September 2008
57 posts
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“I walked into a conference room and shook eight or nine hands, sitting down at a...”
– Muxtape
WatchThat last video reminded me of Arthur Ganson. He makes these incredible little machines that really serve no purpose other than to sustain themselves and look pretty.
Watchblakewhitman:
Machines that almost fall over (via Vimeo)
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Locked out
I change my garbage maybe once or twice a week. I live by myself, so if I’m changing it more than that, I guess I’m being wasteful. But up until I changed it today, it had been maybe 8 or 9 days. That’s why I was changing it; the fruit flies were multiplying more than Fox News covers Jamie Lynn Spears during a hurricane.
Well once I started noticing that they were coming from...
Talking Heads - The Good Thing
Peter: not much, im sort of sick so im staying in tonight
Tom: eat some chicken noodle soup!
Peter: why does everyone keep telling me that? it's just salt water with food in it
“When I started playing with video, I suddenly had the realization that video was...”
– Brian Eno
“Before Huberty left for McDonald’s, his wife Etna asked him where he was...”
– San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre
A fun little fact about this massacre: James Huberty’s wife sued McDonald’s for $5 million two years after the shooting. She tried to convince the court that an excessive amount of Chicken McNuggets was to blame for his outrage, arguing that the...
“Un ottimo strumento che ci permette di creare facilmenti e in pochi minuti, la...”
– pHome.us: homepage personalizzata (via jacobbijani)
Thank you, personal pan pizza.
“There’s a core of people stuck in the mud with an idealised image of art...”
– Damien Hirst
Watchjacobbijani:
Pencil Face on Vimeo.
So weird and awesome.
Twitter is Penis →
bullshit:
We hijack innocent tweets, subject them to our patent pending penisization process by replacing certain words with ‘penis’, and republish it for your entertainment. We find it funny.
They could also be making a killing if they had ads.
This is the one that got me:
somebody said: @somebody Your last post made me laugh so hard that I *literally* had to put my penis over my mouth so the...
“If oil dependency is a cancer, offshore drilling is a provider of holistic and...”
– Squashed, in response to this graph.
And Muppet Pants offers a writeup in support of the drilling, concluding with “This isn’t a cheap fix, this is a little methadone to ween us off of our addiction.”
WatchTina Fey opens SNL as Sarah Palin without even having to try. (via Hulu)
And of course another wonderful Amy Poehler as Hilary Clinton.
Tom: do you feel like you were at a disadvantage in Hollywood for being a Gentile?
Me: no, I feel like I was at a disadvantage for not being gay
Tom: if only you blew then what you blow now
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of...”
– P.J. O’Rourke (via 52books)
So glad I made it through Five Little Peppers and How They Grew alive.
“A lot of hip-hop really inspires me. My absolute favorite stuff is Brother Ali...”
– Craig Finn of The Hold Steady (via Pitchfork)
Islands - Don’t Call Me Whitney, Bobby