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Category Archives: current events
Switchblade-wielding Nietzsche enthusiast from the desert
July 18, 2008 – 7:54 pm
I’ll take one of these
the one with the black handle
raf gundam boots
a case for my iPhone
a falcon
and like thirty pieces of otoro
need my DHA, baby
Litwack technology rrrrrroundup
June 11, 2008 – 12:20 pm
The Amazon Kindle: Okay, I bought one. I totally love it. I’m in love with it. It’s strange, it’s simultaneously crude and advanced at the same time: crude because eink is a young technology - the background of the page is light grey instead of white, and refresh takes a second when it should be […]
News story of the day
June 7, 2008 – 12:09 pm
70s Wonder Woman Discovers Dead Body. Celebrities - just like us!
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.
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 […]
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 […]