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Congratulations | MGMT This may be my favorite (or, at least,...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:30:00 -0500

Congratulations | MGMT

This may be my favorite (or, at least, most anticipated) album of 2010, and it’s not even out yet. This track is some of the best new music I’ve heard in a long time.

Bill Carter for NYTimes.com’s Media Decoder blog: The...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:21:00 -0500

Bill Carter for NYTimes.com’s Media Decoder blog:

The fans of Conan O’Brien will not have to wait much longer — though they may have to wait in long lines — to see their favorite late-night comedian perform again: Starting April 12 in Eugene, Oregon, O’Brien’s 30-city tour — with national and international stops — is on.

And if the title is any indication, the tour will also be sending a message about how O’Brien and his Team Coco feels about his abrupt departure from NBC’s “Tonight Show” in January. The title? “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour”.

Mozilla Rejects MetaLab, Then Steals Design

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:24:44 -0500

Mozilla Rejects MetaLab, Then Steals Design: We get ripped off a lot. I often spot a button image...

State of the Internet, a motion type presentation by the Jess3...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:04:54 -0500

State of the Internet, a motion type presentation by the Jess3 agency of mostly mind-blowing statistics from the big social networks during 2009. (via Matthew Buchanan)

"I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system so if you’re out..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:43:00 -0500

“I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system so if you’re...

Missed The Boat | Modest Mouse Their entire album, We Were Dead...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:45:19 -0500

Missed The Boat | Modest Mouse

Their entire album, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, is an oldie but a goodie. Exactly what I need to finish this pile of crap called “work”.

We view our world in black and white. We’re blind to the...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:34:00 -0500

We view our world in black and white.

We’re blind to the outside world around us. We only see our lives; we don’t live others lives, nor do we understand how every individual lives.

Outside of out simple, black and white life is a wide array of color: shades of red, and blue, and green, that we will never experience. Unless, of course, we take a risk.

We can expand our horizons by expanding our world. We can explore, we can leave our safe zones, we can run free. There’s nothing stopping us. All we have to do is want to see the color of others’ worlds.

Photo credit: “Portland [Black & White]” by Andre Peniche

Twitter: The Criterion Collection What if Twitter… came to...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:23:00 -0500

Twitter: The Criterion Collection

What if Twitter… came to life?

We asked some of our friends to film their favorite tweets. We didn’t care how they did it. They could read it. They could act it. They could do it with puppets. Whatever they wanted. The only rules were it had to be a tweet written by someone else and it had to contain the entire tweet and nothing but the tweet.

This is what they gave us.

We hope you enjoy it.

@poeks & @sween

Fantastic. In fact, pure genius.

OK Go’s music video for “This Too Shall Pass”,...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:21:39 -0500

OK Go’s music video for “This Too Shall Pass”, off of their new album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, has gone viral. And with good reason: the elaborate Rube Goldberg machine shown off is yet another example of the band’s breathtaking creative video format.

@conanobrien: This is how many people it took to write...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:31:27 -0500

@conanobrien:

This is how many people it took to write today’s tweet: “Jumbo” shrimp? WTF!!

"If you don’t live in America, it’s a new television show. It’s the closing..."

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:15:26 -0500

“If you don’t live in America, it’s a new television show. It’s the closing...

Layered. (via shaneblog) I found some photos from the last...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:03:27 -0500

Layered. (via shaneblog)

I found some photos from the last blizzard that have been wasting around on my hard drive, so I threw them up on Flickr.

Joan Miró.

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:13:00 -0500

Joan Miró.

My Name is Jonas | Weezer Oh, classic Weezer. How I wish I could...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:16:00 -0500

My Name is Jonas | Weezer

Oh, classic Weezer. How I wish I could just listen to you on repeat forever.

I looked out the window of our minivan for the first time in two...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:54:00 -0500

I looked out the window of our minivan for the first time in two hours, since we were going on vacation. We were heading toward the Golden Gate Bridge on a rainy, cold afternoon, when, for the first time in my life, I gasped out of absolute shock. I know, I know. Why gasp at a bridge? I mean, it’s only a bridge; it’s not like it was the first time in my life I’d seen a bridge. And it wasn’t. Instead, it was what was happening on the bridge that shocked me.

There was a man, about in his mid-thirties, being held back by two older gentlemen. He was only wearing a white tank-top and jeans, with crazy hair and bloodshot eyes. He was screaming ridiculously, trying to get out of the men’s arms.

“Let me do it,” he kept yelling at the guards. “Let me jump, you bastards!”

We had been learning in class about California’s history, and the fact that the Golden Gate Bridge was the most popular place to commit suicide in the world had came up. The teacher handled it with ease, except when one girl who sat in the back row asked a simple question:

“Why?”

The teacher stopped dead in her tracks. She didn’t have an honest answer for the girl.

“Well,” she finally began, trying to state of an understandable explanation. “We have structure to our lives. We’re built on the foundation of our family, friends, and others we depend on, much like the bridge itself is. With time, we grow, and develop ourselves, and our “bridge” grows in size, until we hit a monumental moment, until we reach the sky.

“Some people, however, aren’t built on a good foundation, or some have something else they come across that weakens their foundation. They can’t handle the pressure being put upon them, on their bridge, and the bridge comes crashing down, comes to an end. We can try prevent the crashes, of course, but sometimes they’ll happen, and they’ll just come crashing down anyway.”

I sat there, in the minivan, staring at the man. He was now on his knees, sobbing into his tank-top, with one guard still holding on to him. The other was on the phone, talking to someone. He then put the man on the phone, which caused him to be even more hysterical. The man finally calmed down, hugged the guards, and was escorted back to his car.

I thought about what my teacher said about the bridges, and the structure they needed. She had said that the foundation was the problem, and that, sometimes, you couldn’t stop the bridge from coming down. And, though that may be true, you can always rebuild.

Photo credit: “Golden Gate Warning” by noesym

Admiral Ackbar as Ole Miss Mascot

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:44:16 -0500

Admiral Ackbar as Ole Miss Mascot: Ole Miss has been the subject of plenty of weird college football...

The Daily What: Masashi Kawamura’s “Rainbow In Your Hand” flip...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:34:43 -0500

The Daily What:

Masashi Kawamura’s “Rainbow In Your Hand” flip book does as advertised.

IE6 Funeral

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:45:00 -0500

IE6 Funeral: Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of...

"Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:19:00 -0500

“Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able...

Bill Amend.

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:21:17 -0500

Bill Amend.