January 2010
22 posts
merlin:
My Initial Thoughts on Apple’s Announcement Regarding the Release of the iPad, Viz. the High Likelihood of Its Impact As a Paradigm-Shifting, Next-Generation Appliance Poised to Upend the Traditional Notion of Computers As Per Se Computers; Plus, Educated Commentary on the Complex and Sometimes Adversarial Relationships Between Humans and the Machines That They Build to Use and to —...
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On the Street....Alessandra, Milano →
Black and denim. Classic. Hate the peeking pockets, but those stilts are nice. What a smile.
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Blog Post: At age 12, I designed the Apple Tablet →
Tough Enough For Fashion →
Dig the rumpled pocket square and those socks. Really handsome shoes, too.
Kristin Chenoweth singing “Maybe This Time” in Glee. Rocks my world. Fucking Pipes.
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Bon Iver - Woods →
Auto-tune has never sounded so pretty.
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Star Wars opening crawl in HTML/CSS →
For non-developers out there, here’s why this is important: this recreation was made using only HTML code and CSS styling. No Flash, no Silverlight, no plug-ins required.
Currently, it only works in Safari 4.0.4 (or the latest WebKit build) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. So chances are, you’re just going to see a YouTube video.
But this is the future. One day, in the...
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MacGyver would be proud →
Vintage Ad Smorgasbord →
If you have any interest in ephemera, this is a good place to lose the rest of your day. I’d really like to see illustration make a comeback in the style of the 1940-1960s period.
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God Bless America, indeed. →
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I love it when, every once in a while, somebody questions whether or not...
– via @GreatDismal
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My new jam →
She could be found out dancin’, at Ludlow street and Stanton.
Oh you should’ve seen her, shake it up like Orangina.
And even though she’s a liar, no one ever got me higher.
And even though she’s my friend, we never knew when to say when.
I guess I’m going to have to learn how to make a tumblr theme, because I can’t live with any of these.
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Turn of the Century Predictions, circa 1900 →
Think about these in the context of the types of predictions people tend to make this time of year.
(See here also: http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/what-may-happen-in-next-hundred-years.html)