February 13, 2010
Hungry? Why wait? [TLYT]
Mid-Level Seats at your average NBA game: $40 ea.
Eight Watery Beers: $60.
Hot Dog: $4.
Cheerleader Snack? Om Nom Nom
Apples and Oranges
Haikea, Poetry for the Furniture of Melancholy
The Insects' Christmas
The Insects' Christmas is a short stop-motion animation from 1913. (SLYT)
This is not the time to send out a signal like this in some personal fucking sodcast
For quite some time, I’d wanted to make a screwball comedy. A fast-talking, wildly acclerating ensemble comedy that gets stupider and stupider. I never imagined it would be about a war, and inspired by a very recent war at that. But Simon, Jesse, Tony and I all felt that the more we found out about the dysfunction in Washington and the naivety in London leading up to the Iraq invasion, the more obvious it was that the only way to deal accurately and fairly with this topic was as a screwball comedy. - The Oscar nominated script for In The Loop, with an introduction by writer Armando Iannucci.
Johnson vs. Johnston
London's transport system has a visual identity instantly recognised (and often imitated) around the world, of which a key part is Edward Johnston's typeface, originally designed for the London Underground.
(Previously.) However, this may not be the case for much longer; the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has revealed plans to give all official London bodies a unified identity, based on that of the Visit London tourism campaign. There is already a Facebook group protesting the proposal.
Keep firing, Assholes!
Geek chic
Meet Barbie the Computer Engineer... Barbie, the favorite of little girls everywhere, has been a teenage fashion model, concert pianist, astronaut and even a Miss America. But now there’s a new Barbie, with glasses and a Bluetooth earpiece, and boasting of being a computer engineer. Oh... and five things to make her more realistic.
We are the Children
We Are the World 25 for Haiti reprises the original on its 25-year anniversary, with an 81-member chorus including Pink, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Nick Jonas, LL Cool J, Robin Thicke, Celine Dion... [more inside]
Indie over outie
Press On Regardless
The huge tanker smashed into the Princess Taiping at 20 knots, violently heaving the vessel out of the water, cleaving it in two. It did not stop to aid the 12 crew members it had thrown overboard and scattered across the night.
Most of the crew, injured and in shock, clung to the partially submerged stern, praying for rescue.
Masao Kinjo, a Japanese sailboat racer, found himself alone, far from his shipmates. The resolute mariner rigged the broken foremast on the front half of the ship and set sail for home. [more inside]
Four more blocks, plus the one in my brain.
Fifty-one Elliott Smith cover songs.
Small Trades of Salonica
At the American Farm School historical records they have a large collection of postcards. In amongst them are these small sketches of local traders.
One Button Bob
This game uses only one button (your mouse button). It's up to you to work out what it'll do.
Lego trains!
Lego trains! "What you say?" Lego trains! "Say it again!" Lego trains! "I can't hear you!" Lego trains! "That's what I'm talkin' about!"
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