2008

Aug

Plane crashes in to the word trade center. | MetaFilter...

If I was an artist by mgtrott

Yearbook by Mike Monteiro

Newcleus - “Jam On It” No idea there was a video for this. LOVED this song. ...

Family Guy - “Ultimate Power Universe”

New contact form Prototype for a more ambitious project I...

Burst mode Craig Finn by Lalitree

Mission of Burma - “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver” Jesus Christ, I love...

“Blogging is like masturbating into a mirror while you...”
— Lewis Black (via glass) (via...

turkey in the straw

Here’s an old Bacon Ray song I wrote around the time my life was falling apart. Hadn’t...

The Many Moods of Farrah by chrisglass

"THIS IS NOT MLM!!!" - An Appreciation

I’ve become a fast fan of the YouTube scene around MLM, “Cash Gifting”, and the...

DYNAMIC CASH GIVANATION: CA$H PROOF!!! Dwayne Schubert, Jr. (a/k/a “Da Cash Duke”)...

Squee. I love this picture so much that I feel like I should...

“The packaging of Wheat Thins looks like my 8th-grade...”
— Simon Goetz, who’s...

yourmonkeycalled: You once got busy in a Burger King...

Jul

He acts like doesn’t care; but he does.

Yaay by Neven Mrgan Congratulations, Citizen Mrgan. You...

My Neighbor Totoro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I...

Cool Tool: Clearblue Fertility Monitor One happy...

Once magnitized, Eleanor can float all the way up to metal...

Andy Capp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I hope that...

Nucleus accumbens In the 1950s, Olds and Milner implanted electrodes into the septal area of the...

Charge (heraldry) This may be the greatest page on...

WRBQ-FM In the early eighties, Program Director Scott...

yourmonkeycalled: Twitter Cookies

“In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to...”
— Twyla Tharp

Ed McMahon returns to work as pitchman - CNN.com Wow. Ed McMahon is certainly not too old or...

“The term describes the manner in which our negative feelings...”
— Narcissism of small...

audible.com: | On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Unabridged) Stephen King’s wonderful On...

Pixies - “Bone Machine” (live)

Hey, iPhone, what do oversharing Flickr self-portraitists do...

Monkeys in space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thirty-two monkeys flew in the space...

MILBs

VOTE: You Look Nice Today for Hottest Mommy Blogger Unless it involves kissing, standing still,...

Solidarity logo The Solidarity logo designed by Jerzy...

“A Very Thin Man in Central Park, NYC” by Diane...

Midomi Test: Featuring John Roderick of The Long Winters Here’s the full...

“Brand-building is not about spam and not about exchanging...”
— Me, from a wide-ranging...

Last Word for a While on Loopt

[Recap: First I asked this and then I said this and then I ranted this and recently I said...

“Can’t decide whether to try to apologize to everyone...”
— Wil Shipley

JHONNY GARCIA Part III [earlier] and [then] I’ve decided that the custom outgoing messages...

Pavement - “Summer Babe” Ice baby! I saw your girlfriend, and she was Eating her fingers...

Pavement - “Spit On A Stranger” Honey: I’m a prize, and you’re a catch, And we’re a perfect...

Best Practices From the site of the CSCA — the group that grants and administers the...

Merlin and Eleanor by Global Hermit We only got to have a...

The Loopt SMS Mess

[previously, on Kung Fu Grippe] I have a post underway for 43 Folders on this Loopt.com SMS...

Spit-take A spit-take is a comedic technique in which someone spits a beverage out of his or her...

Th’ Ray by jasonemmett Another great old photo from...

Jungo! Great photo from ‘97 by The Prince. Sure do...

Science Pandora makes my whiteboy indie rock proclivities...

How can I never receive another Loopt SMS invitation...

Maybe if Michael DeBakey had helped our President lie...

Sammy, by Terry Rodgers (kinda via)

Andre is killing at the hot new iPhone game. Look at his...

Worst Fears Ease, for Now, on Mortgage Giants’ Fate -...

“Reputation, Posterity and Cool are traps. They’ll drain...”
— Patton Oswalt’s...

Coding around Internet Explorer is like planning a meal for someone who’s allergic to eating.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over...

Previously. My Grand Central number (which, like all phone numbers, used to belong to someone else)...

