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ponyponytail: You're like a rollercoaster
ponyponytail: You're like a rollercoaster
Life's a beach. No, really. There are loudmouth uglies in too-small beachwear, there are cigarette butts, there are jellyfish. But, there is warm sun, clear blue sky, crystal water and weightless oblivion. Life is also a bike ride. There are ups, there are downs, there are potholes, there are assholes. But there are also cool nights with the city sparkling around you, and you are singing into the wind at 30 miles an hour.
·ponyponytail.blogspot.com·
ponyponytail: You're like a rollercoaster
Wikipedia: Gallows humor
Wikipedia: Gallows humor
"Gallows humor is a type of humor that arises from stressful, traumatic or life-threatening situations such as wartime events, hostilities, mass murder; often in circumstances where death is perceived as impending and unavoidable. It is similar to black comedy but differs in that it is made by the person affected."
·en.wikipedia.org·
Wikipedia: Gallows humor
The Stranger: It's a Hit, by Michaelangelo Matos
The Stranger: It's a Hit, by Michaelangelo Matos
Palin and Perry, sittin' in a tree. "She kisses a girl—sure, okay. She likes it—um, and? Oh, and she hopes her boyfriend doesn't mind, because sexual autonomy is inextricable from the male gaze, and that's fucking awesome. 'I Kissed a Girl' is infuriatingly ass-backward: cynical adherence to outdated values made into titillation, snide calculation dressed up as the underdog, the same old bullshit disguised as rebellion."
·thestranger.com·
The Stranger: It's a Hit, by Michaelangelo Matos
Electrolux Design Lab08 Scan Toaster
Electrolux Design Lab08 Scan Toaster
"Scan Toaster: the USB toaster that prints news, weather and snapshots onto slices of toast, by Sung Bae Chang, Sejong University, South Korea. One of the nine finalists of the Electrolux Design Lab competition 08."
·flickr.com·
Electrolux Design Lab08 Scan Toaster
Interconnected: This Isn't a Story I Tell Many People
Interconnected: This Isn't a Story I Tell Many People
Why privacy persists. "Along with new visibilities comes social understanding of those new visibilities." "If the end of privacy comes about, it's because we misunderstand the current changes as the end of privacy, and make the mistake of encoding this misunderstanding into technology. It's not the end of privacy because of these new visibilities, but it may be the end of privacy because it looks like the end of privacy because of these new visibilities."
·interconnected.org·
Interconnected: This Isn't a Story I Tell Many People
Paste: Music News: Girl Talk plans epic 24-hour final show on Mayan apocalypse
Paste: Music News: Girl Talk plans epic 24-hour final show on Mayan apocalypse
Where will you be? I'd not mind being here. "I want this to end when I'm on top, so I'm planning my final show on December 21, 2012. It's when the Mayan calendar ends. It's the day when solids become liquids and liquids become plasmas." "I want it to be a stage production, but one where the lines become blurry between reality and complete stage me...I want it to be miserable and equally fantastic. I want the best of both worlds."
·pastemagazine.com·
Paste: Music News: Girl Talk plans epic 24-hour final show on Mayan apocalypse
The Morning News: Galleries: Under the Waves
The Morning News: Galleries: Under the Waves
"Asako Narahashi’s series 'half awake and half asleep in the water,' at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York (July 17-August 22, 2008), shows Japan’s coastal areas as seen from the sea. Using a waterproof camera and watching the tide instead of the viewfinder, Narahashi captures a vision of Japan—and of the world—that is at once calming, eerie, enchanting, and unsettling. She is only occasionally swallowed by waves in the process. "
·themorningnews.org·
The Morning News: Galleries: Under the Waves
YTMND: catonakeyboardinspace
YTMND: catonakeyboardinspace
"What you see when you die." (Yeah, so I had a list of YTMNDs on my computer and I decided to put them all in Delicious, but every single one except this one was Captain Jean-Luc Picard singing about cake and drunken ping-pong with Ronald McDonald.)
·whatyouseewhenyoudie.ytmnd.com·
YTMND: catonakeyboardinspace
Two AM Software: Dictionary Cleaner
Two AM Software: Dictionary Cleaner
"One of the great features of Mac OS X has aways been the built-in spelling checker. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to see what words you've added. But with Dictionary Cleaner, a convienient System Preferences pane for Mac OS X, now you can."
·twoamsoftware.com·
Two AM Software: Dictionary Cleaner
Daring Fireball: Ronco Spray-On Usability
Daring Fireball: Ronco Spray-On Usability
On the characteristic lack of usability in open source projects, and why. "The distributed, collaborative nature of open source software works for developer-level software, but works against user-level software. Imagine a motion picture produced like a large open source project. Different scenes written and directed by different people, spread across the world. Editing decisions forged by group consensus on mailing lists. The result would be unfocused, incoherent, and unenjoyable."
·daringfireball.net·
Daring Fireball: Ronco Spray-On Usability