via Daring Fireball)
12.15
‘Tis the Season
Happy holidays…
You know you want to just slip a copy of this under nearly every windshield wiper in the parking lot this holiday season. You know you do…and you can.
12.14
One(?) Voice to Rule Them All
Kirby Ferguson’s discerning eye, in uncovering Trajan’s cinematic ubiquity, started me thinking about another hallmark of the cinematic domain: that of which we can safely call The Movie Voice. I say there are two contenders: Hal Douglas and Don LaFontaine.
One Font to Rule Them All
You don’t necessarily need to be a font nerd to enjoy this little video gem (from Goodie Bag.tv) but it will probably help. The pervasive nature of the font in question will be obvious to anyone and the video is skillfully assembled.Via Daring Fireball.
12.12
Ze @ TED
Stumbled upon this this evening while I was supposed to be studying for finals: The always entertaining and insightful Ze Frank gives a…well…entertaining and insightful talk at TED. Why, though, on his shiny PowerBook, was he using IE? Bad Ze. Bad Ze.
“TED?”, you say? “Ze?”, you say? Where have you been hiding? under a rock?
11.29
Love, Loss & The Lands’ End Catalog
From The Erotic Appeal of the Lands’ End Catalog by James Stegall:
Painful…
Who thought sixty pages of stylish-yet-practical clothing would employ models who are disturbing approximations of the lovely thirty-something woman who doesn’t want to put up with your shit anymore?
…Funny…
What’s your new porn good for but leading to alcoholism and sobbing? These are forms of release but they aren’t going to do your prostate any good.
What’s more, the originating link to this sad essay (i.e. from Mighty Girl [the o-riginal link] to Kottke.org to here) came from a diaper review (don’t ask). This jaded, bitter and disillusioned account of love and loss (among other things) is where Mrs. Mighty Girl, the reviewer of said diapers, sends you if you have no interest in what she has to say about the environmentally friendly brand of diaper she has been trying out. It just seems cruel. Like pouring salt in the wounds.
Ouch. Well, maybe all of this linking will make this guy feel a little better. Here’s to that.
(via, as I indicated above, Mr. Kottke)
11.25
&%$! You/Walk
&%$! You / Walk from Daniel M. on Vimeo.
A little tomfoolery I came across in Santa Rosa
11.21
Dissin’ The Kindle
Ah, the iPod of books. Indeed. How many times have you been sitting on a train or at a café table with a book, and wished to high heaven that instead of a single measly book, you had a playlist — perhaps comprising 2 pages of Schopenhauer, 3 pages of Dan Brown, a paragraph of Cormac McCarthy, a scene of Pinter, and a single brilliantly chosen sentence of Martin Amis?
Yes, me too. ⇥