February 2009
103 posts
Tactless
I still haven’t read Snark, so I don’t know how valid the NYmag critique is. I’ve been reading the interviews that I found through Fimoculous, one from The Daily Beast and the other from Flavorwire. His subtitled conclusion, It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Hurting Our Conversation, has been accused of missing the point, -a snide remark is suppose to be mean...
January 2009
156 posts
WatchLost: Orientation
The best recap I’ve seen till now!
WatchCollege Humor on the Snuggies
Fame - David Bowie
Theoretically related to...
Michael Arrington Gets Spat on the Face →
The web startup biz has turned dangerous?
Yesterday as I was leaving the DLD Conference in Munich, Germany someone walked up to me and quite deliberately spat in my face. Before I even understood what was happening, he veered off into the crowd, just another dark head in a dark suit. People around me stared, then looked away and continued their conversation.
Video Professor Vs. ShamWow →
vrsus:
Sham Wow is one of those “products” that if you really think hard about the problem it “solves”, it looses its wow and shows the sham. If you’re constantly spilling liquids, a super absorbent towel is not the best solution to that problem.
The Vs. Tumblelog
The Vs. Tumblelog
It’s a safe bet that someone has started this, but I checked around and haven’t found anything like it yet. There’s a vs.com, but it’s a sports page. Someone, or two people are squatting on vs.tumblr.com and versus.tumblr.com. Had to pick vrsus.tumblr.com.
This my shot at the “humor” niche blog. So share it, follow it, subscribe to it, email...
Breaking Up is Dangerous to Do →
You should wait for things to cool off before updating your civil status on Facebook. You can never know if your ex is a psycho. But you shouldn’t be so quick even if you’re 101% sure that he or she isn’t a murderer. Unless is one those rare friendly breakups where both parties are ok with it, those logical and scientific breakups, in a breakup it’s highly likely that...
185 Beatles songs Ranked from Worst to Best →
To most Beatles fans, choosing between the songs of the Fab 4 is a bit like choosing between children. But, on the JamsBio exclusive, Playing The Beatles Backwards, one intrepid fan dares to rank the original songs of The Beatles and give his reasons why in a worst-to-first countdown. Prepare to hit the message boards to defend your favorites, and follow the countdown all the way to Number 1.
via...
WatchPistol Youth - In my Eyes
Remember the Weezer Buddy Holly video?
From P4k:
Pistol Youth, who could be the Four Corners of rock bands seeing as they have members from four different countries around the world, do a muscular, relatively lo-fi take on Weezer-y power-pop with their song “In My Eyes”. Which they play with the gang from “Golden Girls”— well, you should...
WatchWe Own the Sky video Contest
There’s a video contest for this song over at Youtube. I took a look at some of them and I particularly liked this one. It’s quite fitting with it’s ethereal, surreal and cold(literally) vibe to it. But most of them still don’t quite satisfy.
This song deserves an epic production video a la Sigur Ros that costs a lot of money. That’s why...
White House Tech →
“Like going from an Xbox to an Atari”
Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts.
Not surprising.
via DF
A Social Media expert gets caught saying something... →
There’s been like a million people linking to this on Twitter of course. By now everyone knows that they should be careful about what they do and write online. We all heard the stories of people being caught smoking crack in photographs, naked, and all that stuff that employer’s enjoy searching for.
But you know what the guy said in a Twitter update? This:
“True confession but I’m in...
Animal Collective's My Girls Official Video →
via the P4k
Silhouetted versions of the band with animated mouths perform the track suspended in some kind of liquid (check out Geologist’s headlamp, heh). Could this be the bottom of the lagoon they were talking about?
There’s also Doritos and chips flying in the video. Those guys are some wacky avant poppers.
Social Media Experts →
fimoculous:
Social Media “Experts” are the Cancer of Twitter (and Must Be Stopped). “The zombies then seek each other: You’ll always notice that of the 5,000 followers that a social media expert has that all…
The whole social media “expertise” thing is just a reprise of the “web 2.0” thing. It’s not a matter of stopping it, but when will it collapse and blow up,...
Big Love gets a Tie to the Real World →
How the show tied the arrests made at the Yearning for Zion polygamist compound in Texas.
My wife got me into this show. It’s really freaking good.
Some People are Just Party Poopers
He’s just a human being with charisma. The honeymoon is over. He better get to work. He’s not God. Blah, blah.
And this one by me:
No matter what, there will always be people that want to ruin other people’s happiness.
topherchris:
Animal Collective “My Girls”...
JOY DIVISION | Pitchfork.tv →
postpunk:
katbeee:
for one week, p4k.tv will show the grant gee documentary on joy division. i highly reccomend it if you haven’t watched it already.
(via yvynyl)
