February 2009
57 posts
Maybe I'm Just Not "Tumb1337" Enough?
Srsly, people. So there’s an advertisement at the top of the page - big whoop. Just do like you do on every other page on the interwebs and ignore it. I didn’t even notice the thing until I saw a plethora of posts complaining about the Bordeaux-colored banner. To Tumblr’s credit, at least it links to another Tumblr blog instead of some wierd discount prescription drug website or...
Khoda: An Animated Film Made Using 6,000 Paintings →
mizzchelle:ilikedginger
“Khoda” is a fantastic animated video made as student project by Reza Dolatabadi using 6000 paintings that were specifically created for the 5 minute film. Each time you pause the…
I can’t even imagine how much time and effort this took, but it is stunning.
Not only aesthetically impressive, but an engaging storyline as well. Not one that makes a whole lot of sense,...
Carmen Sandiego...if you liked the show you'll... →
I always wanted to go on this show. And by the way, if you know you’re heading on to WITWICS, wouldn’t you maybe - oh, I don’t know - study a freakin’ map in the off chance you make it to the final round? Anyone who lost that part of the game ranks as a class one idiot to me, no matter how well they did in the rest of the show.
(via think4yourself:e-money)
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the...”
– Margaret Mead, US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978) (via think4yourself)
—Me: Not sure this is entirely correct. A small group of people can certainly change the world (US Founding Fathers), but so can individuals (Gandhi, Alexander the Great) as well as large...
Eco-neighbuzz →
Social capital, the bonds that tie neighbors and society together, has become ever more scarce in modern times. The last few places I’ve lived I only knew one or two of the many people who lived within shouting distance of my front door. (See Bowling Alone for a great examination of the phenomenon.)
From the Greener Gadgets Design Competition comes a device that could help to bridge these...
Fast Company Magazine Names Obama Campaign World's... →
“The year’s most successful startup took a skinny kid with a funny name and turned him into the most powerful new national brand in a generation.”
“It takes a lot of time to acheive instant success.”
– Fortune Cookie. Lucky Numbers 31, 8, 43, 36, 29, 40
robot-heart-politics:
“The Ohio program is Abstinence ‘Till Marriage, which started receiving annual CBAE grants of $600,000 in 2006 (set to run until 2011). On their “Miss the Mess” website, you can enter the “Party Room”, where you learn the story of Rochelle, Jason, Monica and Tanner. Each person tells their perspective about what happens during and after a party one night. Rochelle tells how...
“The threat from micropayments isn’t that they will come to pass. The threat is that talking about them will waste our time, and now is not the time to be wasting time. The internet really is a revolution for the media ecology, and the changes it is forcing on existing models are large. What matters at newspapers and magazines isn’t publishing, it’s reporting. We should be talking about new...
Is Hell Exothermic or Endothermic?
An oldie but a goodie…
Dr. Schambaugh, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, Final Exam question for May of 1997. Dr. Schambaugh is known for asking questions such as, “why do airplanes fly?” on his final exams. His one and only final exam question in May 1997 for his Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer II class was: “Is hell exothermic or endothermic?...
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late →
I love sleeping in, and this little snippet from Wired made me feel much better about it. Fact: night owls are more creative. Take that, morning people!
Summary of final stimulus package →
robot-heart-politics:thesmarttart:Hallelujah, someone finally made a plain ol’ list.
Doesn’t break it down much past the $1b mark, but that’s still something when we’re talking about hundreds of billiions.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a...”
– Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
(via think4yourself:emilyelisabeth)
Manage Like Obama
Earlier this week The Economist reviewed an upcoming book called “Barack, Inc: Winning Business Lessons of the Obama Campaign,” and found that CEOs on Wall Street could do far worse than following in our new Commander in Chief’s footsteps. As in, they have done far worse and the economy’s in the crapper because of it. From the article:
Over the past couple of decades...
“I wonder if there were any goths in Gothic times? It’d be like, “You look...”
– Demetri Martin, on his new show - Important Things with Demetri Martin. (via think4yourself:alcaniglia)
Choose Wisely
think4yourself:mindymae:notthatkindagay:
An old country preacher had a teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession. Like many young men his age, the boy didn’t really know what he wanted to do, and he didn’t seem too concerned about it. One day, while the boy was away at school, his father decided to try an experiment. He went into the boy’s...
Vatican: Christianity Compatible with Evolution
The Vatican has declared that evolution is compatible with Christianity. They’ve even distanced themselves from “Intelligent Design.” No shit. From the Daily Telegraph:
Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said while the Church had been hostile to Darwin’s theory in the past, the idea of evolution could be traced to St Augustine and St...
Truffle Shuffle
From an interview with Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies. Apparently, he regularly did the Truffle Shuffle for thousands of screaming UC Berkley fans:
After Goonies, what do you think everyone asked me to do? The Truffle Shuffle. “Hey, do the Truffle Shuffle.” “I don’t want to do the Truffle Shuffle!” Everyone just expected de facto that if I come to a...
Elijah Drop Your Gun by Mieka Pauley →
Amazon.com’s giving away an album by a friend of mine from high school - great lyrics, music, check it out!
Economist Reviews Twitter →
Twitter going corporate? The Economist reviews a USA Today article on Twitter use by hotels, airlines, and tourism boards.
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you...”
– Ferris Bueller
“May those who love us, love us. For those who don’t love us, may God turn...”
– Toast given in Keeping the Faith.
Revenue for Online Film and TV Distribution... →
soupsoup:
bigscreenlittlescreen:
Variety:
London research firm Strategy Analytics reported that online and mobile channels accounted for $90 billion in worldwide revenues; the global filmed entertainment market generated $83.1 billion.
Broadband downloading and streaming, terrestrial and cable video-on-demand (VOD), and mobile platforms are now all ways to watch entertainment content, from...
The person I was in love with does not exist.
mizzchelle:
I am still processing this, but:
I learned tonight that I didn’t know him nearly as well as I thought. I am stunned.
I will miss the person I thought he was, because that was the person I loved.
Such an excellent sentiment for a painful breakup. But is it better to end knowing you didn’t know the person as well as you thought, or knowing the person so well that you know it...
“Sometimes it helps to be small. You can run between the raindrops.”
– Michael Drappier of his family-run Champagne business in Urville, FR
oomb:
This is a recording of Barack...
First-person account of a high school teacher... →
texasgentleman:(via adamfrucci)
Obviously I love how this starts out:
We were barely past MacArthur when I felt it beginning to take hold.
Wonderful writing. Having never done acid it’s hard to identify with the exploding flowers and dancing trees, but I’ve definitly had to work really hard to hold it together under the influence of legal substances. Not while leading a...