when you’re looking for a song, and it’s really hard to find and you’re looking and looking and finally you find it, and it’s downloading so slowly, and all you have is the name of the song to go by, and you’re imagining how incredible it must be, and you have this idea of it […]
Author Archives: geoffrey
Jackets
May 28, 2008 – 10:21 am
Interesting contrast today between a newly translated Juan Freire lecture about new hybrid public spaces and a typically stark Paul Graham essay about the public nature of existing cities. Both are interesting. Great footnote from Graham:
One sign of a city’s potential as a technology center is the number of restaurants that still require jackets for […]
Memorial Day
May 26, 2008 – 3:50 pm
4083 dead in Iraq, more than 29,000 wounded, and 300,000 cases of post-traumatic stress disorder between Iraq and Afghanistan.
The zoo
May 21, 2008 – 11:00 am
Nature has been producing photonic crystals for quite a while in the form of the shell of a beautiful beetle. (We need photonic crystal to produce optical computers.) Bonus link: rare breed of stag beetle being hunted to extinction because of Mushiking.
The Telegraph: Extinct Tasmanian tiger DNA implanted in mouse cells. “‘This is the first […]
Local culture
May 20, 2008 – 7:12 pm
Whoa:
Video from right after the China earthquake. Heartwrenching. The kids yelling out of their classroom window at 0:24 is like a scene from The Drifting Classroom. Via Waxy.
Only in LA: House for sale with a yurt!
Boing Boing Gadgets: Atari 2600 lounge at Milwaukee grocery store. I don’t get the sarcastic tone, I really don’t; I’d […]
Cherries are in season
May 19, 2008 – 1:32 pm
Patriotic duty:
age ≠ wisdom
Hervé This’ 10 fundamental pieces of knowledge for cooks. 8: Collagen dissolves in water at temperatures higher than 55 C (131 F). Via Michael Ruhlman. Sort of related: crazy food dehydrator. My mom had one in her hippie phase; the beef jerky that came out of it was unsurpassed.
If I were in […]
Lunch pasta
May 18, 2008 – 9:28 am
Obama stylewatch: he wears Burberry suits, apparently. Dude, if you’re going to skip the J. Press route, why not go all out and rock Dior Homme?
Paul Graham: I have a second computer for using the internet because I’m addicted to it yet need it for work, like an alcoholic wine critic. I used to have […]
Takashi Murakami “Mr. Wink”
May 17, 2008 – 12:38 pm
FINALLY MINE. I had a chance to buy a small Murakami painting in 2000 for $800; turning that down was the worst financial mistake of my life. I understand if you dislike him or aren’t into the factory aspect or whatever, but art is personal and I’ve always liked this piece in particular. Click to […]
Acquisitions tomorrow
May 16, 2008 – 1:38 pm
Hey, should I buy a house in Queens?
Awesome Fallout 3 concept art, via BoingBoing Gadgets. I’ve posted about Fallout before - it’s one of my most anticipated PS3 titles - but now there’s this whole steampunk thread which seems to be growing in popularity since 1974 or whenever The Difference Engine came out (okay, 1990). […]
Go get married if you’ve been waiting, right?
May 15, 2008 – 11:33 pm
Unaired 30 Rock pilot with Rachel Dratch as Jenna, torrent. I just love television so much.
Insane auction results from Sotheby’s - Takashi Murakami’s My Lonesome Cowboy sold for FIFTEEN POINT ONE MILLION DOLLARS. It’s part of an EDITION! What the fuck, anonymous bidder?!
Song: John Otway & The Wild Will Barrett, Really Free. Kind of like […]
Custom
May 15, 2008 – 12:50 am
Andy Baio: Whitburn Pop Project analysis part 1: awesome
Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi: Ivan Krstić on the end days of the One Laptop Per Child project and an appeal for the creation of an Open Learning Foundation.
Boullée in North Dakota: Pruned on an American pyramid.
Professional artists interpret kids’ drawings (thanks George!)
Song: Studio, No Comply, the Yearbook […]