October 2008
35 posts
The night before Thanksgiving, my family and I are doing a White Trash Murder Mystery - my sister found online. My character is Scoop Blackwood a…
… a big city reporter who has experienced some bad times lately. His newspaper laid him off because of drunken behavior on the job. He is living at the trailer park trying to get his life back in order, but his drinking is a real problem....
The Generic City →
dailymeh:
In Dutch architech Rem Koolhaas’s mind, modern cities tend toward The Generic City. The Generic City emerges unplanned; it is soulless devoid of life and individuality. It is “a city without qualities”. It “will work — that’s all”. There is no urbanism, or so he says, there is only ideology. Peter Lindberg summarizes:
The Generic City is a fractal, Koolhaas writes, repeating its shape...
The Real Winners of this Election
So for the past few months, we’ve been privvy to tons of slander, falsities and negative campaigning. It sounds pretty bad right? Wrong. We’ve also been introduced to tons of American stereotypes and caricatures that none of us knew before!
Joe Sixpack
Patio Man
Hockey Moms (the new Soccer Moms)
Crazy McCain Cat Lady
And, of course, Joe the Plumber
So, America is just a bunch of...
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Watchfling:
My slides from my Web 2.0 Expo Europe workshop on Mobile 2.0.
Feel free to use, recycle, but most of all: do. The mobile web will be a far more interesting place with you in it.
One of, if not the, best presentations I’ve seen on the mobile web. Take 10 minutes and look through the slides (there’s a lot of them) and let it sink it. Pretty good, and interesting, stuff Brian....
Watchyvynyl
BEACH HOUSE on Shoot the Player
Beach House = Awesome
Design the Oregon state flag →
Oregon, once again proving it is the most progressive state in the union, is holding a contest to redesign it’s state flag. Entries must be received by November 21 at 5p.m. and cannot include any gradients. Shiny tables, rounded typefaces and bright colors, on the other hand, are still in play. “Web 2.0” state flag anyone? (via)
Jamaica puzzled by theft of beach →
Need a beach? Me too, but it looks like we’re too late. Somebody already took it.
Police in Jamaica are investigating the suspected theft of hundreds of tons of sand from a beach on the island’s north coast.
It was discovered in July that 500 truck-loads had been removed outside a planned resort at Coral Spring beach.
Detectives say people in the tourism sector could be suspects,...
Joe the Plumber →
Found him!
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WatchHey Tumblr! Let’s play a game. Watch the clip above from It’s Always Sunny and fill in the missing words.
Later dudes. S you in your As. Don’t wear a C and J all over your Bs.
Update: Mike and I have the C,J and B figuered out I believe. I see this Yahoo! Answers thread to the problem but it is wrong. He clearly said “S you in your As.”
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NPR’s Fact Checking Last Night’s...
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Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Since Britt opened my...
Gmail adds an Anti-Drunk Feature →
mittenstategirl:
gregbrown:
(via somethingchanged and hellofriend)
The new feature, when enabled, makes you solve simple math problems when sending mail late at night. It’s like a captcha for sobriety!
Omg I wish there was something like this for my phone to prevent those calls/texts that I inevitably regret
On of the biggest technological breakthroughs in decades.
What's Your Tumblr Number? →
topherchris:
2,839
1,149… Didn’t realize I was that high.
Google from January, 2001 →
dailymeh:
Google Blog:
Hidden in a corner beneath Larry’s and Sergey’s original lab coats, we found a vintage search index in mint condition. We dusted it off and took it for a spin, gobsmacked to see how different the web was in early 2001. (…) We had so much fun searching that we wanted to put this old index online for everyone to play with.
This is awesome.
Appearently I had no web...