2008

Jul

War/Peace — Turning war into Peace, the UN Peacekeepers....
Jul 1st
“Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed a bill that would...”
— The Associated Press — It only...
Jul 1st

Jun

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29)
Jun 29th
Warch Watch
Newspaper Blackout Poems — I’ve been subscribed to his feed for a while, and I thoroughly...
Jun 28th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22)
Jun 23rd
“Polls suggest that 10-20% of the electorate are willing to...”
— Raising the Barr - The...
Jun 21st
Pools in security lather over shampoo
Jun 21st
Warch Watch
Stained Glass — Artists in NYC placed semi-opaque cover on some of the advertisement displays on the...
Jun 19th
You Got It Made — Ok, so this concept is really slick. It...
Jun 16th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15)
Jun 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8)
Jun 8th
Warch Watch
I love the world. — J’adore this advertisement from The Discovery Channel. (via riotrepublic)
Jun 7th
Sister Judith Brun — (Pardon my libertarian commentary...
Jun 7th
Holdouts at FEMA Trailer Park Test Aid’s...
Jun 7th
Warch Watch
Difficult Is Worth Doing — Skydivers spell out “HONDA” on TV for the first live...
Jun 7th
Warch Watch
Change the world with one person. — Not sure why it has to be a girl, but an interesting concept...
Jun 6th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-1)
Jun 2nd

May

“Dow said effective this weekend, prices for all 3,200 of its...”
— Marketplace — This might just...
May 30th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-25)
May 26th
Warch Watch
In an ABSOLUT World — Rioting with pillows. (via riotrepublic, pun purely coincidental)
May 25th
WhenTwitterIsDown.com — Some poetic goodness to refresh...
May 25th

Twitter Nonsense

This is why centralised services are terrible ideas. Twitter has been up and down all week, and now...
May 24th
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a...”
— Douglas Adams (via...
May 24th
U.N. Chief Says Myanmar Yields on Aid...
May 23rd
“NPR’s radio-to-TV crossover is a kind of throwback to...”
— Radio isn’t dead. (via...
May 23rd
No more volunteers on the phone at Wisconsin...
May 21st
Disaster fatigue leads to drop in giving
May 20th
Fortune Cookie — What a dumb fortune cookie. It’s...
May 19th
Warch Watch
A More Perfect Union — A stunning performance of the preamble of the US Constitution. “We the...
May 19th
Warch Watch
Invisible Drum Kit — only Rowan Atkinson could play the invisible drums and not look completely...
May 19th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-18)
May 19th
Changes at New Orleans Schools Bring Gains in...
May 14th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11)
May 11th
Warch Watch
I’m older than dirt — This sums up my feelings on John McCain. (via The Morning News)
May 10th
Warch Watch
NASA airplane test crash — A remix of the original video, totally worth watching. (via Monoscope)
May 9th
“We are seeing at the United Nations if we can’t implement...”
— Bernard Kouchner, the French...
May 8th
Monotaskers unite! — (buy at redbubble)
May 8th
McCain moves his arms? — “I can ride my bike with no...
May 6th
C'est l'économie, idiot.
May 5th
“Exxon Mobil reported $10.9 billion in profits last quarter,...”
— APM - Marketplace — The...
May 5th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-4)
May 5th
YouTube debates in New Orleans
May 3rd

Apr

Reflections: Letting Go
Apr 28th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27)
Apr 27th
I'm finally on Twitter
Apr 26th
A Pre-Lincolnesque Obama — I can’t say I really...
Apr 26th
Listen Listen
“Mysteries are fun sometimes…” — This is just psychotic enough to be my new ring tone....
Apr 26th
Warch Watch
How to avoid the draft, according to Daffy Duck! — Hint, hint… you’ll go to hell if you...
Apr 25th
Don’t get caught up in the rat race… — (via...
Apr 23rd
Did someone say irony? — So much for the Supreme Court...
Apr 16th
“Recalling the history of the Olympic Games and in keeping...”
— Ralph Lauren Olympics — How...
Apr 11th
Warch Watch
Police en rollers. — Attendez, No. Cette c’est pourquoi j’aime les Français.
Apr 9th
“Chinese officials ordered the torch into the bus and...”
— Et c’est pour cela que...
Apr 8th

Mar

Taxpayers covering the Bear Stearns...

