February 2008
23 posts
HEMA Online Winkelen (LINK) →
enemyswim:The coolest e-commerce website idea I’ve seen in a while.=== This is fantastic. I wonder if it has helped with sales.
January 2008
59 posts
One Extra Day - Leap Day, Leap Year →
I’m looking for a couple of things: 1) events and/or special offers for Leap Day/Leap Year. If you know of any, please send them my way; 2) more of your plans for your one extra day this year. Anything. Send it.
Cordovan - Wikipedia (click) →
Things you might not have known about cordovan: -It has a RGB level; -The leather comes from a horse; -It is not nutritious.
“For me, voting for Obama feels like I’m voting for someone, not against another.”
– Eugene Mirman, via this interview in Gothamist.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Know who he is? Well you should. He’s the “Arabian Warren Buffett” (per Time magazine), a member of the Saudi Royal Family, and worth $29.5B. He also happens to be the largest single investor of Citigroup, one of the largest US financial firms. Foreign investment into US companies was formerly ill received. Here are some examples.. Remember the Unocal dilemma a couple years...
“Why on one hand do we criticize the general public (ourselves) for knowing more...”
– Me…Ryan T. Pederson
Brookings, South Dakota - Wikipedia (click) →
This is the Wikipedia page for my home town. I think this part is particularly interesting: “The City of Brookings owns nearly all city services and utilities including: Liquor store Garbage service Water/wastewater Hospital Local telephone service Electricity Landfill Golf course Brookings Area Multiplex civic and convention center (recently renamed Swiftel Center)In addition, the...
Clarence Clemons and Jackson Browne. Just your...
Dear Lady I just accidentally bumped into in Times...
Oh, hello. I just want to take this opportunity to publicly apologize for bumping the tip of my elbow against you as we passed in Times Square today. In fact, I even called out “sorry!” as soon as it happened. However, I am going to have to disagree that this makes me a ‘dumb cunt.’ No, I did not realize that you are 8 and a half months pregnant. In all honesty, you...
Study: False statements preceded war (click) →
No way! In other news, Heath Ledger died, and that’s really important.
2-time Grandma's Marathon winner killed in Kenya... →
“…the 34-year-old was shot in the chest with an arrow during fighting in his hometown of Trans Mara.” Really? Wow.
Watchhulu + (Walken + Hartman) = good stuff.
RulesofThumb.org (click) →
This is a good idea. I can’t wait to dive in.
Lasagna Cat (click) →
“Live action” reinactments of Garfield comic strips, followed by music videos. May I suggest 12/03/1991?
SNFU - “The Devil’s Voice” from...
411-SONG (click) →
Listening to a song but don’t know the artist/title? Call 866.411.SONG, put your phone up to speakers, and this service will text you the info. I’m super curious about this: 1) Does it work? 2) Are these people making money? 3) Does ANYONE use this?
Nostalgic Rock Box
I can’t bring myself to throw away and/or sell my CDs. As of now, I’d say about 25% of them have not been ripped into a digital format - meaning I don’t listen to them at all. The other day, I curiously looked through one of the boxes for the first time in well over a year. I pulled out the following and just finished ripping them to my external hard drive: Alice in Chains...
Check out THIS IDEA (click) →
My good friend, Matt Miller, an award winning photojournalist for the Omaha World Herald, recently suggested my wife and I for inclusion in a feature a colleague of his was writing. At first I thought we were going to be in the paper itself, but we were actually in a magazine the paper publishes. The pictures used for the online version differ from those used in the print version. It was nice to...
WatchMy dad hadn’t seen my favorite Christopher Walken SNL sketch, so I had to dig it up for him. Walken + Meadows ftw. You can’t blame him though, the census can be pretty confusing. — livejamie ==== I totally forgot about this skit. Of course, it starts very strong, then drags, but redeems itself near the end.
Idaho Man Cuts Off Hand, Microwaves It (click) →
File under: determination. - via Neatorama
i received about ten emails, and the results are remarkably consistent. almost everyone mentioned the following magazines: wired good time out new york new york magazine new york observer esquire a few people mentioned these magazines: paste believer monocle really surprised not to find the new yorker in here, or other fancy mags such as gq, details, or wallpaper. of course these are only...
Cut out Christopher Walken mask (click) →
Intended for Halloween, but I think it’s okay to wear it year round.
inspired by ricky’s recent post, i think i’m going to subscribe to a bunch of magazines. what do you subscribe to? reblog or email me. — samreich ==== Here’s what I get: Time Out New York NY Mag The Observer Esquire ESPN Mag Wired (I’m probably forgetting a couple more.)
Confessions: The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES... →
was to use TV-B-Gone remotes on all the screens at the tech conference. Phil Torrone was the evil genius with the idea, Richard Blakeley and Gizmodo staff the incorrigible cads with the execution. — nickdouglas So childish. So funny. So perfect.
My brother, Enemy Swim, created this song, a remix...
Caribbean
Let’s say you were trying to plan a trip to the Caribbean for…oh, I don’t know, end of April/beginning of May. You were toying with an all-inclusive deal, and you want to go somewhere beautiful and remote (yet close enough to things to explore), without a lot of kids/old people/morons. You want a place to sit, read, drink, swim, smoke cigars, relax. Bonus points if rum and/or...
Uff da (click) →
Uff da (can also be spelled uff-da, uffda, uff-dah, oofda, ufda, oofta or ufta) is an exclamation of Scandinavian origin that is relatively common in the Upper Midwestern states of the United States. It roughly means “drats,” “oops!” or “ouch!”, especially if the “ouch!” is an empathetic one. It’s a wikipedia kind of day, what can I say? — toldorknown — reblogger Being of Norwegian descent, I,...
No one goes to the moon anymore :( — jstn Hmmm - did it ever happen?
Report details U.S. cough, cold medicine abuse... →
Also, teenagers love cassette tapes!
“I was on iTunes the other night—and you know, alcohol and iTunes don’t...”
– Dave Attell, in this interview.
A few posts on One Extra Day →
Send in your plans! Reblog! Forward! Spread it!
I-Reporter's wedding cake is a full-size likeness... →
Taking tacky to new heights. (thanks Gwen)