“But what about the hearings on North Korea in which he made...”
— Christopher Hitchens, sharing...

“So, like, let me get this straight. God got this lady...”
— Overheard at the Beach (via...

Click & Clack’s As The Wrench Turns | PBS Wow....

“These women are shining a light for thousands of Midwestern...”
— The Straightener in...

simpsons house! Brandi snapped these photos of an amazing...

Ellie in the Park A few years ago, my Mom gave me a snapshot of her and my Dad that...

Dinosaur Jr - “Raisans” (U Mass, 1986) My favorite song off You’re Living All...

“The jilted sense of priorities that adult life often entails...”
— Wikipedia, on Brazil

Pixies - “Head On” After a long debate with their record company in the United...

The Pixies - “Gigantic” (1988) What a crazy ball of sexually-unavailable energy.

The Pixies - “Monkey Gone to Heaven”

I defy you not to keep mentally repeating: “J-H-O-N-N-Y GARCIA”

Jun

Awkward Birthday by thetwilitekid

Eleanor and the camera by heather

Libby Working by MaggieMason

Kind of BusinessView Wordpress Theme This is probably the...

I’d previously requested Cision scrub me from their lists,...

Always Wear Gloves Learn more about Adam’s special skills in You Look Nice Today Episode 4,...

Eleanor + Sandwich I like both these people a lot.

Scott’s House

Big Blue Marble - intro I wasn’t a huge fan of the show, but the theme song is still stuck...

My Bride: The Early Days This photo from January, 2000...

Feed The Animals This new Girl Talk record is a stunning...

Not This Quarter Phone Guy’s not gonna boil the ocean.

“I suggest the deletionist wankers go and cluster around an...”
— Tim Bray, on Wikipedia’s...

Richard Thompson - “Wall of Death” On 4 days out of 11 this is my favorite Richard...

Found Face by fraying

Merlin Mann by gruber This is a photo of me that Chairman...

R.E.M. - “Radio Free Europe” (on Late Night; October, 1983) Murmur is over twenty-five...

Squeeze - “Is That Love” My assets froze while yours have dropped Now is that? Is...

Neal Schon & Jan Hammer - “No More Lies”

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats # 862

Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Less common ASBOs) Less conventional uses of ASBOs, as listed by a...

“Flying in a car felt like an exhilarating hallucination, an...”
— Padma Lakshmi, describing the...

steamboatstrong: the OSPC fundraiser by mathowie One...

So: Who is Karl Van Hœt?

Pat Benatar - “Promises In The Dark” Close your eyes and play along with me for a...

“Please ignore the book of Revelation entirely, any movie...”
— TJ, from his Twiddiots Guide...

Jesus Seminar (Authentic sayings, as determined by the seminar) Turn the other cheek (92%): Mt...

Beach House I think this may be the most melancholy image...

Steve Martin/Marty Robbins-El Paso I knew I hadn’t hallucinated this. Because it might be the...

May

“There are no feminists in the Disney Store.”
— Jeffrey Zeldman

CNET Live: May 29, 2008 video - CNET TV Tom and I talked about Inbox Zero on CNET Live the other...

Merlin and Eleanor by mgtrott

Nicknames - Lostpedia Sawyer’s nicknames for people. Selected: Charlie: Amigo, Babynapper,...

TED | Talks | J.J. Abrams: The mystery box (video)

Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...

Let’s fight the steampunks! on Flickr - Photo...

Amazon.com: Bottom Toilet Tissue Aid Self-wipe Cleaning:...

William Hogarth - A Rake’s Progress - Plate 8 - In The...

Volkswagen - brochure 1950 on Flickr - Photo...

How and where not to do The Fishstick by lonelysandwich Sandwich wins.

ULTIMATE Unboxing on Vimeo Hopefully, I can keep this box “mint.”

Peep Show s05e02 Oh, Dobby: let me chew on your weird hair. End to end, a wildly cobbler...

Doing the “Fishstick” — An Instructional Video

Sacks-Minnelli Foundation

An apology by John Moltz Is it any fucking wonder Moltz took the carnation? No. It is no wonder.

the smiths southbank show 1987 Terrific, hour-long documentary on the Smiths, talking with members...

The return of the Webtards