Archive for June, 2008

Seattlest: H&M Arrives in Seattle–Finally, and Only Sort Of Oh yes. It’s time to get my H&M on. Stay out of my way. (tags: clothes seattle) Fuck You Rogers | Screwing Canadian iPhone customers since 2008 I love this. The Rogers plans are an absolute joke. (tags: apple) ColbertNation.com » Blog Archive » PROJECT MAKE…

YouTube – Falling Slowly, Glen Hansard Yay Julia Nunes finally covered this one and a fine job they did. I’ve been working on this and it’s sounding ok. I plan to post it eventually. Be sure to check out the bloopers at the end. (tags: music video fun) Jared Fogel Passed Away (tags: humor) Pipecleaner…

The scene: a little pocket of shopping nestled in Insadong, one of Seoul’s many busy districts. In front of us are some food stands selling Korean sweets. Locals and foreigners are milling about, watching a man with a large mallet take huge dramatic swings to pound some dough. Around the perimeter are four floors of…

I will refrain from making any Seoul-related puns. Unless it’s really really good. I have arrived in Korea and I don’t think the reality has sunk in yet. I’m just kind of puttering around. The flight was great and the folks at Asiana Airlines kept trying to feed us and take our cups away. I…

KOR Water – Personal, Sustainable Hydration. Celebrate Water. Am I an absolute poser for wanting one of these? I’m a sucker for sleek industrial design in everyday junk. (tags: art wishlist)

Well dear blagoblag, I leave for the airport in approximately 5 hours. This time tomorrow, my bestest friend, Diana and I will be in Seoul. After a week of seeing a few of the touristy sights, eating the food, butchering the language, fumbling the customs and perhaps seeing the DMZ, I will be in Hong…

Ten Big New Features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard — RoughlyDrafted Magazine Very very interesting speculation about what under-the-hood features could come in the next OS X. Power users like me are so ready for a bleeding fast system rather than whatever new edge feature. (tags: apple programming) NOPE (tags: politics clothes) YouTube –…

Abstruse Goose » Math vs Physics (tags: comic) Evil Captcha This is not so much a captcha as it is a punishment for non-premium users. (tags: funny) Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo Wow. This just makes me so happy and full of tears. Just some guy dancing in front of the camera…

ThreadLess Team Up With Timbuk2 Creating Amazing Messenger Bags Ahh, two of my favorite brands to go all ga-ga over. (tags: clothes wishlist) YouTube – Snoop Dogg – My Medicine: MTV Version, Closed Captioned Snoop Dogg sings country music. What scares me the most is that it actually sounds ok. (tags: music video)

This is what I do instead of packing for my trip: Jack’s cover of First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes In other news, did two stupid things. One, I left my phone charger in Vegas. Two, I realized this and bought two new phone chargers off Amazon so I could charge my phone…

As high as a preschooler can count | dooce ® Leta and the Tumble Bus. (tags: parenting)

Indiana Jones and Nuke the Fridge (kottke.org) “Memes seem to be spreading so rapidly now on the web that they burn out before they can properly establish themselves.” (tags: culture) How to carry on the family name. Warning, don’t read this if you can’t stomach it; this is extremely graphic language. It’s a brutal text-only…

There’s steak to be cooked! Prime Rib, USDA Choice, sitting in the fridge. It’s come out of the freezer, she says, it’s defrosting. She doesn’t want to cook it because the idea of a slab of meat bleeding, cooking in its own juices, fat rendering, pink and squishy in the middle. She’s ok with eating…

“Belltown drug market” sign on Flickr – Photo Sharing! (tags: seattle photo) Penny Arcade! – The Flavor Factor Snacks that look like Lego bricks. What a genius idea. (tags: parenting) How Cops Really Want to Police – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog “The running theme in my conversations was their lack of…

A few of my friends read my post about wanting an iPhone and they couldn’t understand why I would even think about paying so much for mobile internet. I don’t blame them. I feel exactly the same way about the ability to phone someone whenever you want to. I mean, it made sense back in…

I love my life the way it is “So as an experiment, I started buying scratch cards and not scratching them. It made my ex a little crazy. And when I show other people, it makes them a little crazy. I think I’m onto something here.” (tags: fun) A Sign of the Times – 2parse/blog…

Overheard in the Office | Mexico: Hey, We Warned You! This hurts my brain so much. I need to lie down. (tags: funny) Real police upset over TSA’s pretend-police costumes – Boing Boing (tags: politics) home is where the heart is (or some other cliche bullshit) « More is Better. “I’ve been homeless for just…

Lately, I’ve been thinking hard about how I could magically afford an iPhone. Personally, I hate hate hate ongoing fees and I would rather put up with the upfront costs so I’m going to show the total cost over the mandatory 24-month contract. ItemCost 16 GB iPhone 3G299 AT&T Plan (over 2 years)936 Data720 SMS120…

