December 2007
54 posts
Logo trends for this past year (click) →
via kottke.org
Anonymous Santas surprise LI shoppers with $100... →
Whenever I daydream about what I would do with my lottery winnings, I always think I’d like to do something like this.
“Mr. Negron…seemed appreciative, even downright grateful, that one of the...”
– from this article in the New York Times.
“i’m going to cry so hard at your wedding, people are going to think...”
– katie I don’t know the people involved here, but this is one of the best quotes I’ve heard in a long time.
Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading... →
Hmmm. See #1.
WatchTop 20 Coolest Guitar Riffs - via a clever cookie This is an interesting list. There are a few misses (Green Day?) and a couple of these are more like solos than riffs…but, it’s entertaining regardless. Without thinking about it too much, I’d add: Black Crowes - “No Speak, No Slave” Stone Temple Pilots - “Interstate Love Song” Guns N Roses -...
Note to self (cont.)
For instance, you could use fantastic, superb, phenomenal, beefy, hunky dory, boss, ridiculous (in a good way), wonderful, good, marvelous, moist, wonderfully moist, choice, choice-fully beefy and/or moist, perfect, terrific, cool.
Note to self
Use the word “great” less often.
Great post on Consumerist (click) →
Corporate Logos redesigned in 2.0 (click) →
Subtract texture, add gradient, make shiny, add reflection. Presto!
Old Images of One Times Square (click) →
This is interesting to me, as I look directly at this building while seated at my desk. For some reason, they show a newer picture of 2 Times Square (with the Coke/Samsung displays), but the old pictures of 1 Times Square are pretty cool. Currently, 1 Times Square hosts the Budweiser, TDK, Yahoo! and Dow Jones “zipper” displays.
My Cell Phone Was Stolen (repost from Oats)
My cell phone was taken by a nice* thief today at the Metropolitan Pool & Fitness Center (on Bedford in Williamsburg). Until further notice, my preferred (and only) method of contact is via email… nick gray at googlemail. The Holiday perp took a half-dozen Andrew Jacksons out of my wallet, too. So I figure that I paid a Careless Tax of not changing the default lock combination on my...
Piss-Poor Inventory Managment - That Was Easy.
On Wednesday, I found what I thought was the perfect holiday gift for someone on my list. The gift happened to be available at Staples.com, and coincidentally, they were offering a nice rebate on that product. Nice! Place item in shopping cart. Enter shipping info. Enter billing info, including credit card. Click purchase. Receive confirmation email that order has been placed and product will...
I have to keep reminding myself that this (Tumblr) is really just a scrapbook.
To follow up the previous post, a seasonal Boards...
Top 10 Incredible Recordings (click) →
Including those of a castrato (a man who was forcibly castrated so that he would retain his boyish soprano), the first recorded human voice from 1878, and the last 30 minutes of audio from the Jonestown Massacre. via Kottke. — zachklein I’m loving the “Numbers station” recording.
Pitchfork's Top 50 Music Videos of 2007 (click) →
If you need something to watch, here’s 50 of ‘em. — enemyswim Thankfully, “Chocolate Rain” is not on here.
I think we can all agree that smart people are few and far between. So how has Jeopardy! been able to stay on the air for so long? Seems like they would run out of brainiacs. — dalasverdugo Have faith in the human species. Don’t base your judgement on the limited, cross-sectional view that we all have.
New York Press - I’ll Be Watching You (click) →
Creepy.
My birthday
“(June 13,) 1920- The United States Postal Service rules that children may not be sent via parcel post.” - via this Wikipedia page.
Teen Dials Bush Private Number 'to Chat' (click) →
“Vífill claims he was passed on to several people, each of them quizzing him on President Grímsson’s date of birth, where he grew up, who his parents were and the date he entered office. “It was like passing through checkpoints,” he said. “But I had Wikipedia and a few other sites open, so it was not so difficult really.”
WatchEven with this animation, it is almost impossible to grasp the scale of other entities in the universe.
Watch
Radiohead - In Rainbows - New York Times (click) →
“And Radiohead was able to draw worldwide attention to “In Rainbows” with no more promotion than a modest 24-word announcement on its Web site on Oct. 1.”
Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day (click) →
I missed it.
14 Offbeat Clauses in Baseball Contracts (click) →
via mentalfloss.com
Herbert from Family Guy sounds just like Thom... →
via Casey — jstn Wow. I thought Zak and I were the ones that discovered this. Same song…same video.
Queued
Before I moved to the east coast I’d never heard anyone say “on line” to mean that they were standing in a line. That doesn’t make any fucking sense. It’s “in line” as far as I’m concerned. “On line” is the last two words of AOL. — jstn I agree 100%. “On line”, in that context, sounds so foreign to me.
WatchAb Source- my favorite of the Dutch West faux-mericial series on Superdeluxe. — vincentpeone
Radiohead - In Rainbows Disc 2 (click) →
Here you go. It’s the next 8 songs on In Rainbows that came with the $90 disc box (shipped Dec. 3). There are two throw away transition songs, but the other 6 are fantastic. Have a listen. It’s a .rar file with a password, so once you download it, extract/unzip it, and it will prompt you for a password. That password is: http://partofthequeue.blogspot.com/ And yes, the password is...
