January 2008
WatchOh my.
The History of Visual Communication →
Awesome look at man’s history of visual communication from cave paintings to the internet.
Found on Bergen & Smith →
A list torn from a yellow notepad: Resolutions 2008 1. Be smart. 2. Be strong. 3. Be aggressive! 4. End it with M. 5. Get through #4. No guilt. 6. Tell B how I feel. 7. Make B understand. 8. Don’t make mistakes with B. 9. Love like a Tiger. 10. Live the life. 11. BE with B. 12. Forget THE PAST. 13. Get healthy in the brain. 14. Be happy. 15. Don’t think about things too...
“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically — to those who...”
– T. H. White
Observation effects →
A recent study shows that when Tiger Woods plays in a golf tournament, the other players perform worse than they do when he doesn’t play. Research papers with a woman as the primary author are more likely to published if the author’s gender is unknown. When watched, squirrels fool would-be nut thieves by pretending to bury nuts. The squirrels’ deception increased after their nut...
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to...”
– e e cummings
Conan O'Brien's strike diary →
DAY 12 Tragedy! A power surge fries my DVR, destroying my meager larder of scripted shows. With little to sustain me, I am forced to subsist entirely on Reality Television. I gorge myself on marathons of The Real Housewives of Orange County and Flavor of Love, then collapse in a wretched heap. If this is living, I welcome death.
WatchWow, this is really cute and awesome, haha. According to Project Delphis, the dolphins create these bubble rings in the water “by injecting air into water vortices, about the thickness of a straw and 1 to 2 feet in diameter. The rings don’t rise to the surface! The babies play with these underwater toys by moving them around with their rostrum, or biting them. They even bounce the rings off the...
“Every gay in America (okay, in coastal America) is flapping his hands today over...”
– Choire Sicha on kottke.org
WatchMagic Fireballs are Awesome Awesome.
Hungry?
clearrants: http://gothamist.com/2008/01/11/camera_in_the_k_92.php
clearrants: this jsut made me so hungry
phyo: i saw the first pic
phyo: then i closed it
phyo: can't afford to be hungry now
They’re Playing My Song. Time to Work Out. →
The NY Times examines what makes the perfect workout song and lists a bunch of songs that have been voted the best by surveys.
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
– Walter Bagehot
The Best Peanut Butter in the World →
I love peanut butter. But more importantly for the statement you are about to read here, I know peanut butter. I know peanut butter the way Da Vinci knew fluid mechanics, the way Einstein knew physics, the way Grand Master Flash knows a turntable, the way Tom Brady knows how to perfectly balance throwing touchdowns and humping supermodels. I have eaten it. I have coddled it. I inhaled. What can I...
Parents are awesome.
Dad: hey we might have to leave earlier tomorrow morning, it's supposed to rain and there might be a lot of traffic.
Me: oh, i'm not going to work tomorrow remember? fridays off?
Dad: oh, you lucky sonuvabitch.
Me: :O HAHAHAHAHAHA
Mom: WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Me: HAHAHAHAHA
Mom: (in chinese, laughing) YOU JUST CURSED ME!
Me: HAHAHAHAHA
Mom: (in chinese, laughing) HE JUST CURSED ME!
Me: HAHAHAHAHA
Dad: IT WAS JUST A JOKE!
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Kate Nash - Foundations How awesome is that...
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