June 2009
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Michel Gondry will draw you for $19.95 →
Actually not anymore. According to his website, “Due to the overwhelming demand this product is currently unavailable, please check back soon.” If it does come back he will do a portrait of you based on a picture you email him which is pretty awesome because I’ve been dying to get someone to sketch the picture I have of myself setting aflame a DVD copy of The Science of Sleep.
May 2009
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On Tumblarity
I don’t think I’m going out on a ledge when I suppose that one of the main reasons Tumblr introduced the Tumblarity function is to promote users to post more. (According to Tumblr, your number of posts is one of the four statistics used to compute your Tumblarity.) This is fine I guess, I sort of enjoy checking mine every day as it wildly rises and falls. However, Tumblarity is...
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Jack Kerouac’s fantasy baseball team cards →
Almost all his life Jack Kerouac had a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs never knew about. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, charting the exploits of made-up players who toiled on imaginary teams named either for cars (the Pittsburgh Plymouths and New York Chevvies, for example) or for colors (the Boston...
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A Boy Named Thor - The Pirates of Temptation...
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Read Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009 →
I’m tempted to do this but leary about adding another 1,079 pages on top of all my reading for school.
You’ve been meaning to do it for over a decade. Now join endurance bibliophiles from around the web as we tackle and comment upon David Foster Wallace’s masterwork, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages ÷ 93 days = 75 pages a week. No sweat.
(via kottke)
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Public transportation karma
Re: the subway time map. Three outbound B-trains have passed as I wait for an inbound.
NYC Subway travel time heatmap →
Put in an address and you get a map of how far away everything is using the subway. 15 minutes, forty minutes, two hours — all set up with nice little colors. That’s pretty easy, I think. Triptrop can help you find a convenient place to live. It’s also a nice way to tell your friend to stop inviting you to the purple part of the Bronx, or to prove that the G isn’t...
PBRbor Day →
Here’s to trees.
They give us oxygen, offer safety for wildlife, and provide the perfect shade under which to enjoy an ice-cold PBR.
We think it’s high time to honor mother nature’s skyscrapers. And what better way to pay homage than making this Arbor Day PBRBOR DAY!
To participate, simply go drink a beer in the woods. Any local park or forest will do. But if you really want...
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The Massive Guide to all Holga Cameras →
Back in the day, when things were simple, we had one Holga camera: The Holga 120S. But since then, the range of Holga cameras have increased dramatically, ranging from bizarre Hello Kitty branded point and shoot cameras to even bizarrer stereo 3d cameras.
As Holga are releasing more and more products, especially since their rebrand/relaunch as Holga Inspire, we thought it would be time to take...
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St. Vincent - Save Me From What I Want
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R. Bolton
Lyz: I wish whenever I have to give a student an inspirational speech, I could just say "hit it Michael Bolton!" and he'd sing "I Believe I Can Fly."
me: That was R. Kelly.
Lyz: Whatever. Both are creepy.
me: For future reference, Michael Bolton didn't do "Trapped in the Closet" either.
Lyz: My whole life feels like a lie now.
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My Famicase Exhibit →
A Japanese video game store has created an online, 3-D gallery of every Famicom (that’s the Japanese version of the original, 8-bit Nintendo) game ever made.
I just shipped something at work to a Michael Scott in Nova Scotia. This is now my second favorite customer name behind a Lou Albano of Brooklyn.
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This American Life: Ep. 110 - Mapping →
Continuing on the theme of mapping, one of the best episodes of This American Life on five ways of mapping the world divided by sense. By far the most interesting is the first act on the maps a cartographer makes of his neighborhood.
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WatchChris Ware’s Quimby the Mouse video from this year’s This American Life—Live!.
Ira Glass on Storytelling →
As usual, he has a ton of completely brilliant things to say. I like his theory on the taste/talent gap of young storytellers in the third installment.
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Allston on film
The Boston Phoenix blogged about one of my Flickr groups. Thanks Christine!
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Tullycraft - Bored to Hear Your Heart Still...