June 2008
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29) →
Girl Talk
Ambulance LTD
DJ Shadow
Adventure Time
Ludovico Einaudi & Ballaké Sissoko
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
All Time Worst Movies - Metacritic →
a fun game is to see how far up the list you go before you see a movie that you honestly like (in a bad way)….skip biodome and i got to 29 - Slackers
Bill Gates' Made Men: The Wild 'n' Crazy Ventures... →
interesting run down of the differnet gates millionaires and what they’ve done after their time at msft.
Watchdear any of these companies….please hire me
david:
We’re in this! (Marco’s drunk at work as usual)
From Justin Johnson:
Gary The Puppet’s Magical Internet Adventure (watch in HD)
Created for Media Kitchen and Venture Day. I guess it was shown on a big screen for a bunch of important people, which is awesome. Shot on Steadicam by Kyle Fassenella, Directed and Written by Me, starring...
» The Reason Why Tila Tequila Is Famous →
great little story
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
Elliott Smith
Karate
Beirut
The Bad Plus
The Dirty Projectors
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
FOXNews.com - Woman Sues Victoria's Secret, Claims... →
a “design problem” caused a decorative metallic piece on the underwear to fly up and hit Patterson in the eye while she was putting the underwear on.
“why is there no emoticon for (lazy)”
– marclea
Why Do We Have Sex?
whateverlolawants:
After conducting one of the most comprehensive studies on why people have sex, a study at The University of Texas at Austin revealed hundreds of complex motivations—from the spiritual to the vengeful.
People’s motivations ranged from the mundane (“I was bored”) to the spiritual (“I wanted to feel closer to God”) and from the altruistic (“I wanted the person to feel good about...
“When you have a working style forced upon you, it tends to reduce your...”
– Coroflot - Five Creatives talk about their work days
“like no offense to god and all, he’s cool and i like to think we have a...”
– kbomb
“The pitches in musical scales are likely derived from language. Turns out,...”
– 3 Smart Things About Music
payin it forward
i was outside and on the phone with my boss. a couple different runners came by. I turn around to leave and see $5 folded up on the ground. I thought to myself ‘this has to be a runner’s smoothie money…i can’t take this. Hopefully they will come back on their path and be happy that it’s still here”
so i left it. A passer-by even tried to tell me that it...
Overheard In The Office (via peterwknox)
CSR, on speakerphone: And where would you like this order shipped?
Secretary: 123 Main St.*, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
CSR : We don't ship out of the country.
Secretary: That's fine, but this address is in the country.
CSR : No, you said to ship it to New Mexico.
Secretary: Yes, New Mexico is a state in the US.
CSR : Sorry, but we can't ship out of the US.
Secretary: Do you have a supervisor I can talk to, please?
[Long pause.]
CSR supervisor: This is Tim. Can I help you?
Secretary: I hope so, Tim. Your employee doesn't seem to understand that New Mexico is a state in the United States, and so refuses to ship me your product.
Supervisor: Well, that's true. We can't ship out of the country. I'm sorry ma'am.
Secretary, raising her voice a little: Have you never even heard of the state of New Mexico? It's one of the big, square ones? It's right between Texas and Arizona? It's one of the 50 United States?
Supervisor: I'm sorry, it's just our policy not to ship out of the US.
Secretary: Tim, let me get this straight. Your company is going to lose a $14,000 order because the people in your customer service department are too moronic to know or comprehend that the state of New Mexico is a part of the United States?
Supervisor: Yes, ma'am. That's our policy.
Secretary, completely exasperated: Well, I guess there's nothing more to be said, is there?
Supervisor: No, ma'am. Have a nice day.
HOW TO Land a Plane
lfarm:
1. Call for Help. Take the chair on the left. Put on your headset and switch on the radio. Tune it to 121.5 (the emergency channel) and push the talk button on the yoke to contact air traffic control. They’ll call an instructor to guide you down.
2. Set the autopilot. Get nagivational aids (like radio ranges) from air traffic control and input the figures on the keyboard.
3. Program...
Watchjoelaz:
Picnik Screenshots
A tutorial on how to make great looking screenshots in just a few clicks using the Picnik plugin for Firefox.
Turtle Bay, Manhattan - Wikipedia, the free... →
new home
margeeka:
Since posting one of my old diary entries, I’ve been thinking about starting up a Public Tumblr Group for people that want to post old diary entries. Something similar to Mortified’s Woe and Tell section, but better (because it would be a Tumblr).
Does something like this already exist? If not, would anyone be interested in this kind of thing?
you know it’s a hot day in the city when people in the metro are bragging about how many cold showers they took that day
“Professor Gordon Murray explains that a weight saving of 10% in a normal car...”
– Slashdot | Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8) →
Elliott Smith
Iron & Wine
Eels
Explosions in the Sky
The Kooks
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
That design is money! - A Better ATM Experience →
a great example of what can be done when the worlds of interactive and visual design come together to improve a product and experience.
300 Calorie Food Picture Gallery →
shows portion sizes for various foods at 300 calorie levels. Also shows cost.
Really interesting. You can eat so much more of just as good of food if you think about it.
“The nation’s unemployment rate jumped to 5.5 percent in May — the biggest...”
– The Associated Press: AP Top News at 10:07 a.m. EDT
The-Billionaire-Universities: Personal Finance... →
interesting to see duke as the top in the south. The whole point is kinda silly as of course a lot of them come from the best business graduate programs so they have already had some business success.
“If you’re quiet, you’re not living. You’ve got to be noisy and...”
– ~ Mel Brooks
“Don’t worry about categories or definitions like craft, design, or art....”
– amazing speach with many great points…please take the time and read… Julie Lasky Design Observer 