June 2008
Geek Love →
Individuals over 30 can’t mark “random play” on their Facebook profiles. Now their only option is to be deliberate.
re-casting valkyrie?
Reply to: theryanflynn@yahoo.com Date: 2008-06-24, 10:05PM PDT I am looking for a hamster. I know I could buy one, but then I would own it. So , I was hoping to just rent one for 50 bucks for a couple hours. The Hamster will be work in a studio shoot on a greenscreen. He is playing Rocky, the captain of a boat. please send a picture We are shooting for a couple hours on saturday, that is this...
“Hold the pickle, hold the lettuce—and, while you’re at it, hold the Dodge...”
– Brandweek on The Post-Soccer Mom.
Useless social networking
Because I manicure the Twitter for my work, I realized that it’s inescapable. Now we are friends: http://twitter.com/dinosaurparty
The Holy Land Experience - Official Website →
Jesus owns a theme park in Florida. Watch out, Epcot.
glow santa monica →
From 7pm to 7am only July 19th (and 20th), Santa Monica’s Glow Festival will fill the city’s public space with “compelling, enchanting and effervescent sights and sounds situated in spaces and times that expand possibilities for where, how and when the public experiences contemporary art.”
Inspired by Paris’ famous Nuit Blanche, countless artists have been...
3 Days of Banjo Trance with Emily Lacy @ Machine...
Monday - Wednesday June 23, 24, 25
Throughout the day
Performance from the window of Machine Project
Tuesday June 24th 8pm Experimental community folk chant and sing
Conducting light particles passing through the Machine Project window, Emily Lacy will give a 3-day musical performance concerning the speed of light, gravitation, and matter, utilizing banjo, guitar, and violin.
An audience is...
Watch David Karp, the founder of tumblr, is only 21?
LA to do: twelve shiny nickels →
Every Friday and Saturday, Twelve Shiny Nickels is at the Gardner Stage. It’s great stand-up for only $5, and there’s all the free beer you can fit in your face.
Ways to Casually Put Down David Sedaris at Your... →
In promotion of My Custom Van: And 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays that Will Blow Mind All Over Your Face, Michael Ian Black has staged a faux rivalry with memoirist David Sedaris. Black’s most recent blog entry suggests the following:
“When referring to him, put a “p” after the “S” in “Sedaris,” so that what you’re saying is...
“THEY’RE AFFLUENT, HIGHLY EDUCATED AND GREAT AT SAVING MONEY AND SPENDING...”
– Brandweek, on marketing to Asian Americans.
Violent and Crazy
The Violent Femmes have returned the favor and turned Gnarl’s Barkley’s “Crazy” into a slow, mandolin-driven version of the once ubiquitous anthem. It’s worth a listen. You can hear it here.
"Nothing good happens after midnight—except...
From Brandweek:
“Denny’s will “rock” again. The beloved diner chain is undergoing some kind of a Pete Wentzification to appeal to young poppy punk types. To get its median age down below the speed limit, it is undertaking a Denny’s All Nighter promo, and grandpa’s Muzak will be swapped for alt rock from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Also added for the wee hours for the wee...
A Massachusetts high school is facing a pregnancy... →
OMG, Juno was soooo good!
Younger than McCain
I’m totally against ad hominem arguments; I like my logical syllogisms squeaky clean. But I really do admire this blog for compiling such an extensive list of things that are younger than John McCain:
GI Joes, Barbie Dolls, The Air Force, The CIA, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves Credit Cards, String Bikinis, Minute Rice, Pop Tarts, Tupperware, Hula Hoops, Medicare Nike Shoes, The Pentagon,...
Moodstream by Getty Images →
Moodstream is like a more synaesthetic Pandora, you can adjust levels of color, emotion, nostalgia, vibrance and more. And if you find a combination that works for you, you can drag it to your “Moodboard,” where you can save it to brainstorm for future projects.
BUT: While the idea of this sort of super-syncretic algorithim is really exciting to me, I didn’t discover anything...
Newsflash: Baby Ducks are Adorable
From The Sun: A MOTHER duck braved traffic and a housing estate during a TWO-MILE chase to rescue her babies from a sewer.
The six ducklings fell down an underground access and were swept away – but mum could not fit through it.
So the mallard followed their frantic quacks overground across two main roads and a railway line until they stopped under a manhole in Gosforth, Newcastle.
She then...
Russian gov't drops cement from airplane,...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian air force planes dropped a 25-kg (55-lb) sack of cement on a suburban Moscow home last week while seeding clouds to prevent rain from spoiling a holiday, Russian media said on Tuesday.
“A pack of cement used in creating … good weather in the capital region … failed to pulverize completely at high altitude and fell on the roof of a house, making a hole...
Dov Charney: Now 75% More Perverted! →
Your least favorite Israeli inducts a new item into the American Apparel canon.
To Do: The Glass Beef
See Charlene Yi & Paul Rust make pleasant sounds:
Tuesday July 1st 10pm
$5
At the Steve Allen Theater with The Wrong Trousers & Don’t Stop or We’ll Die.
Run, DMC.
Via the Washington Post:
“When DMC Pharmacy opens this summer on Route 50 in Chantilly, the shelves will be stocked with allergy remedies, pain relievers, antiseptic ointments and almost everything else sold in any drugstore. But anyone who wants condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive will be turned away.
That’s because the drugstore, located in a typical...
Firefox 3 Comes out Today →
Includes a plug-in that makes your disc drive dispense kit-kat bars.
Museums on Us 2008 →
Free admission when you use your Bank of America card on the first weekend of every month at over 70 museums, nationwide.
“Emulating similar experiments in Paris, London, and Bogotá, Colombia, New York...”
– New York Plans Car-Free Streets | The News is NowPublic.com
