March 2010
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The Magnetic Fields – "A Pretty Girl Is Like" →
Can’t find a decent embeddable version of this track, so this link will have to do. Click on the bubble next to ‘patduarte’ to start it.
“a pretty girl is like a violent crime if you do it wrong you could do time but if you do it right it is sublime…” Bonus: the track’s backstory
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SomethingCutAway.com →
I’ve started a new blog at SomethingCutAway.com that’ll focus on my personal software projects and opinions, some Android / Java stuff I’ve been working on, and generally act as the legitimate face of my online presence. Think of it as the Wayne Manor to this, my online Batcave, with all the boring, formal decoration and butler abuse that implies.
iPad Guided Tours →
Apple has posted a series of iPad guided tour videos that show off Safari, Mail, the iBook library and more.
A minor rant about freelancing and what I’m finding hard about it. I’m still doing freelance work in the evenings / weekends. It’s helping me pay off some magnificent student and bank loans (foreign-student university fees in Britain? Fuggedaboudit).
The skill that I’m finding the hardest to acquire is patience, which is bizarre, because I’ve always considered myself...
Watchdaveshumka:
A couple years ago my friend A.J. made the original Hot Tub Time Machine. It’s a short film called Hirsute and it’s worth your 13 minutes.
dwineman:
This? Brilliant. And I never watch short films, so I consider myself something of an authority on them.
Fifty People One Question →
50 people are asked one question. My favourite is the one asked in London - “Where would wake up tomorrow if you could wake up anywhere?”
I’m testing a new host. Mind helping me test its limits a little? Just hit up this link.
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“Look at me, I make funny voices every chance I get, I can do a bad impression of a political figure and my jokes are ridiculously bad but somehow I end up on panel shows.” Assholes. What the hell.
God, I hate impressionists.
Moneyshot. →
"Have a break, have a Jesus kit-kat." →
A video posted by Kit-Kat / Nestle explaining how they used a fake Jesus sighting in a Kit-Kat to promote themselves over Easter weekend. Some days I really, really dislike humanity.
(via purplesime)
Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from... →
Users will pay £1 for a day’s access and £2 for a week’s subscription.
If you’re in the London / UK area and like the Mountain Goats, well, tickets are on sale for a gig they’re doing in September. I’ll be there, anyhow. I’ll the one screaming and gushing and throwing panties I’ll swear aren’t mine on the stage.
“[M]y guess is that as soon as the beheading topic is on the table, disagreement...”
– Scott Adams comments on a brick-production company’s choice to behead an employee to improve brick quality: Worst Boss. Ever.
(via toldorknown)
Boring Life Post: New Job Edition
I’m starting a new job in 3 weeks, working full-time for Yahoo! as a Java Engineer. I’m pretty excited about it.
Don't talk to strangers
One day, I was walking back to my dorm in a bad mood. I looked up and saw a man heading in the opposite direction. In his hands was what appeared to be a live lobster. He held it the way you’d hold a cat, sort of under the armpits, and when he saw me looking, he raised one of its claws in a little wave (I waved back).
This is why I love this town—it seems like, whenever I start to get really...
essdogg asked: We use Visistat, which is slightly less slick than Crazy Egg but that has some advantages in terms of measuring and exporting metrics data. We've made fairly extensive use of the heatmap (they call it "Touch Mapping" — whatever), but we realize its limitations.
1) On the design/UI side, rather than seeing what people are clicking on, we look at where...
1) On the design/UI side, rather than seeing what people are clicking on, we look at where...
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The intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard, Melrose Avenue, and Doheny Drive in West Hollywood, captured through the wind shield of actor Dennis Hopper’s car, 1961; Photo by Dennis Hopper.
A photo from the book “Los Angeles, Portrait of a City”.
(via A Continuous Lean)
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“A poem upon the occasion of seeing the first girl in a summer dress this year”, Or simply, “Floral”
Hey gurl I see you thur, wit your floral dress and your bangin’ Knees. You’re like vanilla ice cream on a Sunday. A thoughtless smile And versace bag. But you got a little dog Why a little dog, they like remora suckers On the underside of your fashion. Ditch...
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Sometimes when you cry ‘Havoc!’ and let loose the Dogs of War they just run around the yard for, like, 20 minutes and then sit on the porch licking their balls at the neighbours. True story.
Spitballin’ an idea: you email a specified address, it emails you back a Givemesomethingtoread / Instapaper‘ed (maybe linked to your account) article. More advanced features could include smart replies (replying to the emailed article with ‘no’ could indicate either that you don’t want to read it or you didn’t enjoy the content) or account-linked stuff...
Under those agreements, the publishers will set consumer prices for each book, and Apple will serve as an agent and take a 30 percent commission. E-book editions of most newly released adult general fiction and nonfiction will cost $12.99 to $14.99.
Amazon has agreed in principle that the major publishers would be able to set prices in its Kindle store as well. But it is also demanding that they...
weselec:
everythinginthesky:
““Hipster” has become the de-facto fallback Big Other for culturally conscious urbanites who are too hip for xenophobia but too weak to resist the latent psychological impulse to villainize people based on nothing more than personal whimsy.”
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Matt Langer: Metacriticism; or, olds v. youngs.
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“Hipster” has become the de-facto fallback Big Other for culturally conscious...”
– Matt Langer: Metacriticism; or, olds v. youngs.
