Mapping Bruce. Craig of Flip Flop Flyin' fame looked up Asbury Park on Google Maps and decided to do the same for "every song [Bruce Springsteen]'s done with a location in the title".
September 2005 Archives
Lost's Evangeline Lilly on the cover of Rolling Stone. And in commercials for Livelink, taking calls from lonely guys. Hottt!
Sport Night, the complete series boxed set. This is the show I first crushed out on Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives) and Peter Krause (Six Feet Under), a.k.a. the best show you never watched. But now you can!
The Ulaanbaatar Metroo is the subway of Mongolia's capital. The Metroo doesn't actually exist, but I love it anyway. [ pf.org ]
I'll be presenting 24in48.org at NYC Photobloggers 5 next Friday:
If you know me, it will come as no surprise to learn that I've been stressing out over what to wear since last week, and will put my talk together the night before. So come see what I end up wearing and saying, and buy me a stiff drink at the bar afterwards. I guarantee I will need it!
Also: I have a little something in jen bekman's The Pin-UPStairs. The opening reception is tonight from 6 to 9 (come say hi if you can on such short notice); the show runs till October 2.
This is my new desktop wallpaper and will likely be my desktop wallpaper for all time. Why have I never seen this before? And if you have a high quality jpg of this, can you please send it to me?
[ via dirtynerdluv ]
Eric Joyner's amazing paintings of tin robots. I want prints of the ones with giant invading donuts so bad, you have no idea. [ The Sneeze ]
Xbox Lifestyle Promises We're Looking Forward To Being Fulfilled. "Our crew will be fresh. It's currently made up of a late-twenties and early-thirties white "circle of friends", but will soon be replaced with a diverse multi-racial CREW of poppin' and lockin', ball handlin' BUDDIES. So long, plain old friends!"
Lego Digital Designer. "With Digital Designer 1.4, you can build anything in your imagination using virtual LEGO bricks - right on your computer at home!" And it works in OS X! [ djacobs del.icio.us ]
I've been too angry and sad to discuss the aftermath of Katrina articulately or uniquely, but as usual David Rees does a fantastic job of speaking for me in clip art.
Despite never having been to New Orleans, I managed to fall head over heels in love with the city from years of reading Chuck Taggart rhapsodize about his hometown on Looka!. I know it won't be the same place as before, but if I have any time and money to take a vacation next year, I'll be more than happy to visit if New Orleans will have me. Anyone want to come on a Cajun eating expedition with me? Alaina? Yimay? Kathryn? Robyn?
Most people would take the screenshot above to be representative of a schism within me. To that, I say: nay! Music I like is good music, good music is music I like, regardless of era, genre, production method or commercial success. Praise be to Anil for happily walking the road less traveled and teaching me to accept my inner self.
Anyway. I get to see The Arcade Fire again this Thursday, at Summerstage. As cool as it would be to see Davids Byrne or Bowie on stage with them for a song or two, how much more awesome would it be if Donna Summer went up and sang on Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) or an uptempo Crown of Love? How many hipsters there would have the will—or the gall—to refuse to unironically acknowledge the fabulousness of disco incarnate?
Sexy "Free" OS X Apps. Short list of apps I've mostly never heard of, will try some out. Also: holy crap, but joshuaink is the best looking blog I've seen in a long time! It's just gorgeous. [ Everything Burns ]
The Superficial on the renaming of Katie Holmes. "As if the 16-year age gap wasn't creepy enough, I would like to remind you all that Cruise has effectively named his fiance Kate Cruise. He has named her." Not so shocking if you read Robert Haskell's W Magazine interview with her, but yeah, still totally fucked up.
Domino's just added Angus steak pizza to their menu. "It seems like a logical time for the product," [CEO David Brandon] said, referring to the start of football season. Football, meh, but steak pizza I think I can do.
Hurricane Katrina "I'm OK" Registry. "Why this registry is different... By using the person's telephone number, you can find out immediately if there is information or not. This allows you to pinpoint a specific person or household." [ rion.nu ]
Go Fug Yourself's Skeeve Watch Terror Level Chart. I should print this out and carry it around, as a reminder to never go beyond Elevated and aim for Low.
Choire asked, way back in January, Dear Nerds: When Are We Getting Tags Or Categories For Email?
With blogs and flickr and del.icio.us, we use categories or tags to arrange, retrieve, and store chunks of data (blog posts, say, or photos, or links). But when am I going to be able to do this with email, in a way that is recognized by the recipient and the sender? Say I have a friend, and we email about various things in the course of the day: edits on a piece, or the thing we're going to next weekend, or some bit of gossip, or a troubled friend. And, like everyone else, we're bad with subject lines. Why can't our email application have some tags in a checkbox that I can mark?
I don't know about the checkbox thing, I like freeform tagging, but otherwise it's a great idea and one that I'd really love to see, but in the meantime I'll settle for being able to organize my email by tags (like I have with all my photos on Flickr) instead of just sorting stuff into ten million folders (what I've previously done) or using labels (the Gmail way).
MailTags is a plugin for Mail.app that sorta kinda but not really does that, but I use Thunderbird and don't want to switch. I beseech thee, Lazyweb! Someone please write a proper tagging plugin for my mail client of choice!