IPhone 3G: iPhone 3G’s True Price Compared iPhone 3G will cost $160 more than the original iPhone. But that cost is spread over two years. (tags: apple money) The Case for Cocktails by Margaret Berry – The Morning News An introduction. (tags: fun) TopatoCo: Apolitical Pyromaniac Shirt (Preorder) This shirt is so much fun. (tags:…

Tim Russert, TV legend, dead at 58 – Politico.com Wow, absolute shock. It was just yesterday he was announcing we were certain of the democratic nominee and now he’s gone. (tags: politics)

Melbourne outranks Paris | theage.com.au Lifestyle magazine, Monocle’s list of liveable cities. I was in Melbourne for 20+ years and I can attest to the fact that I stayed alive the entire time. Very very liveable. (tags: australia) A wonderful story about how an architect took it upon… (kottke.org) …himself to build a scavenger hunt…

Where was I? Right, the strip club in Vegas. So here we were at Olympic Garden on a Friday night. It was my first time in a strip club but I’ve seen enough crime dramas to know what one looks like. There’s the stage where the girls slide around on poles and there are the…

Pasta with Leek – Jamie at Home 17-01-08 – Yahoo! Answers I am so making this. (tags: cooking) David Weiss: Management I could subscribe to this way of thinking about management. (tags: business) YouTube – :D NSFW video. Basically, it’s a bunch of nude people. They use the black bars of censorship to draw funny…

BMW’s fascinating GINA Light Visionary Model design study – (37signals) Clever engineering idea wrapped in that cloying, ivory-tower elitism that is BMW. I love it but I’m bitter because I’ll never have it. (tags: cars) Moodstreamâ„¢ by Getty Images This is the most beautiful thing in the planet. If only the audio quality was higher….

The Cost of the iPhone: More Per Month for Data – New York Times Blog Apple now gets their share of iPhone money upfront rather than monthly. This falls in line with the established profit-sharing model. Apple now could care less if you unlock your iPhone because they got their share of the take when…

My head hurts and I’m tired. And I want to snap at everyone. My shoulders feel weak, my eyes are blurry, my face itches with a mild sunburn and I have just no energy. I’m all bitchy and whiny and here am at work and the boss is all, “Are you doing the stuff that…

Nedroid Picture Diary – I Had a Weird Dream. Wait… WHY IS MY HAIR SO LUSTROUS? AHHHHH (tags: comic humor) Apple – iPhone 3G Hallway Ad Quicktime required. Quick little bait and switch; the narrator tells us that we’re about to be introduced to something that FINALLY beats the iPhone. Faster, more battery life, GPS…

Toyota Prius: The Silent Killer Strikes Again I find this story hilarious but I guess there’s a genuine safety concern here. Then again, people can’t hear push bikes. But they’re not really the same. I don’t know where I am on this. Make cars fly already. (tags: cars) Wait till I come! » Blog Archive…

Katydid…did you? “Why is it cheaper to fly from SFO to Grand Rapids, MI than from SFO to CHICAGO, even when there is a layover IN Chicago.” Hrm… (tags: america) The Last Traffic Jam (kottke.org) A short article that casts a harsh light on the American love affair with cars. (tags: cars america) YouTube –…

This post is all about the second-last episode of Top Chef Chicago where four chefs are reduced to three. If you don’t want spoilers then you better just mosey on along. Go and hug your children. Sit them down and make them go through a Top Chef marathon with you. I’ve been getting too analytical…

Cat Boxing – Cute Overload Cats are weird… (tags: cats video) Man Sentenced To Prison After Girl’s MySpace Page Lies About Age – News Story – WFTV Orlando Conundrum! She has sex with older men, posing as a 19-year-old divorcee. She’s actually 13. Should these men be sentenced so harshly? Should someone lock her up?…

Jack is dead. Or very close to it. I am, er, Jacque. ‘ere to post ze bloggings in a very racist French accent! Mais oui! Ok, I’m lying. I’m heading to Vegas for the first time this weekend. I skipped out on buying a ticket to the Cirque du Soleil show with all the naked…

Scaring people with fullScreen It is pretty dangerous to allow a flash application to take over your entire screen. But how do you secure it? Maybe you could disable all keyboard and mouse input. Any input at all would just force you out of fullscreen. (tags: programming) Fast Food Fighters + corcholat.com Wendy is freakin’…

Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show: Episode 4 | Crackle – Stream On Ron Jeremy stars in a strangely Safe For Work video. (tags: humor video) YouTube – Rachel Ray Before She Was Famous Can you stand quoting out of context to generate sexual innuendo? Can you stand three and a half mintues of it? Personally,…