JP Morgan just raised their bid to takeover Bear Stearns to $11/share. Of course the Fed has...
Mar 28th
“€œIf you want options, go talk with other people!...”
— Paul Rand [through Steve Jobs]...
Mar 27th
“I feel like Joel Osteen, right here in Reliant...
Mar 24th
Warch Watch
Bomb the Bass - Butterfingers — It’s definitely random video Friday… (via...
Mar 21st
Warch Watch
Parisians & Techtonik — “…throwing down like it’s West Side Story cast by American...
Mar 21st
Warch Watch
Gnarls Barkley - Run — The video for the new song from Gnarls. Run for your life!
Mar 10th
NetJets ad in The Economist — I’m not sure if Bill...
Mar 6th
The Road Home Closed, from the Bacchus Parade.
Mar 6th
“A year ago the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which...”
— New York Times
Mar 4th
Warch Watch
L’homme qui vole — Stunning video of insane Frenchmen in wingsuits.
Mar 4th
Keep your coins, I want change.
Mar 3rd

Feb

“One of the problems that’s endemic with the younger...”
— David Allen
Feb 28th
The death penalty's favourite district...
Feb 27th
OpenDNS is looking for a Senior Engineer
Feb 21st
Warch Watch
J’adore la typographie
Feb 20th
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin: More guns please!
Feb 13th
“This could be a good new analogy question for the SATs…...”
— Philip Greenspun
Feb 10th
Gnarls Barkley - Run
Feb 5th
Warch Watch
Frozen Grand Central - Absolutely stunning “prank” pulled by Improv Everywhere....
Feb 1st

Jan

“Bush returned from the Middle East where he has been touring...”
— On The Media, 18 Jan 2008...
Jan 27th

Thank You American Express

So I’ve had a bad week, to say the least. For starters, my phone decided to stop getting any...
Jan 27th
Warch Watch
This American Life, the TV show edition, is releasing their Season 1 DVD on January 29. It’s a...
Jan 26th
“The chief justice, Xiao Yang, said China might one day like...”
— The Economist, 12 Jan 2008,...
Jan 24th
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex...”
— Albert Einstein
Jan 21st
I find it useful to go ahead and just schedule in time to...
Jan 20th
I Heart Zappos
Jan 17th
Warch Watch
Bill Gates’ Last Day at Microsoft: Microsoft does actually have a good sense of humour.
Jan 10th
“We need to be sure you don’t have anything you can use...”
— The Risks Digest Volume 25:...
Jan 7th

2007

Dec

“Six years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, airport...”
— The Airport Security Follies -...
Dec 30th
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has...
Dec 22nd

Auto-draft difficulties

So I’ve recently switched banks, and in the process I’ve had to update all of my...
Dec 21st
I’ve always been a bigger fan of Stewart than Colbert,...
Dec 18th
“Let’s have charitable tax credits as well. With tax...”
— Marketplace: Charitable tax...
Dec 17th
Warch Watch
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote
Dec 12th
“Last year, Americans gave $295 billion to charity, up...”
— Wall Street Journal
Dec 11th
“In the last two years, there’s been a heated debate...”
— Slate Magazine
Dec 10th
Warch Watch
Brilliant video from Virgin America for their in-flight safety message. “For the .0001 percent...
Dec 9th
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people… and...”
— Eddie Izzard
Dec 3rd
“Nor was there any doubt that the poll was rigged. “The...”
— Russia’s election | How...
Dec 3rd
(wikipedia not loading: server not found) I’d imagine...
Dec 3rd

Usage of tumblr

I’m torn between the usage of tumblr or del.icio.us for integration on my web site. Tumblr...
Dec 3rd

Nov

It’s a motorhome on steroids. Bad ass. The UNICAT®
Nov 9th
“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but...”
— Laurence J. Peter
Nov 9th