December 2009
39 posts
How to Destroy the Book →
jingc:
Anyone who claims that readers can’t and won’t and shouldn’t own their books are bent on the destruction of the book, the destruction of publishing, and the destruction of authorship itself. We must stop them from being allowed to do it. The library of tomorrow should be better than the library of today. The ability to loan our books to more than one person at once is a feature, not a...
Jewish Holidays for Hipsters.
iPurim
Yom Hipper
Pabstover
Ironukkah
via McSweeney’s
davidcho:
The trailer for the Kung-Fu Kid
I wouldn’t not go see this movie!
YES!
50 Best Catch Phrases of the Decade →
(via stalk)
TIME Magazine: The 10 Worst Things About the Worst... →
kaytee:
reallykatie:
at first i was all, GEEZE LOUISE TIME MAGAZINE, WAY TO BE A BUNCH OF DEBBIE DOWNERS.
then i looked through the pictures and was all, GEEZE LOUISE 2000s, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT.
Seriously. How depressing to know that the last ten years, all of my teenage years and the beginning of my adult life, has been this tragic for the world. This article is pretty...
walkwhilereading:
David Foster Wallace tribute, University of Arizona.
paulscheer:
Watching this Documentary Trailer about BABIES Might Cure Depression.
I’ve been obsessed w/ it since i saw it on “WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE”
I’m reblogging this for two reasons:
1. Theses kids are pretty adorable.
2. Someone has finally heard my call to have all movie trailers be set to a Sufjan Steven’s song.
McSweeney's: More academic euphemisms for...
Integrating the derivative C=2∏r Sterilizing the test tube Experiment with a scientific control Dosing out the placebo Force = Mass x Acceleration Normalizing the units Graphing the cosine Converting from Cartesian to Polar coordinates Measuring plate tectonics Posing a hypothesis Concluding with the empirical method Proving a theorem Using your slide-rule Calculating a logarithm
via...
Pictory →
matthewb:
Laura Brunow Miner’s much-anticipated new project launched today, a crowd-sourced take on The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog, showcasing user-submitted photographs with accompanying text. At any one time the site offers a handful of “themes” open to public submission, from which the best photos and captions are selected and published. Laura’s design is bold and beautiful, putting the...
They make you wonder at the often-broken human machine, which can, from time to...
– Zach Galifianakis on Sigur Rós in his iTunes Celebrity Playlist
No, really.
(via sharingtime)
Flavors.me/adam →
This is the first time I’ve gotten to use my first name as my username… pretty pumped.